> > > > > > I had some VMS systems that I named SKITZO, PSYCHO, and PHLEGM.
> > > > > > I was limited to six characters for the name due to DECnet. I
> > > > > > was going for odd names. I was going to name the next one
> > > > > > SMEGMA, but the order was cancelled.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess it would've been worse if you'd gotten to JISM.
> > > >
> > > > Part of the plan called for using all six characters. I would
> > > > have had to spelled it differently.
> > >
> > > Ok, SPOOGE.
> >
> > Well, that's using a different word. What's a 6-letter phonetic
> > spelling for JISM?
>
> I was trying to avoid to avoid being drawn in, but ...
>
> JIZZUM or JIZZIM?
That works. What would be better, though, would be a phonetic
spelling that wasn't so obvious.
On PHLEGM I had a batch queue named PHU. Nobody caught that
it was the PHU QUEUE.
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Eric Dittman
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Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 08:43:00 BST