work rant...

[road trip]

WTF. We've got so many damned abbreviations here that I can't keep them straight. I've got a 4-page print-out of "common" abbreviations. And now I ask somebody what she's referring to when she uses "GB" in an e-mail and I get looks (in the proverbial e-mail sense) for not knowing that it is for gall bladder. Fer crissakes! Does it hurt to spell out gall bladder?!?!

No. You can not have those 30 seconds of your life back.

[non grata]

stby.

[mrw]

TS

(That sucks)

[Aldo]

I still want to know why you spend so much money on wedding gifts.....

[altachic]

fkna

[Arty50]

Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, should we keep the PC on the QT, 'cause if it leaks to the VC, he could end up a MIA and we'd all be put on KP.

[road trip]

Originally posted by Aldo
I still want to know why you spend so much money on wedding gifts.....

Friends with ulterior motives?

Keith, how much is the going rate for weddings these days?

$250.

Joe, Keith said the going rate is $250 these days... any truth to that?

Yup.

Joe gets married last year, Keith this year.

[Viva]

You should have just assumed that "GB" stood for George Bush and run with it, digestive juices and all. Even better if the e-mail called for a GB-ectomy.

[Aldo]

Ahhh, FWUM. See you made up another one.

[road trip]

Originally posted by Viva
Even better if the e-mail called for a GB-ectomy.

Cholecystectomy 2004 - Remove GB For National Health

[zion zig zag]

SAMPLE
OPQRST
DCAP-BTLS
AFFF
BLEVE
ALS
BLS
CAD
CISD
SCBA
IMS
IC
IDLH
LFL
UFL
MSDS
NAERG
OATH
SOP
RIC
PIV
FFFP
UV
IR
JVD
MAST
PASG
KED
AVPU
MOI
AED
TTP
FROPVD
BSI
TK
AOX3
NTG
CME

I know there's more, but my head hurts.

[road trip]

Although I do chuckle when they try to find a new acronym or abbreviation and something already is known by the one they had in mind... and then there is: Systems Life Cycle

yeah - that may stick for other people, but SLC means something totally different to me!

[365wp]

Too
many
TLAs

[Oopsie Daisy]

Tangential rant:

People who shorten already short words in their emails:

thks for "thanks"
yr for "your"

And the one that really makes my librarian bitch-hairbun twitch:

ur for "your"


Humuhumunukunukuapua'a,
OD

[Viva]

Originally posted by Oopsie Daisy
[B]ur for "your" /B]

So, do they replace you're with "ur'r"?

[pointedem]

rant?
you call that a rant?

how 'bout this:


Carried about 500 gallons of Driveway sealer up approx. 23 driveways today.

then,

pushed that sealer back and forth across the entire length of each and every one of those driveways.

but before that, i had to:

weedwack both edges. this involves many tiny pebbles flying at all parts of your body (legs and face mainly) at well over 100 MPH.

and,

pour all of those 500 gallons into 5 gallon buckets and carry each bucket (about 65 lbs each) to the top of the driveway.

enduring,

INTENSE FUCKING HEAT ALL DAY LONG

sorry about the rant.

[Max Gosey]

Originally posted by flykdog
SAMPLE Symptoms, allergies, medicines, blah blah?
OPQRST Onset, something quality, region, severity, time?
DCAP-BTLS
AFFF
BLEVE
ALS
BLS
CAD
CISD
SCBA
IMS
IC
IDLH
LFL
UFL
MSDS
NAERG
OATH
SOP
RIC
PIV
FFFP
UV
IR
JVD
MAST
PASG
KED
AVPU alert verbal responsive to pain, unresponsive
MOI
AED automated electronic defibrillator
TTP
FROPVD
BSI
TK
AOX3
NTG
CME

I know there's more, but my head hurts.

I have another one: OMFG. I have to learn all these this year (I know about 3 right now)...

Flyk, what do you do for a living? Just curious...

[Max Gosey]

Bump because Spy Hard is on. The part in the dance club with the Mr. Myagi waiter looking guy and the BMW NYU RESPECT reminded me exactly of this thread.

Who's a Leslie Neilsen fan here?