Acronyms

[Susan Kline]

Dear Jim:

LOL,  in fact,  LOLQAB

Susan

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At 10:20 AM 8/21/97 -0400, Jim Bryant wrote:
>My Dear Susan;
>Strictly in the interest of furthering your internet education...you
>understand.
>PSO is understood as piano shaped object of course, as has been stated by you
>and others.  However the roots of 'POS' are somewhat muddled along with 'PP',
>    'SIB' and 'DBM'.  None of these ac's have a universal menaing however and
>they have been changed to mean many things, some more appropiate than others.
>
>  As a case in point let us look at 'POS'......This term was brought into
>wide use by management marketing departments in the mid 1960s and developed
>to its full potential by companies such as Aeolian.  Because of the realtive
>success of Aeolian in the use of this term other companies began to follow
>suit and soon the market was flooded with items for 'POS' disposal. This
>construct became so popular that the American manufactering base is
>approxiamtely 1/5 th of what it was at the beggining of the use of said
>terminology.
>  Now my Dear Susan let me make it perfectly clear that I am speaking of the
>original 'POS' as developed by the Manufacturers Association and not as
>interpreted by some of the wags on the internet, however well meaning they
>might be.  :-)
>  You see my Dear, 'POS' really means "point of sale" and not what some
>others have suggested, although the terms as put forth surely do apply, in
>some cases, you must realize that these persons have an identified
>agenda.....that being that they did not approve of the "POS' items' that were
>really 'POS' and did nothing to enhance 'POS' enrichment' at the "POS'.
>  I hope, My Dear, that I have cleared up any samll confusion in your mind on
>this subject.
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
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Susan Kline 
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