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Pardon my ignorance...
Posted by Billybob Dylan on 16 June 2010 - 8:24pm.
... but I'm still relatively new here and I'm curious as to what 'FPO' stands for. I realize it's an acronym for the missus but I've racked my brain and I can't come up with the answer. Unless some of you married to Field Post Offices or use your wives/girlfriends For Position Only. But I think that's unlikely.
So, can someone please enlighten me? Ta.
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I believe Mark Ellen is the wag
that came up with the Fun Provention Officer acronym referring to the G.L.W.
Or a G.G.H.
GGH?
?
My guess
is that Hannah's referring to her Good Gentleman Husband. Hardly trips off the tongue - the initials are a definite improvement.
I'm prepared to be proved wrong, of course. Not a novel experience by any means.
It's almost too obvious though...
Maybe:
Grateful gorgeous hunk?
Well obviously he'd be grateful -
he's married to Hannah.
As I've not met him I don't feel qualified to comment as to his hunky gorgeousness.
Hannah?
Haha!
Well, you're both right. I was intending Good Gentleman Husband, but I do like Gauntlet's suggestion.
Well, I like it in theory. If I suggested to my husband that he should be grateful he's married to me, I suspect he'd laugh me out the room.
He might laugh, Hannah,
but we know the truth.
And I'm grateful for the speedy reply to the request for clarification posted a couple of mins ago on the London drinks thread.
It's nice to know I can get an answer in a reasonably short space of time from someone today. (Ebay quibble,missing USB cable and disc, bloody inefficient vendors, mutter, mutter...)
EDIT: Nigel and Gauntlet - one-all draw?
Oops.
Didn't need asking twice.
Fun Prevention Officer
(present company excepted)
I am afraid it is
Fun Prevention Officer
Well I thought it stood for
Fabulously Pretty One, but it doesn't.
It does
if she asks you :-)
Thanks!
I'm sure it wasn't really me but I like to convince myself I coined the term 'Sales Prevention Officer' at a place I worked about 25 years ago where a certain someone managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on an almost daily basis.
Fight the F.O.E
A wise man once warned us of F.O.E
in the sharemarket
fully paid ordinary [share]
I think Fun Prevention Officer....
...was originally introduced to the podcast by Matt Hall. It goes alongside GLW (Good Lady Wife), S&H (son and heir), you couldn't MIU (make it up) and FCOL (For Crying Out Loud) in the steadily expanding dictionary of Word acronynms.
My own favourite acronym
is JFDI.
In my world of IT I live in a universe of process and delivery. Incident and Problem. SLA. KPI. OLA.
All bound by reporting and procedure.
All of which must be obeyed.
Occasionally though I'll get a note or an email from a pragmatic soul up the chain as bored with it as I signed off a plea 'can't we JFDI?
Just Fucking Do It.
Not forgetting
The HJH!
FPO
I'm sorry, I know the surefire way to kill a good joke is to go on about how funny it is... but I still find the "FPO" acronym hilarious. Must be up there in "Great things the Word podcast has given us".
I still use
Her inside the bladdy doors, in fake cypriot accent natch.
ABCs
When ,reluctantly,showing my American relatives places of historical interest:Another Bloody Castle.
A mate of mine used to put the acronym OSINTOT
on the vary last slide whenever he was obliged to use Powerpoint to present something to an audience.
The penultimate slide always said, "Questions?".
You never saw the last slide unless someone asked a question that revealed a fatal and staggeringly scary flaw in all of the thinking that had given rise to the wisdom on the preceding slides.
In which case the last slide filled the screen with the single acronym OSINTOT...
Oh Shit, I Never Thought Of That.
RTFM.
I worked for a mobile phone company in the early 90s.
If a particularly dim or objectionable customer called to shout at me about his phone (and it always was a him), I'd consider the problem for a bit, and then pronounce that I'd need to put him through to Technical Help, as this appeared to be a critical RTFM problem.
Read The F*cking Manual.
Now supplemented by
JFGI
Just F______ Google It
Ah! Of course!!
That's interesting, 'cos this was pre-Internet, and people relied heavily upon 'experts' like me (in reality clueless gap-year students) to 'solve' their problems. Another reason why the WWW should be celebrated as a force for good.
Decided to (ahem) Google it
to check I had been correctly informed-pleased to see I had-though I'd be remiss not to point out that JFGI also stands for the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis ...
Talking of acronyms...
... I only found out the other day that Soweto's name comes from SOuth WEst TOwnship. Being the erudite bunch you are, can someone tell me if there's a special name for this? Creating a new name from more than just the initial letters, I mean. Or is it just a fancier form of acronym?
Contraction
It's called a contraction. Other well known contractions would be Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), Cheka (Vserossykaya Chrezvychainaya Komissiya) - actually the Bolsheviks were great ones for contractions, as they saw it as revolutionizing the language (see also 'newspeak' from 1984) - Sovnarkom, Komsomol, agitprop...
And also
SMERSH (SMERt' SHpionam) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH
Every one knows that
PORSCHE really means Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything
You've just reminded me, OTF,
of the story a friend's sister-in-law told me.
She and a friend, out on the town one night, were poking fun at some bloke's pride in his Porsche.
"Yeah," he said, "but you never see an ugly woman get out of a Porsche."
"No," riposted Wendy, "nor a tall man."
When I owned one, LOTUS was always an acronym for
Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
FIAT is...
... Fix It Again Tony.
Vaguely in the car area...
LOMBARD = Lots of money but a right dickhead.
(Was a fave of a mate's dad in the 80s).
During a period of redundancy
I foolishly learned to be a driving instructor. The way the industry works is that instructors generally pay the driving school that sends them their clients. The instructors take all the financial risks and this is why I never actually became a driving instructor. Some driving schools are greedier than others.
All this is a preamble to saying that BSM apparently stands for "Bring some money".
Working From Home ....
... or as we know it in the office, SOYFAW
Is it...
...Sitting On Your Fat Arse Whoopee!
Not your fat arse, obviously.
Heard a new one recently
A colleague referred to his spouse as the "joy hoover".