> From: Iain L M Hotchkies <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: abbrev.
> Date: 25 January 1998 22:05
>
> In a certain netnews newsgroup, it was written:
>
> > >Junior doctor contacts suggest that `NFX' for X in `single-letter
abbreviation
> > >for small town near here' is common. I also particularly like `TTFO'
as in
> > >`...patient's relatives Told To Fuck Off'. I'm told this one goes
down
> > >particularly well when the notes, for whatever reason, need to be
explained at
> > >inquest or FAI or wherever.
> >
> > One I saw mentioned recently was GROLIES, Guardian reader of limited
> > intelligence, ethnic skirt.
>
> I must come clean here and admit that I don't often use
> abbreviations such as GOK (God Only Knows). I use
> TATT (tired all the time) but that's not really going
> to get me into trouble.
>
> Anyone have any favourite examples they use or have happened
> upon in the notes?
I like GOK, and prefer TTATT (terribly tired all the time)
Also, a good tip from David Smith of Rushden..Smith's Sign: a doodle in
the column 'to enter A V or C at the doctor's discretion' means the doctor
is ...bored, bored, BORED!
Graham Balin, (Essex Man)
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