<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">As Mary Tobinette Kowal wrote (novel’s first DBPS reference), <div><br></div><div>“… She had her Deep Brain Pain Suppressor dialed all the way down because doing her exercises with the DBPS on was an invitation for more pain later. “</div><div><br></div><div>— page 2, <u>The Spare Man</u> (hardcover), TOR, ©️2022<br><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 7, 2024, at 3:05 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Which David?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Also, I don't see the correct meaning of the acronym you intended (or its meaning) in any of the jocular affluence.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 3:00 PM Shelly Thomas <<a href="mailto:yellerdoggy@gmail.com">yellerdoggy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">David got it right. I reversed a couple of letters. (Sigh)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 2:54 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The urban dictionary offers up something seriously NSFW.\</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I can't believe Shelly intended something like that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A deeper look at the "Acronym Finder" comes up with:</div><br><ul><li>Dulbecco's Phosphate Buffered Saline</li><li>Dynamic Partial Buffer Sharing (computing)</li><li>Dennis Powell Body Shop (Johnson City, TN)</li><li>Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (University of Miami, Florida)</li><li>Double Polarizing Beam Splitter (interferometry)</li><li>Downstream Pipe Balancing Service (shipping)</li><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span>Dan Peterson Basketball School (Italy)</li></ul><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I still wonder which one Shelly intended.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM Liz Patton <<a href="mailto:mongoliz@hotmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mongoliz@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I looked it up on Urban Dictionary and found a (possibly) more likely def…. <br>
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