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I had a drafter ask me what "TOE" and "TOP" stood for...LOL
One of the local firms abbreviates "ASSESSORS MAP" as "ASS. MAP'
on their plans.
That has to be intentional
Top
Of
Embankment
Toe
of
Protrusion
Who couldn't have figured that out? 😉 😀
HAH! Those Mile High Donkeys are going mop the floor with the unLucky Colts.
I did a job in a little village named Chefornak. It sits along a tributary to the Yukon, with 3 active volcanos nearby, so there are a lot of pumice boulders strewn thru the village. Heck, some of the houses use them for foundations! Big suckers too. Engineer told me to shoot everything...dog houses, fish drying racks, saunas, you name it. Got a call from the drafter after I was done and gone home..."Hey, I'm looking at your coordinate file and I see some descriptors that are odd, what is a BFR and a HFR??"
Weeeeelllll, I say, "BFR is a Big F***ing rock and a HFR is a Huge F***ing Rock!" Fortunately, he didn't transfer those descriptions onto the drawing!
-JD-
Was doing a survey of existing piping for Jack Daniel Distillery years ago and ran across something I couldn't Identify. Got back and was drawing it up, with no one to ask, so I labeled the item BRT. Sort of forgot about it.
Later, the boss wanted a copy of the drawing to show to a client and found the mysterious BRT.
Summoned to his office, he inquired what the hell was that? I leaned over and whispered in his ear, Big Round Thing... I thought he was going to die... turns out it was an expansion joint on a pipe going into the boiler room. I was hoping he would handle it a little more "tactfully" in front of the client, so I skulked out of the room, back to the comfort of my office.
> One of the local firms abbreviates "ASSESSORS MAP" as "ASS. MAP'
> on their plans.
>
> That has to be intentional
I had to take a picture...
The only word abbreviated on the monument?
Dougie
WINNER!!!!
I hate almost all abbreviations, but I know they are useful in the field and were critical when data collection was limited.
I recall having crews that we worked with on auto linework..Some days I didn't have time to process the raw files and see the linework right away.. invariably, that would be the day the crew decided to take 60 shots to detail the paint of a handicapped parking sign just to 1) show me they could 2) see if I was paying attention.
VBN.............Volley Ball Net
This was done by the same Party Chief that based all his assumed elevations for topos from the same TBM. It was a chiseled "x" on the ball of his trailer hitch. :-X
