Afternoon peeps! I`m just hanging on and desperately needing to return to bed. I am on the right side of this awful head cold now, but not feeling as strong as I thought…so a quickie, for fun!
Remember when we used to write acronyms (but didn`t know this word then) on the backs of letters?
Your last one PISA reminded me of when I was a kid and we had a neighbour who was a right Pain In The A***. My Dad nicknamed him PITA for short and it stuck so hard that one time when he came over I said, “HI Peter.” He looked mighty confused and replied, Oh my name is David." (or whatever it was)
Dad and I just about wet ourselves laughing.
And my favourite acronmym which my daughter has written on her school Bible is
DDSS - Different Day, Same (old) S*** (sounds like MS to me)
And there are some more Military ones that would really not get past the censors, even with a lot of the letters ****ed out.
Of course, the military use a lot of official acronyms anyway, many of which do not obviously lend themselves to speech, but which can save time in text communications - until you get a US-UK dialogue when there are different acronyms for the same thing (e.g. CATT and CCTT) are effectively the same, while the long versions are apparently different. Both are pronounced the same way - which technically makes them both acronyms.
Another one that no longer appears on medical notes is NAFC, which stands either for ‘Nutty as a Fruit Cake’, or, in the case of a patient whose symptoms have no obvious cause, Not a Clue, or words to that effect.
CATT is Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
CCTT is Close Combat Tactical Trainer
Both of them are networked armoured vehicle simulators. Great fun, the best computer game in town. But that was back in the days when I had a nice security clearance, and could call anywhere in the world from my office phone. |I can do the latter one now, only it is also my home phone and I pick up the tab.