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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1173.0. "ABFJLMUWXY (mnemonic not working?)" by AUSS::GARSON (DECcharity Program Office) Tue Jul 09 1996 16:14

    The "acronym" in the title stands for "All Big Fish Jump Like Mad Under
    Water eXcept Yabbies" - that part of it is working - but can anyone
    remember what it is a mnemonic for? If it helps...I notice that the
    letters are in alphabetical order.
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1173.1JRDV04::DIAMONDsegmentation fault (california dumped)Tue Jul 09 1996 19:407
    Since there are ten of them, it sounds like a way for a store to label
    each product with the store's cost so that employees could correctly
    limit their bargaining with customers.
    
    But for this purpose, there's no need for the order to be alphabetical.
    
    -- Norman Diamond
1173.2SMURF::BINDERErrabit quicquid errare potest.Wed Jul 10 1996 10:176
    Re .1
    
    I've seen that use, but not the code in the basenote.  We used the word
    "dumbwaiter" for our digit codes when I was in retail.  Clearly, a real
    word is eaier to remember than a mishmash of letters for which a second
    mnemonic device has to be invented.  :-)
1173.3Try the SMHAUSSIE::PENNYSimon Penny - CSS Defence Segment, Sydney, AustraliaWed Jul 10 1996 19:487
This was done a couple of months back in Column 8 of the SMH (or maybe
the letters page). I can't remember either, but could it be something to 
do with the letters on old rotary dial phones? It was definitely 
some acronym no longer in use

Cheers,
Simon