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#158830 04/22/06 01:34 AM
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... by people confused by FAQs!?




I think it predates FAQs. It just looks like it should be an acronym. Besides, there's no X in Facsimile.




These are the jokes, folks (such as they are). FAQs is often pronounced facks just as fax is.

Facs doesn't look like any English word I can think of except sacs which is plural. However, box, fox, sax, Vax, etc. are singular, thus fax follows the spelling "rule" for a singular noun that ends in the "ks" sound. None of which explains why someone would want to use it in all caps.




No, but Inselpeter did; didn't you, inselpeter?

inselpeter: well, I, uh . . .

Oh, spit it out, you old gas bag. You did and you know it.

#158831 04/22/06 10:43 AM
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FAX

This is *supposed to be an acronym for what?




Facsimile Allocated X(trans)mission.

#158832 04/22/06 07:18 PM
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Just the


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ma'am.


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#158834 04/23/06 04:43 PM
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Just the ... ma'am.
Please, one more clue

#158835 04/23/06 06:17 PM
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See subject.


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whales, or coral, one.


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#158837 04/23/06 11:49 PM
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Or bishopric.


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that's getting personal.


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