What's your favorite Acronym ?

[giusto]

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  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 

 Dusty

 Dusty I remember those same drills.
 crawl under the desk put your hands over your head and kiss your butt goodbye... which then changed to walk in an orderly fashion down two flights of stairs to the fall out/bomb shelter in the basement.... double file please

[giusto]

I remember...

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!!"

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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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Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

That is funny stuff

Omg and  at the end of the movie slim pickins jumps on top of the A-bomb with his cowboy hat and kicks it loose riding it to the end

Classic

[twowings]

Heed the Turtle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

[DaSwami]

TANSTAAFL...... There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!

another vote for this one

[sliphorn]

TANSTAAFL...... There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!

My favorite too.

[Stephen]

ADIRU

[giusto]

ADIRU

Well if it's clean ... Lets have it 

[charlie b]

Yep, I was one of those who argued with the teacher.  They got kinda upset when I described what an atomic blast would be like.  One girl started crying.  :)  I was only 9.

[kirby1923]

GUMP

:-)

[oldbike54]

GUMP

:-)

 Have been waiting on one of you fly boys to mention that one .

 Dusty

[80CX100]

         When political correctness and micro management, seemed to make it impossible for police officers to do their jobs without getting into trouble,, many officers developed a FIDO mentality,,, F*** It Drive On


Kelly

[KiwiKev]

No one mentioned CARC then!

No, WTF does that mean ??


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[KiwiKev]

.  Early computer programming was all about the most efficient use of memory space.  Commands were limited to a few bits in memory.

Indeed, manufacturers made up their own languages back then HP came up with HPL an engineering language of mostly 3 letter commands.
Used in their 9825 which was a great instrument/ machine tool controller in its day.

Forerunners of the modern acronyms I guess



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[Tobit]

MAWG - Middle Aged White Guy.  Usually found at open mic night playing guitar.

TLA - Three Letter Acronym.

[sturgeon]

GUMP

:-)

You forgot to check your Seatbelt ;-)

[poorBob]

When I was in high school, the guy down the street had a hot rod Ventura - seriously - and a Harley chopper. He had a good government job, working at the headquarters of the Federal Aviation Administration.

The license plate on his Ventura was all about his job: FAAHQ.

Pronounced...

[Huzo]

Well if it's clean ... Lets have it 

If the 3rd or 6th letter of the alphabet aren't there, then you're safe Guisto.

[KiwiKev]

How about SWALK that's the oldest I can remember, been around since Adam was a 🤠


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[dee g]

DRT.  Dead right there.

[sturgeon]

On the subject of acronymic (is that a word?) license plates, my favourite two are COD FDR, on a fisherman's truck in Steveston BC, and WAS HIS on a big Merc driven by a middle-aged woman wearing a big fur coat.

[garbln]

Who hasn't heard of the KISS principle?  Keep It Simple Stupid

From the Company book of Acronym's,  LSP's  little scraps of paper,  the part covering documentation. 

[fotoguzzi]

I didn't read all 4 pages so Kudos to anyone who also said,

MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction..

the Bomb on PBS tonight.. incredible video FILM of all the A bomb and H bomb tests..

[giusto]

I didn't read all 4 pages so Kudos to anyone who also said,

MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction..

the Bomb on PBS tonight.. incredible video FILM of all the A bomb and H bomb tests..

Ha... Yes we actually did cover this and wound up in a bit of a discussion regarding Peter Sellers and Slim Picken's roles in the Dr. Strangelove

[giusto]

OTOH...On the other Hand

I just saw this... Made me smile
PEBKAC  Problem exists between Keyboard and Chair

[Dilliw]

I didn't see WYSIWYG so I'll throw that out from my Lotus 123 days.

Also Alec Baldwin wearing his "Film Actor's Guild" T shirt.

[waxi]

SUSFU - Situation unchanged: still effd up

[organfixsing]

PEBSAK Problem exists between screen and keyboard

Cheers
Brian 

[jdgretz]

NONEGRESREQ

Saw that one in an Army manual way back when - No Negative Response Required.

Then there is DISN-E - Defense Information Systems Network - Europe.  From JP 1-02 (that's Joint Publication 1-02 also known as the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)

jdg

[KiwiKev]

I didn't see WYSIWYG so I'll throw that out from my Lotus 123 days.

Also Alec Baldwin wearing his "Film Actor's Guild" T shirt.

Lotus 123, that takes us back a couple of years.

I still have an old HP Portable Plus that has Lotus 123 - optional plug in roms installed.

How about GIGO. GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT !


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[sturgeon]

Lotus 123, that takes us back a couple of years.

I still have an old HP Portable Plus that has Lotus 123 - optional plug in roms installed.

Lotus 123 was written by an ex-employee of VisiCalc, which was the original spreadsheet program in 1979. Some claim it was "stolen". The original company was bought by Lotus in about 1985, and they promptly terminated VisiCalc. Spreadsheets are commonplace now, but at the time Visicalc came out they were really quite amazing.