Acronyms, Decoded

We break down why acronyms help experts move fast and why they lock out newcomers. We map old and new ICT terms, show how meanings shift across trades, and share a free handbook and simple rules to write clear, usable documents.

• barriers created by acronym-heavy talk
• MDF and IDF history and current TR and ER terms
• bonding and grounding updates including TMGB to PBB and TBB IBC to BBC
• multiple-meaning acronyms like AP, CO, DAS, RFI, FTP
• documentation best practice: write full term, add acronym, then use
• efficiency vs inclusion when speaking to mixed audiences
• regional and cross-discipline differences and how to navigate them
• free resource: ICT Terminology Handbook and why to share it
• encouraging questions and private, kind corrections

Go to Google, type in ICT Terminology Handbook. Download it and send that web link to a peer, an installer, or an apprentice so they can learn it.

Transcript

Kicking Off And Acronym Challenge

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Wednesday night, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. That can only mean one thing. Live after hours with Chuck Bowser RCDD, your favorite RCDD. You know that's me. Don't even try to pretend like I'm not. Don't even try to pretend like I'm not your favorite RCD. Wired Up for Excellence in the house. What's happening, Wired Up for Excellence? Good to have you back, my friend. Tonight we are talking acronyms. Acronyms. The thing that causes us a lot of headaches, right? Acronyms. So let's let me flip over to my my show notes because I have a whole bunch of things I want to talk about here. You know, our industry has its own language. Oh, hold on, hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. What are you drinking? What are you drinking? Chuck's drinking water tonight. I got a bit of a sore throat going on, so I'm careful what I'm drinking. So I'm drinking water. Water. Tell me in the chat box, what are you drinking? What are you drinking? And then let's do the acronym challenge. Let's just pick one. ESS. ESS. What does that acronym mean? Let me know in the chat box if you know what that means. ESS. ESS. That's the acronym challenge for tonight. Let me see. Larry's in a house. Joe's in a house. Eddie's in a house. Right? ESS. What does that mean? Give you a few seconds. If nobody types it in, I'm just gonna have to answer it myself, I guess. It stands for electronic safety and security. Electronic safety and security. So let's talk about acronyms, okay? Let's talk about acronyms. Again, it's like a whole nother language. I remember my first exposure to acronyms. I was sitting in a business meeting with my uh with my boss 25 years ago, maybe even longer. And we were having a meeting with Bell South. No, no, no, Bell Atlannick. Not Bell South. Bell Atlantic. And the guy was sitting there and he was talking, and I swear, I swear he wasn't speaking English. I could have sworn he was talking Klingon. And I finally said to him, I was like, hey, what do you mean what is what's what does that mean? He goes, oh, it's an acronym. And he goes, oh, that's an acronym. Oh, that's an acronym. So I was like, hey, is there a book? Is there a book of acronyms that defines all those? And uh he's like, well, yes, there is. Yes, there is. And I was like, can you send it to me? Right? And he did. He actually sent me the acronym book. And I was actually, I thought that was pretty cool. I thought that was absolutely pretty cool, right? So let me know, let me ask you this. How confused were you when people start using acronyms in this industry? Tell me in the chat box, how confused were you when people start using acronyms in this business? Because I'm telling you, it's it's like a whole new language. It's a whole new language. But here's the here's the thing that people don't think about. It's a barrier to entry. It's a barrier to entry. And what do I mean by that? I mean that it can make meetings seem intimidating, right? It creates insecurity when you're talking to your text. That's why we're gonna talk about old acronyms, we're talking about new acronyms, we're gonna talk about acronyms that have multiple meanings, we're gonna talk about uh um some acronyms that have um multiple acronyms that mean the same thing. We're gonna talk we're talking about all acronyms tonight. All acronyms. And so what that does is it leads to miscommunications on job sites. Prior example, MDF and IDF. Those are old acronyms. Old acronyms, but you hear them all the time. You hear them all the time, people using them. In fact, I don't correct people. I don't correct them when I see that. Because it's just gonna bring on an argument. So I don't correct the bad acronym when people use them because it just causes problems, and I'm you know what? I'm not, I'm I'm no longer about about uh fighting with people. Either you want to know or you don't want to know. That's what it boils down to, okay? It just boils down to