Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA27227 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:40:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:37:32 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: acronymious Message-ID: <20001003203732.A1765@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20001003185616.AAA21435@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001003185616.AAA21435@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:56:13PM -0400 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:56:13PM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> On 10/03/00 14:16, Robin Faichney said this-
>
> >It stands for
> >Read The Fucking Manual.
>
> Oh, okay. I use that all the time. Just never used it while posting
> things on the internet. It predates the internet by quite a few years.
Are you sure about that? I first came across it on the net, but then I
was an "early adopter", reading my first newsgroup in 1986. And the net
goes back a few years beyond that. Did you really encounter RTFM that
long ago?
> I
> use it in conversation, much like SNAFU, because I highly suspect it has
> its origins in the armed forces just like SNAFU, and FUBAR, do.
I'm downloading the Hacker's Jargon File as I type, which is bound to
have RTFM in it.
Are we in danger of getting back on topic here? Quick, somebody say
something about mysticism or consciousness!
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