Give it away!

What do you mean you didn’t know? Look, for the last time I’ll tell you - Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle!

....Anyway, whatever it stands for, it’s getting even better, as "The world’s most popular online guide to the Internet"(TM) gets a brand spanking new localised UK version, run off all-singing, all-dancing IBM PC’s. Not only will it carry seamless access to the full directory listings of all the main Yahoo! sites worldwide, but now, thanks to those wonderful guys out there on the ether, Yahoo! UK comprises all the 15000+ UK and Irish internet sites.

Wow.

Anyhow, that’s the advert out of the way, so what’s the prize? Well, here at SftW we feel that we just have to go one better every week, so we’ve set ourselves a tough task next week by offering you the chance to walk away with an IBM PC. That’s right, thanks to the splendid marketing types at Beatwax, you, our trusted and loyal readers, have the opportunity to make your lives complete, your eyesight appaling and your social life non-existent with a computer of your very own. (And as it’s a national competition, surprise, surprise, we’ve got some T-Shirts as well).

All you have to do is to jot the answer to the fiendishly difficult question down on any piece of paper that comes to hand, add your name and department, and drop it into the Felix office in Beit.

"What does Yahoo stand for"

The Rules:

Felix takes no responsibility for any entries lost by the Royal Mail, eaten by the dog, thrown out by your cleaner/landlady (delete as applicable), accidentally lost by Felix staff, deliberately lost by Felix staff, burnt, soaked or nicked (by fire, flooding or theft respectively ), destr-oyed on grounds of taste, confiscated by Union stewards, or which for any other reason fail to win.

You have been warned

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24th Jan 1997

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