that. If you don't want to know, then okay, so be it. And it's your fault, not mine. But I I'm I'm I'm what I call multilingual. Multilingual when it comes to acronyms. In fact, I had an email today at work. Somebody was asking a question about TJ's in the house. So I had a conversation today at work, and somebody was asking about uh some bonding and grounding stuff. And so they must have gone on ChatGPT. So he went on ChatGPT and asked what this one particular item was. And it gave them response, and technically it was correct. Technically it's correct, but half of the acronyms it used were old acronyms, not the new acronyms. That's what I mean by a multilingual. I can I can talk old acronyms, I can talk new acronyms, and like I said, it but it is a barrier to energy because I want you to think about that the next time you're having a meeting with somebody and and you're using acronyms. You know, when I whenever whenever I'm teaching a class, whenever I'm talking to somebody, unless it's somebody like TJ, whenever I'm talking to somebody, if I think they don't know the acronym, I will use the whole name. And then I'll tell them, oh, by the way, that's called blah, blah, blah. I don't assume that everybody knows it. If you're writing a document, you're writing a scope of work, you're writing a request for proposal, the first time you mention that acronym, spell it out first, and then put in brackets the acronym. And then you can use the acronym after that. Okay? Don't assume everybody knows acronyms. The acronyms are so important that that's why I use, that's why every weekday on LinkedIn I do the acronym challenge. Because it's it's a learn, I like learning a new language, and I don't want anybody to have a barrier to entry to get to this, because it's it's truly, truly not that hard. You just got to apply yourself. That's that that's there's the rub right there. You gotta apply yourself, right? So let's go ahead and let's flip back over here. Um one free resource for you. One free resource. Go to Google, type in ICT terminology handbook. ICT terminology handbook. I tell this to everybody, everybody, because it's a free resource that Bixie gives away. Bixie doesn't do many things free. They don't do many things free. This is a free resource. It's a PDF, it has all the acronyms, old and new, and even has definitions. Okay? I don't remember how many definitions it has, but the acronym start on like page 238 or something like that, right? Um but it's it's a free resource. Now you will have to give Bixie your email address to get that PDF, but it's a great resource. And here's my challenge to you. Here's my challenge to you. Download it and then send that web link to a peer, send that web link to an installer, send that web link to an apprentice so they can download it and they can learn it. Okay, that's my that's my challenge to you. Okay, make sure that you spread that information. It's not that hard. Once you download it, it's good to go. And the reason you want to do that is um, again, it's about lifting up other people. It's called the ICT terminology handbook. Here, I'll go and type it in the in the chat box. ICT Terminology Handbook. It's a free resource on the Bixie webpage. Okay, so why do we talk in acronyms? Because sometimes it's more efficient. There's one acronym, an older acronym out there. The acronym is TBB IBC. TBB IBC. It stands for Telecommunications, Bonding, Backbone, Interconnecting, Bonding Conductor. It's an old acronym. We don't use it anymore. We actually changed the name of that acronym twice since then. But it's a lot faster to type TBBIBC than to spell the whole entire thing out. Okay? That's one of the reasons. Another reason is for standardization. And that's one of the reasons why they changed all of the acronyms in the uh in the in the bonding section, right? Bonding and grounding section. Because they want to synchronize the we use the same acronyms as they do in other standards, like the ISO standards, the ISO 11801. Make sure that we're using the same acronyms that we use in the TDMM or the ITSM manual, right? And it's and I'm telling you, it's a hard thing to do. It's it's absolutely hard to uh to figure out how to keep those things accurate. And those guys, those, those, those committee volunteers, they work their proverbial rear ends off, trying to make cross-check and make sure that everything matches correctly. There's a lot, a lot of issues. And it's great for documentation. It's great for documentation. But here's the warning, right? Efficiency can make a newcomer feel excluded. Feel excluded, right? And I remember that's how I felt the first time that someone someone uh used acronyms around me. I was trying to figure out what in the heck, you know, what's he talking about? Why do you have to talk in acronyms? Our industry just loves loves acronyms. Here's a poll question for you. Which acronym tripped you up the most when you got started in this industry? Tell me in