Favorite Alternate Acronyms and Names

[WinKrushR]

We all have alternate names for equipment: Packard Hell, Microshaft, etc. What are some of your favorite alternate names and acronyms?

HP = High Priced, Hacker's Paradise
AOL = Amped on 'Ludes, Acting on Libido


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"What would anybody want with a blind dog?"

[AFJuvat]

EPROM: "Exit Program, Read Owners Manual."
IEEE: The sound a tech makes when a drive is ghosted in reverse
NT "Nice Try"


AFJuvat
File Not Found, Should I Fake It? (Y/n)

[Danrak]

Here are a few:
IBM
I Blame Microsoft
Idiots Buy Me
Idiots Building Machines
I'll Buy Macintoshes (next time...)
It Bit Me
It Built Microsoft
It's Better Manually
I've Been Mislead
I've Been Mugged
WINDOWS
Well, It Never Does Operate With Speed
When I Need Data Output Without Speed
While Idle, Needs DX or WorkStation
Wholly Inadequate Needless Damned Outrageous Waste of Space
Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WIN
Whoppingly Immense NOP
Worm Infestation Netware
MS-WINDOWS NT / WINDOWS NT
My Solitaire With Its New De-accelerator, Only With Some Network Technology
Well Intended, Netword De-accelerator, Only Works Sometimes, Never Totally
WINDOWS (as a) Network Trojan
Macintosh: What You See Is What You Get
MS-DOS: You Asked For It, You Got It
UNIX: IfUHv2sk, UDntWnt2Kno
VMS: You Got It, All Of It, Want It Or Not
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
DEC: Dump Everything and Close
DEC: Do Expect Cuts
HCL: Hilarious Computer Logic
HP: Hot Pursuit
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MAC: Most Absurd Computer
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
NEXT: Now EXchange for Trash
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too.
WARP: What A Rot Program
AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
DOS: Defective Operating System
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
SCSI: System Can't See It
WWW: World Wide Wait

Thats my current and growing list.


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[MAYHEM]

IBM=Ignorant Bunch of Monkeyfu....you get it.

I think I mentioned this elsewhere.

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[NeuromancerIV]

Dont forget the "pibkac Windows error"
Problem Is Between Keyboard and Chair

and my personal fav "The PDA surcharge" for the buttheads

PDA is of course a Pure Damn Aggravation Fee

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"I wannabout tree'...."
"tree what?"
"about tree-fiddy.."
"and I said godd**n you Loch-Ness monster!!"

[CobraTekMax]

Compaq = Compuqe
IE = It's Evil.
Netscape = Netscrape
PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
ISA = It's Stable Atleast
Conexant = Disconexant.
MacOS = Mac! Oh Sh*t!

[drgonzoid]

HP = hire purchase,
IBM = It'll Be Mine someday
Compaq = turd, as in "Back soon, just need to consult with compaq

my favourite current saying is explaining to customers there problem is wetware related and it needs upgrading

SEBCAK error is the biggest work generator for me - soft equipment between chair and keyboard

[MAYHEM]

How about a REAL one that always made me laugh:

TWAIN= Technology Without An Interesting Name.


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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[pga]

Compaq=Corny obsolete machines people aquire quickly

HP: Huge Problem

PB: Probably Broken? Peanut Butter?

IBM: Idiotically Built Machines? Integrated Bulk Manure



[This message has been edited by pga (edited October 04, 2000).]

[jvalliere]

Micro$haft Winblow$ "How Do You Want To Crash Today?"

AOL=Antichrist On Line, or Internet for dummies - take your pick.

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I keep hitting Escape...Why am I still here??

[furlong47]

One word: Macintrash

[Milenko]

my favorite is for windows NT server: NT as in Neaderthal Technology


me discover fire
me invent wheel
me built server
*grunt*

[goinpostal]

"ERROR CODE:18" the error occured 18 inches in front of the monitor. still love the classic Id10T.

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[theBeast]

IBM - Itsy Bitsy Machine Co.

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***the Beast
- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...

[Jallentino]

Hewlett-Crappard
ComCrap
IBM=Instant Buyer Malfunction

[c4a]

your post was one of the funniest i ever saw