On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Reminds me of a group in my workplace whose abbreviated name is "STD". > Unfortunately, when I found out about it, and told them what "STD" means > to the typical American, it was too late to change the group's name.
Or an Israeli company marketing their service to Anglo olim, with the name "POS" (as in piece of *****). Big adds in the Jerualem Post. A long time ago, I had a computer course where the software we wrote was designated by the professor (who was not a native English speaker) "Automatic Simulation System". Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]