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Date: | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:17:12 EST |
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Barry Lake wrote me privately:
> >...After an extensive 10 minute search,
> >the following was offered:
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> > AICS Research => Crash? I care.
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> What are the rules of anagrams? Are you required to use all the original
> letters, or can you leave some out? Your company name has two s's and two
> e's. The anagram doesn't. But if you add them back in, you might get
>
> AICS Research => I see car crash.
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> >which is, of course, exactly the statement you'd expect from any
> >HP3000 vendor -- and which is a heck of lot better than one of the
> >alternatives: "caries ache" :-).
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> See above. It should probably be "carries aches".
Barry's right. There were two (count 'em) errors in my posting. The first was
my fault. I was mistaken in what I heard and consequently mistyped the
phrase; the second was just plain wrong (two letters were dropped).
Anyway, by now a complete dialog has been generated here:
AICS Research => Crashes? I care. (note: the correct phrase)
AICS Research => Search is race.
AICS Research => Search is care.
AICS Research => Ace search, sir!
and
AICS Research => Chair creases.
The last one doesn't have anything to do the the dialog, but it contains a
lot more truth than poetry.
Wirt Atmar
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