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That's a brilliant trick to depoliticise an essential part of the DNS.
by ktpsns 8y ago
That's a brilliant trick to depoliticise an essential part of the DNS.
- Waterluvian 8y agoIn my town Waterloo Lutheran University became Wilfrid Laurier University. I thoroughly enjoy backronyms.
- gowld 8y agoNot a backroynym, but King County, Washington retroactively changed which person named "King" is its namesake.
- empyrical 8y agoThere was a school called "J. Edgar Hoover School", which changed so it was named after Herbert Hoover http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/9406260229_1_pta-honored-president http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/940626022...
- gowld 8y agoShame that that article puts "cross-dressing" on par with "wire-tapping, Constitution-stomping, blackmailing, bully". We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go.