Great misconceptions

[Tony]

AMERICA
Aha, My Expedition's Reached India, Columbus Averred

PEACE IN OUR TIME
Pathetic Englishman's Airport Claim. Evil Intentioned Nazis Obviously Unreliable. Resulting Turmoil Involved Millions Exterminated

[Angela]

CORIOLIS

Control Of Rotation In One's Loo's Incredibly Slight!

CORIOLIS FORCE

Circling Of Remains In One's Loo Is Somehow Forced Onto Reversal, Crossing Equator.

(I don't like that one as much)

See http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html if you don't know what I mean. That Bad Science website could be a good source of misconceptions to acronymise!

MICROSOFT WORKS

Mostly It Crashes, Requiring Outrageous Squandering Of Funds To Write Over/Reinstall Kludgy Software

MISS CONCEPTION
Mothered Innumerable Sprogs, Seen Countless Obstetricians... Now Carrying Embryo. Prefers Thoughtless Insemination Over Nuptials.

or

Pregnancy's The Ideal Of Nature!

[Tony]

Angela wrote:


> MICROSOFT WORKS
> Mostly It Crashes, Requiring Outrageous Squandering Of Funds To Write Over/Reinstall Kludgy Software

Great ac - excellent use of a tricky "k".

[Angela]

>>> On 03 February 2002 11:44:50 UTC, Tony wrote:

Great ac - excellent use of a tricky "k".


Thank you. I'm thinking of changing the punctuation slightly so it's:
Mostly It Crashes, Requiring Outrageous Squandering Of Funds To Write Over (Reinstall) Kludgy Software

[Jeff]

COX HIGH SPEED INTERNET

Crash Or eXile?


(would anyone care to finish off this ISP that is down so much that one can't tell if it's another crash or if they've been terminated?)