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AcronymsView Messages“Anybody know what OEM stands for? what's your fav?” 7:41:56 PM 6/26/02 “Original Equipment Manufacturer” 7:51:09 PM 6/26/02 “Other End, Man...” 8:02:13 PM 6/26/02 A few from the collection... “ACRONYM......A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics AGN..........Active Galactic Nucleus AXP..........Anomalous X-ray Pulsar AYBABTU......All Your Base Are Belong To Us BOING........Basis Of Issue Narrative Guidance BOLO.........Be On the LookOut (for) BOZO.........the Brotherhood Of Zips and Others BTSOOM.......Beats The Sh** Out Of Me (a personal favorite) CREEP........Committee to RE-Elect the President ESAD.........Eat Sh** And Die IDA..........International Darksky Association IPA..........India Pale Ale MISTRAL......Myopic Iterative Step Preserving Restoration Algorithm ORGASM.......Oxford-Reading Global Atmospheric Spectral Model PERV.........Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus PHA..........Potentially Hazardous Asteroid POEE.........the Paratheo-anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric QSO..........Quasi-Stellar Object (Quasar) RTFM.........Read The F**king Manual SNAFU........Situation Normal: All F**ked Up SOL..........Sh** Outta Luck (another personal favorite) SPOT.........Systeme Probatoire pour l'Observation de la Terre STFU.........Shut The F*** Up UKXIRA.......United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority WASER........Barbara Walters trying to say LASER? WMD..........Weapons of Mass Destruction YCDTOSA......You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore YTBMV........Your Taste Buds May Vary” 9:28:34 PM 6/26/02 “LMAO tilt! you left one out... WTF - What the Fiddlesticks” 9:31:52 PM 6/26/02 “NASA...Need Another Six Astronauts (after the Challenger disaster) SWANK...Single Woman And No Kids” 10:21:13 PM 6/26/02 "WASER," lmao!! “i have a burning question about acronyms. if you have a few of one thing, represented by an acronym, like a few Very Important People, do you write "VIPs" or do you put an apostrophe in there? as in "VIP's"? i always see people do that, but it's not possessive, so it drives me nuts! on the other hand, it does look sort of awkward to have just the little "s" hanging on there. i think i have way too much time on my hands...but for real, i've been wondering!” 8:21:25 AM 6/27/02 “VIP's tend to be very possessive. You ever tried to borrow thier Lexus?” 8:24:46 AM 6/27/02 “i do believe that would be "Lexi." heheee!!” 8:25:44 AM 6/27/02 “wtf?” 8:33:12 AM 6/27/02 “And if there was more than one "lyra", would that be "lyrae"?” 8:34:17 AM 6/27/02 “that would be "your worst nightmare." ;-P” 8:35:43 AM 6/27/02 “AH... The Crux Of The Bisquick! If that drives you crazy, it's a short drive, LOL But Seriously Folks... It seems to be a mystery. The apostophe appears to have been used in this fashion (and incorrectly so) to the extent that it now accepted use. Link the First Link the Second Link the Third 'Initialisms'... BAH!” 8:41:57 AM 6/27/02 “lol....I'll take your word for it...” 8:42:00 AM 6/27/02 “YAY! thanks, Tilt :-) i shall go on omitting the apostrophe, and thinking that everyone who does use it is a nincompoop. ;-) and a Goethe quote in there to boot! aahhhh, i feel so much better now.” 8:47:45 AM 6/27/02 “Beta Lyrae RR Lyrae SIMBAD? (Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data)” 8:52:16 AM 6/27/02 “it appears as though i have some competition to eliminate... "If you like RR Lyrae, you'll love Cepheids!" party on, Wayne!” 8:57:38 AM 6/27/02 “Usual disclaimers apply!” 8:59:43 AM 6/27/02 “Beware the Sagittarius Dwarf!” 9:04:33 AM 6/27/02 “if you accidentally ate your toung......what would it taste like?” 9:09:45 AM 6/27/02 “hey, Tilt, if anyone was so stark-raving mad as to be heedless of that warning, they'd deserve whatever they got! i'll tell ya that much, buddy.” 9:12:26 AM 6/27/02 “AYCE: All You Can Eat HYOH: Hike Your Own Hike OBE: Overcome By Events PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair SRPOS: Shink Wrapped Piece of Shět TEOTWAWKI: The End Of The World As We Know It YALN: Yet Another Linux Newbie and last but not least.... AWB: Average White Biz” 9:17:59 AM 6/27/02 “CTC....cut the cake” 9:20:12 AM 6/27/02 “Ain't that the truth! (especially that bit about the disclaimers!) Don't forget to duck... Hey Strat! Have you been playin' those Steven Wright records again?” 