Handy Acronyms...

[Kauai_Kahuna]

Just to be PC, may I offer some job saving defs?
WTF - What's the FIX?
RTFM - Read the FINE Manual.
FRACK - JUST WHAT I SAID! NOW FRACK OFF.

 

[98EXL]

Just to be PC, may I offer some job saving defs?
WTF - What's the FIX?
RTFM - Read the FINE Manual.
FRACK - JUST WHAT I SAID! NOW FRACK OFF.

those are some of my favorites....FRACK I picked up from Battlestar Galactica

 

[ChefBrew]

Thank you all for this thread, when reading some of the other threads,I was thinking WTFAYATA. (What The F* Are You All Talking About?)

 

[DNW]

I always heard
Loose
Nut
Behind the
Keyboard

This is obviously a new take on an ooold one long before Keyboards were attached to computers:

Loose Nut Behind the Wheel (of a car that has a "problem").

 

[Dwain]

The OSG's (out side Guys/Guyettes) used to wear a sticker on their hard hats:
IHTFP
When the Bosses (ISG's) asked: I Have Truly Found Paradise
For the rest: I Hate This F#@king Place

 

[flylock_jac]

Here's one , similar to BMC.
P.I.S.S.... processed ,intoxicating sudsy stuff.

 

[luvmy40]

So what do we call the husbands?

DNGN

Does Nothing, Goes Nowhere

Stolen from the original Star Trek series. Ever notice the pipes and conduits in the ship's corridors?

 

[chris1979]

this one seems to be pretty popular around work... BOHICA

Bend Over Here It Comes Again

 

[khiddy]

What's SMaSH?

 

[Nurmey]

What's SMaSH?

Single Malt and Single Hop

 

[Old_Philosopher]

I think I read this whole thread, but may have missed this one. If so, sorry...
My favorite acronym, which I use at least weekly (if only in my own mind), is FWIF. (pronounced as it looks)

F*** With It Factor.

Meaning, at what point is it preferable to pay to have someone else do a task, than it is to f*** with it yourself? The older I get, the more things fall within my FWIF.

 

[drano38]

YGBSM, You Gotta Be Sh*&ing Me

Mostly used in response to finding out someone did something incredibly stupid.

drano

 

[Old_Philosopher]

YGBSM, You Gotta Be Sh*&ing Me

Mostly used in response to finding out someone did something incredibly stupid.

drano

ROFLMFAO!....

 

[TexLaw]

I think I read this whole thread, but may have missed this one. If so, sorry...
My favorite acronym, which I use at least weekly (if only in my own mind), is FWIF. (pronounced as it looks)

F*** With It Factor.

Meaning, at what point is it preferable to pay to have someone else do a task, than it is to f*** with it yourself? The older I get, the more things fall within my FWIF.

I am all over this one.


TL

 

[Old_Philosopher]

I am all over this one.

TL

A little off topic, but here's how the FWIF works:
SWMBO wants to brew beer. For economy, as well as taste.
I can usually buy her favorite ale for $5.59/6pk
After I get geared up to brew (6 week process at least), I can brew a good English Ale for $5.00/6pk. Is all that worth the FWIF? Hummm.....

 

[Guntr]

Great thread for a re-n00b (I brewed A LOT 16 years ago, getting back into it now) like me.

I just read the whole thread thoroughly and did not see this one I found in a tech manual once. The context was something like, "We apologize, there are a lot of TLAs in the next section."

Any guesses?

TLA = Three Letter Acronym

What I love most about it is that it is self-defining.

While I'm at it I will add one that me and my buddies made up, "GFADH"... Go Find A Dead Horse.

 

[rick3696]

A couple of oldies but goodies;

DILLIGAF - Does it look like I give a f___?

AMIIGAF - Ask me if I give a f____.

ADIDAS - All day I dream about sex.

Hope theses are enjoyable.

 

[Kodthree]

At times, home brewing makes you look like you are Busier Than A One-legged Cat Trying To Bury A Turd On A Frozen Lake.

Acronym pronunciation: Bee Taco, Bat Awful. (which is funny as hell by itself if you think about eating a taco filled with bees and trying to swing-away at all those awful bats...at the same time.)

 

[3bals]

Then of course there's:

FFLF

Female Fun Limitation Factor

That's when she says, "Come on, it's time to go!"

 

[northernlad]

PICNIC

Problem In Customer Not In Computer

 

[SumnerH]

PICNIC

Problem In Customer Not In Computer

Nice. We always called that PEBKAC: "Problem exists between keyboard and chair".

 

[jollyjake]

Don't forget "RIF" from School House Rock days....

"Reading is fundamental" a little less harsh than RTFM

 

[B0whunt3r]

SWMBO goes back a lot further than the greenboard. Rumpole of the Bailey uses the term for his wife. First produced in 1975. Somethings never change!

It goes back even farther than that. It's a quote from the book "She" by H. Rider Haggard published around 1890.

The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".

A really good book and after reading that it makes it even better.

 

[whitebirdfeathers]

My favorite for know it alls "FIG JAM"
- F#ck I'm good, just ask me

 

[CJR]

I like this one for a new brewer inviting people over to taste his first brews, on one condition.

PIDE - Providing It Doesn't Explode.

 

[lazylabbrew]

SFY...Sucks for you...

Homebrewer.... Man that was my last home brew

Homebrewers Buddy... oh man SFY

 

[Scubbastv]

I always heard
Loose </br>
Nut </br>
Behind the </br>
Keyboard</br>

We've always used PEBCAK

PROBLEM EXISTS BETWEEN CHAIR AND KEYBOARD

 

[Wellshooter]

One of my favorites....and it applies to my recipes.

TLAR

That Looks About Right

 

[Danbert]

No one mentioned STFU

Shut The F*** Up

 

[donjr721]

LAP little as possible

 

[McGreen]

So I have been searching for THE EAC thread for about an hour only to find out I can't access it until I'm a premium member... things that should have been mentioned an hour ago.

 

[Vuarra]

So I have been searching for THE EAC thread for about an hour only to find out I can't access it until I'm a premium member... things that should have been mentioned an hour ago.

Why should we mention the unmentionable?

 

[Hang Glider]

no acronyms -

So I have been searching for THE EAC thread for about an hour only to find out I can't access it until I'm a premium member... things that should have been mentioned an hour ago.

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[McGreen]

Why should we mention the unmentionable?

Oh I didn't expect you to mention the meaning or where the thread even was... just that when I finally found it I couldn't get in. Maybe that's part of the gag? Either way, I love this site!

 

[BeerEagle]

On the phone to tech help desk:

YYGT - Yeah, You Get That!

 

[triletter]

Long but works: GYHOOYAATS Get Your Head Out Of Your A## And Think Stupid

 

[aug0202]

I use FUNGUS at work all the time it means F U New Guy U Suck

 

[kingboomer]

I didn't see this one, and it's pretty popular on another site: UTFSE
(Use The F***ing Search Engine)


-Kingboomer

 

[beersteiner2345]

ESAD - Eat Skrit And Die

ICYGAS - similar to FYI, In Case You Give A Skrit

 

[BigPoppa502]

BOHICA - not necessarily a brewers term, but funny none the less,
Bend Over Here It Comes Again