OT : Pardon my noobism here

Owen Townend bowbowbow at optushome.com.au
Fri Nov 16 02:21:22 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:34 -0800, sdavmor wrote:
> James Black wrote:
> > Steve im baffled. i think ill stick regular text.
> 
> On the whole that works best, except for the obvious.
> 
> > On 11/15/07, Steve T <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> http://techdictionary.com/chat_cont3.html
> >>
> >> PMFBI,
> 
> Pardon me for butting in
> 
> >> but IMHO
> 
> In my humble opinion
> 
> >> I would beware the BWQ
> 
> Buzz word quotient
> (had ot look that up)
> 
> >> and not use YABA
> 
> Yet another bloody acronym
> 
> >> unless absolutely necessary.
> 
> >> PCMCIA
> 
> People can't memorize computer industry acronyms
> (had to look that up)
> 
> >> or MLAs,
> 
> Multiple letter acronym(s)
> (had to look that up)
> 
> >> so plain talk with get the point across better, BYKT.
> 
> But you knew that
> 
> >> However, YMMV
> 
> Your mileage may vary
> 
> >> and BION
> 
> Believe it or not
> 
> >> some people can actually communicate like this. YAUN
> 
> Yet another unix nerd
> (had to look that up)
> 
> >> signing off.
> >>
> >> (couldn't resist...this was my evil pleasure for the day)
> 
> And that concludes the evil lesson for the day!
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Hey,
  You left out the common reply to YABA - OMGWTFBBQ
  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=omgwtfbbq

  And if that doesn't work, try this:
  http://xkcd.com/178/

cheers,
Owen.





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