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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

I come from the Military, there's an entire language we can speak in acronyms and there's an art to creating your own. Oh, and we always raised hell.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Tech is acronym heaven (hell?) I suspect most industries have their own lingo. My brother in law is an ER doc and OMG

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Lol. It's FUBAR trying to get SA on the CONOP when you PCS to a new TRADOC post to change MOSs. All the Acronyms are different.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

This was good, NGL.

But why would they tell you to "Grill a Funion This Summer?"

I don't get you, SMH.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Dude, if you ever decide you really do want to Smash Meatball Hoagies, I'm your dude. I made them at the first 2 restaurant jobs I had!

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Roasted Onion Flamed Lizards.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Writhing Testicles Function, Like Only Lasagna!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

There’s a cringe lifespan to these that’s hard to gauge. I’ve been sternly warned by my kid to never use/or say NGL again. NGL FR

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Andrew Smith's avatar

OMG, LOL. I am probably walking on a rake every single day with my stupid leftovers!

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

ROFLCOPTER!!!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Was that a high school thing? I legit kinda remember "ROFL" from back then, but then again, maybe that's inception.

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

I haven't seen ROFLCOPTER in forever. I feel like ROFLCOPTER was a thread ending joke like:

looooooooooooooooool!

LMFAO!

ROFL!

ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

It was like the triple dog dare from "A Christmas Story." If you went there, it was go-time.

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

Actual crazy trivia about A Christmas Story. My priest told that story as a homily around Christmas all the time and said the writer of that movie heard him and made a movie about it.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Think there's any truth to it?

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

Yeah I think it's actually true. You can even see the movie takes place in the same place he grew up. He also melted down his mothers ring into the shape of a cross and had it affixed to his chalice because of it.

Also he was not the type of person to make things like that up.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

I only recently discovered an old usable abbreviation: PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick). Which I assume is the Trump administration's motto...

And then there's Michael Jackson's '80s classic from "Thriller": "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"...

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Oh yes. The latter also took on a much more ominous connotation after MJ's passing.

There was another MJ-related abbreviation: BAD (Best At Dancing). I guess we kids weren't really all that great at abbreviations.

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Rudy Fischmann's avatar

I've literally never heard of this. In my day we used "don't party too hard this summer!" like TRUE HARDCORE SEVENTH GRADERS.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Well, we raised hell instead of merely partying hard, so there.

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Sum's avatar

Hell is raised without effort on my part. For most people that means the world is not as they desire it to be…

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Recess sports loom large in my elementary school memories. Teatherball yeah, foursquare yeah. Kickball - baseball gateway drug. Caroms! There was a golf version and I could ace every shot. Oh handball, that was big. But dodgeball was top because you were allowed to hit someone. Dodgeball supersized to the whole gym in middle school.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I'm going to write about dodgeball pretty soon. It was a big deal for me during this time.

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