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DECrease - also known as the DPS40 DEC press 40. This 40 pair per
	minute trouser press is the ultimate electronic trouser press
	for attachment to a HAN (Hotel area network), trousers can
	be submitted from any room on the network and returned via
	standard HAN routing services. The DPS40 contains the industry
	standard microVAX II cpu coupled with advanced technology
	from Rowenta.

DECade - the Digital Charitable Association
 [sic]
    
    These are by Andrew Dodd (May he live a thousand years) and Ellen
    Pirie respectively. There is a free-lance lecturer in Utrecht called
    Clive Blacknell who had about a dozen of these, all very funny.
    If I can find the list I shall post it here.
             
    Phillip

    DECanter - a) The loping gait used by someone trying to make it
        to the helicopter in time, while lugging a printout-laden briefcase
        in one hand; or
    
        b) The coffee mugs found in every cubicle, inscribed with cute sayings
        and containing a layer of calcified coffee and non-dairy creamer.
    
    -b 

    Re .1:
    
    I'm sorry, I think you should have added --
    
 DECade -- 2) A drink used in the summertime in a [generally futile]
    measure to cool oneself in one's cubicle on steamy summer days when
    the air conditioner (if available) goes on the fritz.  Available
    only through the food concession, so quality varies (hourly).
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.   

    
    DECadent - Digital's billing program for dentists. (Popular in  
    Italy.)
    
    DECease - Program for morticians. 
    
    DECompose  1.) Early version DECease.  2.) Program for writing music.
    
    DECibel - Used with DECtalk to measure loudness.
    
    DECagon - Employees airline reservation program.
    
    DEClaim - Insurance agent's helper.
    
    DECrepit - Program for nursing home management.
    

   On a similar note, when we first heard about "local area clusters", a 
   wit in my group proposed that soon DEC would be accused of selling
   "LACluster" products. 

   >groan<

   -- Sam

    And then, there's
    
    DECimate -- Digital's computer-dating software.
    DECember -- What's left in the grill after a company-sponsored picnic.
    DECedent -- A Digital legal milestone.
    DECency -- Digital's north Carolina headquarters.
    DECimal -- A Digital-developed synthetic life form.
    DECrement -- Digital's waste product.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

                                           
    DEChaste   - The speed with which many Digital projects proceed.
    DECchaste  - What most Digital employees aren't.
    DEClamation -What Digital employees utter when projects go astray.
    DECdeck  -   Playing cards with the Digital logo.
    DECdoc   -   1) A company physician.
                 2) Where Digital employees tie up their DECships.
                 3) What a broken Digital clock says.
    
    This whole thing is getting reDECulous.

    DECimal	- A malaise or state of mind.
    		(Fr - literally "I sick of DEC")
    
    Andrew Dodd

    DECorum -- what attendees to DECUS are expected to use.
    
    	Jon

    Re: .9:
    
    DEC-o-cider -- what attendees to DECUS are expected to use if they
    		   don't drink rum :-)

    I thought DECorum was the proper name for the auditorium in Spit 
    Brook 1. 
    
    --bonnie 

    DECology -- 1) Study of the company.
                2) Induced sluggishness in an employee on a hot summer
                   day when the air conditioning is on the fritz.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    DECline 	  - new product which will thump the competition
    
    DECclesiast	  - an integrated MIS package for churches,
    		    temples, synagogs etc ..
    
    DECsageration - excessive aggressivity in some of our announcements
    		    (see above examples)
    
    DECindirect   - an internal response to DECdirect
    
    	roger 
    

    These are just examples of our DECcentricity.
    
Lew Lasher

    DECide - a software product which helps to predict catastrophe,
             but it itself fails to work one day per year 

    
    DECoration - a speech by K.O.
    

    DECalc - software tool for getting the chalky deposits off
             an Ethernet used in a hard-water area.

    I'm suprised that no one entered these:
    
    DECe, DECi, DECe, DECi, DECo : the closing of our company song
    
    	(and on this farm, he had an engineer, DECe, DECi, DECe, DECi,
         DECo,...)
    
    	
    	I know, I know, it's sick, but it worked!!!!
    
    					/^PiT^\