I do not mean to be too serious for this well humoured thread,
but I've often thought about the English speaking world being too fond of acronyms, IMHO.
LBE Location Based Entertainment
LBE Load Bearing Equipment
LBE Local Business Enterprise
LBE Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (alloy)
LBE Lead By Example
LBE London Borough of Enfield (UK)
LBE Latrobe, PA, USA - Westmoreland County (Airport Code)
LBE Left Behind Equipment
LBE Left Below Elbow (amputation)
LBE Licensing Basis Event
LBE Loop Back Enabled (Hekimian)
LBE Linear Bit-Estimate
LBE Load Break Elbow
LBE Last Best Estimate (programs management dates)
FTD Financial Times Deutschland (German sister newspaper of the Financial Times)
FTD Frontotemporal Dementia
FTD Fitted
FTD Flight Training Device
FTD Federal Tax Deposit
FTD Facilitated Transit Document (international relations)
FTD Fastest Time of the Day (auto racing)
FTD Foreign Technology Division
FTD First to Default
FTD Failure to Deliver (stock market, short selling)
FTD Fun to Drive
FTD Florist's Transworld Delivery
FTD Field Training Detachment
FTD Formal Thought Disorder
FTD Fixin' To Die (EMS slang)
FTD Free to Decide (Cranberries song)
FTD Fort Dearborn Income Securities, Inc. (stock symbol)
FTD Fluorescent Tube Display
FTD Field Test Display
FTD Forward Tracking Detector
FTD Freeze to Death
FTD Fill Thread Database (newsgroups)
FTD Flight Test Division
FTD Flight Tracking Data
FTD Functional Test Demonstration
FTD Field Test Demonstration
FTD Financial Transaction Database
FTD Field Technical Demonstration
FTD Fusion Target Design
FTD Fleet Training Device
FTD File Transfer Date
FTD Fleet Training Device (US Navy AMTCS program)
FTD Frequency Translation Distortion
FTD Failure Transition Distance
FTD Fuzzy Torque Distributor
FTD Floral Telegraphic Delivery
FTD Flight Test Diagnostics
FTD Freight Traffic Division
FTD Floor Termination Device (power module)
FTD File Type Doctor (software for Windows Vista)
FTD Foreign Technical Department
FTD Flight Test Direction
FTD Formal Technical Document
FTD Functional Task Description
FTD Fresh Tight Designs (website)
See what I mean? Can't even type data into forms, so, from the same source:
BTD Biotinidase (human gene)
BTD Boston Transportation Department (Boston, MA, USA)
BTD Brightness Temperature Difference
BTD Bleed The Dream (band)
BTD Building Trades Directory (website)
BTD Binary To Decimal
BTD Born to Die
BTD Bored To Death
BTD Bilateral Trade Database
BTD Better the Devil (record company)
BTD Better Through Design (BTD Manufacturing, Inc.)
BTD Bloons Tower Defense (game)
BTD Bear Trap Dunes (Ocean View, Delaware, USA)
BTD Bit Transmission Delay
BTD Barney the Dinosaur (TV character)
BTD Best Time of the Day
BTD Brothers Till Death (gaming clan)
BTD Beat The Dow
BTD Business Travel Department
BTD Biological Therapies in Dentistry (journal)
BTD Born to Drive
BTD Born to Drink
BTD Brigade Tactical Department (US Military Academy)
BTD Beaulieu-Tan-Damen (pulse shape)
BTD Buy The Dip (stocks)
BTD Brutal Torso Dissection (Australian metal band)
BTD Beg/Begging to Differ
BTD Biomechanics Test Database (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
BTD Business Technical Division (USACE)
BTD Battle Training Division (US Army)
BTD Bortezomib, Thalidomide and Dexamethasone (chemotherapy)
BTD Block-Type Decodable
BTD Beat the Donk Poker Forum
BTD Bearing Temperature Detector
Feeling ever so slightly wiser now, so what about these possibilities?
LBE Lead By Example
LBE Left Below Elbow (amputation) - who would want that!
LBE Load Break Elbow - ditto
BTD Bored To Death
BTD Brothers Till Death
BTD Born to Drink
LBE or FTD
LBE or FTD
Just wondering how many of you SO's prefer to LBE or BTD when it comes to ITM and STM tunes.
Or are both as easy as ABC?
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: LBE or FTD
WTF?
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Kenny
Re: LBE or FTD
I use my LBE to haul my UBPs, SSPs, and my "D"LWs.
No session, oh, well -
FIGMO.
TOODALOO.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Piece
Re: LBE or FTD
OMG! ROFLMAO.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by CleverName
Re: LBE or FTD
learn by ear
b???? the dots
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by johndsamuels
Re: LBE or FTD
LOLWUT?
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: LBE or FTD
STM? pass the penicillin. Good point well made AC.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by bogman
Re: LBE or FTD
AC/DC.
...I.e, both.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by nicholas
Re: LBE or FTD
Actually, STM sounds rather spicey -
"Take off that dress, and PLAY for, wench!!"
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Piece
Re: LBE or FTD
Isn't a symptom of STM MSR?
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: LBE or FTD
Ah yes, MSR on the GHB, now that's STM.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by bogman
Re: LBE or FTD
MSR ~ Great camping stoves...
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: LBE or FTD
Just noticed this one....