it, tell me in the chat box, which acronym tripped you up the most? Was it MDF? Was it IDF? Was it OSP? Was it POE? Was it something else? Which acronym tripped you up the most? Because it happens to everybody. You're not alone. You are not alone. So let's go through some let's go through some acronyms. Whoops, why is it doing that? Close that down. No, don't do that. There we go. So let's talk about confusing acronyms, right? So I got a list. I got a list of acronyms. A list of them. I went, I was looking at I sat down today. Uh Vinny says DMARC. DMARC. Yeah. Well, technically, that's not really an acronym. DMARC stands for DMARCACION point. Demarcation point is just a change of ownership. My cousin's in the house. Hey, cuz. So it's technically not an acronym, but there you go. Another one here. Oh, I can't read that one. I gotta put my glasses on to read that one. Uh TBB, telecom bonding backboard. No, no, no. See, you're wrong. TBB is not telecom bonding backboard. TBB is telecom bonding backbone. Backbone. That's the conductor that connects all the bus bars together. So that's see, that's why I'm here tonight. That's why I'm doing acronyms to help people understand. There's acronyms may be right or maybe wrong, right? Um let me flip over to the other riverside, see if anybody's nobody's put any chat things in on the other channels. I'm not sure what is going on there. Nobody is chatting in there at all. It's just in just in TikTok. I don't know what's going on. I got 72 people in here now. Look at that. That's pretty cool. Hey, it's been a while. I did uh uh I didn't do a live stream last week, or actually I did. That's why I ran some issues. Obviously, I'm back in the studio until I figure out those internet issues up at the uh up in the podcast d but I appreciate everybody being here. But let's go through, let's go through, right? Let's go through some of those acronyms in the multiple meetings, right? As a fire guy, I still don't know what MDF and IDF means. Feel free to enlighten me. Okay, perfect. MDF. That's an old acronym. They've changed that acronym a couple times. It stands for main distribution frame. Main distribution frame. IDF is independent distribution frame. An MDF is a building serving cross-connect field. So for example, if you've got a building, then a customer owns the entire building, they got a telephone switch somewhere. That telephone switch is connected to the MDF, and that runs the signal up through the backbones, which goes to another cross connect on the floor, the IDF, which is floor serving. By the way, they changed those acronyms. I'm gonna talk about that a little bit later on. So Thomas says SBB, secondary bonding busbone, primary bonding bus bar. Yeah, this one's changed as well, too. So let's go through some let's go through some acronyms, referring to my notes. Some acronyms that have multiple meanings. Okay. AI. AI has three meanings. Ouch, I didn't see my hand. AI has three meanings. It can mean analog input, it can mean articulating index, or sorry, articulation index, or it can mean artificial intelligence. See? If you talk to three different people, if you talk to somebody like Ed the old tech guy, you say AI, he's gonna think, he is going to think artificial intelligence. But if you think, if you talk to, you know, like an old Mobell guy and you say I, that's analog input. That's what I'm saying. These are aggravates that have multiple meetings. A P. Here's another one. Good one, good one. A P. Guess what it stands for? Access provider. Right? That's the that's Mobell. It can also stand for access point. Access point, yeah. There's another one, ATM. ATM. It can stand for asynchronous transmission mode or automatic teller machine. Automatic teller machine. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Here's another good one. CM. CM. Now CM can mean two different things. If you're talking to a construction person, CM is construction manager. Construction manager. If you talk to somebody who does work in in bonding and grounding, or or do they do work in uh in uh computer issues, it could stay for common mode. Common mode problems. You know that that's the type of problem that shows up when you don't do your bonding and grounding correctly. Here's another one for you. CO. C O. That could mean central office to a to a to a Mobell guy, but it could also mean to a project manager, change order. Change order. There you go. Confusing. Oh, here's one most people probably know. DAS. DAS. DAS. Now, to a low voltage guy, DAS means distributed antenna system. Right? But to a to a to a IT person, to an IT person, that means direct attached storage. That's a device that that's a hard drive that's attached to the network. Again, same acronym, two different meanings, right? Oh, that's a good one, Justin. CEO, certificate of occupancy. That's so that's three there. Oh, that's good. I'm writing that one down. Certificate of occupancy. So that's that's another good one.

