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From: jam@dcl-cs.UUCP (John A. Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The Meaning of the word "crap"
Message-ID: <832@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 07:53:36 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.832
Posted: Fri Nov 29 07:53:36 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Dec-85 03:29:20 EST
References: <521@klipper.UUCP> <76@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <226@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jam@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John A. Mariani)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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In article <226@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> phil@argon.UUCP (Phil Thompson) writes:
>In article <76@nbs-amrf.UUCP> hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp) writes:
>>>  What does the word "crap" mean?
>> The word "crap" literally means "trash"
>The origin of the word "crap" is Thomas Crapper. He invented the first flushing
>toilet. So "crap", if it means anything, means excrement.

I was once told (many years ago) that crap stands for

	C oncentrated
	R ecycled
	A nimal
	P rotein

And if it doesn't, I think it should!

p.s. Should this discussion be in "net.followup"? And if not, where
     does it belong? (net.crap, anybody?)


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