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#147327 09/05/05 09:44 AM
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Hi, the reason why I put up this post was because I have school in my home-town which is curiously named "the Oaf Public School". Now who would name a school to state what he probably means is the exact antithesis of the name. Any guesses on this?


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perhaps it's someone's name?



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someone's name

It doesn't appear to be the most common of names but:

http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/firemansam/1349/fam02093.htm


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Well--your mention of it being a school, plus the all caps in your opening post, lead me to think it is most likely an acronym; for what, though, I don't know. The Original Aryan Fathers, or something...(highly unlikely!)

Is it by any chance in or near Bhopal? The only hint I've found so far is here, about 7/8ths. of the way down, in the paragraph that starts with "The departure of employees directly involved with the accident..."
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le0c.htm
It mentions "OAF's takeover bid", but nowhere did I see an explanation of what OAF is or was.

I did find a mention of the word oaf in one of the Google listings, used in a way I've never seen it:
"These school oaf- icials must have lower IQs than their shoe sizes. ..."



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> not mine, boyo


yeah, I wuz aware as I clicked that I'd pinged the message above, but I thought "no one but max and the Staatspolizei will ever know..." ;)

[flat earth forever!]


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[flat earth forever!] Boy, do I ever agree; why anyone would want to have to wait for the screen to change to read the next post is beyond me. [impatience forever e]


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why anyone would want to have to wait for the screen to change

If you're on dial-up, for sure. There's advantages to being a threadnodist if you have a fast connection.


#147334 09/07/05 05:28 AM
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"OAF's takeover bid": OAF is actually a typo in the quoted article. In the preceding paragraphs it is explained that the takeover bid was by a company named GAF (which was well known at the time).


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