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Let's KISS :)
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Post by prospero »

NOYN

(Not On Your Nellie)


ISC

(I Should Cocoa)
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ARFAT - Adaptor Radio Frequency Antenna Tuning
TUAAM - Tuning Unit Automatic Antenna Matching

Gawd - amazing what's left in my head from my army service - here's a good one though - not an abbreviation.

Vic - a name you give to someone who gets up your nose.
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You still dinner with your own PSE?
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Amazing how many acronyms have been spawned since the rise of the computer. Heres a few OTTOMH. 8)

GIGO
WYSIWYG
USB
IP
ISP
ADSL
IDSN
BIOS
JPG/JPEG
DLL
TIFF
GUI
HUD
HTML
IDE
MPEG/MPG
URL
VGA
WAP
PNP
LAN

All familiar no doubt. But how many can you decipher? :P
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One of my all-time faves has to be SNAFU! :)

By the way, TLA is a TLA.

ISDN = "I Still Don't Need (it)"

WWW = "World Wide Wait" (pre-broadband days)

WAP = "Wait And Pay"

Other techie ones:

SATA
SCSI
SVGA
PSTN (love dem fluffy clouds!)
PLMN (more fluffy clouds)
VPN
PBX (Waves of sympathy to anyone who does data fill!)
ACD
CLIP
DOS
CP/M (showing my age....)
WAN
HTTP
VoIP
DCS
USSD
SMS
GPRS
UMTS
SMSC
ESME
3G

.... yada.... yada .... yada .....
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Oops! Missed "GPS"!


Abbreviation Pet Peeve: It really irritates me when people ask me for my "PIN number"!!! :evil:
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Plug'n'Pray is a fav. :) IMHO, FWIW. :P


Good one off Univerity Challenge of all places...

BOBFOC






(Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch)


Did ya know that WWW takes longer to say the abreviation than the full phrase?
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prospero wrote:Plug'n'Pray
L.O.L!!!!! Not heard that one before. Great stuff! :)
prospero wrote:Did ya know that WWW takes longer to say the abreviation than the full phrase?
Not in West Cork... ;)
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I think we're all beginning to lose sight of the real issue here, which is: what are we going to call ourselves? I think it comes down to a choice between "The League Against Salivating Monsters" or, my own personal preference, which is "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." One drawback with that--the abbreviation is.........
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What about that soap powder they brought out in the 70's then?

.... the Finest Universal Cleaner Known.

The ad went like this ..... "If Persil don't whiten it and Daz don't brighten it - F....... it!
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Post by fineedge »

again the military days

NAAFI - no ambition and f....all interest

SOMFU - self ogrganized military f... up
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