FLASH

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  Perfectly logical.  But while I'm popping in,
Happy Birthday, Ornette Coleman, Mircea Eliade and
Victoria Mary Sackville-West (all those "v"s, upright
or inverted) ...

--- kevin at limits.org wrote:
 
> It's in all caps because it comes from a teletype
> machine.  The apocryphal
> story is that the teletype engineers, given the
> choice between doing
> everything in lowercase or everything in uppercase,
> decided that lowercase
> was easier on both the eyes and the machine.  They
> were overruled by
> management on the grounds that, without uppercase
> letters, one could not
> properly write "the name of the deity."
> 
> Anyway, FLASH isn't an acronym for anything.


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