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Re: DS/SG Question

From: "By the way, we're out of high-fat, high-cholesterol non-nutritional snacks" <KOCHTE@s...>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:22:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DS/SG Question


>By the way, when reading the rules, I find abbreviations like this
actually
>take longer to deal with than if the words were written out in full.  I
>have to retrieve from memory "HEL = High Energy Laser" instead of just
>reading it.  That's one reason I don't play Dirtside--I have to go back
and
>translate the charts before I know what I'm looking for.  Does it have
that
>effect on anyone else, or am I just getting old and senile?

Old and senile (OAS). ;-)

The world is propogating towards acronyms, and getting worse all the
time
(the department I work in is called OPUS, which is a second level
acronym).
I live in a world of acronyms, both at work and outside of it. Can't
seem
to escape it.

Then again, YMMV  ;-)

Mk
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this'?"

Indy: "And this is the point where I say, 'belay's on'."


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