Acronyms

[emmie]

Any you know that are funny, real ones, made up, none too rude please.
A bit of light relief on a truly appalling day, weather wise.

[ChuckFickens]

And p.i.c.n.i.c.

Problem in Chair not in computer.

[scrummyyummy]

I remember ADIDAS when we were young - all day I dream about sex
Now my son refuses to wear GAP hoodies in case his friends call him gay and proud, which is what they say it stands for!

[sunny-dave]

Also used in IT support :

PICNIC - problem in chair, not in computer

PEBCAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard

[ChuckFickens]

And of course the old ID 10T error.

[MarkRae]

BOBFOC - body off Baywatch face off Crimewatch

[MarkRae]

Back in the old days of mainframes and CICS (yes, I am that old) we used to refer to particularly malformed SQL as an "Ernie query" because you couldn't see the join...

[sunny-dave]

BAAPS

British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons

< no really, they are ... >

[jno]

DTS Danger To Shipping (doctor's term for obese patient)

[MarkRae]

^^ Not an acronym, though...

[ChuckFickens]

Off topic slightly, but my favourite error messages are, from a postfix server "Something has gone horribly wrong so I'm going to kill myself" and it promptly stopped the service, and from the old BBC model B I've had the error message of "silly command".

[MarkRae]

The Windows error messages in the form of Japanese haiku are hilarious too.

[jno]

I know. I thought Em might like it, all the same.

TEETH: tried everything else, try homeopathy. (Also doctor's description.)

[sunny-dave]

One of my programmers accidentally left a test error message in a TP program after it had gone live.

A few weeks later a rather surprised IT Help Desk operator logged the following conversation :

User : "my computer has just told me to stop being an ârse"

HD : "what were you doing?"

User : "well basically I was being an ârse .."

[cupid04]

Being that I have to live up to my avatar:- HOLLAND- Hope our love lives and
never dies!

[Wharton]

The Woodside & North Kelvin community centre in Glasgow changed to the North Kelvin & Woodside community centre.

[ChuckFickens]

In the earlier days computers there used to be quite a lot of funny error messages but sadly they all seem to have gone now the platforms have had to grow up a bit. It did always make me smile when something like “file has bad magic" popped up as an error.

[Georgiesmum]

Appalling day weather wise? Its like a summers day here today (Essex)

[ChuckFickens]

Not at 9am it wasn't.

[emmie]

BRA - Bosom Regulating Accessory
BA - bugger all

[heathfield]

The 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck', (NIPLS), was formed in 1824. It became the RNLI 30 years later.