Does anyone know . . .

[Artfiore1]

Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody knows what, if anything, "CONTROL" & "KAOS" were supposed to mean. In the series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", U.N.C.L.E stood for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

Did the words "CONTROL" & "KAOS" stand for something?

Anybody know?

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Later,
Art

[callmetootie]

I think that they mean:

Child's Oriental New Toy Rocks Over Louisiana???

Kid's Atomic Orange Soup???

I have no clue!!!

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Andrew Carden

[Artfiore1]

Andrew,
That's what I thought.

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Later,
Art

[A Gilligan Fan ss]

I don't think it stands for anything, but I could be wrong since I haven't seen every episode yet. But I think it might mean that the good guys have control and that's why they are called CONTROL and the bad guys cause kaos and that's why they are called KAOS.

[Artfiore1]

AGFss,
That makes sense.

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Later,
Art

[FOLN@NFan]

They don't stand for anything.

Just the good guys try to keep everything in "control" and the bad guys keep "chaos" up, but they called it "Kaos" because it sounded/looked more German(what they are supposed to be)

Doug

[the next 99]

You're right. CONTROL and KAOS are not acyromons. They just represent good and evil.

[hobey86]

Only the Israeli version of control was an acronym

YENTA - Your Espionage Network and Training Academy

Control and Kaos were metaphors for the Cold War between the US and Russia.

[tv star collector]

Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody knows what, if anything, "CONTROL" & "KAOS" were supposed to mean. In the series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", U.N.C.L.E stood for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

Did the words "CONTROL" & "KAOS" stand for something?

Anybody know?

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Later,
Art
According to THE GET SMART HANDBOOK, by Joey Green (1993), "The organiza-
tion's [Control] name is not an acronym .." and I would assume the same applies
to Kaos.