From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21544 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2007 13:23:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 21447 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2007 13:23:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from asc-mail.ascribe.com (HELO asc-mail.ascribe.com) (87.102.48.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:22:53 +0000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Idle Friday lunchtime musing Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <2D9E96311DCA4C48BF185EA6928BC7BB023874AE@asc-mail.int.ascribe.com> From: "Phil Betts" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 At the end of a hard week, my mind started wandering... TITTTL - almost an apt acronym by association with "tittle-tattle" Unfortunately, tittle without tattle is "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount" according to http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=3Dtittle This is hardly a fitting description of the resident hippos and is liable to cause offence. A more PC acronym is therefore in order. Perhaps "Post Replies At The Talk List" would yield a more fitting=20 acronym: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=3Dprattle * (n) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk * (v) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Looks ideal to me, and nothing for the hippos to find offensive. Phil