16 Jan 1999
[QQ]Time for some more of your acronyms, or as Michael Heap calls them, Another Cheap Round Of Network Yawn-Makers.[QQ] Thanks Michael, you don't win. First: an anonymous suggestion (we wonder why?) for Wang: 'Why Ask? You're Not Getting It', which is very funny even if it does spell WAYNGI.[QQ] Robert Nash submits 'Leave Others To Upgrade Software' (Chris Risbey prefers 'Last Of The Useable Software') and Colin Bew chips in with 'It's Coming Later'. Several of you suggested Cobol stands for 'Compiles Only Because Of Luck', and then there's 'Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs', but you can't win because you nicked them off the Net.[QQ] This week we enjoyed the anonymous suggestions for the unfinished Swanwick-based air traffic centre NERC. Apparently it's known locally as the 'Never Ever Ready Centre' or 'Not Even Resembling Complete'.
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