Geekoff – TLAs

Posted by taoski | Filed under Geeky

Leaning, knowing and utilizing TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) or Initialism's is basic food for us Geeks.

The day has'nt been worth blogging about if you have'nt dropped a TLA into a meeting or phone conference.  It has been a great day if you manage to do that and confuse a non-geek at the same time!

So this week's GeekOff is to come up with the best and funniest new geeky acronym (Geekcronymn?).

Here are a few to get you started that I use regularly:

STFO – Switch the fu**** off
PEBSAD – Problem Exists Between Seat And Desk
SEP – Someone Elses Problem
MIGA – Make It Go Away

The winner will be crowned "Geek Of The Week" [insert fanfare here]. 

Comments (9) | May 10th, 2006

9 Responses to “Geekoff – TLAs”

  1. byron Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 9:41 am

    i’ve used these on many incident reports:

    NPI – not plugged in
    NTO – not turned on

  2. machernucha Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 9:44 am

    i love the old favourite – RTFM – read the fucking manual

  3. taoski Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 10:11 am

    Ah yes… the old RTFM!
    Even my wife uses that!

    Then again… she used to run an iT helpline…..

  4. The Technocrat Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 10:25 am

    RTFA is the classic for me, definitely still applies!

    I had heard of PEBSAC (C for computer) before, but hadn’t heard it since – that one’s a keeper

  5. GeekLimit Adminbot Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 10:31 am

    although we definitely need NEW ones here… :-) there are a lot of old ones that are good, but any new situations that need an acronym? Maybe we can make a new one?

    How about something to counter the “oh, I had a question for you…it’s not work-related though…I have this computer at home, and it’s really slow…”

    SRS – Shut down, Repack, and Ship back to Manufacturer
    INYIS – I’m Not Your IT Slave
    GTFI – Google the ____ing Internet

    ???

  6. AtariBoy Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 11:01 am

    PWN – pre-warned noob

    Macboy – Crazy apple fan boy who loves steve jobs more than his mom

    IBT – I’m blogging this

    CMB – Check my blog

    ABR – Atariboy ROCKS!!!

    Fibtt – Fishbitt is better than technocrat

    WVMW – Who vandalized my wiki

    JGD – I just got dugg

    CRRL – caffine reserves running low

  7. The Technocrat Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    fibtt!

    lol wtf you pwn!

  8. E@zyVG Says:
    May 10, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    Windows – Bow Down to Microsoft and Forget about the Freedom u Have
    OSS – Enjoy Life
    BTP – Beer Transfer Protocol
    WbG – Wanna be Geek
    CToAE – Can’t Think of Anything Else

    P.S. I respect Bill Gates, though.

  9. Napfisk Says:
    May 11, 2006 at 8:05 am

    PSP – Play Station Palsy

    Should be clear enough.

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