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Welcome to dr jan's acronym decoder. Life is full of annoying abbreviations which no-one can remember, hopefully this page will leave you less baffled and confused. OK, this is a minimalist test page at the moment, but it will expand as time goes on. If you're keen you can email any acronyms not currently in the list to me and I'll include them next time I update the list.

Acronym Expansion Description
BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language Predecessor of 'B', which, in turn, spawned 'C'.
BFO Big F**k Off
BNG British National Grid
CPOS Complete Pile Of Shite
DMAF Do Me A Favour
FMR F**k Me Rigid
FTHM From The Horse's Mouth
GSETDI Get Someone Else To Do It (i.e. not DIY)
HALO High Altitude Low Opening Parachute jump terminology.
HFC Haven't a F**king Clue Not to be confused with the popular bank of the same name.
HISA High Interest Savings Account
IBM International Business Machines / It's Better Manually
ICBA I Couldn't/Can't Be Asked
IFA Independant Financial Advisor
IGMC I'll Get My Coat
IRL In Real Life
ISP Internet Service Provider
ITHWIHA I Thought He Was In Here Already
JFC Jesus F**king Christ
MOTD Message/Match Of The Day
NGR National Grid Reference
NIMCY Not Im My Conference Y'bastard
NTFO Nuke Them From Orbit
OSGB Ordnance Survey Great Britain
OYTD Oh Yes They Do!
PC Personal Computer
PEP Personal Equity Plan
POS Pile Of Shite/Point Of Sale
PQMF Please Quote Me For
RAM Random Access Memory
ROIO Recording Of Iffy/Illegal Origin
ROM Read Only Memory
RTH Round The Horne
SMIDSY Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You
SOTR South Of The River
TLA Three Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
WHS What He Said/What a Heap of Shite
YHMM You Have More Mail
YLSED You Learn Something Every Day

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