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Ian Watkins writes:
Don't get me started on the name Qinetiq (pronounced: Kinetic). Local
people still call it DERA, or for those who haven't caught up yet, DRA.
Or as a friend of mine calls it, "the weapons factory".
Or before that, RSRE (for the Malvern site).
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John Hall
Johnson: "Well, we had a good talk."
Boswell: "Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84); James Boswell (1740-95)