Eric, Look up "cheese shop sketch." It was a twist on one of my favorite John Cleese lines, substituting "cheesy" with "contracted" which is a synonym for abbreviate.
An example of an abbreviation that springs to mind is USS for Unix System Services. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:54 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about! > > Hi Ron, > > Such language! Contracted comestibles. So what does that mean? I looked > up comestibles, and it means edible. I have no idea what contracted edibles > means. > > You get an A for humor though. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. Systems Programmer > IBM Global Services Division > Dubuque, Iowa > 414-477-7259 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Hawkins" <ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about! > > > > And so I curtailed my googling activities, sallied forth, clicked my mouse > > button, and infiltrated this place of purveyance to negotiate the reading > > of > > some contracted comestibles. > > > > Ron > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
