Dear Manning,
Much thanks for your kind help. In my younger days I was a member of
Mensa. They'd put an "M" before everything (as in M-phasis). I was
annoyed at this literary gesticulating & wrote them a letter advising
them to use M-urine (the intelligent eyedrop). To my delight, they
published it! Hope they sell Murine in Sydney so I make sense. It's an
American eye care product.
Sydney or the bush,
Jeff Zweig
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:36:47 +1000 Manning <manningb@ihug.com.au> writes:
> In the hope that someone will attempt to do a better job than me,
> here is
> a preliminary attempt at explaining the acronyms that turn up at
> MOQ.
>
> (In no particular order)
>
> MOQ - metaphysics of quality
> ZAMM - Pirsig's book, 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
> ZATAOMM - see above
> ZMM - see above above
> LILA - Pirsig's book, "Lila - an inquiry into values"
> DQ - dynamic quality
> SQ - static quality
> C/R - classic/romantic (as in "a C/R conflict" from ZAMM)
> IMHO - "in my humble opinion"
> IMO - see above, but not so humble
> IPOV - "initial point of view" (as in "my IPOV is...")
> RP - Robert Pirsig (author)
> RMP - Robert M Pirsig (apparently the same person)
> WADR - "with all due respect" (don't see this one often)
> MU - not actually an acronym, although it actually is.
> YAAMIWSSOOTMOQAGJTBZN - "You are a mindless idiot who should stay
> out of
> the Metaphysics of Quality and go join the Boy-Zone newsgroup".
> (Struan
> uses this one on occasion)
>
> Too hard list (see Rog's post Sat 15 Apr)
>
> SOM - ?? I think the O stands for "of", if that is any help.
> SODV - ??
>
> Manning
> Sydney Australia
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