Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 06, 2015

They should take this guy’s security clearance away; he talks too much.

Does he gargle with alphabet soup?

Does he work for the DOD or is he just a millennial?

I thought you meant someone in tights swinging from a trapeze.

Obscure, I admit.

G.I.G.O.

Acronymaphilia. A contagious condition common among military careerists.

CATF: commander, amphibious task forceContractors Authorized to Accompany the Forces (CAAF)DPI Desired Point of Impact (target)National Defense Strategy (NDS)

We once called in an engineer to fix a faulty computer. He said that there was a problem with the AMD.“What’s an AMD?”“It’s an Air Moving Device.”“You mean a fan?”“Yes, but we call it an AMD for short.”

“Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we put the PC on the QT? ‘Cause if it leaks into the VC, he could end up MIA, then we’d all be put out on KP.” – Robin Williams

This guy is completely FUBAR…oh well, SNAFU!

Back in the 90’s, Sun Microsystems had an internal document that explained all of the acronyms that they used. One was TLA, which stood for Three Letter Acronym, so they had an acronym for their acronyms. Another one on the list was CYA (Cover Your A$$) – it’s presence on the list spoke volumes about their corporate culture.

“OMG ROFL” Touche’ ! Good one, Stephan.

how many Bobs are in this strip?

He sure loves his TLAs

When Pastis gets on a roll, it’s time to BOHICA.

I’m sure he was an initial success at his job.

In the Air Force we had FIGMO and OMGIF. One command had an Anal Prod office(Analysis Production).

DoD. Largest creator of acronyms in the world..NOFORN

PUN?

Here’s a rare one (and it’s real): IHTFP.

Alan Sherman: “Harvey & Sheila”

“Harvey’s a CPA, he works for IBM…”

Just the song I was thinking of when I read this!

As we say in my industry, “it’s just another TLA” (three-letter acronym).

CRT’s are pretty rare these days now that we all have LED or plasma displays. CPU, ROM and RAM are used all the time.

It’s “rofl”. The “t” is silent.

So @x_tech wins the comments today, definitely.

and most important – TANSTAAFL

OMG! Please add sub titles!! Txting has destroyed the Eng lang

The world needs more TLAs

I have always said that half of learning a new job is getting the jargon down.

I often say that living in DC is living in Alphabet City. The worse thing is people use all these obscure acronyms and then get mad when you don’t know what they mean.

Sometimes at work we’ll have a short conversation consisting mostly of acronyms, associated jargon, and IP addresses. We’ll have a moment where we realize what this would sound like to someone else, and burst out laughing.

LSMFT!

the more you talk like that the more you get promoted, if you’re in military garb

TLA: Three Letter Acronym

ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym

SETLA: Super-Extended Three Letter Acronym

DSETLA: Doubly Super-Extended Three Letter Acronym

HDSETLA: Hyper-Doubly Super-Extended Three Letter Acronym

He’s clearly involved with that notorious group, the Association Creating Random Obscure Names for Your Meanings.

Pig is correct. Does he speak English? —Perhaps as a second language?

This reminds me of Allan Sherman’s Harvey and Shelia."

AM…OH…YOU…AS…HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

And not one person mentioned TPS reports?

For shame!

Man: L.O.Waiter: L.O.Man: R.U.B.C.Waiter: S.V.R.B.C.Waitress: L.O.Waiter: L.O.Man: L.O.Man: F.U.N.E.X.Waiter: S.V.F.X.Man: F.U.N.E.M.Waiter: 9.Man: I.F.C.D.M.Waiter: V.F.N.10.E.M.Waitress: A. V.F.M.Man: R.Waiter: O.Waitress: C. D.M.Waiter: O.S. V.F.M.Man: O.K. M.N.X.Waiter: M.N.X.Man: F.U.N.E.T.Waiter: 1 T.Man: 1 T.Waiter: O.K. M.X.N.T. M.X.N.T.4.1.Waitress: V.F.N.10.E.X.Man: U.Z.U.F.X.Waiter: Y.F.N.U.N.E.X.Waitress: I.F.E.10.M.Waiter: S.I.L.L.Y. C.O.W.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3M1nppd3c

(“The Two Ronnies” – BBC, 1975. And if you’re American – it’s ‘zed’ here, not ‘zee’.)

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