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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (5/31/2011)
Actually, the real acronym is almost funnier than the ones you guys came up with, when used on a forum:
Do Not Resuscitate
We should put that on all the old threads that keep getting "resurrected"

Not to be confused with PBAMDRIBY ("Please, By All Means, Do Resuscitate, I'm Begging You!").

- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 2

GSquared (5/31/2011)
jcrawf02 (5/31/2011)
Actually, the real acronym is almost funnier than the ones you guys came up with, when used on a forum:
Do Not Resuscitate
We should put that on all the old threads that keep getting "resurrected"
Not to be confused with PBAMDRIBY ("Please, By All Means, Do Resuscitate, I'm Begging You!").

I'm not dead yet!

- Craig Farrell

Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 3

Craig Farrell (5/31/2011)
GSquared (5/31/2011)
jcrawf02 (5/31/2011)
Actually, the real acronym is almost funnier than the ones you guys came up with, when used on a forum:
Do Not Resuscitate
We should put that on all the old threads that keep getting "resurrected"
Not to be confused with PBAMDRIBY ("Please, By All Means, Do Resuscitate, I'm Begging You!").
I'm not dead yet!

Shut up! You're not fooling anyone!

- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 4

GSquared (5/31/2011)
Craig Farrell (5/31/2011)
GSquared (5/31/2011)
jcrawf02 (5/31/2011)
Actually, the real acronym is almost funnier than the ones you guys came up with, when used on a forum:
Do Not Resuscitate
We should put that on all the old threads that keep getting "resurrected"
Not to be confused with PBAMDRIBY ("Please, By All Means, Do Resuscitate, I'm Begging You!").
I'm not dead yet!
Shut up! You're not fooling anyone!

I think I'll go for a walk. I feel happy! *Thunk* ow.

- Craig Farrell

Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736210 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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May 31, 2011 at 2:34 pm

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My new Sig:

Steve Jones, FUBAR, SNAFU, Zzzzzzzz

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 6

SQLRNNR (5/31/2011)
Craig Farrell (5/28/2011)
*chanting*
I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack Syed with a heavy hand...
I will not smack...
*mumbles off to another room, still chanting*
I'm thinking of adding this to my sig
OCD|ADHD|AAO|ad lib|CH|CSD (but thinking of making that one CSF)|MCTS|MCDBA
What do y'all think?

If it were me, I'd have to add "CRS" to the mix. 🙂

--Jeff Moden

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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 7

The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)
Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Nope... it's the terminal velocity for a pork chop with a bone in it. 😀

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 8

Jeff Moden (5/31/2011)
The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)
Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Nope... it's the terminal velocity for a pork chop with a bone in it. 😀

Is that only for bones that you pick or will any ol' bone do?

- Craig Farrell

Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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Jim Murphy SSCertifiable Points: 6263 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster (5/31/2011)
Damian Widera-396333 (5/31/2011)
What is the *REAL* question here?
The one the thread started with 3 years ago, or the current ones being discussed (26000 posts later)?

I think Michael Earl should get some kind of award. We just need to come up with an appropriate accronym for it.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

I saw Gus's new sig, couldn't resist changing mine. For a while only, probably, maybe, or not.

Tom

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 11

Tom.Thomson (5/31/2011)
I saw Gus's new sig, couldn't resist changing mine. For a while only, probably, maybe, or not.

Your sig is already a collection of incomprehensible letters. :-P:-D

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 12

Craig Farrell (5/31/2011)
Jeff Moden (5/31/2011)
The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)
Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Nope... it's the terminal velocity for a pork chop with a bone in it. 😀
Is that only for bones that you pick or will any ol' bone do?

I can get 45 out of a hand picked one. 🙂

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (5/31/2011)
Craig Farrell (5/31/2011)
Jeff Moden (5/31/2011)
The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)
Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Nope... it's the terminal velocity for a pork chop with a bone in it. 😀
Is that only for bones that you pick or will any ol' bone do?
I can get 45 out of a hand picked one. 🙂

Hmmm. Interesting choice of words. I seem to recall that pork chops come out of your nose.

Ah yes, here it is:

Jeff Moden (1/22/2009)
I just blew a pork chop out of my nose because I'm laughing so hard.

You sure that wasn't your parsons nose? 😎

Steve.

Fal Hall of Fame Points: 3143 More actions · Answer 14

Tom.Thomson (5/31/2011)
I saw Gus's new sig, couldn't resist changing mine. For a while only, probably, maybe, or not.

Tom, there's something I've been meaning to ask you, since I think you said earlier that you hail from Scotland, hence your sig.

I was reading a book set in Scotland where the author's husband asks her "If it's set in Scotland why don't more people say "Hoot, mon"?' This is turn reminded me of an old Goodies episode where the three of them set off to Scotland on their 3-person bike and ride across a sign written on the road in large white letters that says 'HOOTS'.

Can you tell me what Hoot means?

(It occurs to me at this point that I probably could've just Googled this, but I've already typed this far and as well I've been out of The Thread for too long and I'm desperate for any reason to post.)

Steve.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 15

Fal (6/1/2011)
Tom.Thomson (5/31/2011)
I saw Gus's new sig, couldn't resist changing mine. For a while only, probably, maybe, or not.
Tom, there's something I've been meaning to ask you, since I think you said earlier that you hail from Scotland, hence your sig.
I was reading a book set in Scotland where the author's husband asks her "If it's set in Scotland why don't more people say "Hoot, mon"?' This is turn reminded me of an old Goodies episode where the three of them set off to Scotland on their 3-person bike and ride across a sign written on the road in large white letters that says 'HOOTS'.
Can you tell me what Hoot means?
(It occurs to me at this point that I probably could've just Googled this, but I've already typed this far and as well I've been out of The Thread for too long and I'm desperate for any reason to post.)
Steve.

I doubt if googling it would turn up anything useful; probably just wikipedia entries for films called "Hoots Mon" (and IMDB entries, perhaps) and for the "moose loose aboot this hoose" pop song.

Common meanings assigned to "Hoots mon" are "Hey, look at that", "You are speaking from the wrong orifice, my friend", and "Pull the other one, it's got bells on", but I don't think I've actually heard anyone say it (as opposed to sing it - that awful pop song) other than on the stage or to ask what it means, and I suspect it's a phrase invented by comedians to use when imitating a lowland Scots accent. But then I'm not a lowlander, maybe people do say it in the lowlands.

Hoot of course is what an owl does, or the noise it makes, or a very loud laugh, or someting very funny; I don't think "Hoots" as in "Hoots, mon" is the plural of that. "Mon" is just "man".

Tom