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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:16:30 EDT
Subject: Re: "Wacko" LOL!  We must do better, I think?

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In a message dated 8/27/02 5:01:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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> 
> Details of projects and tentative agreements will be forthcoming from time 
> to 
> time in various venues. Dr. Newport kindly accepted the chairmanship of a 
> steering committee to form a new trade association. York Porter suggested 
> its 
> name be the "World Association of Cryonics Organizations," WACO, pronounced 
> 
> WACKO. There is a possibility that a different name may be chosen.
> 
> Robert Ettinger
> Cryonics Institute
> Immortalist Society
> www.cryonics.org
> 
> 

I like York Porter.  I enjoyed lunch with him a few weeks ago, and I 
appreciate his sense of humor and long term committment to cryonics.

But I think the acrynym "WACO" is a bit "over the top."

Does anyone agree?

Although I do think it is a bit humorous.

Rudi

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