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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