Thursday Thirteen: acronyms

[jmc_bks]

Thirteen Things about JMC
13 Acronyms I Love


Mostly net based, but some not.

1. KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. I'd heard this before, but one of the partners at my old job used it as a mantra, and would repeat it to everyone, including his high dollar clients

2. NFW. No flipping/freaking/f*cking way. Had a bar exam instructor with a thick, thick Southern accent (he taught at Wake Forest, I think) who loved this acronym and used to to good humorous effect during his lectures on commercial paper.

3. SCOON. Snorting Coke out of nose. Which used to happen when I read Smart Bitch posts while consuming my morning diet coke. I have learned a hard lesson though. Two, really. Carbonation is hard on the nasal passages and the chemicals and sugar substitutes are hard on computer monitors.

4. CBA. Can't be arsed. Picked up courtesy of either Maili or KarenS.

5. CRAFT. Can't remember a freakin' thing.

6. WTF/WTH. Needs no explanation :)

7. GIGO. Garbage in, garbage out. It was the mantra of my high school computer lab instructor. And is so very applicable to things other than computers, I find.

8. TTFN. A.A. Milne, did you know what you were doing at the time? Love Pooh. Love Eeyore. Love Piglet. The Biochemist has always had dibs on Tigger, though.

9. PITA. Universally known, is it not?

10. HUB. Head up butt. The acronym looks so much better than the formal term I used to use: rectal-cranial inversion.

11. GGG. Good, giving and game. Courtesy of Dan Savage, whose advice I first read in hard copy via the City Paper, but which I now read online and hear via podcast.

12. DTMFA. Dump the mother f*cker already. Also from Savage Love, advice given to desperate advice seekers who need to just...dump the problem BF/GF.

13. KROK. Karmic rule of kink...which says that if you dump someone for being too kinky, you'll end up with someone whose kinks far outstrip the original kinkster. Also a DS acronym.

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[sarahf.livejournal.com]

The other KROK is if you say "I'd never do X," you soon find yourself either strangely fascinated with X to the point of obsession or with a partner fascinated with X and you'll do anything to keep them happy. Been there, done that.

Don't you love Dan Savage? I can't wait to read his new one.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I love the column usually, and I really liked the letters from straight and gay couples (vanilla and not-so) for Valentine's Day :)

[(Anonymous)]

I love KROK. And now I understand my problem -- I guess I should have kept dumping people, one after the other, eh?

And DTMFA is good advice more often than not . . .

BTW, how have you been?

Doug

Hi, Doug!

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I've been okay, thanks for asking, but crazy busy :) How about you?

Yep, DTMFA is usually sound advice. And I love the political offshoot of it: ITMFA -- Impeach the Shrub. Savage even set up a website for it...which is probably dead now that the mid-terms have passed.

Enjoyed your travel posts about FL. Have you ever thought of a second career as a food critic?

Cheers,
jmc