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27 February 2008
Wordy Wednesday: B.A.A. - Beloved Abbreviations and Acronyms→[More:]
Among my favorites, as well as some original Wendell creations I'm trying to pimp...
UGOTO - Uncanny Grasp Of The Obvious
OB - Original Blogstah
HIMYM - "How I Met Your Mother" (one of my TV faves)
SLO - San Luis Obispo (so why don't we have a San Luis Obispo United Childrens Hospital (SLOUCH) or a San Luis Obispo Businessmen’s Society (SLOBS) or San Luis Obispo Tour Hosts (SLOTH) )
SWMBO, what I called the former Mrs. Pax. "She Who Must Be Obeyed."
POSSLQ, the US Bureau of the Census' onetime proposed acronym (dunno if they made it official) to describe one's live-in. "Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters."
PEBCAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard
LOL Wrestling - Land of Lincoln Wrestling, my notional sports entertainment company, featuring Zombie Lincoln
SOWPODS - not quite an acronym, it's rather an anagram of the acronyms for the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and the Official Scrabble Words. Together they form the word list legal in most international Scrabble competition.
Also any recursive acronym, like GNU - Gnu's Not Unix
The one most often repeated in college was IOTTMCO:
Intuitively
Obvious
To
The
Most
Casual
Observer
We, in our witty ways, thought this was Way More Clever than "Duh!"
I use that occasionally, mostly because I don't feel like explaining it. Too damn long.
The more commmon ones I use:
"That's a TFB" (Too Fucking Bad) - can't cuss in the office y'know.
TBSS "Too Bad, So Sad"
We actually phased out the ones that are meant to describe 'customers' in unflattering ways, PICNIC, PEBCAK, etc, but my favorite was always I/O: Idiot Operator.