Mispronouncing acronyms
Geoffrey Reed
geoffr at zipcon.net
Mon Aug 2 22:19:53 CDT 2010
On 8/2/10 8:15 PM, "Dan Roganti" <ragooman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/
>
> Sometimes people would have their own "vulgar" definitions for these
> acronyms, those I've heard mostly from FE's since they dealt directly
> with customers - just to irritate people for spite :) You have to
> realize that there was always some level of atagonizing by the other
> companies since these companies were the big boys of the day.
> Some of the simple ones were, [I forgot most of them]
> IBM = Itsy Bitsy Machines
-snip-
IBM = I've Been Mislead
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