From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Gleanings (59)
Date: 16 Sep 1992 04:49:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:
For the second time - the machine ate this once before, and Akio deserves his
answer.  This machine has more flakes in its operating system than a box of
Wheaties.<gnashes teeth>
>>  2) AP test (Steph)
>.
>AP tests are Advanced Placement tests given to high school seniors
>who have (supposedly) taken a special AP course to prepare them for
>the test, a course that is the equivalent of college-level work.
>Some may remember that the origin of WHTMISA (San Antonio) all
>started with -ggs' stay in SA to grade AP tests in Spanish.
I took AP courses in French, Biology and physics, so even if you had been
grading them around here, our paths wouldn't have crossed. 
>>  9) C.o.d. (<Gilbert>)
>C.O.D. means <Collect On Delivery> and is used by the United
>States Postal Service....  the sender gets her money from the
>post office after the post office has gotten the money from the
>recipient of the mail.
Without the periods, it's also a type of fish, the type that smells if left
out in the sun for five minutes.....  In that the two are alike...
>> 10) OTFAICGU (<Gilbert>)
>.
>On The Floor And I Cant Get Up.  A variation on ROFL, and also a
>slightly obscure, very clever reference to the commercial that was
><all the rage> some time ago, the advertisement for the emergency
>medical service that portrayed the woman on the floor, crying into
>the emergency phone "I've fallen and I can't get up."
Did I do this to you?  Poor thing, I apologize.  Now, how did I manage it
so that I can do it again.....
>> 17) GRE (Agnes)
>.
>I think this is the Graduate Record Examination -- test taken by
>college seniors who are trying to get into graduate school.  --ggs
Yep - GREs, the SATs from Hell....
>the 33 percentile and got into Tulane *anyway*....  After M.A. and
>three years of teaching at Wake Forest, he took it again and scored
>in the 98 percentile and got into Brown *anyway*....  A little
>knowledge is a wonderful thing.
I scored somewhere around the 98/99th percentile in the English section
of that beast.  Our paths cross again.:-)  We're definitely related, giggles,
but we still haven't figured out how....

>> 29) Double nickel (Ruth H.)
>I will let ruthie explain this because she will be <ill> with me
>if I steal her glory.
Steal all you like, I'll make more.[to quote yet another commercial]
The Double Nickel is a CB slang term for the interstate highway speed limit
as it was in the 1970s to late 80s - 55mph.  A nickel is a five cent coin,
thus....  This was a reference to giggle's age catching up with him.  He is
allowed to call ruthie because he is literally more than twice my age.<grin>

>--ggs  (wondering if any wordslers are quick enough to have caught
>  his attempt at political correctness....)
Yes, but who wanted to bother worrying about it?  You old fogies tend to
forget current usages and <revert> to the definitions and vocabulary of your
<distant> childhoods.:-)

Ruth
ducking for the second time

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