Friends,
An old friend sent me the attached list, which I found to be intriguing and hilarious. We all use acronyms like IMHO (In My Humble Opinion and LOL (Laugh Out Loud). Well someone stayed up all night collecting acronyms that might be useful to people who make posts to woodworking message boards. I have attached it for your amusement. This is one of the best examples that I have ever seen of taking things to their illogical extremes. But it is fun.
I don’t know who made this list up. It is just one of those things that makes its way across the internet and is of unknown origins (as far as I know). If you know who put it together, or where it came from, we’ll give them credit (if that is the right term to use).
Hope you enjoy it.
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
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Thanks Mel. It's a great list, it will help me alot. Amazing what you can do with a little time, these days.
Pedro
This is in NO WAY aimed at anyone, just another perspective:
Amazing what little you can do with time, these days.
Did get a hoot out of the list Mel.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
The list didn't include one of my favorite acronyms:
POTS = Plain Old Telephone Service
Stuart, you have to be old bell system? I recently had a chat with a YOUNG sales fellow from bell south about a DSL line at my future digs in East Tn. and to his unsat statement that they have none available in the foot hills of the Clinch Mts. I said to him that all I had from them was a simple POTS line and if that's the best that they could do I would look elsewhere. He said "you have a what?" .
NYC Ma bell had her own special acronyms. The best was "NTF". As a facilities director for a Fortune 100 we spoke often and at senior levels. Like when we lost a dozen T-1 lines for 3 or 4 days then the CSU'S (customer service units) all of a sudden start blinking an running. The service engineer says NTF (no trouble found). The reality is that some bozo cut a trunk or the central office (CO) dropped a frame, but we'll never tell. WHAT A LIFE!! It was at times VERY EXCITING and at others a giant PITA. All the best, Paddy.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
ChuckN and I have nothing of value to add to this discussion.
Well here's one that you missed-and it is not to be found in that AF Acronym finder either: SLSTABAB. Most appropriate to woodworkers.
Philip,
You got me on that one.
My brain is to fried to figure it out.
I can't wait to hear the answer.
Mel
PS Notice that about the only acronym I use are IMHO and PS.Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
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