Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:56:56 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 02:56 PM 6/2/05 -0400, dicconf wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Steve Smith wrote:
>
>> "winding down" (just in time for a pre- election cease fire).  The
>> Committee to Re Elect the President (CREEP.  Doesn't *anybody* look at
>> those acronyms??)
>
>Not since the AMGOT incident, apparently.  The anti-Nixon camp spotted the
>acronym CREEP immediately and started making fun of it, oh, about 24 hours
>later.

Pretty lame of them.  The acronym would actually be CREP.  Or maybe CTRETP.
 Since it's hyphenated, the "E" isn't even necessary, but you'd have to be
Polish or Czeck to pronounce it with no vowels.

-- Mike B.
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"You can observe a lot just by watching."  -- Yogi Berra