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MalcolmNathaniel -> Something just for fun: Naughty Jargon. (12/22/2013 12:54:23 AM)
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In my field there are several terms that could be considered rude, and some that are definitely rude:
Dikes: Wire cutters.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly: A mnemonic to remember the order of colors on a resistor.
RCH: Red cunt hair. The smallest discernible distance the human eye can see.
Gender Bender: Any one of a number of devices to change the pin orientation of a cable.
Slave: A device that has two or more devices on it where only one of them has the controlling electronics. *
What funny/naughty jargon exists in your field?
* Funny story about this one. Installing some pharmaceutical robots in a hospital in a hospital in Chicago with my father. We always called the first unit the "Master" and the other units the "Slaves." This is standard engineering terminology going back a long time, we thought nothing of it. Here's the thing, this wasn't a hospital in the nicer parts of Chicago. It was in a rather seedier part of that town.
My father kept saying things like, "we need the master moved over there. The slaves need to go here."
I am not the worlds greatest interpreter of human interaction. Sometimes I border on Asperger's the way I can read people. But even I could tell that it wasn't sitting well with the gang-bangers that were in the waiting room.
"Pop," I said, "I think from now on we ought to call them the control unit and the auxiliary units."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to die here."
Mind like a steel trap he had. It still took him a few moments to get what I was saying.
"Move the auxiliary units over there."
It was a rather dangerous neighborhood.
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