I'd never heard of CRS until I worked for someone who grew up with it -- he had a music marketing company; I had perl skills -- right after the turn of the cent

I'd never heard of CRS until I worked for someone who grew up with it -- he had a music marketing company; I had perl skills -- right after the turn of the century. It was confusing at first, but very quickly my business partner and I were throwing the terms around as often as him -- we couldn't call because we were already "on the dog" (dog and bone -> telephone), or asking each other to "have a butcher's" (butcher's hook -> look) at new code committed, etc. In the end we were all greeting each other as chinas (china plate -> mate), and lamenting the lack of a good Ruby Murry (-> curry) in the town he lived in. I found it all pretty charming and fascinating.