What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard?
mmaddox asks: "As a software developer, I've consulted on many projects - projects conceived in the twisted mind of management and marketing and cursed with bizarre, often hysterically funny names. Of course, these names lead to the adoption of the dreaded acronym. Most recently, I've discouraged the name selections of a few clients, in particular, the Private Inline Security System (a silly "personal firewall" - the client didn't even THINK of using an acronym) and Cross-section Heads-Up Digitizer (an engineering bit for roadway construction - anyone remember the movie?). There must be millions of these things out there.
What is the worst acronym you've ever had the *ahem* pleasure of dealing with?" And in typical Slashdot fashion, it just wouldn't be the same without taking a dig at Microsoft. If you click here
and look at the #2 result (of 44), then you may see one of funniest acronyms I've ever seen come out of the corporate culture. Of course, if you click on that
particular link it looks like someone at the Borg have recognized their error and is trying to rewrite history, changing the "tool" into a "utility". God bless the Google
cache! If you think you've seen acronyms to beat this one, please share!
Totally OT:
Some of us silly Americans not only know where Saskatchewan is, and that the Capital is Saskatoon, but that it's near the left coast after British Colombia and Alberta (and I'm an east coast American myself).
As for your sig:
You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, you can pick your friend's nose, but you can't pick your nose's friends.
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