Re: progsoc the name

Chris Keane - Chief ENS Pointyhead (Chris.Keane@nospam.aus.sun.com)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 14:22:26 +1100

> Call me an iconoclast if you will, but
>
You bloody iconoclast.

> Why is progsoc called progsoc? (besides the fact that progsoc is short
> for programmers' society) Why this name and not some other? I know
> there are historical reasons, but I'd like to know why the name progsoc
> was originally chosen. It couldn't be the simple contraction prog-soc,
> could it? (humour for the humour impaired)

As one of only a few official Progsoc Old Farts I can confidently state
that it wasn't my fault. Now bugger off. I'm in a bad mood because I
almost got run over by a feral ferry hurtling down the main street of
Wellington this afternoon and *I didn't see it coming* even though my
tarot cards read "If you go to New Zealand you will be run-over by a
run-away ferry on the main street of Wellington".

Christofu.

P.S. We though "Progsoc" was easier to say than
"Krumpeldiddlybottoms-en-smurtflangers", which was the other alternative.