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Poll: Which Acronyms Trip You Up

Same Letters, Different Meanings

MDF, IDF, And Their Renaming

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I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Um lots and lots of stuff there can really confuse the heck out of people. Here's one. I use it for tonight's acronym. ESS. ESS. Now, to Bixie people, what that's gonna mean is electronic security and safety. It's a it's a credential that you can get, right? But to a phone guy, that's extended service set. Again, see how this can be kind of confusing? And why you really don't assume that everybody knows what you're talking about when you're talking about acronyms? Here's another one. FO. FO. That can stand for fiber optic, the TJ. That sounds fiber optic to him. But to a to a project manager, that could be a field order. A field order. You gotta think about these things when you see these acronyms pop up. What is the context behind it? So that way there are it's very easy to get kind of confused. Here's another good one that messes up low voltage people and computer people. FTP. FTP. FTP can stand for FOIL twisted pair cabling. Hey Anthony, it can stand for FOIL twisted pair cabling, which is a shielded cable. Or to a network guy like Ed, that would be file transfer protocol. That's how we used to before before the whole Google Drive, that's how we sent files back and forth to each other if they were too big to email. You had an FTP, you had a client, and you log in and you you would send the files. IC, another good one. Right? It could stand for intermediate cross connect, or it can stand for integrated circuit. Again, Mobell guy, they're gonna think integrated circuit. They're not gonna think about uh intermediate cross connect. Here's another one for you IR. IR. To an A V guy that means infrared, right? Infrared. But to a company that makes cable, that stands for insulation resistance. That's gonna be kind of important. Insulation resistance. Yeah, yeah. Hey, make sure you tell me in the chat box what acronyms do you seem to have problems with? Okay. What acronyms uh so Will says FO can also mean um first out. First out. Hey, hey Will, let me know what that means. I I don't hey I I I consider myself the acronym guy, but I don't know what that means, right? Right? IR can also stand for in for inside rep. Oh yeah, that's right. Well, typically they're inside sales reps, but I can certainly see somebody calling them an inside rep, though. I I agree with you there, what Vinny. Absolutely agree with you there. Uh, what'd I leave off of? Um let me see, I did IR. So now let's go to Mac M A C. Mac, yeah. That can stand to a to a low volcai. That can mean move ads changes. Move ad changes. Okay, that means moving cable around, doing ads, doing changes. But it can also mean media access control. Right? That's that's a that's a computer term, right? That's how they that's how they uh access equipment. Another one, MC. MC, that this one causes problems between us and uh us and uh electricians. If you say MC to an electrician, that means metal clad. That's a type of cable that they pull. Metal clad. But it can also stand for us, main cross connect. All right, so say MC to an electrician, instead of getting a main cross connect, you're gonna get a uh you're gonna get a cable. Here's one for you. OS. OS. This is gonna cause confusion between us and IT people again, right? For example, us, it means optical single mode. Optical single mode. To a computer person, oh OS means operating service. I mean operating system, I'm sorry. Network operating system, OS, operating system. Yeah. PE is another good one. Another good one. It can mean polyethylene, which is the type of jacket for outside play cable, polyethylene. Or it can also mean professional engineer. Professional engineer. You say that to a uh to a uh an a PE, you say it's uh it's polyethylene, you're probably gonna tick somebody off. You probably are, right? Well, there you go. Uh here's one. This is the this is the best one I found. This one actually has four definitions. Four definitions. RFI. RFI. Now most people some people you know think of it as a request for information. That's what it means to a project manager. Request for information. That's a document you send to the customer when their scope of work sucks and you need more information. Request for information. And you do that by use that to make sure that everybody's on the same