Some funny acronym expansions of Emacs

From: The Unknown User <anonymous@nowhere.uucp>
Subject: EMACS -- What does it mean?
To: mit-prep!info-gnu-emacs@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU

EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!

Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift

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From: harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie
Date: 9 Sep 85 17:25:27 EDT
Subject: EMACS -- What does it mean?
To: mit-prep!info-gnu-emacs@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU

EMACS may stand for “Editing MACroS,” but some friends of mine suggested some more creative definitions. Here they are. Anyone have any additions?

• Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
• Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler
• Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal
• Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales
• Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified
• Emacs Means A Crappy Screen
• Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
• Even My Aunt Crashes the System
• Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
• Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive
• Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman
• Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly
• Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility
• Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions
• EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM
• Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins
• Generally Not Used
• Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists
• Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous
• Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software
• Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple
• Emacs May Allow Customized Screwups
• Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed
• Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
• Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion
• Extensibility and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons
• Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures
• Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies
• Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink
• Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists
• EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price
• Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller
• Embarrassingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales
• Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior
• Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System
• EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters
• Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler
• Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission
• Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex
• Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non
• Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
• Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow
• Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen
• Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells
• Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
• Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
• Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures
• Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans

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From: ihnss!warren@mit-eddie (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:14:24 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Someone at a luncheon suggested it meant:

(In reference to the odd hours that went into the creation of my implementation).

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Warren Montgomery
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 85 10:11:04 edt
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Pleeeeeeeze!!! Nice try on the meaning of EMACS. I believe the correct acronym is:

Thank you, and Good Night

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From: ho95e!wcs@mit-eddie (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:43:54 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ?

GNU = Gnu's Not Unix. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs. More recursive acronyms, anyone?

Many people have also seen FINE Is Not Emacs, but the one that has character is THief Isn't Even Fine.

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## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

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From: edison!ta2@mit-eddie (tom allebrandi)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 18:11:55 EDT
Organization: General Electric's Mountain Resort
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GNU = Gnu's Not Unix. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs.

More recursive acronyms, anyone?

For the DEC-system-10/20: FINE - Fine Is Not Emacs…

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From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
Sender: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
To: jimb@gnu.ai.mit.edu, rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: etc/emacs.names
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:54:57 edt

The following should be added:

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From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: what emacs stands for
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:29:32 GMT

• Emacs Masquerades As Comfortable Shell
• Ever Made A Control-key Setup?
• Emacs: My Alternative Computer Story
• Emacs Made Almost Completely Screwed (by extensive use of M-x global-unset-key)
• Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen (Deutsch: Emacs makes all computers beautiful)
• Each Mail A Continued Surprise
• Every Mode Acknowledges Customized Strokes (keystrokes, of course :-)
• Eating Memory And Cycle-Sucking
• Everyday Material Almost Compiled Successfully

now enough bashing for today :-)

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From: elvis@gnu.ai.mit.edu
To: emacs-19-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: missing from etc/emacs.names
Date: Thu, 20 May 93 02:21:27 edt

Just so you boys know the score.

Thank you very Much,
The King