Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: BADGE KDC meeting info needed. Message-ID: <2023@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 19 Oct 88 14:40:02 GMT References: <438@boing.UUCP> <1011@esunix.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 24 In article <1011@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >From article <438@boing.UUCP>, by dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck): >> In article <1002@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >>>If memory serves, the 1st annual BADGE Killer Demo Contest is due to be >> ^^^ >> +----- aarrrggg >> >> Not to be picky, but everytime I see 1st for the 2nd killer demo contest >> I want to bite my lip. If you want to keep it computerish then I think >> the proper term is 1th (pronounced oneth). >... >Or should we just call the joke a success and renumber the contests from >1 instead of 0? How about "The annual BADGE Killer Demo Contest #1"? Or "The #1 annual BADGE Killer Demo Contest"? And "BKDC #1" for short? In other words, drop the "st" and "th" and make it clear that it is an arbitrary numbering scheme. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University