What is your favorite mnemonic?

[Hoppy]

So I'm going to lower tone.

During the First World War , British soldiers would put acronyms which were real place names on the back of letters home.

Two I remember (hearing about ) were

B e
U upstairs
R eady
M y
A angel

and

N ickers
O ff
R eady
W hen
I
C ome
H ome

Made me laugh and I did remember them so I suppose it worked !

Hoppy

PS Moderators feel free to pull this if you deem unfit

 

[bug]

PEBCAK

pronounced peb-cak

Problem Exsits between chair and keyboard



For working customer support for a couple differnet places we had to develop the pebcak error.

 

[The Chairman]

we seem to experiencing one here... :tease:

To clarify... technicians should never take credit for creating pebcak errors... we simply document them! Let the users take all of the credit. When enough users are having the same error, we then promote it to feature status.

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

bug once bubbled...
PEBCAK

pronounced peb-cak

Problem Exsits between chair and keyboard

This sounds like the closely related LNOTK hardware problem, of which we see plenty of on this board at times.

Loose Nut On The Keyboard.

I'm surprised with all the IT folks on the board that RTFM hasn't come up yet. Read The Friggen Manual.

Marc

 

[Scubatooth]

some military types might recognize this

SNAFU

Situation
Normal
All
Frigged
Up


also here are a few from the college i work for

Window licker: a person who is or acts so stupid that you expect them to come flying upto the front of the room and lick the glass

Midvale Validictorian: a person who cant figure out how to open the door when the instructions are on the door.

Slacker: a person who knows the test closes and still walks in late and is shocked when they dont get it even though its only a couple of minutes after closing. when they walk out the door they get called a slacker.

A Look Artist: A person (usually a female) who has gotten through life with there looks and it finally doesnt work.

will have to think of the others i know i cant remeber right now

 

[The Chairman]

I brought up pebcak in the first post of the second page, and Roakey brought up RTFM a few posts later. So do an RTT (Read The Thread) and you will see! No one has brought up TANSTAAFL yet or All People Seem To Need Data Processing which are non-diving related.

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

NetDoc once bubbled...
I brought up pebcak in the first post of the second page, and Roakey brought up RTFM a few posts later. So do an RTT (Read The Thread) and you will see!

I knew that! I was just checking to see who was paying attention. Yeah that's it, paying attention. :blush:

NetDoc once bubbled...
No one has brought up TANSTAAFL yet

You mean our concrete core drilling friend from Arkansas?

Marc

 

[The Chairman]

who actually coined it and what does it mean. Our friend who has adopted it has as his moniker has obviously taken it's message to heart.

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

I don't know who originally coined the phrase, but I first saw it used by a character named Lazarus Long in a number of Robert Heinlein's short stories and books.

Marc

 

[The Chairman]

that's who coined it! (Or at least made it famous)