Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!psuvax1!burdvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!al From: al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) Newsgroups: net.analog Subject: Re: mangled Radio Shack names Message-ID: <931@psivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 17:18:22 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.931 Posted: Thu Jan 9 17:18:22 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 07:49:27 EST References: <6770@amdcad.UUCP> <3500001@Clio> <610@ttrdc.UUCP> <63@midas.UUCP> <8172@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 20 In article <8172@ucla-cs.ARPA> scw@ucla-cs.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) writes: >In article <63@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes: >>A minor[...] part of this article added yet a new name for RS to my >>vocabulary. I wonder how many there are? I've heard: >> >>Radio Shock >>Radio Shuck >>Radio Shaft >>Radio S**t >>Rat Shack (from a former manager of one) >Radio Schlock ({Yiddish} cheap, or shoddy [note that many RS items are quite >well made, but their cheap stuff is just that]) I'll add: Radio Scrap -- Al Schwartz Pacesetter Systems, Inc., Sylmar, CA UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!al ARPA: ttidca!psivax!al@rand-unix.arpa