<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/1/2006 5:48:33 PM Mountain Standard Time, megj@nwlink.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>GIP?<BR><BR>Is there a place where a newbie can get a list of the acronyms you folks<BR>use?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>GIP = ?? "Generally Incompetent Person" ?? Sounds reasonable</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>er, no, I guess not. How about "Giant's Indicator Pool", which used to also be called "The Gipper"... By and large, a "newbie" could do any of three things. Stick around and pay attention (and then maybe you'll pick up on them -- even I occasionally hear something mysterious), or submit a query with a list, or get my book (which includes some of these terms, though admittedly not many).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>