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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: MOTOS, SO, and other undefined acronyms
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 18:53:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 18:53:26 1984
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MOTOS = M O T O Singles?

You are being naive.
    MOTOS = Members Of The Opposite Sex
as in the news group:
    MOTSS = Members Of The Same Sex

Both of these ignore the general rule that acronyms do not include
unimportant words like "of", and "the".  Also I would guess from
context that SO stands for Sex Object.  Does anyone using it care to
define it?  This kind of thing can lead to people using terminology
they would not approve of if they knew what it meant!

And I thought it was only us computer freaks that used lots of acronyms
without ever defining them!