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/8988/comments#comment191341
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: LBE or FTD
Oops, here's a better link
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/8988
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: LBE or FTD
Just noticed the above was my 4000th "Comment" - and probably not my best.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Kenny
Re: LBE or FTD
Even more brusque than normal, Kenny.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: LBE or FTD
ROFLMFAOCOPTER
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by I ♥ Dow
Re: LBE or FTD
I do not mean to be too serious for this well humoured thread,
but I've often thought about the English speaking world being too fond of acronyms, IMHO.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Ramiro
Re: LBE or FTD
TBT (Too bloody true)....
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: LBE or FTD
'LOLWUT?' has to be my word of the month. It's rather marvellous.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by nicholas
Re: LBE or FTD
For the benefit of the TAP (terminally acronym puzzled - which means me), from http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com we have:
LBE Location Based Entertainment
LBE Load Bearing Equipment
LBE Local Business Enterprise
LBE Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (alloy)
LBE Lead By Example
LBE London Borough of Enfield (UK)
LBE Latrobe, PA, USA - Westmoreland County (Airport Code)
LBE Left Behind Equipment
LBE Left Below Elbow (amputation)
LBE Licensing Basis Event
LBE Loop Back Enabled (Hekimian)
LBE Linear Bit-Estimate
LBE Load Break Elbow
LBE Last Best Estimate (programs management dates)
FTD Financial Times Deutschland (German sister newspaper of the Financial Times)
FTD Frontotemporal Dementia
FTD Fitted
FTD Flight Training Device
FTD Federal Tax Deposit
FTD Facilitated Transit Document (international relations)
FTD Fastest Time of the Day (auto racing)
FTD Foreign Technology Division
FTD First to Default
FTD Failure to Deliver (stock market, short selling)
FTD Fun to Drive
FTD Florist's Transworld Delivery
FTD Field Training Detachment
FTD Formal Thought Disorder
FTD Fixin' To Die (EMS slang)
FTD Free to Decide (Cranberries song)
FTD Fort Dearborn Income Securities, Inc. (stock symbol)
FTD Fluorescent Tube Display
FTD Field Test Display
FTD Forward Tracking Detector
FTD Freeze to Death
FTD Fill Thread Database (newsgroups)
FTD Flight Test Division
FTD Flight Tracking Data
FTD Functional Test Demonstration
FTD Field Test Demonstration
FTD Financial Transaction Database
FTD Field Technical Demonstration
FTD Fusion Target Design
FTD Fleet Training Device
FTD File Transfer Date
FTD Fleet Training Device (US Navy AMTCS program)
FTD Frequency Translation Distortion
FTD Failure Transition Distance
FTD Fuzzy Torque Distributor
FTD Floral Telegraphic Delivery
FTD Flight Test Diagnostics
FTD Freight Traffic Division
FTD Floor Termination Device (power module)
FTD File Type Doctor (software for Windows Vista)
FTD Foreign Technical Department
FTD Flight Test Direction
FTD Formal Technical Document
FTD Functional Task Description
FTD Fresh Tight Designs (website)
And I'm none the wiser.
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: LBE or FTD
See what I mean? Can't even type data into forms, so, from the same source:
BTD Biotinidase (human gene)
BTD Boston Transportation Department (Boston, MA, USA)
BTD Brightness Temperature Difference
BTD Bleed The Dream (band)
BTD Building Trades Directory (website)
BTD Binary To Decimal
BTD Born to Die
BTD Bored To Death
BTD Bilateral Trade Database
BTD Better the Devil (record company)
BTD Better Through Design (BTD Manufacturing, Inc.)
BTD Bloons Tower Defense (game)
BTD Bear Trap Dunes (Ocean View, Delaware, USA)
BTD Bit Transmission Delay
BTD Barney the Dinosaur (TV character)
BTD Best Time of the Day
BTD Brothers Till Death (gaming clan)
BTD Beat The Dow
BTD Business Travel Department
BTD Biological Therapies in Dentistry (journal)
BTD Born to Drive
BTD Born to Drink
BTD Brigade Tactical Department (US Military Academy)
BTD Beaulieu-Tan-Damen (pulse shape)
BTD Buy The Dip (stocks)
BTD Brutal Torso Dissection (Australian metal band)
BTD Beg/Begging to Differ
BTD Biomechanics Test Database (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
BTD Business Technical Division (USACE)
BTD Battle Training Division (US Army)
BTD Bortezomib, Thalidomide and Dexamethasone (chemotherapy)
BTD Block-Type Decodable
BTD Beat the Donk Poker Forum
BTD Bearing Temperature Detector
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: LBE or FTD
Feeling ever so slightly wiser now, so what about these possibilities?
LBE Lead By Example
LBE Left Below Elbow (amputation) - who would want that!
LBE Load Break Elbow - ditto
BTD Bored To Death
BTD Brothers Till Death
BTD Born to Drink
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: LBE or FTD
TMTOOH?
Too much time on our hands?
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Michele Sims
Re: LBE or FTD
Yes, aren't I lucky
# Posted on March 7th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: LBE or FTD
Pffft. Retired people......
# Posted on March 8th 2010 by Michele Sims
Re: LBE or FTD
LBE=T AFAIK
FTD= T X 2
(I have fairly recently acquired glasses, but have seldom yet bothered to use them...)
# Posted on March 8th 2010 by nicholas
Re: LBE or FTD
I find TLA's really annoying
# Posted on March 9th 2010 by domhnall.
Re: LBE or FTD
That'll be three-letter acronyms in case you were wondering
# Posted on March 9th 2010 by domhnall.