Hi ttbn,

At first I thought you meant the Australian Federal Police, and I was about to get indignant at police intrusion into citizen's lives.

And I took UPF to refer to the United Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe. Showing my age, I suppose.

I suppose, with only 26 letters in our alphabet, that leaves only 26 x 26 x 26 = 17,600 odd possible combinations. Enough for an acronym for every person on both the extreme Right AND the 'Left'.

Thanks,

Joe

Joe,

It used to be that authors gave the name of an organisation and put the acronym in brackets initially to indicate how they would be describing the organisation down the line. Not any more. I don't know if it's age difference between them and us oldies, or just bad manners.

I read a lot, and while the younger authors have something that needs to be said, I find the way they put it very irritating at times, and it detracts from what they are trying to say. With fiction, I find the newer writers (my favourites are mostly dead!) don't do description very well, if at all; good plots etc., but just words on paper, not a 'film in the head' as it used to be.

Cheers,
Franc