Acronyms

    You have probably heard the story about the Sam Houston Institute of Technology [Dan Rather, The Camera Never Blinks (page 17)] , but here is one even more humorous.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-12285.html, March 07
Evening Star, 22nd May 2001, 01:05

    Back in my days as a lecturer, I was at Newcastle Polytechnic when it was changing to a university. Well, as there is already a University of Newcastle the first idea was for us to become the ‘City University, Newcastle upon Tyne’ - absolutely brilliant acronym. Popular rumour has that nobody in the directorate worked out the acronym and did not realise the mistake until delivery of stationery samples. I recall the official announcement in the Staff Newsletter made some vague reference to an objection by another City University, so instead we became University of Northumbria. This “objection” fooled nobody, so those of us who had invented some great slogans for the more risqué name (would I do such a thing? Moi? OK guv, it’s a fair cop, bang t'rights) had a brief flurry of vague innuendo in the letters column of the Staff Newsletter before the strait-laced editors cottoned on and put a halt to proceedings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A753527, March 07

    There is a story in Oxford that one of the religious societies in England's oldest university was the Cambridge University New Testament Society, though that has the whiff of urban legend about it. And more recently, there is a rumour that the former Newcastle Polytechnic had got to the stage of printing their letterheads with the name City University, Newcastle upon Tyne before noticing what they were doing

    Give me a 'C,' give me a 'U," ........ What have we got! .....................

From: draco@unidoof.han.sub.org (Jan-Erik Meyer-Luetgens)
Organization: Ministerium fuer Informations-Wiederbeschaffung
(Ministry for Information Reconstitution)
Translations by K. Wuensch

 

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