A Conversation for The History of "The Short Guide to Short Words"
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Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) Started conversation Feb 7, 2002
Hearing about the City University of Newcastle etc. etc. reminded me of a couple I made up in a similar vein a few years ago:
Federal University of Cape Kennedy
Saddam Hussein Institute of Technology
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Bagpuss Posted Feb 11, 2002
One also wonders if Cambridge University's Netball Team is ever given its acronym.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Feb 11, 2002
My computer was once crashed by Micros*ft's "Critical Update Notification Tool"... 
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FABT - new venture A815654 Angel spoiler page Posted Feb 13, 2002
regarding Cam unis netball
i just checked (i work there) and they use the abreviation CUNC which is club not team. looking down the lists nearly all the clubs and teams have a college name, or varsity or A,B,C etc Mens, Womens etc infront of them. I'll have a look for any that could be miscontrued, but it looks like they've ben pretty careful
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- 1: Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon) (Feb 7, 2002)
- 2: Bagpuss (Feb 11, 2002)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 11, 2002)
- 4: Orcus (Feb 11, 2002)
- 5: FABT - new venture A815654 Angel spoiler page (Feb 13, 2002)
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