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was about Project SERENE. Here's a link.

I was thinking today at lunch about how there should be a US Department of Mnemonic Development. It would be an offshoot of OSHA. Effectively, US Mnemonic Developers (US MDs) would regulate industry acroymns, and monitor the acroynmns (including the pronouncation thereof) developed by some companies whose acroynmn development has a pervasive effect on an industry as a whole. The enabling act for USDMD would arise from the "regulate interstate commerce" power. See U.S. Const. Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 2

Anyhow, the main way which the USDMD would regulate would not be through CFRs. Instead, the department would publish a series of advisory opinions, and then make information requests or conduct audits. The audits might result in the issuance of citations for eronneously named acronymns (ENAs) such that the industry analysts could talk about how, for example: ACME Corp received over 200 ENAs at the last US Department of Mnemonic Development Mnemonic Audit. But their main competitor, Salient Company, received none. When asked how he felt about the results of the US Department of Mnemonic Development Mnemonic Audit, the CEO of Salient replied, "Ecstatic"




That was a lot of work for a sad pun.