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Here are my two nominations for Acronym Of The Day: (Original Post) abqtommy Apr 2021 OP
PDQ never gets the attention/use it deserves unweird Apr 2021 #1
You're right. I looked it up and Acronym Finder delivers 37 meanings but what you've abqtommy Apr 2021 #2
I live in acronyms unweird Apr 2021 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Firestorm49 Apr 2021 #4
"TMALSS" lastlib Apr 2021 #5
SWD (already in use for "shit went down" but... hlthe2b Apr 2021 #6
TANSTAAFL csziggy Apr 2021 #7
+100 I'm with ya on this one! abqtommy Apr 2021 #8

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. You're right. I looked it up and Acronym Finder delivers 37 meanings but what you've
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 10:00 AM
Apr 2021

posted is probably the most common and understandable one.

https://www.acronymfinder.com/PDQ.html

Then I couldn't resist looking up STAT that I hear so often watching Mash re-runs.
It comes from the Latin Statim which translates as "with no delay; at once".

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/stat

Well, this could keep us busy for the rest of the day. At least.

unweird

(2,522 posts)
3. I live in acronyms
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 10:19 AM
Apr 2021

I thought the Army was bad but the Telecommunications industry is ate up with monogram vernacular.

Response to abqtommy (Original post)

lastlib

(23,140 posts)
5. "TMALSS"
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 11:46 AM
Apr 2021

"To Make A Long Story Short"
An important one for the Lounge: "YOMANK" --"You Owe Me A New Keyboard"

hlthe2b

(102,106 posts)
6. SWD (already in use for "shit went down" but...
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 11:53 AM
Apr 2021

for the dog-lovers here, "sleeping with dogs" (my favorite past time)

csziggy

(34,131 posts)
7. TANSTAAFL
Fri Apr 30, 2021, 04:24 PM
Apr 2021

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"

The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert Heinlein's 1966 science-fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which helped popularize it.[2][3] The free-market economist Milton Friedman also increased its exposure and use[1] by paraphrasing it as the title of a 1975 book,[4] and it is used in economics literature to describe opportunity cost.[5] Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is "at the core of economics".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
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