Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.flame Subject: Re: Acronyms (offensive language) Message-ID: <815@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:34:22 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.815 Posted: Tue Sep 25 02:34:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 05:33:00 EDT References: <4208@fortune.UUCP> <1045@shark.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 20 Transferred from net.jokes... > | I heard that F--k itself is an acronym, used on reports by SP's when > | returning someone to base from houses of ill repute: > | > | Found Under Carnal Knowlegde >... > Sorry, it stands for > > For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge There's two examples which are, no doubt, the beginning of at least a month of discussion--in which only a very few people will take the time to go look in a dictionary for a hint of modestly researched etymology for the word. A clue--neither of these is even vaguely close...but I'm not going to tell. You just might have to get up from your terminal and venture near a (gasp!) book. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.