Pasi T Mustalahti wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>
> > Pasi T Mustalahti wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, N STEENKAMP [M.ING E&E] wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > > I got a lot of smart-ass answers, but nobody told me what PTM means.
> > > > Its the guy's inititials.
> > > > Niki
> > > >
> > > PTM: Yeah, you are right.
> > > I have had this habit for so long that I didn't see anything odd in it.
> > > It started in a R&D project where we documented just about everything and
> > > signed it with our initials.
> > > I didn't read these acronyn-mails until now and now the best part has gone
> > > ;)
> >
> > That must explain RTFM - Reginald Theodore Frederick McDonald <VBG>
> PTM: Not all acronyms are initials. Take for example
> ISDN -It Still Does Nothing
> NTSC -Never The Same Color
>
How about a real one - the standard for scanners: TWAIN stands for
Technology Without An Interesting Name.  Yes, really.
--Matt