Bruce,
In our freshman level JCL/Fortran class the instructor always used animal names for variables in her code snippets. It really bugged me so I submitted one of the assignments where every variable was some animal... she did not think it too funny. *LOL*
>Good for learning why not to use it!...I remember once in a beginning Pascal class, the instructor had never even mentioned the existence of GOTO (nevermind not to use it), so for fun I submitted a program laced with GOTOs. She had a conniption at first, but eventually saw the humor of it when I explained my facetiousness :)