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From: robp@gumby.network.com (Rob Peglar)
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Subject: Re: Name (mis-)recogition
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.132519.493@ns.network.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 13:25:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.025922.10626@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1991Jun12.153034.24419@rock.concert.net> fty@sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers) writes:
>>Really?  I thought CDC was the "Center for Disease Control" !
>
>Nope, it stands for Cheap DEC Copies.

Well, cheap is one thing CDC machines aren't.  Pays for all that overhead,
you know.

>
>   (Or Cyber's Down Constantly)

Won't touch that one.  Cybers seem fine, usually.  Most often down just
after PM.  (aka 'the PM syndrome')

After cogitating awhile on acronyms (a favorite Big Blue acronym is
It'll Be up Momentarily) my somewhat addled mind remembered these,
collected from the field over a number of years.  No judgements passed.


Cybers Deserve Cremation
Cybers Don't Compute
Cybers - Daily Complaints
Computers Designed (by) Cray.
Cybers - Damn Cranky
Clumsy Deadstarting Computers
CDC Doesn't Care		(recursive acronym)

and perhaps one of the more appropriate ones, now that we're approaching
the ides of June..

Cash Drain Company
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