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Re: Acronym FAQ posted!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:46:56 GMT
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Christian Gemuenden wrote:

IIRC, I have seen BURPMAN before, it's the name of the rock monster from
RRs, it means:

BURPMAN: Big Ugly Rock Person Made Annoyingly Nonmobile.

IMO, you should add it. I don't remember who created the name for this SPUD,
so LMK if I am wrong, but AFAIK it should be correct. It's not the FOTW
though...

D. Garcia coined the name but I supplied the meaning... see:

http://www.lugnet.com/reviews/?n=163

IBMers and exIBMers are acronym masters, we can make any word into an
acronym that has a domain specific meaning, if we want to.
--
Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
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Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FpJp92.62K@lugnet.com... (...) I'll (...) don't (...) laughing (...) [snip(s)] IIRC, I have seen BURPMAN before, it's the name of the rock monster from RRs, it means: BURPMAN: Big Ugly Rock (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)

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