Author Topic: Funny use of acronyms in AH  (Read 256 times)

Offline bloom25

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Funny use of acronyms in AH
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2002, 12:27:21 AM »
Earlier this year I was working on a big project and one of my group members sent me an e-mail update on something.  I was in a hurry and sent a reply saying "cc."  Of course he didn't have any idea what I meant, so I had to spend even more time explaining to him what "CC" meant.

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« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2002, 01:36:49 AM »
I've become to think of LOL as a word to.
I remember when I first started AH and I kept hearing "rgr" or "roger" sounded kinda funny, and when ever I play Empire Earth (Strategic game based on history, like Age of Empires) I say things like "Rgr" or "Rtb" without thinking, and people wonder what in the world I'm talking about :)

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« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2002, 01:40:53 AM »
It's getting bad when you are at McDonalds and they say... "That will be a quarter pounder with cheese with mustard and pickles only, large fries and a large coke". And without thinking your reponse is "Roger"!


I did this and my wife laughed her head off.

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« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2002, 02:09:17 AM »
I admit to the following:

I often say LOL out loud, instead of saying "damn, that was funny" or some similar pharse.  But I pronounce it el-oh-el, sometimes with an expletive in the middle, instead of as a word.

I sometimes say eye-eye-ar-see out loud and I frequently find myself writing IIRC in office memos, along with AFAIK.

Several times, I have used CC on my radio in the middle of fighting fires, when it's a VERY BAD time to be confusing people :)

Once in a while, I'll say oh-tee-way, not OTW or "on the way".

That's it for acronyms.  As for other terms, the word "vulch" has become part of my everyday vocabulary for whenevery somebody or something really splatters something rather defenseless.  Watching hockey or football on TV, I'll say "great vulch" instead of "good hit".  But I also use it at horrible vehicular accident scenes, which isn't so funny, even though a number of my colleagues have started saying it, too.  That and "gibs" like from FPS games.  Like the other night a woman got run over by a 65mph 18-wheeler and was strewn over about 200m of highway.  It was something of a shock to hear my coworkers saying things like, "Damn, that truck vulched her good!" and "Hey, I found some good gibs over here", and know they got that from me.