RI - Rockwell International
RJ - Royal Jordanian Airlines, which operates 26 aircraft
Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكيَّة الأردنيَّة; transliterated: Al-Malakiyyah al-'Urduniyyah), formerly known as Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines, is the flag carrier airline of Jordan with its head office in the capital, Amman. The airline operates scheduled international services over four continents from its main base at Queen Alia International Airport, with over 500 flights per week and at least 110 daily departures. It joined the Oneworld airline alliance in 2007.
The airline was est...
RK – an eye surgery once used to correct near-sightedness, not use so much an longer.
ioioio
June 10, 2018, 11:36am
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Real Life.
An interesting fact about my real life is that I wrote code that has been executed billions of times and has affected the lives of everybody in the civilized world. The software I helped to develop is now considered obsolete.
RM - Resident Magistrate, a law officer in some parts of the British Empire. There was a sitcom about one in Ireland.
A resident magistrate is a title for magistrates used in certain parts of the world, that were, or are, governed by the British. Sometimes abbreviated as RM, it refers to suitably qualified personnel—notably well versed in the law—brought into an area from outside as the local magistrate, typically to be the guiding hand amongst other lay magistrates.
In colonial history, resident magistrates have had gubernatorial functions in a few minor, isolated colonial settlements, such as:
Resident mag...
The Irish R.M.: With Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray, Anna Manahan, Brendan Conroy. When Major Sinclair Yeates leaves his home in England to work as the Irish Resident Magistrate, he finds that the justice system needs tempering somewhat to suit the local...
RO - reverse osmosis, a filtering system
RP - Reform Party, an opposition party in Singapore led by Kenneth Jeyaretnam
The Reform Party (abbreviation: RP) is an opposition political party in Singapore.
The Reform Party is a liberal-democratic party. According to the party's constitution, it seeks to promote "political, social and economic reform; the restoration of full human rights; a fairer and just distribution of wealth with the elimination of poverty; an independently appointed judiciary and a fully elected and sovereign parliament". Its stated philosophy is "That every member of the society is born with ...
boson
June 17, 2018, 4:06am
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RR - Randy Rhodes was a heavy metal guitarist who played for Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne. He was 25 when he died in a plane accident in 1982. The pilot was having fun buzzing the Osbourne tour bus.
jtur88
June 17, 2018, 10:22am
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RS = ISO code for Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil.
Mr_Zox
June 18, 2018, 3:51am
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RT = Rectal Thermometer. 'Nuf said.
RU 486 - Mifepristone “the abortion pill”
RV - Recreational Vehicle
boson
June 19, 2018, 5:49am
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RW .rw is the Internet country code top-level domain for Rwanda.
RX (usually written ℞) is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions.
Biotop
June 19, 2018, 5:01pm
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RY = Royal Yak
A yak that is a mix of white and black or white and gold.
boson
June 20, 2018, 6:09am
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SA – Smokers Anonymous, aka, Nicotine Anonymous or NicA. 12 step meetings started in the early 1980s. I once saw a promotional video that included Grace Slick in the circle. Oops- confidentiality. Don’t tell anyone.