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RE: Idle Friday lunchtime musing
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10 August 2007 14:23, Phil Betts wrote:
>
> > At the end of a hard week, my mind started wandering...
> >
> > TITTTL - almost an apt acronym by association with "tittle-tattle"
> >
> > Unfortunately, tittle without tattle is "a tiny or scarcely detectable
> > amount" according to http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tittle
>
> Actually, tittle all by itself is exactly one jot less than that.
>
> > This is hardly a fitting description of the resident hippos and is
> > liable to cause offence.
>
> Yeh, but they're more liable to blame whoever sneaked that 'E' in at the
> end, since it wasn't there originally. In otherwords,
>
> tittle = iota - jot + E.
TI is the chief spirit of the universe[*]. TTL is the lifetime of that
spirit. And E is the energy it'll spend in that lifetime (equal to mc^2).
> > A more PC acronym is therefore in order.
>
> Can't we have a more senior acronym? A DC or DSI, at the very least?
>
> > Perhaps "Post Replies At The Talk List" would yield a more fitting
> > acronym: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prattle
>
> What is it with you and Es spontaneously appearing all over the place?
> You'd be pretty popular at most raves!
It's Ye Olde Cygwine Acronyme game...
> > * (n) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
> > * (v) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
> >
> > Looks ideal to me, and nothing for the hippos to find offensive.
>
> I wouldn't call a hippo "idle or foolish" if I were you! Otherwise
> you might find them "rapidly" charging you and "incessantly" stomping
> you into the ground!
The talk is idle and foolish (and irrelevant). The hippos are busy and
wise... (whew, I think I've got all the bases covered here).
Igor
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