Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/22/13:06:44
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> >Please don't send personal email with Cygwin questions and suggestions.
> >All Cygwin-related correspondence should go to the main Cygwin list at
> ><cygwin at cygwin dot com>.
>
> Noted. I suggest you change the note at the bottom of
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ soliciting Cygwin comments via personal email.
Oops! Habits die hard. Please accept my apologies.
This should be fixed now, FWIW.
> >More below.
> >
> >On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote:
> >
> >>In http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI you wrote:
> >>
> >>"Don't try to pronounce it. Just... don't"
> >>
> >>Clearly a challenge if ever I heard one. This is a remarkably simple
> >>acronym to pronounce:
> >>
> >>YANA-LATEY(almost LADY)-HISSEM-BISSEE
> >
> >Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> >Well, let's see how well it bodes with the Cygwin community. If it gets
> >accepted, this might go into the OLOCA. I wish you sent the original to
> >the Cygwin list, so I could link to it in that case... Oh, well.
> >
> >>IANAL, but I play a Linguist on television.
> >
> >IANALBIPALOT? Na-ah...
> > Igor
>
> The original quote would be acronyminated(sic) BIPOOTV (But I Play One
> On Television).
Yes, I thought of that one too.
> For those not mired in the history of US television of advertising: some
> time in the late 70's or early 80's a major drug manufacturer hired a
> soap opera star to endorse their product. The add started "I am not a
> doctor, but I play one on television...".
I think they've re-run it recently (or re-made it).
Igor
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