GOV SPECIFICATIONS

I have reference volumes at my office will respond in the AM.

milo

lynlynch nailed it! Its not a mil spec its 'professional jargon.'

Not in my ancient and dustyVSMF locators volumes...

I would'nt have heard it cuz my guys ALWAYS make it exactly to the print. 100% on time every time.

(yeah right)

milo

This was true at our plant too. If someone found something wrong they were fired on the spot.

Yikes!

Milo

I have to come clean here. Although I spent ten years of my life managing mechanical engineering departments, and running injection molding facilities for five, I had never came across this until I Googled it.

I'm like Milo, our stuff was usually "close enough for government work".Space Shuttle/orbital electronics/warfare electronics.

Me neither and I work for DoD.

I checked witha fellow inganeer and he knew about it, but said it needed a C on the end. Now I see further down in the string that the C was in fact added. I guess I live in a protected world.

Kyoto,

There was a "C" at the end of most every one, except #2, the one I typed in instead of copying. I left the "C" off that one.

Cheers.

A GA for lynlynch....spot on the $$$$$$!!!!!!!!

I am not familiar with MIL-TFP41C, I usually used MIL-TFP41 or 41A.

The A stands for A**Hole.......

This was usually reserved for special cases.

What does the C stand for?

MIL-TFP-41C 1C= once

Hi Randouli,

Check this site out and you will see as lynlynch says, it is meant to be taken "literally". Yours and many other "In" phrases which perhaps started of as a joke but are now part of Engineering history nomenclature are listed here.

Lynlynch gave the 'kind' rendition to this meanin. The actual meaning is a little too shall we say "spicy" to quote here!

Yes and I appreciate his straight answer to my post.

The post was a kind of tongue in cheek tribute to a welding engineering friend of mine. He was the king of sarcasm and an OSU grad.

Randy

" wanted to know if anyone ever followed it"

I can appreciate the wit. You look at the part, you look at the drawing, you measure the part, you look at the drawing, .........................

Hi Randouli,

With reference to my post 10, I forgot to enter the site info, sorry.

View Full Version : Acronyms -funny & useful ones

MSFM - More S**t From Management

BOHICA - Bend Over .... Here It Comes Again

inventory management:
JIT ~ Just In Time
JIC ~ Just In Case
OSWO ~ Oh s**t We're Out

RTM -Read the manual (polite version of "RTFM" Read the f***ing manual)
TNBD - 'Tis naught but Dung!

OFeHTVeD - Organic Fertilizer Hitting the Ventilating Device vs you know what hitting the fan!

WSNAH - We Speak No Acronym Here

WYSIWYG-What You See Is What You Get

HTGT - Here Today Gone Tommorrow

hwcmb: he will call me back

iwchb: I will call him back

iotdi: in order to determine if

Let us not forget SNAFU

GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out... OH MY!

Most people in business acquire a dilligas (do I look like I give a ****) attitude toward acronyms.

NIGYYSOB? (Now I've got you, you...!

FUBAR: Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
TNSTAAFL (Pronounced Tanstafal): There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
RTFM: Read The Friggen Manual

MBD - male bovine defecation

FIFO: First In First Out
LIFO: Last In First Out
FILO: First In Last Out
FISH: First In Still Here

F2F - Face-to-face

W3 -World Wide Web.

POTS -Plain old (landline) telephone service
POTUS -President of the United States

Nominated for a Congressional Torturosity Award is:
PATRIOT -Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

BMW -Big Mouthed Whiners

At my age, I think it's all a lot of BS, Posted by: R.Maitland

PPPPPP or P6 -Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

SOL - **** Outta Luck

MIL-TFP-41 - Make It Like the Freakin' Print For Once

Sipe...wyhac - Speak in plain english... when you have a chance

YCDBYSOA -- You can't do business while sitting on your ass.

LHIW -- Let's hope it works.

Wet McSabica -What ever the mind can see and believe, it can achieve

Sniop -subject to the negative influences of other people

BTTWWADI -"Because That's The Way We've Always Done It"
(Usually in a crossed out circle like 'No Smoking').

PCMCIA ---people can't memorize complicated industry acronyms
I use www.acronymfinder.com at least 5-6 times a day.

Posted by: Jared at May 10, 2005 06:51 PM

WGASA - Who givea **** anyway

CYBT - Can You Believe That?
NIC - No I Can't

IAATQ -I already answered that question

SHDD -(Same **** Different Day)

An acronym that kicks in every summer is DWP5 - Don't Work Past 5.

TFTHINT ...... thanks for the humor, I needed that!

BOHICA - Bend Over .... Here It Comes Again

Years ago, one military program proceeded successfully, but didn't have an official name. A junior officer asked the senior officer in charge what they should call the program. The senior officer passed the buck and said, "It's your call, take charge and move out!" The program was later called TACAMO.

I particularly like the last on this list.

don't forget:

ID-10-T Error (ID10T...)

and

ESTO problem (Equipment Smarter Than Operator)

Hi hairlessimian,

I like those! They should be in the list for sure!

These would bring down a know it all when they asked what a ID10T was!

Take care.