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Offline charlie b

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #60 on: January 08, 2017, 08:07:00 AM »
FYYFF - maybe a little too vulgar to spell out...I've seen this sticker on a lot of bikes, can't say it's my favorite though.



FYI (another well used acronym :)  ), FYYFF is the semi-official symbol of the ADV Rider forum.  One of the members sells the stickers.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #61 on: January 08, 2017, 08:17:45 AM »
FYI (another well used acronym :)  ), FYYFF is the semi-official symbol of the ADV Rider forum.  One of the members sells the stickers.


Doesn't sound the friendliest group

Not a fan of the stickers like that... To each his own...but I couldn't imagine giving a kid or a neice/nephew grand kid a ride with a helmet like that.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #62 on: January 08, 2017, 08:44:28 AM »
Acronyms are a PITA (pain in the ass)
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #63 on: January 08, 2017, 08:54:28 AM »

Doesn't sound the friendliest group

Not a fan of the stickers like that... To each his own...but I couldn't imagine giving a kid or a neice/nephew grand kid a ride with a helmet like that.


It is a forum a lot bigger than this one and the members don't pull punches.  Great resource across a wide range of topics (like in here).

And 99% of the time it is just as nice as it is in here.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #63 on: January 08, 2017, 08:54:28 AM »

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #64 on: January 08, 2017, 08:54:50 AM »
I still use this 45 years after I was taught it on occasion

SOHCAHTOA or Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction


So a TLA(ish) of a mnemonic to remember what?  :undecided:

Trigonometry formulae.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #65 on: January 08, 2017, 09:00:39 AM »
Technically not an acronym, but I've always liked the word bumf.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #66 on: January 08, 2017, 09:36:02 AM »
Technically not an acronym, but I've always liked the word bumf.

Yup there is a debate about what makes an acronym...some say the letters need to be a prnounceble word or words... Others not so much... Even different dictionary sorces vary on definition

Fun  :popcorn:

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #67 on: January 08, 2017, 10:01:34 AM »
Trigonometry formulae.
I guess one person's mnemonic is another's ETLA.  :laugh:
I learned Sohcahtoa as the Indian Chief mnemonic to remember Sine = opposite/hypotenuse, etc.  So I would call Roy G Biv a mnemonic and could never remember the relative wavelengths without it!
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #68 on: January 08, 2017, 10:23:44 AM »
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #69 on: January 08, 2017, 11:07:43 AM »
PPPPPPP the seven P principle:

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #70 on: January 08, 2017, 12:22:38 PM »
SWAG (scientific wild-a__ed guess)

I worked a number of years as a petro-chemical estimator. SWAGs were my stock-in-trade...
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #71 on: January 08, 2017, 12:26:10 PM »
They're starting to lose their bite. Sounding a bit try hard.

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #72 on: January 08, 2017, 03:05:49 PM »
They're starting to lose their bite. Sounding a bit try hard.


Ha keepem coming I'm trying to beat Dusty's long thread record. Not really
Actually I'm not sure there enough acronyms available.

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #73 on: January 08, 2017, 03:06:33 PM »
TFS..............Th at's for short.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #74 on: January 08, 2017, 03:37:02 PM »
STFU, pronounced stifu...Shut the f++k up. Actually had a guy called this in the Air Force because he wouldn't.
Worked with a lot of Aussies in Saudi, they were called JAFAs, just another f++king Australian.

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #75 on: January 08, 2017, 07:02:39 PM »
Yup there is a debate about what makes an acronym...some say the letters need to be a prnounceble word or words... Others not so much... Even different dictionary sorces vary on definition

Fun  :popcorn:

IDGAD :)
Speaking of dictionaries guisto... And also, notice how many are containing profanity, in the end all you need to do is blurt out a short statement loaded with four letter words starting with f's and c's and take the first letter of each one and they're being called acronyms, they're just not witty. And also we've been asked not to use high level profanity and blank out one letter to protect ourselves from a rebuke, some of them are excessive, do we need to be told AGAIN, there are women and kids who like to read about bikes on this forum, I wouldn't like my 6 year old niece reading some of those. Pull it Dusty, (yes including mine). BTW Guisto, I wasn't referring to your post as profane or obscene, just wanted to post the comment. Huzo.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #76 on: January 08, 2017, 07:15:39 PM »
 Maybe some of the posters could clean up their own work , yes some of it is a bit distasteful , we are after all mostly a family forum .

