[GreenKeys] The Office of Silly Acronyms (BRPE)

[Eric Moore]

There was an arpe (arr-pee) a brpe (burpee) and a drpe (derpy) they skipped
the crpe for obvious reasons (I think, at least no one seems to have found
any records of a crappy punch)

-Eric

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 7:23 PM Jordan Spencer Cunningham <js at teletype.net>
wrote:

> In this postmodern tech world, I'm not only used to having to remember a
> lot of acronyms but pronouncing them and hearing them pronounced silly with
> a straight face. For example:
>
> SQL (see-cwull), RHEL (rell), DDoS (dee-doss), SaaS (sass or sazz), PaaS
> (pass or pazz), NAS (nass or nazz), NACL (nack-ull), CIDR (cider or cedar),
> LACP (lacey-pee), and one a coworker and I made up for CoreOS (I know, not
> really an acronym): "See Oreos".
>
> All this talk of BRPE the past week or two has me saying "burpee" now
> whenever I see the acronym. Surely I'm not the only one?
>
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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