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     B = By  T = The  W = Way

    F or
    W hat
    I t's
    W orth

    �how about we keep this as �a note to ask questions in...
    
    I reme��mber how� much I wish there was a place to ask
    "stupid questions" when I first started to write in notes..�
    
    and any errors in this is due to the bad phone line
    
    Bonnie

    	DIY = Do it yourself
    
    	Scott (Oops, this is the wrong notesfile) 8*)>

    
    I don't think I have seen these in this conference but elsewhere
    they appear occasionally.
    
    GMAFB - Give Me A * Break
    BFD   - Big * Deal
    RTFM  - Read The * Manual
    
    In theory they should not need the F but I have never seen them
    without.

    Sounds like a job for ::JOYOFLEX  :-)
    
    BTW, could we change the title to something a bit less
    self-deprecating?
    
    The only bad question is the unasked one. 
    
    Ignorant = haven't learned yet
    
    stupid = *will not* learn

    FYI - For Your Information

    wild a**ed guess
    
    (often seen in TRIVIA)
    
    

    W  What
    Y  You
    S  See
    I  Is
    W  What
    Y  You
    G  Get
    

	imho - in my humble opinion

	I'm not sure whether I've actually seen it, but I suppose one could drop
the "h" from the above and just have "imo" - in my opinion.


							----- Shawn

    
    Ha Ha Only Kidding!
    
    Carol

    SWAG = Scientific Wild A** Guess
    
    My response to people who start out by saying "This is a stupid
    question" is:
    
    		There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
    
    Certainly we see a lot of the latter....
    
    			Steve

    F ouled  (uh, sometimes another word is used. . .)
    U p
    B eyond
    R epair

    <--(.14)
    
    um, that should be FUBAR  "...Beyond Any Repair"
    
    :-)
    						=maggie

    
    SNAFU =>> Situation Normal All Fouled Up
    
    

>    um, that should be FUBAR  "...Beyond Any Repair"

    or "...Beyond All Recognition"

    8^{)

    Dick

    POETS
    
    Piss
    On
    Everything,
    Tomorrow's
    Saturday
    

    I've seen this show up every now and again here,
    
    BOHICA
    
    Bend
    Over
    Here
    It
    Comes
    Again
    
    
    

    Piss
    Off
    Early
    Tomorrow's
    Saturday

    
    
    t there 
    a aint
    n no
    s such
    t thing
    a as
    a a
    f free
    l lunch

    T here
    A in't
    N o
    J ustice
    
    Larry Niven "Ringworld"

	Not Invented Here - a common attitude problem in software groups.

	...Karen

    re .25:
    
    NIH is a common attitude problem PERIOD. Hardware, as much as software.
                                                   
                  /
                 (  ___
                  ) ///
                 /
    

    No one's mentioned an all-too-common one in business---
    
    C over
    Y our
    A ss
    
    --- jerry

    MIT acronym:
    
    I Have Truly Found Paradise
    
    I Hate This F... Place

    Double Income, No Kids

    BMT - before my time
    
    I learned this recently when I was telling a young woman in my night
    class that I had been to Brattleboro, VT, and there was a real,
    live *collective* restaurant there. She said "What's *that*?"
    
    I explained. She said "Oh. A sixties thing. BMT"
    
    
    *groan*
    
    --DE
    

    Well if this note is for questions, I have another one.....
    
    What if you come across topics that are old.  Like back in the
    200's or 400's and you want to discuss them more.  If you go back
    to them you don't get anymore replies because no one is reading
    those anymore.  If you start a new topic on it, someone tells you
    it has already been discussed in an earlier topic.   My question
    is has any of you come across a topic that was important to you
    that you wanted to have more understanding of or more discussion on?
     If yes what did you do?
    
    ps thanks for answering my first question
    
    PSS - NFW - No F@#$ing Way!
    
    Someone told me that one the other day...

    Tanya, 
    
    There is no reason why you can't add to old notes. As long as
    readers use the "set seen" function any new material you add
    will be visible as a new note.
    
    When you are in notes, type <set seen> (without the brackets. 
    This will mark all notes previous to the current date as "seen". 
    (You can of course still go back and read them if you wish.) The 
    next time you log on to the file only the new notes will be presented 
    to you. By using the comma key on the key pad you can move from one note
    to another, setting it "seen" in the process. The return key
    will move you through any new entries just like before.

    In fact anytime you add a new file to your note book you can
    set seen /before="a date two weeks previously" (in the form dd-mm-yyyy)
    and you will be able to follow the currently active discussions
    while readin the older notes at your leisure.
    
