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21st Challenge No. 32 Results

Results
Within every tech company's name there lurks a hilarious acronym.

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By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau

April 8, 2000 |  In this challenge, we invited you to crack the acronymic code of any well-known high-tech firm and, by so doing, unlock its corporate credo.

Corporations
Hide
Acronyms,
Largely
Like
Embarrassing
Names,
Guess
Entrants

THE WINNER

Promised
Radical
Inversion?
Caveat
Emptor!
Letting
Individuals
Negotiate
Eliminates
Crappy
Overstock
Merchandise
--Keith Ammann

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Might
I
Calamitously
Reduce
Our
Stock
Through
Roughshod
Accounting
Trickery?
Executives
Go
Yachting.
--Michael Casey

In
Nervous
Times
Engineers
Litigate
--Guillermo Ibarra

Artsy
Designers
Overworking
Brilliant
Engineers
--Guillermo Ibarra

Definitive
Internet
Strategy
Not
Expected
Yet
-- B.K. Oxley

Incompetently
Run
Infrastructure
Decommissioned
Into
Unprecedented
Meteors
-- B.K. Oxley

Lucky
Us,
'Cause
Elderly
Need
Telephones
-- Kay Robart

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