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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:53:27 -0400
From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy AT timesys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: OLOCA: YANALATEYHSMBSI pronounciation
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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.

>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).

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...".




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