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Subject: Re: California Institute of Technology
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 23:53:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 23:53:31 1987
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Summary: Forgot one ...

In article <1485@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>>When I was at CalTech ...
>For the uneducated masses out there: the proper contractions/abbreviations for
>the fine university named in the Subject line are "Caltech", "Tech", or "CIT",
>but not "CalTech" or "Cal Tech".  If you want to capitalize the "T", leave off
>the "Cal".

Karl was born too late to hear of a slightly more mangled contraction, first
attributed to John Pursch (BSMa '79):
	The Big Dick

(It is believed this first came about when discussing what said college was
 giving to us)

Just remember the Caltech motto (Versionibus Dabneyus) - 
	`The Truth Shall Rape You Over'

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