The Alternate Glossary

[LimpetParticipant @limpet]

Posted by Brian Oldford on 14/11/2016 10:46:20:

Posted by Georgineer on 13/11/2016 11:37:18:

Posted by martin perman on 13/11/2016 08:55:56:

Motor trade acronym, LOTUS = loads of trouble usually serious.

Martin P

And of course FIAT – Fix It Again, Toni

George

Alternately FORD = Fix or repair, Daily

Of course if you ever Owen a Fiat you realise it means something else on the first trip f*!k I'm a t#*t

[JAParticipant @ja]

A series technical acronym from work which I am surprised has not featured (unless I have missed it) –

FUBAR – ****-Up Beyond All Recognition. Usually used in the past tense.

JA

Edited By JA on 14/11/2016 19:09:50

[Peter KroghParticipant @peterkrogh76576]

And then there's the infantry favorite….

BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!

Pete

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Posted by JA on 14/11/2016 19:08:37:

FUBAR –

One of a set of three in my experience. In order of increasing severity:

SNAFU – Situation Normal All xxx

TARFU – ThIngs Are Really xxx

FUBAR – xxx Beyond All Recall

[DodParticipant @dod]

Up here in North Scotland when independant television (ITV) started the proposal was to name it Scottish Highlands and Islands Television (SH!T)

[Martin ConnellyParticipant @martinconnelly55370]

We got stopped from putting NFF on F720s in the RAF and so started putting UTRF. We were never allowed to put FSSI

No fault found

Unable to reproduce fault

Faulty seat stick interface

Martin

[Steven VineParticipant @stevenvine79904]

CDO

I was exchanging 'obsessions' with a guy at work the other day. In the end he admitted he had CDO. "It's the same as OCD" he said '"only the letters are in the correct alphabetical order". That made me laugh,

Steve

Edited By Steven Vine on 12/12/2016 18:07:28

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

CDO … I like that, Steve

MichaelG.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Couple of motorbike related acronyms:

BMW – Burn My Wallet

BSA – variously B*stard Stopped Again, Bits Stuck Anywhere or Bloody Sore A-hole.

And in the car world there is Pontiac: Poor Old Nutter Thinks It's A Cadillac.

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

DNA – National Dyslexia Association.

[JAParticipant @ja]

A couple of decades old and from the street – BMW = Bad Man Wheels.

JA

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

On German cars – NSU – No S****g Use

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

'tis said that the Frech ridicule the Toyota MR2, whose designation is unfortunate when expressed phœnetically.

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 13/12/2016 12:15:17:

'tis said that the Frech ridicule the Toyota MR2, whose designation is unfortunate when expressed phœnetically.

MichaelG.

As in how the ancient inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean would have spoken?

Neil

<EDIT> It seems you just destroyed an innocent Googlewhackblat before it was dicovered.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 13/12/2016 14:23:00

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Posted by JA on 13/12/2016 09:12:51:

A couple of decades old and from the street – BMW = Bad Man Wheels.

JA

I knew it as Bavarian Murder Weapon.

George

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 13/12/2016 14:21:09:

<EDIT> It seems you just destroyed an innocent Googlewhackblat before it was dicovered.

.

Merde !!

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Georgineer on 13/12/2016 14:48:29:

Posted by JA on 13/12/2016 09:12:51:

A couple of decades old and from the street – BMW = Bad Man Wheels.

JA

I knew it as Bavarian Murder Weapon.

George

When we had a joint venture with a German compnay our Chief Engineer ahd a BMW: Brings More Wine

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 13/12/2016 12:03:12:

On German cars – NSU – No S****g Use

In the motorcycle world, NSU stole one of Norton's top designers in the 1920s and proceeded to produce an overhead cam single banger that looked for all the world like a Norton – known west of the Channel as Norton Spares Used.

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