[Repost: A topical reply to a general question from alt.drugs]
In article <hogneso.2.0@novell.oih.no>,
hogneso@novell.oih.no (Alladin ) writes:
>What is BTW ?
Don't be fooled by what anyone tells you about these three letters.
They only stand for one thing... the hell of addiction
Newbies begin using this as, an initially, harmless way of reducing the
number of letters they need to type and to keep in with their peer group.
But before long they feel the need move on to longer and larger numbers of
these dangerous acronyms. Soon their typing becomes unintelligible and
they
lose contact with the real world. They can no longer use whole words and,
as
the addiction tightens it's grip, speech becomes a series of single
letters.
The sad shells of these human beings are left scattered throughout the
net,
resorting to crime to survive. The sad example of Spod, who had to resort
to
robbing a McDonalds after many frustrated attempts at asking for items in
the store using only their initial letters, typifies the results of using
acronyms.
CRAP ( Campaign for the Removal of Acronyms from Public ) has been set up
to combat acronyms. Education camps will soon be set up to inform
youngsters of the dangers in AU (Acronym Use) and lobbying by our group
has proved succesful in instituting the death penalty for acronym creation
and the 10 year mandatory sentence for AU in many US states.
We will win the war against acronyms, for we have God, morality and big
bucks on our side.
Col
Contact CRAP at esrec@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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