MOMS Club
= Moms Offering Moms Support
From Crestline Courier-News, 2-22-01
The MOMS Club, with over 1100 chapters
nationwide, is a non-profit organization
designed to provide stay-at-home and
part-time working moms with a social
network for support and friendship.
Refreshingly
non-geek, to say the least.
The above
recursive acronym is sort of an accidental version of
Douglas Hofstadter's "
recursive variable"
tato, which stands for
"tato (and tato only)", and thus can be considered a recursive acronym as well.
Hofstadter uses
tato as a tool for explaining the
recursive powers of
Lisp, and
recursion and list expansion in general, in a couple of articles from his collection
Metamagical Themas.
The idea is to
substitute the phrase
tato (and tato only) for every occurrence of
tato thus:
n=0: tato
n=1: tato (and tato only)
n=2: tato (and tato only) (and tato (and tato only) only)
n=3: tato (and tato only) (and tato (and tato only) only) (and
tato (and tato only) (and tato (and tato only) only) only)
and so on.