    I would encourage any noter who is not familiar with functions
    such as "set seen" to read through the sample conference that
    should be available in your notebook.

    Thanks once again.... I do not know what happened to my sample
    conference it is not in my notebook anymore.  Thanks for the info.
    
    Tanya

    
    Sheesh!  I was going crazy trying to remember one of these... now
    I feel much better.
    
    KISS	Keep It Simple, Stupid 

    
    
        Standard Operating Procedure

    Simple Matter of Programming

    <--(.36)
    
    Around here they say "SMOP" 

	K	Keep
	I	It
	S	Simple
	M	Make
	I	It
	F	Fun

    seen on a silly pair of sneakers:  TGIF.
    
    I asked - doesn't that mean "Thank God It's Friday?"
    
    They answered:  "No, it means "Toes Go In First"
    
    

    Shellie got me a new license plate holder for my car.  It also says
    "TGIF" - Thank God I'm Female.  :-)
    
             Carol

re: .41:
>
    "TGIF" - Thank God I'm Female.  :-)

    538.5 prompts me to enter:
    
    	S imultaneous
    	P eripheral
    	O utput
    	O n
    	L ine

    
    
    In this age of nuclear dump sites and waste-recycling plants -
    
    	Not in My Back Yard!

    Gentle readers...:-) the conversation on yuppification of
    the more rural areas has been moved to it's own topic...
    
    thankyou
    
    Bonnie J
    moderator

    	B ig
    	F *********
    	D eal
    
    	!
    
    Marcia

    When things fix themselves.
    
    It's F***ing Magic
    
    
    					Sm

    re: .46
    
    You can imagine our merriment when the dean of our college,
    a Dr. Runk by name, *always* made sure that he was referenced
    by his first three initials and last name.  Why I'll never 
    know, but for supplying us with nearly endless mirth, thank
    you, wherever you are, B.F.D. Runk.
    
    Steve
    

                             -< SATISWMLSADID >-

       Speedily a tale is spun; with much less speed a deed is done.
       

    
    	That was cute, but I'm starting to get the impression that
    	some of these acronyms are being made up here.  :-)  :-)
    
    

    ...caught a  list in USA Today (a.k.a. McPaper)
    
    YUPPIES - you already know
    PUPPIES - POOR urban professionals
    BUPPIES - Black...etc.
    WOOFS - Well-off Older Folks
    
    My boss had one on his white-board, to which he would point when
    asked a question (it is now on my white-board, too)
    
    BTFOOMIIK
    
    Beats the F**k Out Of Me IF I Know
    
    --DE
    

    MUPPIES - Middle-aged Urban Professionals

    
    SFSG -- So Far, So Good
    
    With the amout of uncertainty in my existence lately, I've been
    using this one a lot.
    
    DFW

	Some People Especially Baritones Should Quit Singing Altogether

or the "real" definition:

	Society to Prevent the Elimination of Barber Shop Quartet Singing
	in America.

I think that's it, I'm better at remembering the first one, any Barbershoppers
out there in case I'm wrong?

...Karen

    	Re: -.some-odd on BTF...
    
    	I always use BTSOM --
    
    		Beats The Sh*t Outta Me
    
    						--D

    DICCs pronouned dixies.....double income kid(s) in college(s)

    DOes that mean I'm a SICC  ................... Single Income C[k]id
    in College.............SICK ??
    
    

    After October 19:
    PUPIE  -- *Previously* upwardly-mobile professional
    
    I've been asked lately why I end memos with a phrase beginning with
    BTW -- By the way
    
    The best one I've heard lately:
    IRBLTGAD (pronounced UR-BULT-GAD)
    I'd rather be lucky than good any day!
    
    							Pat

    RE: .55
    
    Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet
    Singing in America
    
    as if Barbershoppers *needed* any encouragement :-) It pronounced
    spep squaw. 
    
    				Alfred

    A typical response by friends to someone's catty remark:
    
    W ould
    Y ou
    L ike
    A
    S aucer
    O f
    M ilk
    W ith
    T hat
    C omment?
    
    --- jerry

      Does It Look Like I Give A F*ck
    

    AMC - Appalachian Mountain Club HQ'd in Boston, Ma.
    
    SPNHFA - Society for Protection and Preservation of New Hampshire
    Forests Association
    
    GMC - (no its not a car ) Green Mountain Club (Vermont)

    FIGMO (army term) : Fine, I Got My Orders
    
    OMGIF (going to SEA ): Oh My God I'm (not)Fine
    
    SEA - South East Asia
    
    DOA - (computer term)  Dead On Arrival (doesn't work)
    
    -------------------------------
    
    Question: Does anyone know words from which the word ACRONYM was
    made (I've heard that acronym is a recursive acronymn, but I don't
    recall what the original words were).
    
