Really annoys me. Our old CAD guy would come up with the most cryptic/pointless abbreviations known to man...
ok, share some of them...You need the weight off your shoulders, and we need the laughs!
Back when there was a "Bell Telephone Co." they possessed huge volumes of rules called the Bell System's Practice, just BSP for short. All work was to be done in accordance with the "Practice".
Buried deep within these volumes were great lists of accepted abbreviations. Abbreviations that I (Justin Wilson style) gare-own-TEE nobody had ever used before. We were always getting prints kicked back for improper abbreviations.
Things taken for granted in the surveying field, like conc. for concrete. Nope, BSP says cncrt. S-T-R for section, township and range; BSP called for sec.-twp.-rge. They use to drive me nuts.
Wish I could remember more...but, maybe I'm glad I've forgotten them.
> Really annoys me. Our old CAD guy would come up with the most cryptic/pointless abbreviations known to man...
I find that abbreviating things to an over extent is nothing but laziness.
"ur" = "you are" Really? Are people that freakin lazy they spell it all the way out?
Perhaps I'm becoming a crotchety old man in my paltry 54 years old.
Just my 2 pence.
DCR = Dead Cat in Road
DPR = Dead Possum in Road
EFCWGP = East Face West Gate Post
TCEENDRCPCULV = Top Center East End Reinforced Concrete Pipe Culvert
DODHSNEC = Dear Old Dad's Head Stone Northeast Corner
You mean something like those?
Basically anything and everything in a CAD file, text file, CRD file etc. had all of the vowels removed to say the least. Also, unnecessary cross-referencing. For instance:
"11032" is all the project folders would say. You had to look up the projects in an excel spreadsheet to figure out which job number you want, when the file could have been named "11032 Smith Boundary". When you did drill down into the "11032" the CAD file would just be called "11032.dwg".
The funny thing is the guy could type really fast, so some of these abbreviations took thought/more time than typing it out!
0s and 1s are cheap these days
> DCR = Dead Cat in Road
> DPR = Dead Possum in Road
> EFCWGP = East Face West Gate Post
> TCEENDRCPCULV = Top Center East End Reinforced Concrete Pipe Culvert
> DODHSNEC = Dear Old Dad's Head Stone Northeast Corner
>
> You mean something like those?
Not to be pedantic or anything, but....
We should probably separate Initialisms from Acronyms:
If it's spoken as DEE CEE ARE (for Dead Cat in Road), it's an initialism.
If it's spoken as a word, like DOG (Dead Opossum on Grade), then it's an acronym.
In either case, though, I'm not sure where you'd set the prism.:-D
Kinda like this?
I remember this from a field book many years ago:
BMFYJNITW - Biggest Mother F^(*&^$ Yellow Jacket Nest In The World.
The crew chief's face was swollen until his eyes were shut from being swarmed.
Andy
Holy moley Batman, so it isn't just me. Whew.
I got in some deep doo doo once for locating a dead possum on the side of the road. Station & offset to 0.004 ft. The draftsman just about lost his lunch laughing at that one. The engineer didn't think it was funny. Go figure
So I got even. I set a bench mark labeled something like "Set BM NE corner of John Smiths grave marker. Elev 666.66" I tried to abbreviate it more, but it was just a good spot for a BM.
They thought that was disrespectful too, but if it were me I'd want a BM set on my stone. Heck, even in SPC or WGAS83. I'm pretty sure that ole John got a chuckle. I did.
Kinda like this?
The crew chief at my first job tended to name the dc files after the personalities of the client/foreman for the job. With the eight character file name limitation on the Husky and his disposition, our job directory looked like this:
ahole01
ahole02
dhead01
dhead02
dhead03
jerk01
You get the picture.:-D
We got chewed out once for not locating a swing set on a topo for a sewer line. We were told if it was movable not to shoot it so we didn't. Engineer was field checking the route and blew a gasket. So the next topo we did for him he said if it's not alive and moving shoot it. This was back in 1989 before we had FTF and the draftsman was drawing up the points and asked us what SLBNNY meant. I didn't remember, the crew chief/I-man came over and scratched his head and said he'd have to look at the field book. He came back with a big grin and said "sail bunny". It wasn't alive and it didn't move so I shot it. The engineer was pleased we followed instructions to the tee.
Kinda like this?
Hilarious!
A BM set on your stone?
That is just gross.
I have books of them, I ask my party chief what an odd one is and he will spit it out without looking, guess it pays to do so much of it.;-)
> A BM set on your stone?
>
> That is just gross.
Why. You can't set it yourself if you're pushing daisies. I would consider it an honor and watch the stars, moon, even that survey dog sniff out things.
Now that other BM is not exactly what I had in mind...;-)
> > A BM set on your stone?
> >
> > That is just gross.
>
> Why. You can't set it yourself if you're pushing daisies. I would consider it an honor and watch the stars, moon, even that survey dog sniff out things.
>
> Now that other BM is not exactly what I had in mind...;-)
I totally agree with your surveying sentiment regarding having the honor of someone placing a surveying reference marker on any sort of monument that may remain here on earth to remember this lifetime that I will have spent.
I am glad you got my "BM" reference. Note that my initials are "BO", also gross.
No kidding Brad. Lots and lots of chuckles on this here beerlegger site. And from all corners of the globe. Pretty impressive group IMVHO and a group hug for Wendall and his team.
Now I will just put a plug in for your guys in Indy to hand one to those Mile High Donkeys. It will be fun before it gets boring, for certain.
A lesson from emergency services
I volunteer as an EMT. The police officers in our town have some level of emergency medical services credential. When they're talking to other cops on the police radio frequency, they use 10 codes. But the medical radio frequency is supposed to use plain language. But the 10 codes are so ingrained in the minds of the cops that they can't stop using them when they switch to the medical frequency.
I had a guy, once upon a time, who insisted on naming every turning point in a level run, most often with "QCR" Queer Colored Rock. No matter how often I said that TP would suffice.
Toilet Paper for a turn? (grin)
Andy
