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Subject:Re: more silly names From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- CORE -dot- CORP -dot- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 21 Aug 1994 15:22:28 -0500
>Karla Kitalong (kitalong -at- mtu -dot- edu) wrote:
>: My crazy software name is the NAD, our in-house
>: network administration daemon (or something like
>: that--I can't remember the real name for it). The command
>: to start the NAD? Yep, you guessed it--GONAD. Cute.
>When my brother was in college, the microbiology department had an
>informal basketball team that played other departments. They called
>themselves the Nads, for obvious reasons!
We have a project in the engineering dept here called the "Battery
Automated Design And Simulation System." You supply the acronym. ;{>}
Have Fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com
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