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Re: What's all this about?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:14:39 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> I think you should call yourselves the STUDS and then run adverts like "Join
> the STUDS. Phone XXXXXXXX" in the personal columns of the newspapers to
> attract new members :-)
Then when we go on Lego shopping excursions, we will have to wait for them to
finish chatting up the Cash Register Operators at Woolies(CROWs).
> I work for the Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed
> Systems Technology. This wordy name is then mysteriously abbreviated to
> DSTC. At the DSTC, I am involved in the International Organisation for
> Standardisation (ISO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the
> International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), the Object
> Management Group (OMG), etc etc. Most of these names and abbreviations were
> achieved as the result of committees of seriously boring people endlessly
> debating the matter. And the result is? Yawn!
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> Lego is fun and our groups deserve to have fun names!
Exactly. That's where SLUGS, BUGS and MUGS come into it.
Fun without pederast connotations.
I don't see any bugs calling themselves the BED BUG or STINK BUG.
Other useful acronyms:-
POOR - Parents Offering Only Ritvik.
SADIST - Sydney Area DUPLO Including Systems Trainheads.
LOBOTOMY - Leave Our Blocks, Our Toys (are) Offered (by) Mum Yearly.
WRAPS - What Retail ? Always Pay Sale (prices).
TETANUS - Trains Entering Tunnels Are Now Using Stations.
pete.w
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