Subject: Re: BOB a spirit?
From: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Date: 1990-10-02, 12:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

>> >> Whatever BOB is, it so terrified Laura that she wouldn't spell
>> >> it out, not even in the Secret Diary.
> >  Sure she does; it's a classic recursive acronym: Beware of BOB.
.-.
|E|ver try to "think through" a recursive acronym?  Your mind
| | loses track after about seven iterations and you're just
`-' left with a weird feeling.
.-.
|F|or BOB to just mean "Beware Of BOB" is a great way for Laura
| | to avoid dealing with who BOB really is (assuming that's
`-' what she is doing).
    <_Jym_>