That's funny to me, because: At work, NATO stands for "No Action, Talk Only"Originally posted by einnar:
I would never call sex, NATO, though. Takes all the sense of adventure out of it..
That's funny to me, because: At work, NATO stands for "No Action, Talk Only"Originally posted by einnar:
I would never call sex, NATO, though. Takes all the sense of adventure out of it..
Gene Merritt - Ames, IA - BMWMOA#111610 - IBA#21886 - Rounder #26 - Webmeister, Bahnsturmers---- 1986 K100 ---- 2006 K1200GT ---- 2001 F650GSD ----
yeah I know what you mean.
SWAG in my line of work means "Scientific Wild Ass Guess."
Gale Smith
2009 Versys
1999 R1100RT
My favorite one from where I work is PEBCAK.
I work in IT, and when we've eliminated all possibility of the problem being in the computers, and it works fine for everyone but the person involved, even at their workstation, the diagnosis is PEBCAK.
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
- Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that? - Lisa Clayman
- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. --Robert Frost
When I was a two-way radio technician in the army we had favourites like OHS- Operator Head Space, and ESO- Equipment Smarter than Operator. In my current job we pretty much set our own hours and work without the supervision of our coprorate parent, who are for the most part unaware of what we do, when we do it and where we are most of the time. One guy we used to have on our team described certain days as 'PFNW' days- Paid For Not Working. He said that that was the code they used when he worked for the railroad to justify slack time on timesheets.
Bikeless for now...but not forever!
"If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's electrical." -somebody's dad
Heh.. We used head-space and timing as a reference in the Marines, too. (Originally in reference to how you had to set a M-2 .50 cal to fire, but worked just fine for anything/anyone else too.)
If you're prior service you know all the obvious ones then.. SNAFU, TARFU, FUBAR, REMF, etc..etc...
Ownership of these brands made me run across these 2:
CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips
DODGE - Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
- Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that? - Lisa Clayman
- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. --Robert Frost
When I was in the AF, I remember the affectionate nickname for the B-52. It was a BUF: big uglyXXXXX.
Dan
MSU - process used to arrive at an answer. How did you arrive at those figures? Oh, I used MSU (Make Sh*t Up).
RCH - unit of measure, most of those that have worked in electronics know what this level of adjustment is. Just tweak it one RCH, and we're there! Not going to explain it, this is a family board.
We use SWAG here as well, the "guess" definition, that is.
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Brad D. - Member #105766
'77 R100RS - Black Beauty (big pipe, baby!)
'94 R1100RS - Sylvia
I have an ex-wife somewhere who was a natural redhead. RCH is pretty fine indeed.Originally Posted by Braddog
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At work one of my sister companies has a Frequency Dividing System series of products, they call them the FDS series. They happen to be based in England, so they are no familiar with the femine product by the same name. So that was an interesting call with them about the naming on the US brochures.
In addition to the femine product it also has another meaning at work "F Dat Sh*t"
Then there is POS, that also means point of sale, but I had to explain to a coworker how the new marketing programming should not be called POS Signage Program.
-=Brad
It isn't what you ride, it is if you ride
When I managed advertising for a satellite and cable communications equipment maker, I used to marvel at the technology and how well it worked. We had a video encryption system, a cool acronym in and of itself: B-MAC for the B version of Mulitplexed Analog Component video transmission format.
When I asked the guy how it worked, he said "FM."
****ing Magic.
Ian
Very similiar to our more friendly format of AM
"Amazing Magic"
What is funny is there is a one page document at the office of "company TLA" Three Letter Acronyms, my personal favorite is a BOM (pronounced bomb) Bill of Materials.
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-=Brad
It isn't what you ride, it is if you ride
In the telecom business, there is an acronym called BOM/BOT.
It is used to describe how professional services organization create and manage infrastructure or applications. Build, operate and manage/Build, owner turnkey.
Ian
I have vanity plates on my main cage that say "FM". When asked about what that means, I explain I'm a computer guy and those letters stand for what makes computers work, and what makes them not work. When they work, i's "****ing Magic." When they don't, its "****ing Microsoft." Always gets a big laugh.
Greg Feeler
BMW MOA President, Ambassador, & cat herder
1972 R75/5, 1990 K75, 1990 K1, 1992 K75S, 2003 K1200RS
I would dare say that most if not all of the acronyms listed (other than microsoft referals) originated in the military.
When I was an IC tech with a job code for telephones and I guessed at something about phones it was a SWAG. If the guess was made by an EM (electrician mate) it was simply a Wild Ass Guess. No science involved what so ever.
MTBATP
I like RTFM.
First letter is Read, last one is Manual.
Dave Swider
Marin County, CA
Some bikes. Some with motors, some without.
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