Whats in a name?

Yesterday (Sunday) while amusing myself at work (damn holiday banquets) I thought about the abrevaiation we all see in everyday (gets vary boring running dishes thru a dishwasher) and how we think og different things for the same abreviations.

For example here on this BBS RB - rubber bumper, CB - chrome bumper at the hotel I work at RB- Roast Beef and CB - Corned Beef. In my real trade (eletronics) RB - is Base resistor and CB either stands for Common Base or Citizens Band. Made it wonder how many other common meanings do we know for the same two letters? As I implied I was bored s**tless.

Simon, can you imagine what it would be like if we went back into the 50's or 60's and starting talking about a mouse, harddrive, mother board, PC, etc,? They would think we were crazy wanting to play with a mouse!!!

so how are those daytime-running lamps coming???

Simon - when it gets really really slow at work, make a run at those acronyms that are used on BBSs
AFAIK IMHO LOL LOTFLOL PITA IIRC POS DPO etc.

David
It doesnt need to be slow to do that sort of thing. I spend most of my day on autopilot it doesnt take much to fill a tray with dirty dishes, remove the clean ones from the machine and put the dirty ones in.

John
I have a finished design on paper that I belive will work, now all I have to do is build one and see if it really will work and finally tidy it up so it is a plug and play install. The last bit just maybe the hardest. In the meantime Im trying to design a circuit board for the Auto Test Probe that I hope to have on Tony's BBS soon. Its amazing how much of this I actually get done at work between the dishes.