The Alternate Glossary

Dilligaf - do i look like i give a f***

Figjam - f*** i'm good just ask me

There has been an uproar here in Australia over an advertising slogan - see you in the Northern Territory ( CU in the NT) absolutely priceless !.

Motor trade acronym, LOTUS = loads of trouble usually serious.

Martin P

And of course FIAT - Fix It Again, Toni

George

When I did my train driver training in 1991, we were being shown round the engine room of a big freight loco. The instructor packed a small group of us into the clean air compartment and told us what the various pieces of equipment were that we had seen, 'This is the the PGCOS: the Passenger/Goods Changeover Switch, this is the LMAG: Low Main Air Governor', and so on.

Then he pointed impressively to a grey cabinet with a prominent High Voltage warning sign on it: 'This is the DFT cabinet', he said, glaring at us. We all looked at it, suitably impressed, until someone found the courage to ask, 'What does DFT stand for?'

'Don't F*ckin' Touch!'

I've never forgotten that, and to this day I've never looked in that cabinet!

Regards,

John.

Alternately FORD = Fix or repair, Daily

I had to laugh when a chap called one of the modules of a robot control system the FM box ( f****n magic)

Mike

The Kiwi guys will remember the Toyota adds on TV, Toyota became another way of saying B%^^er, even non swearers used it instead of saying bother when you hit your thumb with the hammer.

Ian S C

Ford-Forked on race day.

Ford-found on road dead.

Oh yes, I did! We won't talk about the other....

The other unmentionable one was

Countries of Utterly No Tactical Significance.

And yes it was/is a military one

Of course if you ever Owen a Fiat you realise it means something else on the first trip f*!k I'm a t#*t

A series technical acronym from work which I am surprised has not featured (unless I have missed it) -

FUBAR - ****-Up Beyond All Recognition. Usually used in the past tense.

JA

Edited By JA on 14/11/2016 19:09:50

And then there's the infantry favorite....

BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!

Pete

One of a set of three in my experience. In order of increasing severity:

SNAFU - Situation Normal All xxx

TARFU - ThIngs Are Really xxx

FUBAR - xxx Beyond All Recall

Up here in North Scotland when independant television (ITV) started the proposal was to name it Scottish Highlands and Islands Television (SH!T)

We got stopped from putting NFF on F720s in the RAF and so started putting UTRF. We were never allowed to put FSSI

No fault found

Unable to reproduce fault

Faulty seat stick interface

Martin

CDO

I was exchanging 'obsessions' with a guy at work the other day. In the end he admitted he had CDO. "It's the same as OCD" he said '"only the letters are in the correct alphabetical order". That made me laugh,

Steve

Edited By Steven Vine on 12/12/2016 18:07:28

CDO ... I like that, Steve

MichaelG.

Couple of motorbike related acronyms:

BMW - Burn My Wallet

BSA - variously B*stard Stopped Again, Bits Stuck Anywhere or Bloody Sore A-hole.

And in the car world there is Pontiac: Poor Old Nutter Thinks It's A Cadillac.

DNA - National Dyslexia Association.

A couple of decades old and from the street - BMW = Bad Man Wheels.

JA