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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: IYKWIM
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Theresa Willis (twillis@sound.net) wrote:
>
> Charles Davis (csd@bodley.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> >
> > IYKWIM 
> > [...]
> > from Internet Acronyms Dictionary
> > http://home3.inet.tele.dk/hgaarde/Acronyms.html
> 
> Listen boy-o... we don't need your little web page.
> 
> In this newsgroup, we craft our acronyms lovingly by hand,
> the way Kibo intended.

That's right.  After a year's apprenticeship at "onesies" -- acronyms
of one word, like "E!" and "Z." -- and a prior study of "sub-elementary
acronym particles" (acronyms made entirely from one-letter words, like
"OIC" and "PU") the trainees then spend several years crafting simple
acronyms (such as "SCUBAG" for "SCUBA gear" and "ATMM" for "ATM Machine")
before they are given their appointments as Probationary Acroneunses.
After they earn the public trust and have published at least one new
acronym in a peer-reviewed acronym dictionary every year for twenty
straight years, they must pass a final exam where they construct an
acronym which contains all 26 letters of the alphabet at least once
and is only 25 letters long.  Then they are awarded the Sash Of Acronymity
and forever afterwards they serve the public at taxpayers' expense.

> Run along now.

YM "RAN, YNA, YJAD!"  HTH, PEZ.

> --Terri
> 
> (I forgot to sugar my coffee this morning, so I'm a bit crabby. Nothing
> personal.)

I sugared my crabs, so I've got a nasty cough.


                                       -- K.   <---(THAT STANDS FOR SOMETHING)