Acronyms

[deleted_user]

No idea why I said that. My wife is a great grandmother and she knows more than any of those kids at the porn shop.......

It was the image I wanted though.....

with age comes experience after all

 

[Darren]

AVE of youtube fame, stands for Arduino Vs Evil

 

[deleted_user]

AVE of youtube fame, stands for Arduino Vs Evil

well you sucked the fun out of that

 

[whydontu]

IWIHCCBISTPF

I Wish I Had Checked Clearance Before I Started The Power Feed

Often shortened to OF

 

[140mower]

IWIHCCBISTPF

I Wish I Had Checked Clearance Before I Started The Power Feed

Often shortened to OF

Btdt

Been there done that.

Smto

Sadly more than once

 

[ShawnR]

And when someone typo-graphically exclaims "WTF" that means "well that's fantastic"

Most years, I try to be a gardener. I spend a couple days in the spring turning and doing soil prep, plant, then go to camp and come back in the fall to find only weeds. So WTF became " Where's the food?"

When I worked at the hospital, one of the techs wrote on a piece of equipment NFG. One of the nurses took offense to that so he explained it was "Not Functioning Generally". She was embarrassed.

 

[ShawnR]

In 1972, Fritz Weber, founder of Rego-Fix, created and patented the ER collet. The design is a modification of the previously popular E collet design, using the same taper, but simply adding the groove. ... The R in “ER collet” stands for Rego-Fix, representing the company's modification to the E collet design. Feb. 27, 2013

Soooo..... what does the E stand for?

I thought it was "Expanding". Not sure where I got that from.

 

[Susquatch]

I thought it was "Expanding". Not sure where I got that from.

I always thought ER stood for Extended Range.

 

[Brent H]

@Susquatch : I ended a text off to someone on shore with “gotta go to the ER stat - we’ve had a failure”. Person called me right back asking if I was injured - WTF says I - ER is Engine Room - Duh! Hahaha

 

[DPittman]

In our house WTF now stands for Well that's fantastic! However I'm pretty sure my kids already know what it really means. WTF.

 

[whydontu]

Many years ago, when I was in grade school, prior to calculators, our math class was working on long division. Numerator over denominator. One not-very-swift kid just couldn’t get it. Those of us of a certain age can remember when teachers had no restraints.

Teacher screams “NUMERATOR OVER DENOMINATOR!” “NUMBSKULL OVER DAVID!” NOD. A good acronym lasts forever.

 

[Susquatch]

Many years ago, when I was in grade school, prior to calculators, our math class was working on long division. Numerator over denominator. One not-very-swift kid just couldn’t get it. Those of us of a certain age can remember when teachers had no restraints.

Teacher screams “NUMERATOR OVER DENOMINATOR!” “NUMBSKULL OVER DAVID!” NOD. A good acronym lasts forever.

I'm the same vintage. Both highschool and undergrad university predated calculators.

As I recall it, the teachers who had no restraints whatsoever back then (especially in Catholic Schools) meant numbnuts over denise.

 

[Janger]

ID inner diameter
OD outer diameter

 

[trevj]

The important one in the shop.

SOHCAHTOA.

Some Old Hags, Can't Afford Husbands, Till Old Age

The basic functions of Trigonometry.

Sine, over Opposite and Hypotenuse. Cosine, over Adjacent and Hypotenuse, Tangent, over Opposite, and Adjacent.

Same with EIR, and PIE for electric calcs.
E= voltage
I=Current
R=Resistance
P= power in Watts
Draw them out, put your finger on the one you wish to find for, and the equation presents itself.

E
---------
I | R

To find E, I*R.
To find R, E/I
To find I, E/R


BBROYGBVGW
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well.
Or, Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Goes Willingly! (less PC these days)

Electric wire color codes.
Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White, IIRC!
Resistor rings too.

 

[PaulL]

SOHCAHTOA.

Funny, I say this in my head every time I do trig, but never learned it as an initialism.