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Wed, Sep 17, 08 at 18:36
| http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=598
What's in your closet? A closet at a security checkpoint is labeled "CONTINGENCY DEPLOYMENT EQUIPMENT," which essentially means: "things to use if stuff happens" that's what's in my closet! |
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| LOL! Mine, too. Stuff like snow or rain, or running out of stuff in other parts of the house. |
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| In the Air Force that closet would be labeled - CDE.
(and half of us would spend 4.8 minutes trying to figure out what that stood for! LOL) |
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- Posted by adellabedella (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 08 at 13:52
| I guess I'd refer to my closets as a Repository of Redundant Acquistions or RRA for short. |
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