Programming Acronyms

[Mince]

Programmer love acronyms. My favourites are WET and DRY. Make sure your programs are DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) otherwise they will be WET (Write Everything Twice). Okay, the grammar's a bit off, and it should be WEALT (Write Everything At Least Twice), but it's still cool.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I've always like SCOOBIDOO.

[Mince]

I've always like SCOOBIDOO.

Stupid Cartoonists Often Offer Breathtakingly Idiotic Delusions Or Opinions?

[Egg]

7P's and RTFM.......

[Max]

DILIGAF  for me, business wise I hate damned things, the company actually had to set up a web site just to list them. STW, CRD, PRD, FAT, ADRL, CDRL, DID, GTR, SOW, SAT, HAT, TES, DDA not unusual on one contract page, God bless the MoD.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I've always like SCOOBIDOO.

Stupid Cartoonists Often Offer Breathtakingly Idiotic Delusions Or Opinions?

No, it was a cartoon programme. Not sure of the spelling.

[Mince]

Yes, I'm getting the feeling you've not quite grasped the concept of acronyms.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

There's no need for acronymy! 

[Redundant]

There's no need for acronymy! 

 

I may have mentioned I served at Her Majesty's Pleasure at one time, I was also in the Royal Navy [giggle].   In those days there were strange devices for communicating, there was a pen, paper, envelopes and weird little sticky things that went on to the envelopes, can't remember why.   I would write to my beloved, and occasionally to my wife as well, and would add various acronyms to the envelopes.   Here's what I remember, see if you know them all?

SWALK  [Thought I'd start you off easy]
NORWICH
ILYTTDFATCCSH
HOLLAND
IMUS
BURMA
LOML

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

HOLLAND - flat place in Europe.
NORWICH - flat place in Britain
ILYTTDFATCCSH - flat place in Wales.
BURMA - is that flat too?

Am I getting the hang of it yet?

[Redundant]

Am I getting the hang of it yet?

I don't think you're taking this seriously...

[Mince]

I don't think you're taking this seriously...

Do you mean IDTYTTS?

[Roger Kettle]

In and around Dundee, the colloquial word for "face" is "puss". (This rhymes with "bus"). Apparently, among the medical staff at the city hospital, the acronym R.I.T.P. is commonly used. Whenever a patient comes in with a broken nose and blood everywhere, he's asked how it happened. The answer most often heard is "I was minding my own business when this boy gave us a Rap In The Puss."

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

The world seems to revolve around acronyms just now. It's almost as if we live at a pace too quick to be bothered with using a normal amount of words. I thought during my 30 years in the NHS, I had been in an environment that could never be outdone...I was wrong. Moving to the PFI side of Healthcare far outstrips its poorer cousin. I am in the midst of compiling a book of them. Rather alarmingly, there are people who have been there for several years, who have just accepted the letters without asking what they actually stand for! Bizarre.

[Mince]

The answer most often heard is "I was minding my own business when this boy gave us a Rap In The Puss."

You should put that phrase into Beau Peep. We'll all look out for it.