# TALUS - an acronym? *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 01 Jun 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Latro1 *01 Jun 1998, 22:02* Hi, I'm new to the Whorl list and I've got a question: What if TALUS is an acronym? Titanium Armored Large Undercarriage Soldier Tank Artillery Logistical Underground Soldier Totally Angry Large Ugly Soldier --- ### Michael Straight *01 Jun 1998, 21:10 · follows Latro1* > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 Latro1 at aol.com wrote: > Hi, I'm new to the Whorl list and I've got a question: > What if TALUS is an acronym? > > Titanium Armored Large Undercarriage Soldier > Tank Artillery Logistical Underground Soldier > Totally Angry Large Ugly Soldier Well, Horn doesn't write it in all caps, so if it originally was an acronym, it's probably one like 'radar' or 'scuba' where most people don't know what it stands for or even that it ever was an acronym. So I'd put that under 'possible, but I doubt we'll ever get any evidence for it.' -Rostrum ---