Acronym ?

[shutterpsb]

Maybe I'm just showing my generational divide being an old fart, but I've come across a couple acronyms, mostly in comments by trolls that I haven't been able to figure out. So What is RAAC and BTB? I see them brought up mostly in LW.

 

[Trip_Dalton]

BTB is, "Burn the bitch," but I have no idea about the other one.

 

[DreamCloud]

Who knows - I am sure it's a comment on the quality of a story by someone who can't even intelligently assemble a small comment.

SBI - Should Be Ignored

 

[Hypoxia]

BTB = Burn The Bitch / Bastard, ie punish the cheater.
RAAC = Reconcile At Any Cost, ie make forgiveness work
UAW/MF = Up Against the Wall, MotherFucker (old slogan)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

An oldie but a goodie...

NFG = No fucking good.

The inspectors at the factory I worked as a youth...I was over 18, but everyone else were old farts, like I am today...used to write that on parts that didn't pass inspection.

Then there is SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fucked Up.

FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

There are more from the olden days, but I'll let someone else post those.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In Vietnam we stenciled WETSU Airlines on our airplanes: WE EAT THIS SHIT UP

 

[DeYaKen]

An oldie but a goodie...

NFG = No fucking good.

The inspectors at the factory I worked as a youth...I was over 18, but everyone else were old farts, like I am today...used to write that on parts that didn't pass inspection.

Then there is SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fucked Up.

FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

There are more from the olden days, but I'll let someone else post those.

Don't forget ToFU Totally Fucked Up

 

[shutterpsb]

Thanks for the assistance yall.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Thanks for the assistance yall.

That's y'all son.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Handley_Page]

An oldie but a goodie...

NFG = No fucking good.

The inspectors at the factory I worked as a youth...I was over 18, but everyone else were old farts, like I am today...used to write that on parts that didn't pass inspection.

Then there is SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fucked Up.

FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

There are more from the olden days, but I'll let someone else post those.

We used NFU: No Fucking Use.
This should not be confused with the National Farmers Union.

 

[sr71plt]

I had a reader who claimed not to know what CIA stood for. What's up with that?

 

[unregistered]

 

[Zeb_Carter]

CIA = Crying Insane Assholes

'nuff said.

 

[49greg]

I worked in a printing factory a long time ago and a lot of the business checks we printed had the letters "NA"on them. A press helper once asked me what it meant. I told him "No Account" and he believed me!

This was in Texas where "no account" was an older term for someone that counted for nothing - worthless etc. I was surprised that he bought it. But hey I made it up on the spur of the moment. I heard him a few weeks later talking about some girl he met who was n a ("en ay") because she wouldn't go on a date with him.

I'm pretty sure it meant "national association" since I doubt they would put the symbol for sodium on a check.

 

[49greg]

When I was in Army Basic training we all had two letters at the beginning of our serial numbers: US for draftees - it meant "Army of the United States" - RA for Enlistees, it stood for "Regular Army" - NG was for the National Guard members.

When we filed into the mess hall a sergeant made us call out which we were, for every draftee that called out "US" he would answer "Un-Satisfactory"

For every "NG" he would answer "NO Good".

For every "RA" he would just say "Outstanding". It got to be a joke.

In the barracks RA was "Regular Asshole"

 

[49greg]

Iowa = Idiots Out Walking Around.

And yes, that's where I'm from.

Other ones we had growing up in the sixties were translations of the Airline initials.

B.O.A.C. (the forerunner of British Airways) - Better on a Camel.

JAL - Just as lousy.

PAA (before it re-branded to Pan-Am) was Pilots Alcoholics Association.

SABENA - Surely a Bad Experience, Never Again.

I'm sorry if any of these airlines don't exist anymore.

 

[49greg]

CIA = Crying Insane Assholes

'nuff said.

FBI = Fart Barf and Itch. (I saw it in a novel somewhere)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And then there was FNG when I was in service.

FNG = Fucking New Guy

GIB = Guy in Back (Naval Aviator reference to their RIO = Radio Intercept Officer)

TFOA = Things Falling Off Aircraft (Aviator reference the report they would file when things fell off their aircraft)

 

[oggbashan]

B.O.A.C. (the forerunner of British Airways) - Better on a Camel.

I'm sorry if any of these airlines don't exist anymore.

There were two British airlines at the time of BOAC. BOAC was the long haul airline, BEA was the short haul (European) airline.

BOAC - Buggers Over Africa (and) China
BEA - Back Every Afternoon or Buggers Europe Again

Their precedessor was IA - Imperial Airways - Idiots Aloft.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Back in the day of the muscle car crazy, which I of course was a part of the rivalry between Ford and Chevy was at it's peak. For Chevy lovers FORD became an acronym.

FORD =

For Old Retired Doctors
Found on Road Dead
Factory Optional Rust and Defects
Fix Or Repair Daily
​

Of course Ford lovers thought it meant "First On Race Day". They were wrong, but we let them think that even as we (Chevy owners) flew past them just before the timing blocks at the end of the quarter mile.

I'm sure there were many more, but in my feeble state of mind these are all I can remember.

Yes, I did own a Chevy, but I also owned a Plymouth. The Chevy was a '66 Chevy Nova II. The Plymouth was a '70 Road Runner.

 

[GoldenCojones]

CIA = Crying Insane Assholes

'nuff said.

Damn, I thought it was "Criminally Insane Assholes"

 

[xhellblazerx]

Back in the day of the muscle car crazy, which I of course was a part of the rivalry between Ford and Chevy was at it's peak. For Chevy lovers FORD became an acronym.

FORD =

For Old Retired Doctors
Found on Road Dead
Factory Optional Rust and Defects
Fix Or Repair Daily
​

Of course Ford lovers thought it meant "First On Race Day". They were wrong, but we let them think that even as we (Chevy owners) flew past them just before the timing blocks at the end of the quarter mile.

I'm sure there were many more, but in my feeble state of mind these are all I can remember.

Yes, I did own a Chevy, but I also owned a Plymouth. The Chevy was a '66 Chevy Nova II. The Plymouth was a '70 Road Runner.

I remember

Fiat=Fix it again tomorrow.

A friend of mine back years ago made one up for his wife's Fiesta

Fix it every single Tuesday afternoon.

 

[oggbashan]

I used to work in the British Admiralty. The whole organisation (and the Royal Navy it supported) was riddled with acroynms.

For example, civilian officers in the Victualling Stores Department:

AVSO - Assistant Victualling Stores Officer, and his boss:
DVSO - Deputy Victualling Stores Officer, and his boss:
VSO - Victualling Stores Officer, and his boss:
SVSO - Superintendent Victualling Stores Officer.

The junior staff and storemen, below AVSO, had other explanations:

VSO - Very Stupid Officer
AVSO - Another Very Stupid Officer
DVSO - Doh! Very Stupid Officer
SVSO - Superintendent (of) Very Stupid Officers

 

[jehoram]

FIAT = Fix It Alla Time (to be said with an Italian accent, of course)

TWA = Try Walking Again