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Subject: What does the ASM stand for?
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:24:32 -0500
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What does the ASM in uiuc.org.asm stand for?
(other than Association for the Study of Meats, of course)

Well, the people at the Association of Swarthmore Magic-Players,
the folks behind swat.org.asm, have given this question much
thought and come up with the following list:



     Association of Salad Moochers?
     Association of Silly Moths?
     Association of Sexy Maidens?
     Association of Single Mothers?
     Association of Strained Machinery?
     Association of Solitary Musicians?
     Association of Skating Monkeys?
     Association of the Society of Mishra?
     Association of Stolen Mammoths?
     Association of Sticky Messages?
     Association of Swarthmore Madams?

     Anteaters of Southern Maine?
     Alcohol, Sardines, and Marijuana?
     Anarchists and SWIL (non)Members?
     Annihilation of Star-trek Missions?
     Anti-Semitic Masons?
     Alliance of Sundry un-Mentionables?
     Amnesty for Syrian Mammals?
     Atheists Selling Mennorahs?
     Anonymous Silent Majority?
     Advocating Suicide and Murder?
     Albanians Scaling Martin?
     Alliance of Sexual Misdirection?
     Anti-Social Maniacs?
     Application of Socratic Method?
     Amorously-Sated Military?
     Assassination of Sodium Mixtures?
     Anonymous Sadomasochistic Miscreants?
     Array of Soapy Minestrone?
     Arthropodic, Supercilious Mollusks?
     Aardvarks Searching for Males?
     Abolition of Screens and Monitors?
     Aspartame Sweetener Mutates?
     A Shoulder Massage?
     Aromatic Skunk Musk?
     Aristocratic Satirical Moss?
     Annoying Singing Mermen?
     Accoustically-Silent Mumblings?
     Antelope Sexual Malfunction?
     Armory of Selective Murderers?
     Anecdotes from Serious Meaninglessness?
     Anachronistic Slug Ministers?
     Avid Sheep-Milkers?
     A Succinct Menagerie?
     Ashes of Several Muppets?
     Adroit Strippers in Manacles?
     Amorous Men Searching?
     Acrobatic Sexual Maneuvers?
     Alligators Severing Musketters?
     Alien Services Ministry?
     Agony of Severe Misfortune?
     Alienation of Several Macromolecules?


And you thought WE were bored!!!

In any case, many reserved thanks to Sam Weiler and Melissa Binde
for wasting their time and coming up with this.
(http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~binde/docs/asm.html)

-Dan

P.S. If any of you are equivalently bored, feel free to come
up with suggestions for things to add to the list.  This will
eventually find its way to the ASM homepage, hopefully with
some additions.

P.P.S. Tim - I believe "What does ASM stand for?" qualifies
as a question. You know what to do :)


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| Dan Foygel  |  foygel@uiuc.edu  |  http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/foygel | 
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