Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA29167 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:53:50 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:30:42 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: acronymious Message-ID: <20001004093042.C10239@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20001003202719.AAA9909@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: <20001003202719.AAA9909@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:27:17PM -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 04:27:17PM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> On 10/03/00 15:37, Robin Faichney said this-
>
> >Did you really encounter RTFM that long ago?
>
> Yup. Best of my knowledge, in '71, in school, from an ex-sergeant.
OK, that's interesting. Maybe it's a US thing (unlike SNAFU), which only
reached these shores via the net.
> And, hell, things getting fucked up _is_ memetics.
Umm, I think it's more general than that: entropy. :-)
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