Whats An Acronym? 6 comments | Posted by Bamber 41 months ago

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A couple of days ago Sarah posted a joke about bad wesite addresses, which reminded me of this true story.

A friend of mine, Rob, works as despatch manager for a garden seed company. One day in the pub he asked me what an acronym was so I explained, giving him a couple of examples such as IBM is International Business Machines and RPG is Rocket Propelled Grenade.

The very next evening I saw him in the pub and he told me that he had a very difficult time keeping a straight face during a meeting that day. It seems the company were going for a British Standard called "Investors in People", where input from employees is positively encouraged. The chairman of the meeting suggested calling this policy "The Way Ahead Together".

Rob waited two weeks before pointing out the acronym this produced.

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hunnybunny Posted on Jan 24, 2007 at 11:08 AM 8,950 tokens, 3.24 weeks wasted

hahahaha the dreaded T word

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alex657684 Posted on Jan 24, 2007 at 07:09 PM 11,788 tokens, 2.64 weeks wasted

Hey! Hier kommt Alex
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konifur Posted on Jan 25, 2007 at 12:17 PM 26,616 tokens, 1.6 months wasted

bamber will know where i am talking about.

I live on the river wear.in between two other rivers,
the river tyne and the river tees.
they call the region where i live "tyne and wear." it has been called for a lot of years now.someone wanted to add the river tees into the area, so it would become "tyne, wear and tees" but they dropped the idea.

hey! it wasn`t me!

forgive me i am discombobulated again.

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Marks.

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Naruto Posted on Jan 25, 2007 at 06:57 PM 1,731 tokens, 5.32 days wasted

RPG role playing game

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Bamber Posted on Jan 26, 2007 at 05:55 AM 13,293 tokens, 1.93 months wasted

Comment in reply to Naruto's original comment

Yep, it also stands for Report Program Generator, a programming language used on business machines.

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ressurection666 Posted on May 01, 2007 at 03:22 AM 1,741 tokens, 1.95 days wasted

All answers are replies, but not all replies are answers.

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