Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Acronyms
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:36:38 +1000

thanks, I can usually guess, but this one had me ;-)

On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 02:04 Australia/Melbourne, Peter Klein 
wrote:

>
>> Sorry, YMMV ?
>
> Alistair:
>
> YMMV is a Net acronym:  Your Mileage May Vary.  It just means that your
> results may be different from mine.
>
> The phrase used to be a standard disclaimer in automobile advertising.
> As in, "We claim 45 mgp highway, 2700 furlongs per fortnight city.  
> That's
> because the engineers stripped the body off the test car, never drove 
> over
> 25 mph, and drove naked to save weight.  We hope you'll buy the car
> because you believe you can get this fantastic fuel economy. But you 
> can't
> sue us for false advertizing when you don't."
>
> --Peter
>
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Alastair

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