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Subject: Re: Weird words
From: Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:37:28 +1000

tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com wrote:

Those are funny, You should enter those words at Urban Word of the Day for a laugh.
There are too many invented words to list in the Oil and Gas industry. Not to mention acronyms.
At my first job, I came across the acronym, POOH at the end of several paragraphs. I asked around and most engineers just accepted the term but weren't sure what it meant.

I finally found out it meant, Pull Out Of Hole.


I had two occurrences of this sort of thing:

* When I moved from a PC and Mac environment to a
UNIX environment, the first time I saw the instruction
"Become superuser" I realized that it was a common
instruction from the context but I called a friend
to find out what it meant: "Does the programmer duck
into a phone book or something?"

* The first time I saw the phrase "magic cookie": "Have
we suddenly dropped into _Alice in Wonderland_?"

-- Janice

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