GRGR(3) get the point?
Michael Perez
studiovheissu at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 12 06:19:53 CDT 1999
Richard Wilson wrote:
"3) F.R.C.S. - don't know if this is an actual title abbrev - anyone
know of one? ( best i could do was : Foreign Research Center Staff).
phonetically it suggests 'Frankenstein'."
Actually, it stands for "Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons" and
is, apparently, an actual alphabet soup title. I seem to remember a
Monty Python bit where John Cleese portrayed a person of some apparent
importance whose desktop nameplate had so many acronyms following his
name that it continued around the room.
Michael
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