| Title: | The Joy of Lex | 
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love | 
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM | 
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 1192 | 
| Total number of notes: | 42769 | 
    True meanings:
    
    Adaptive Equalization	- Busing
    Asynch			- A place to wash dishes
    Automatic calling unit	- Teenager with a telephone
    Bisynch			- Farewell to the dish-washing place
    Bit				- Twelve and a half cents
    Bit Rate			- How often you are bitten
    Byte Rate			- How fast you can eat
    Envelope Delay		- The U. S. Postal Service
    Full Duplex			- No vacancies
    Hollerith			- What thou doest when thy phone is
    				  on the fritzeth
    Kilocycle			- Capital punishment for a bike
    Microwave			- Signal from a friendly micro
    Milliamp			- Mrs. Amp's daughter
    Modem			- How a Southerner asks for seconds
    Semiconductor		- Part time band leader
    
    (These are taken <without permission> from MSD News.
    
    Please reply if there is a note with more of these.
    
    
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 259.1 | DECWET::SHUSTER | Red Sox Addition: 1986 = 1975 + 1 | Wed Oct 15 1986 11:59 | 2 | |
|     Gate Array                  - The green stuff an engineer drinks
                                  for quick energy 
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| 259.2 | More | EUCLID::LEVASSEUR | Like A Poorly Drawn Cartoon | Wed Oct 15 1986 12:54 | 6 | 
|     Floppy Disk - A bad lower back condition
    Pascal      - A green leafy vegetacle
    Microchips  - What a herd of micros leave behind
    Write locked- Writer's cramp
    
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