Re: The WTF Files

I'll start with this one in Coloma, I have some WTF pics in Yosemite but I have to dig them out of CD files. This one is just plain handy since it wts from lwst wkend.

WTF...Palm Trees in the Mother Lode

Another for instance:

WTF is this old man doing allowing his son to attempt a drowning in the San Joaquin River?

WTF is this guy doing standing a little sideways without falling over? I dunno. (West Carson River is attractive)

WTF is that in her ear?

And just WTF is that?

Question:

It seems to me that the areas around the bottoms of trees should be more icy, since they are shaded. But those areas thaw out first.

Therefore, I conclude that trees are warm-blooded.

Vince: >The WTF Files<

April Fool joke?

yoo-hoo, Szalkowski, your online abbreviation dictionary did not list this one

B

Bee wrote:

> Vince: >The WTF Files<
>
> April Fool joke?
>
> yoo-hoo, Szalkowski, your online abbreviation dictionary did
> not list this one


It's from an obscene, pseudo-English dialect called VinceSpeak: What The Fxyz!
(Most commonly uttered by Nevada inmates when they find out that they have been beamed up to the mothership.)



Post Edited (04-01-09 09:21)

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THE YOSEMITE POST
Voice of the Rocky Marmot Empire

When I flew in Navy P-3's we had numerous acronyms replaced with a 3-digit numeral code for use on the long range teletype radio. WTF was in the 400 series. One day we spotted a Russian electronics intelligence ship in the Japan Sea and reported it's location to our home base. The response we got said, "no, that's not what it is". We replied with the WTF numerals because this "fishing trawler" had rusting deck gear in unservicable condition and about 40 assorted antennas!. There were no further replies. Not sure if our own observation or use of the code turned them off.

Anyway, WTF has been around for a long time; I'm surprised it's not in the acronym dictionary. Got to be an all time favorite.

Jim

If you need a definition you can go to:

http://www.urbandictionary.com

It's sorta wikipedia for all kinds of slang.

I'll spare you some of my sophmoric humor but I was amazed to find
definitions for some acroynms I've used at work that I hope that
former bosses don't put 2 and 2 together about...
(though not a finer moment than hearing your boss using the acronym in
a code release in front of a meeting with a group of colleagues)

As the thread was blue from the start, and it is April 1st, I want to share a recently encounter scatological slang term:
crop dusting
(search enclosed in quotes in google, first listing now!)

I understand the in the ag industry "crop dusting" is now called "aerial application" . Not sure the slang term will change also.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Can't remember where I heard this beauty but been using it for years...
(I'm a just another rat in a cube)

If u like that diggity dog you have to like Austin Powers...
Yeah Baby...

FF: As the thread was blue from the start, and it is April 1st, I want to share a recently encounter scatological slang term:
crop dusting

yer losing me...I'm fading..."crop dusting" is a bad term?

B

Bee wrote:

> FF: As the thread was blue from the start, and it is April 1st,
> I want to share a recently encounter scatological slang term:
> crop dusting
>
> yer losing me...I'm fading..."crop dusting" is a bad term?
>
> B
I hesitate to elaborate on this ... however to explain: an earlier posting referenced "flying experience and WTF" which got me thinking of a recently learned slang term "crop dusting" . This term refers to a personal act in public that usually produces intense disapproval by others. Does not refer to insecticide deposition on a field by airplane. It is slang for flatuence released in a crowd.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Frank,

Dusting in that sense implies some degree of particulate matter in addition to gas. Sounds ominous for the guilty party.

June, where are you? We need help!

Jim

tomdisco wrote:

> Frank,
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> Dusting in that sense implies some degree of particulate matter
> in addition to gas.
There is a different term for that event, that I did not learn in professional school, but have heard in movies. Don't know how it is spelled.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

FF: >There is a different term for that event, that I did not learn in professional school, but have heard in movies. Don't know how it is spelled.<


heres one: TMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

B

Check out the guy on the right. WTF is he looking at?

I will admit that initially I was ready to be irritated because I was in this dreamy, artsy mood....but this pic made me howl, because the guy is looking at the chick WITH THE BEARD....!

B

Vince wrote:

> Check out the guy on the right. WTF is he looking at?

Looks like he's looking at a reaper?

Gotta love these late night chat rooms, Bee

Here's another titled "WTF You Lookin At" (from atop Half Dome in June 2004)

Vince: Here's another titled "WTF You Lookin At" (from atop Half Dome in June 2004)

I like it when critters get scowly looks on their faces

WTF is that pile of WTF?

(Base of Half Dome cables June 2005)

That is the pile of gloves that Gary or YPW referred to in another thread; I did not see this when I was there at the cables last time(Jurassic Era) This is no better than a pile of trash -- disgusting!!

And on that completely sour note, I am going to pretend to be human and fake some sleep (b-4 folks figure out that I only sleep 4-5 hrs a night and spend the rest of the time avoiding work at the keyboard)

B



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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

There was a hat there in case you needed one

I must say, this is one of the best pictures of...

WTF Is That?

(me on Half Dome in Low Light)

You can see the 1997 flood "damage" with this photo from up on the Yosemite Falls trail.

Vince wrote:

> You can see the 1997 flood "damage" with this photo from up on
> the Yosemite Falls trail.


Mother Nature brings urban renewal to Downtown Yosemite.

South Yuba River State Park.

Check out the guys on the rock, about to dive into the river, they are holding beer bottles. And checking out the chicks in bikinis.

Only the beer bottles are illegal.