    
    

    A friend of mine was taking a test in one of his electrical eng.
    classes and he was doing a calculation (with proof of work, of course)
    and he knew what the right answer must be (you know how you sometimes
    get that feeling), but he couldn't remember the "why".  well the
    grader for the test got in touch with him (he had passed the test)
    and said "and by the way, you used a property I had never heard
    of, you wrote 'and by the law of AOG, we get...', what is this AOG?"
     He smiled and said "Act Of God".  The grader threatened if he ever
    tried that one again, he'd fail the whole test.
    
    -Jody
    

.64 reminded me of back in engineerin school;

ACRBS = as can readily be seen
NTS   = not to scale
F(SHN)  = sky hooked number function

bill

Or:

  It is intuitively obvious that...

    re .63:
    
    > Question: Does anyone know words from which the word ACRONYM was
    > made (I've heard that acronym is a recursive acronymn, but I don't
    > recall what the original words were).
      
    someone may have made a recursive acronym "ACRONYM", but the word
    itself is not an acronym. Acro- means high, -nym means word, i.e.
    high word or a word made of all the high letters (first letters
    of each word)
    
    DOA is "Dead On Arrival", but is a medical term appropriated by the
    computer industry.
    
    			Sm

    A recursive acronym is one in which the acronym appears within
    itself. For example, one recursive acronym I've been hearing a
    lot on radio commercials is for a discount auto parts chain
    called ADAP. In theory, ADAP stands of American Discount Auto
    Parts, but their radio commercials always refer to ADAP Discount
    Auto Parts.
    
    Two others:
    
    A variation on the EMACS editor was developed for DEC-10's and
    was called FINE, which stood for FINE Is Not EMACS.
    
    The word "mung" is claimed to come from the phrase: Mung Until
    No Good.
    
    --- jerry

    TLA:== Three letter acronym

    Yet Another Three Letter Acronym
    
    Yet Another Compiler Compiler

    Years ago I worked at a manufacturing plant that made polyester. There
    was lots and lots of big machinery on the plant floor, and the process
    was extensive, complicated, and extremely interesting. I had a friend
    in Personnel whose job was recruiting and hiring factory workers.  One
    of her jobs was showing potential employees around the factory floor as
    part of the interview process.  I overheard her one time giving one of
    these tours, and she pointed out a HUGE piece of machinery with a round
    drum that must have been 15 feet in diameter.  She said something like
    "And this is the GBRT, which helps to dry the polyester once it comes
    out of the extrusion operation."  I saw her later and remarked about
    her impressive understanding of the manufacturing operation, being in
    Personnel and all.  I went on to ask what the term GBRT meant.  She
    replied "Oh, I don't know the manufacturing process at all, but they
    tell me I have to give these tours so I make up something.  GBRT stands
    for "Great Big Round Thing."  (^: 
    
    							Pat
    
    In the same vein:
    
    LRT's and LBT's:  The small pieces of clingy plastic used to fasten the
    end of a magtape so it won't unwind.  Stands for "Little Red Thing" or
    "Little Blue Thing." 

    The LRT's and LBT's reminded me of one I used to see: 
    
    	LRD - "little red dictionary". It stood for that year's edition
    of the paperback dictionary we got from office supply. ("Look that
    up in your LRD!"
    
    But now the dictionaries are blue...
    
    -b

    I'm surprised that this hasn't shown up already; I'd say it was a
    Minnesota-ism but most people around here seem to understand anyhow.
    Intuition, maybe? 
    
    Little Girls' Room                                                 
    
    (and of course LBR, mutatis mutandis)
    						=maggie

    
    S.O.S.    What I ate for dinner once a week as a kid, Sh*t on a Shingle
    
    

    LGR and LBR reminded me of one you see commonly in europe:

    WC for Water Closet (synonym for LGR or LBR   :^{)/

    Dick

    .71 and .72 reminded me of:
    
    Those ubiquitous Papermate pens are oft referred to as DSB's ---
    
    D ec
    S tandard
    B allpoints	:-)
    
    --- jerry

    re: .76
    
    Must be a different DSB.
    
    I always heard DSB referred to as:
    
    Deadly 
    Sperm
    Buildup
    
    

re .77

	I thought so too, I'm glad you write it first though...

			Micheal

    How about FPFP.
    
    Who knows what it means any takers.
    
    HINT:
     
    One of the F's is the F word.
    