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #77 on: January 08, 2017, 07:30:56 PM »
Maybe some of the posters could clean up their own work , yes some of it is a bit distasteful , we are after all mostly a family forum .

 Dusty


Agreed

There have been some a bit rough while many others have kept it clean. Hurzo Maybe you should apply for a moderators position

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #78 on: January 08, 2017, 11:35:08 PM »

Agreed

There have been some a bit rough while many others have kept it clean. Hurzo Maybe you should apply for a moderators position.
Maybe not mate, my ears are still stinging from the last whack I got (understandably). Actually Guisto, it's absolutely impossible to offend me with language, like most guys here, seen and heard it all, but you don't want your wife or girlfriend (or both), to feel wary about picking up the i pad. IMO, feeling comfortable and welcome in a group is the important first step to becoming part of that group and seeing the others around you as like minded individuals is a big driver in fostering the desire to become closer and that can't be a bad thing at all. Dusty nailed it by saying that we could perhaps self moderate a bit.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #79 on: January 09, 2017, 12:32:25 AM »
 When my "Tri-TerTerrier of Doom " starts avering his eyes we kinda know there is a problem  :laugh:

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #80 on: January 09, 2017, 02:01:56 PM »
Saw this one today  at the end of a government form

EOF

 End of form

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #81 on: January 09, 2017, 05:22:24 PM »
When in Nuclear Power school back in the day I missed a very very simple question on a test that I would have aced otherwise.  Written in LARGE red letters on my test page?  RTFQ!  Around here could be better expressed as RTFM.  Read The #$##$*% Question/Manual.  Also learned in nuke school PFM.. Pure #$##$*% Magic for explanations on how things worked.

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #82 on: January 10, 2017, 09:35:08 AM »
FWIW, EOF came from same place as things like LF (Line feed).  Computer programming.  EOF was end of file.

A lot of the emoticoms and abbreviations/acronyms were from the days of telegraph and teletype.  When it took a long time to send information the abbreviations became a stock in trade.  Early computer programming was all about the most efficient use of memory space.  Commands were limited to a few bits in memory.
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #83 on: January 10, 2017, 09:42:25 AM »
FWIW, EOF came from same place as things like LF (Line feed).  Computer programming.  EOF was end of file.

A lot of the emoticoms and abbreviations/acronyms were from the days of telegraph and teletype.  When it took a long time to send information the abbreviations became a stock in trade.  Early computer programming was all about the most efficient use of memory space.  Commands were limited to a few bits in memory.

I have a 1916 Underwood typewriter here on my desk.   It has no "return" key (that's an electric typewriter invention) but it does have a "Shift" key which 'shifts' the entire carriage up to get capitals.   AND has the 'tabulator' key ... Who would have thought that:

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #84 on: January 10, 2017, 12:14:27 PM »
All these acronyms must be confusing my mind? At work today I mistakenly blurted out Non Guzzi Content when attempting to refer to NGSD acronym we have for something which is well NGC obviously. My brain must be elsewhere in GC mode and dismissive of NGSD as meaningless NGC balderdash?

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #85 on: January 10, 2017, 12:47:51 PM »
All these acronyms must be confusing my mind? At work today I mistakenly blurted out Non Guzzi Content when attempting to refer to NGSD acronym we have for something which is well NGC obviously. My brain must be elsewhere in GC mode and dismissive of NGSD as meaningless NGC balderdash?

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #86 on: January 10, 2017, 05:33:11 PM »
Are you all too young to know this one?
M A D
 Mutual Assured Destruction
Chilling isn't it and why is it the only one I know :huh:
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #87 on: January 10, 2017, 06:35:21 PM »
Are you all too young to know this one?
M A D
 Mutual Assured Destruction
Chilling isn't it and why is it the only one I know :huh:

Wasn't that the premise of Dr. Strangelove?
Slim pickens was awesome in that movie :)
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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #88 on: January 10, 2017, 06:50:52 PM »
Are you all too young to know this one?
M A D
 Mutual Assured Destruction
Chilling isn't it and why is it the only one I know :huh:

 I'm old enough , and also remember the silly drills in school where we were instructed to get under our desks and cover our heads . DAC , duck and cover  :rolleyes: Already having learned by the age of 6 just how ridiculous that was , I simply refused to do so , leaving the teachers and principal slightly bewildered  :evil:

 Dusty

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Re: What's your favorite Acronym ?
« Reply #89 on: January 10, 2017, 07:02:45 PM »
I remember...

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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.

Colonel "Bat" Guano: That's private property.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!

Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?

Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.

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