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I would like to assure people from cultures other than
 the "White Anglo Saxon" group that when naming
 this company "WogWoe Productions" that I had
 no idea that the word "Wog" might be offensive to
 some people.

 It has been mentioned to me on more than one
 occasion that the english word "Wog" has
 one meaning  "any undesireable immigrant".

 My only exposure to this word in the California,
 American culture was perhaps when as a child
 I heard the actor Peter 0'Toole comment to his
 captain something about "..those bloody wargs (sp)!.."
 in the movie Lawrence of  Arabia. 

 Subsequent to naming the company I did some
 study and discovered  that in Australia there even was
 a TV series comedy about a "Wog". 
 In Greece the acronym WOG stands for
  "Women Of Greece".
 Some people understand WOG to stand for
  Wise Old Guy.

 The word "Wog" may be offensive to people of
 Islamic or Middle Eastern culture. I do not intend to 
 offend but I still like the company name as is.

 The name actually came to me after listening to
 an audio recording made at an Idiot's Club campfire
 at Snag Lake, CA.   One member was heard to
 snarl "Log Roll" after dropping a large log meant
 for the fire.  I mis-heard this and interpreted it
 as the word "WogWoe!" whose sound I liked and 
 adopted as the name for my hobby recording
 company.

Fred E. Wahl