Abbreviations

[DaveNN]

A few of us will know POWER Petrol Oil Water Electric Rubber....if you've done the RoadCraft or ADI course.
What other acronyms/abbreviations do you use??

NASA Need Another Seven Astronauts...
MFI Made For Idiots......

NTGMRPU

Nice TO Get My Rep Power Up............

[Ben]

FORD Fix Or Repair Daily
FIAT Fix IT Again Tomorrow
LOTUS Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed

[kriswithak]

In my job everything is abbreviations and mnemonics. I hate them.

My most despired are:

JAPAN - Justified, Authorised, Proportionate, Auditable and Necessary
and
CHAMPSDG - Cow, Horse, ***, Mule, Pig, Sheep, Dog, Goat

[onzarob]

AFA Another Flipping Acronym

AFUA Another Flipping Useless Acronym

[DaveNN]

A few years back our Business Unit Managers used to complete Activity Report Sheets........................I'm not making this up....

[Desertfish]

In my job everything is abbreviations and mnemonics.

Same here... My favourite ones are:

- PBUAK: Problem Between User And Keyboard
- PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

- Microsoft: Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
- Windows: Wholly Inadequate Needless Damned Outrageous Waste of Space
- Macintosh: Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs
- Pentium: Produces Erronous Numbers Trough Incorrect Understanding Of Mathematics

[Desertfish]

- BASIC: Bill's Attempt To Seize Industry Control
- DOS: Defunct Operating System
- IBM: I Blame Microsoft
- MCSE: Microsoft Constantly Screws Everyome...

[Desertfish]

- BASIC: Bill's Attempt To Seize Industry Control
- DOS: Defunct Operating System
- IBM: I Blame Microsoft
- MCSE: Microsoft Constantly Screws Everyome...

Hmmm... I think it's getting obvious I'm not much of a Microsoft fan...

Anyway, carry on:

- Amiga: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
- COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
- NTFS: Never Tested File System
- SCSI: System Can't See It
- CD-ROM: Customer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months.
- ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
- GUI: Get's Users Irritated

[k9max]

Heading slightly off course here, but how about these for anagrams:

The Morse Code: here come dots

Chris Rea: rich ****

Martina Navratilova: variant rival to a man

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: O my terrible drains below

and my favourite:
Mother-in-law: woman Hitler

[dansansome]

TLA'S: three letter abbreviations
JFDI: just..erm..do it
RTFM: read the f.....manual