Heh, now it’s going to be more amusing when I have to take the painfully boring (and long) Computer Based Training courses we have to do in the Air Force.
Not so much a poorly-thought out acronym as it is a rather BS one, in the Air Force we have two types of Civil Engineering squadrons: Prime BEEF (Base Emergency Engineer Force, this isn’t the BS acronym) and RED HORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineers).
Do you see what they did with that acronym to make it work? :rolleyes:
There’s an infamous story about how the US Navy used to abbreviate various position names and titles. There were three fleets (Asiatic Fleet, Pacific Fleet, and Atlantic Fleet), and the commander of each fleet would be Commander In Chief, <Blank> (Fleet removed from the acronym), for example: The Commander In Chief, Pacific Fleet becomes CINCPAC. One of the three fleet commanders was also fashioned as Commander In Chief, United States Fleet in the event that two or more of the Fleets had to operate together under a unified command.
Until soon after the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, this person’s title was “CINCUS”. It was later changed to COMINCH until the position was disbanded in 1945.
It looks like I am not the only person who has enjoyed a smooth ride on the South Lake Union Trolley. Of course, I shouldn’t be surprised seeing as there was a whole line trying to get off in front of me.
According to my friend the city bus driver (retired), when the City of Fresno was considering a new name for its public transit operation, the drivers were in favor of naming the operation Fresno Urban Express (FUX). The humorless city fathers and mothers named it Fresno Area Express (FAX).
Yes, this one gets a chuckle from EOD techs everytime we get a terrorism/anti-terrorism briefing (funny how those briefings are very, VERY similar). Another one is when we’re talking about homemade explosives, and you have to sit through the usual ANFOs and PETNs and such to get to laugh at ammonium nitrate/aluminum, or ANAL.
Also, in the Air Force, CBT=computer-based training, so I didn’t get that joke either.
Because you can “scat” around town on it, I’d assume. There’s a SCAT in Sarasota Fl too as well as here in Melbourne (Space Coast Area Transportation).
Winter Haven, FL has a bus system called Winter Haven Area Transit. The buses run their routes with 3-foot-high letters on the back that say
WHAT
and none of the people I’ve talked to in Winter Haven find this the least bit funny, whereas I can’t help but giggle every time I see a WHAT bus. I picture a whole Who’s on First? routine with the WHAT buses.
London’s Lord’s (St John’s Wood) telephone exchange was called CUNningham and in Post Office Telephones’s internal A1141 code system was called L/CUN. Later, in common with a number of other busy exchanges it got a Tandem unit to expand it called L/CUN/T. Strangely, we never had a Clissold Tandem.
We’ve got a guy at work named Paul Ricks. His email address? pricks@.. And he loves pointing it out to people. Good one, I.T. Similarly, we have a Tina Rippin, with her email being trippin@.. I get a kick out of that.
In university I studied CLit (Contemporary Litrature)
One Work Place used Systemized High Intensity Training
A controller for a pneumatic actuator was called a Pneumatic Interface Socket Selector (we called them PISS Hole Knobs)
Dave Umbertson was a co-worker… his email was D.UMB
A while back I lived in South Carolina and worked at a college run by the United Methodist Church. I also attended a United Methodist church. Everything was “South Carolina United Methodist [whatever]” shortened to SCUM[whatever]. So we had the SCUM Church, the SCUM Credit Union, the women’s auxiliary was the SCUM Women. No one else shared my mirth about these abbreviations. I was so inappropriate.
When I worked at an Air Force Base, the various departments all had four-letter identifying acronyms. The PTB shot down one department’s suggestion for their “Division of Operations Maintenance.” They maintained the cruise missiles on base.
The aforementioned city fathers and mothers in another burst of wisdom renamed the airport Fresno Yosemite International (FYI), but the international airport designations never change, so your baggage tag still says you’re FAT. Come to think of it there could be some interesting sequential baggage tags. …FAT LAX or FAT SEA… you get the idea. Souix City is SUX. Too bad there isn’t a direct flight.
At work here, our unit, Inventory & Supply Store used to be one with the Procurement unit, leading to our acronym being PISS. They say that they seperated the units so each can specialize in their functions but I have my suspicions…
Just a couple months ago, Inventory was due to get a new name change since the Supply Store functions were being organized into Procurement. At the first meeting, when my boss told me we were going to be Asset Manangement, I blurted out “So that would make us ASS MAN?”. He later brought that up with higher management and got them to change the name
