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Article #31468Re: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
From: tz1... Thomas Zych
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1992 16:49
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1992 16:49
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chr...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Tom Wilbur) writes: >Well, according to what I was always told (AFU motto of the [time >unit]), port-a-potties were not called Kibos, they were called KYBOs, >an acronym for: > K eep > Y our > B owels > O pen >Reminds me of the story (and, of course, possible UL) when I was at >the 1985 BSA National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, VA., and a friendly >little hurricane stopped by to pay its regards. Massive winds ripped >through the campsites, blowing over tents and, yes, port-a-potties. >Supposedly, one occupied KYBO even blew over *door-down*. >Blech! >-- Tom Hey, don't exaggerate now. I was at the '85 Jamboree as well. Bill wasn't a hurricane at all, just a friendly little tropical storm. Ripped some grommets out of our tents before we got them struck, and bent a few poles, but the only occupied port-a-potty that ended up door-down was the one that we intentionally turned over. 8) (At least as far as _I_ know.) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tom Zych tjz2...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu The University of Illinois | | tz1...@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu at Urbana-Champaign... | | The University may have all my money, but the opinions still belong to me. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | None of you understand. _I'm_ not locked up in here with _you_. | | _You're_ locked up in here with _me_! - Rorshach | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu!tz10956 From: tz1...@meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu (Thomas Zych) Subject: Re: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo' References: <1992Dec5.073102.16313@icaen.uiowa.edu> <1992Dec6.221754.3801@news.columbia.edu> <1992Dec7.083132.1188@Csli.Stanford.EDU> Message-ID: <BywEq2.DI9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: use...@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:49:10 GMT Lines: 37 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit