From: Tim Borgeaud <Tim.Borgeaud@Bristol.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.folklore.urban] Re: "Weekender" camera
Date: 16 Oct 1997 09:53:21 +0200

Subject: Re: "Weekender" camera 
From: bradham@panix.com (Bo Bradham)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Bob Ward <bobward@gte.net> wrote:
>amroth@zetnet.co.uk.NOJUNK (Phil Edwards) wrote:
>>tweek@netcom-NO.SPAM-com (Reverend Tweek) wrote:
>>>Phil Edwards <amroth@zetnet.co.uk.NOJUNK> wrote:
>>>>bradham@panix.com (Bo Bradham) wrote:

>>>>>a MAC card that won't scan

>>>>Don't you love those TLA abbreviations?

>>>I prefer the TLA acronyms.

>>Pendantic to a fault, I tend to reserve 'acronym' for words composed
>>of bits of other words (let me know if this is getting too technical)

>From the Hyperlink Webster
>acronym n: a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name

>Perhaps I should have looked up "anal retentive"???

You left out the hyphen.