9:23:10 AM 6/27/02 “LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging SONAR - SOund NAvigation and Ranging FUBAR - F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition” 10:17:27 AM 6/27/02 “an engineer does not know what OEM stands for? bizarre!” 7:10:57 PM 6/27/02 “SID - Thats what it stands for where I'm from... whats yer definition?” 7:46:42 PM 6/27/02 “DRT - Dead Right There FPS - F'ng Piece of Sh*t (usually reserved for domestic violence, child molester arrestees)” 11:36:18 PM 6/28/02 “Hmmmm... is DRT kinda like 'dead at the scene'? And does that apply to someone who "just up and dies"? And what is that "up" business about?” 8:43:55 AM 6/29/02 “Okay... I just got back from the grocery store and there's this sticker on the sid eof my 12-pack of Coke: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Great Meals Start At Kroger Have You Seen B.O.B? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W T F ?” 4:45:18 PM 6/30/02 “BOB Baby On Board BOB Bank One Ballpark (Arizona Diamondbacks) BOB Battery Operated Boyfriend ???” 4:59:10 PM 6/30/02 “Somehow none of those strike me as being grocery-related, <G>.” 6:31:30 PM 6/30/02 INS “...or INS Mission...... in SAR that stood for, interfering with natural selection.....” 6:42:11 PM 6/30/02 “Tilt The first one, Baby On Board, had a remote chance. Our store has a baby program. The other two, well, I found nothing better. LOL.” 6:49:06 PM 6/30/02 “or... Base On Balls? Maybe not. Yes, Steve, I have this bumper sticker: Support Search and Rescue, GET LOST!” 7:20:20 PM 6/30/02 “Tilt a person who just dies (not in a car crash or violently) DFO - Done Fell Out !!” 7:39:33 PM 6/30/02 “That would be a very cool sticker.Where can I get one? 8)” 7:41:15 PM 6/30/02 My Most Commonly Used Acronym... “F.D.” 9:44:29 PM 6/30/02 “F.D..... Fuct Dup? LOL I dunno Mike. I got mine from the guys who worked on the Cospas-SARSAT System at Goddard Space Flight Center back in '95... but I have seen variations on that theme. Hey, how about our own version to go with the t-shirts? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Support Search & Rescue: GET LOST! thebackpacker.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~” 10:22:59 AM 7/01/02 “$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Support your local organ bank Go on a TT hike today $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$” 11:22:14 AM 7/01/02 “local!??! you won't get above wholesale price locally..i ship all the kidneys i swipe on the black market..most goto tawain. P.L.U.R.--Peace Love Unity and Respect” 12:04:41 PM 7/01/02 oh. I thought it was Original Enema, Man “NOBODY MENTIONED DINK??? Double Income No Kids” 6:23:34 PM 7/03/02 “With friends like these, who needs an enema?” 6:30:27 PM 7/03/02 Well Yes...But... “My Most Commonly Used Acronym... "F.D." Buddur 09:44:29 PM 06/30/02 "F.D..... Fuct Dup? LOL Tilt 10:22:59 AM 07/01/02 Actually, F.D. means "Fuc Dat" for when I'm not going to do/consider/whatever something. It's another way of saying "No way!"” 2:04:39 PM 7/04/02 “Dang. That was a much closer guess than I ever thought it would be! %^ )” 2:14:08 PM 7/04/02 “Here's one from Gulf War I, thanks to the History Channel: PATRIOT (the missile).......Phased Array TRacking Intercept Of Target And one for Mr Hyde, from C-SPAN: MEOW............ Moral Equivalent Of War” 6:29:51 PM 10/02/05 “  - and - FHC...............Fixed-Head Coupe (1963)  7:10:22 PM 10/02/05 “ I always find a few new acronyms whenever I scan InformationWeek: VoIP..... (i'm sure you know)..... Voice over Internet Protocol ... and two new related goodies... SPIT........ SPam over Internet Telephone (coming soon to a digital phone near you) & VOMIT.... Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephone Enjoy! ” 11:25:51 AM 7/13/06 4:37:24 PM 7/13/06 “Yaz... a favorite of acronym freaks everywhere, [G]” 5:47:21 PM 7/13/06
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