    MaggieT

    United Single Women In Search Of Men Who Aren't Gay, Married, Or
    Hung-up On Their Mothers.

    re: .80 by Vickrey
    
    I've been waiting for that one.  I would have entered it myself
    if I could have remembered it all.  :-)
    
                Carol

        Another Ridiculous Acronym That Isn't Really Used Much Anyway

    			Worthy
    			Oracles
    			Managing
    			Always
    			Numerous
    			Notes
    			On
    			Terribly
    			Enlightening
    			Subjects
    

	Aviod Creating Rules Or Names You Must Spell

Jenna

    NB = no biggie
    
    (bet ya thought it stood for nota bene?)

    People's Republic of Massachusetts.
    
    frequently seen used in SOAPBOX.
    
    		Sm

    Same sh*t, different day
    Itty bitty minds

    
    
    FORD - (the ol') Fix Or Repair Daily
    
    FIAT - Fix It Again, Tony
    
    Dawn-who-had-a-Fiat-and-will-never-have-another
    

>    FORD - (the ol') Fix Or Repair Daily

    And I had always thought it was "Found On Road Dead"   8^{)

    Dick whose_last_Ford_is_alive_and_well_and_living_with_someone_else

		

Subject: All Cars Rely ON Yesterday's Mechanical Service (ACRONYMS for cars)
 
AMC	A Mechanic's Career
 
Audi	American Unions Driven Insane
 
BMW	Break My Window   (familiar to Bimmers who park in Boston.)
 
Bug	Built Using Glue, or Bypasses Unleaded Gas
(VW)	(see also VW Bug)
 
Buick	Built Under the Influence of Captain Kangaroo
 
Celica	(Not an acronym.  Japanese spelling of "silly car".)
 
Datsun	Durable Automobiles To Serve Users Needs
 
Fiat	Fix It Again Tony
 
Ford	Fix Or Replace Daily  -or-  Found On Road Dead
 
Honda	Happy Owners Never Demand Attention
 
Jetta	Just Equal To Toy Automobiles
 
Lotus	Looks Overly Tantilizing Until Seated
 
MG	More Grimaces
 
Nova	No Ones Valued Asset
 
Nissan	Nippon Is Solidly Supplying America's Needs
 
OLDS	Old Lady Drivers Sedan
 
Opel	One Perverted Engineer's Love
 
Pontiac	Poor Old Nurd Thinks It's A Cadillac
 
Rolls	Really Ostentatious Luxury Limo Supplier
 
Saab	Sweden's Alternative Automobile Buy
 
Subaru	Small Urban Basic Automobile - Really Ugly
 
Toyota	The Oriental Yearning - Over-Take America
 
Volvo	Vehicle Out Lasts Vehicle Owner
 
VW Bug	Virtually Waterless But Uses Gas

    re.88
    i had an affair with a fiat also.
    but when it was running.....     :-)

    Most Acronyms Really Suck.
    
    Chuck, the FIAT fan who never takes his to Tony for repair

    
    
    	                  Bring Your Own Booze
    
    	 

    
    
       			Bring Your Own Bottle
      
    
    
    					Sm

    RE: .94
    
    >                   Bring Your Own Bottle
    
    Yeah, just in case there's a surprise urinalysis. :-)
    
      Alan

    What is FWIW?

    RE: .96
    
    > What is FWIW?
    
    For What It's Worth.
    
      Alan
    

   Different day same old sh*t
    
    heard at the store I shop at last night

    heard recently, when unsure of the reader(s) preference
    
    MOTAS
    member of the appropriate sex

    MOTSS
    member of the same sex
    
    MOTOS
    member of the opposite sex
    

    Or:
    
    member of the appropriate species
    
    :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

    Should I consider other women to be `bonne MOTSS'?
    
    							Ann B.

    re: .101
    
    Teee heee heee heee heee
    
    --bonnie
    

      Moved by moderator
    
        
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NEBVAX::PEDERSON                                     14 lines  26-APR-1988 10:59
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    Have you heard the latest acronym? It seems there's
    a new catagory of of households. The unflattering
    title of DINKS or
    
    	D ual
    	I ncome
    	N o 
    	K ids
    
    Personally, I'm not going to like being classified as
    a DINK!!!  Who makes up these things anyway?!!?!!
    
    pat
    
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CHEFS::MANSFIELD "An English Sarah"                  11 lines  26-APR-1988 11:11
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    Yes I have heard of DINKs, or rather DINKYs :-
    
    	D ual
    	I ncome
    	N o
    	K ids
    	.......... Yet !
    
    Actually I thought it was really funny , but i think it's the .....Yet!
    that makes it !!!