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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard, really I did, someone pronounce this as “the devil in Carnac (or Karnak?)” but there are no confirmatory ghits. Carnet on the other hand has over 40, but only a few are capitalised. It is possible that some believe Carnet is perhaps a holiday resort where fiends in red tights behave even more badly than usual:
Norton and symantec are the devil in Carnet! I have never had one good incounter with there tech support and there products never work well(except Ghost). ...
You Heard What I said you are the Devil in Carnet! And what is that a Devil Sandwich made of lies and hubris? Do I have the Wrong House? O.. ...
My SIL is the “Devil in Carnet†at times. People write me with “one better,†all the time, but for me this is as close as I need to come to the two-horned …
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