Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 04, 2021

Ka-AWKWARD! Oh, wait, Rip Haywire again. Don’t know HOW I keep mixing the two up. :)

Depending on how he swings, it might be a more effective way to keep him at bay.

Maybe if you didn’t keep writing “WANTED” underneath his pictures all the time….

Go for it! I know you can change him!

People keep using abbreviations without any indication of what they mean. Many are common, but the ones related to their jobs can mean anything.

Quick, send an email apologizing for autocorrect not knowing the word ‘bane’, or claiming the ‘n’ key was stuck on the keyboard. If autocorrect is going to insist on giving us hell it should at least provide the occasional excuse for an error we’ve made ourselves.

Dang, I thought “Big Arch Enemy” was a term of endearment.

Dirk raider: awww so Brewster DOES think about me

Brewster may need a GED.

Pam can be my BAE anytime she wants.

It took humans 2 to 4 million years to develop language and one internet generation to destroy it. Now we can’t understand each other. I am LOL about it, stupid humans.

Reminds me of a story about someone who sent an LOL to someone whose cat died. Thought it stood for “Lots of Love.”

Hey – it’s 2021 – you’ll make some people very happy.

Here I always assumed that the slang, which I usually see in lowercase, started as a typo for “babe.”

I’m a founding member of STOA (The Society to Obliterate Acronyms). It’s more difficult than it looks.

Acronyms weren’t unknown before the mighty militarization of WWII, but they weren’t that common either. In the middle of the proliferation of acronyms engendered by that conflict, I heard of one US general who had a special rubber stamp made with which he used only red ink: “UNA.” When asked what it meant, he would reply “Use No Abbreviations”! It got applied to a lot of memos sent back to their authors.

Supposedly bae also means poop in Danish and is a given name in Korean.

ka-oops

Dirk is more of an E-BAE.

Enemy – Before Anyone Else.

Someone sent a personally written note to a friend of hers whose husband had recently died. At the end of the note she added “LOL”.

She thought it meant “Lots Of Love”.

Here is what I used to claim about network initialisms:

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, people connected to email servers and bulletin board servers using modems that connected at what would today be regarded as insufferably slow connection speeds. These were speeds like 600, 1200, or 2400 bits per second. Users of these services had to pay for connect time. As a result, it was considered rude to make a message longer than necessary. To make messages shorter, use of initialisms such as LOL, IIRC, AFAIK, IMO, and so on were invented.

I later learned many of those existed the Victorian era.

Bae means “poop” in Danish. Just sayin..

I didn’t know BAE was an acronym, I thought people were just being lazy in calling somebody their Babe

At least they weren’t text messages