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Old Feb 21st, 2006, 3:22 PM   #5
mackenga
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...or an anti-rote-learning one:

Training And Testing Can Provide (us) With Quite Ignorant Engineers

This reminds me of a game I used to play during my mis-spent youth called Acronymania; it was actually quite fun. You try to come up with alternative expansions for acronyms; e.g.

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms
MCSE: Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert

Once you get the obvious ones out the way, the game can be quite amusing. Or maybe I just didn't have a life when I was 16, and I'm still searching...
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