[CQ-Contest] Crud-O-Jects

[Charles Gallo]

On 7/29/2006 James  Cain wrote:

> Curiously, their article did not mention the origin of the name, but they rebirthed "CRUD" as
> an acronym -- Continuous Unwanted Random Disturbances."  Those were the days when QST had a sense of humor. This
> was what my physics professor would have called "reverse engineering" -- start with the acronym and find words to
> fit it.

In computers we call this a "backronym"


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