Well That's Fabulous! (WTF)
@dave-drahn
Don't forget the most famous acronym ever.
SOS?ÿ
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@dave-drahn
Don't forget the most famous acronym ever.
SOS?ÿ
?ÿ
Actually SOS is not an acronym. It's origins are in the maritime use of Morse Code around the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries. ...---...
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TEOTWAWKI?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ The End Of The World As We Know It
TANSTAAFL ?ÿ ?ÿ There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
I would say SNAFU & FUBAR are more famous because SOS has been replaced with MAYDAY.
Technically it is an acronym. Just like the ones being identified on this platform, it comprised of letters created by a line of on/off signals, or as we now call them, bits.
Much maritime communication used short-form since originally it was by lines of lags or by arm signals - both time and energy consuming.
OK. Lesson over, get back to the frivolities!
I once drove a peg into a wasps nest which was underground in an old rabbit burrow. It was 4 hours before we could retrieve the instrument,
@dave-drahn
Don't forget the most famous acronym ever.
SOS?ÿ
?ÿ
Actually SOS is not an acronym. It's origins are in the maritime use of Morse Code around the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries. ...---...
?ÿ???? ?ÿ
Unless skeeter was talking about what was served at the mess hall.
What rule? The original post didn't limit to 3.
Yes that's true. It's a general convention in much of the big wide world that three letters trip well off the tongue and hence are easy to remember. (Such as USA rather than USOA). You can have as many as you wish as long as you don't mind a confused audience.
One of mine was LSMFT.?ÿ That was a key slogan meaning Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco which refers to Lucky Strike cigarettes.?ÿ I don't buy them so I have no idea if that brand still exists.
I knew a surveyor who would label the files he gave the researcher lady he hired as L.S.M.F.T. in big bold felt marker letters.?ÿ I asked her one day if she knew what that stood for.?ÿ She didn't, but she knew she was supposed to get maps, deeds, ties, and a bench mark.?ÿ I told her to ask him what it stood for, because I knew it was for a "Lot Survey and a M-----F-----Topo".
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco!
