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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (34594)	10/20/2001 10:25:43 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

... that explains it. I've not see that one. I figured it didn't really have anything to do with it's pronunciation. When I was in the Navy they tried to give everything an acronym. I was COMNAVGRUPAC/COMNAVWINGPAC/VC-3 that is pronounced Comm-Nav-Grue-Pack Comm-Nav-Wing-Pack Vee Cee Three Can you imagine being in a place where people really talked that way in 3D???!! I suffer from an excess of TLA's where I work. We actually have a 52-page Glossary that I said we needed to create. It now exists. If people are going to speak in tounges, you gotta have a dictionary to find out what people are talking about. Especially when the acronym starts sounding like something or its letters start suggesting something. I was in a meeting and someone suggested PRAT as an abbreviation. Our Irish lass started to laugh as did I. A lot of Americans don't know that in the U.K. is politely translated as "utter jackass". It tends to be even more insulting than that in most people's minds. Maybe F__khead would be better translation.