page, so you're all bidding the exact same thing, right? So request for request for information. It can also mean radio frequency interference. RFI can mean radio frequency interference. Willie, scope of work. Scope of work. Is there another one for it? Is there another one that means SOW? Let me know. Right. Exactly. Scope of work. Excellent. Good job. Good job. So, but also RFI can also stand for request for interest, request for interpretation. So that's four definitions, four definitions from one acronym, one acronym. Now let's talk about the ever-changing acronyms. The ever-changing acronyms. Okay. So um Willie asked about this earlier. So MDF and IDF. The term MDF has changed three times. Three times. At first it meant main distribution frame. Okay. And then they changed that to ER, equipment room. Technically, it's really the main cross connect. The IDF has changed. The IDF independent distribution look, I got a hat. The IDF stands for independent distribution frame. But they changed that to TC, telecom closet, telecom closet, and then not short after that, about a year after that, they changed it to telecom room. And the reason they changed it from TC to TR is because if you go to a if you go to an architect who's drawing the floor plans for you, and you tell them you need a telecom closet, you're literally gonna get a closet. Closet. Yeah. That's why they changed it to telecom room. Thank you, cuz you are blowing up my heart there. 1800. Nice. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. And then they changed it to telecom room. Okay. Um, another one. The TMGB, the telecommunications main grounding bus bar. They changed that one to the primary bonding bus bar. I understand why they changed that one. Because, number one, they wanted the emphasis to be on bonding to a ground, because that's what we do most of the time. We typically bond stuff to a ground. So that's why they changed that acronym. TMGB gives you the things you're talking about grounding. We don't ground stuff in low voltage until uh until you start driving a ground electrode into the ceiling, into the floor. I appreciate that, cuz. Thank you for blowing that up. Uh MDF, yes, just perfect, yes. It could also be called M E R, main equipment room. Main equipment room. Yeah, there you go. Then there's the uh the TBB IBC. I talked about that one earlier. TBB IBC. That stands for the telecommunications bonding backbone interconnecting bonding conductor. The TBB IBC is gonna be on every third floor plus the top floor. It connects two different closets together, so that would equalize out the potential difference between the two telecom rooms, right? Well, they changed it from TBB IBC to GE, grounding equalizer. Grounding equalizer. Okay. Now I like that because you can almost tell what that means. It's somehow equalizing out two different grounding sources. But that wasn't good enough. That wasn't good enough. The the standard people had to go change it again. So now it's called the BBC. The BBC, the backbone bonding conductor. Do not Google BBC. Okay, do not Google it. I'm forewarning you that now. Yes. Yes. And here's a confusion, here's an acronym that a lot of people confuse. MUTOA. M-U-T-O-A. I'm too immature for that one, right? Hey, I get it. I understand 100%. Mutoa, M-U-T-O-A. That's one I get asked all the time. And that stands for multi-user telecommunications outlet assembly. That's a faceplate or a termination box right next to modular furniture where the user can plug in their patch cords and activate phones or computers. Okay, MUTOA. And funny, when people try to trip you up with acronyms, that's usually the one they throw at you. That's usually the one they throw at you. Again, tell me in the chat box, which acronyms are you having? Do you have issues with? Yeah, share and tap. Yeah, absolutely. Share and tap it. Yes, absolutely. Thank you, cuz. I'm doing good. I got 120 people in here right now. I've I think that's the most I've had since before they shut the thing down the first time. Here's one for you. I think this is the longest acronym, the longest acronym I've ever seen. Okay. The acronym is P S E L F E X T. P S E L F E X T. It has eight letters in it. Eight letters in it. It's a testing term. It stands for Power Sum Equal Level Farend Crosstalk. Okay, now most people aren't going to deal with that unless they're doing testing. And the tester's going to troubleshoot that for you. So yeah, we have all kinds of acronyms that mean all different kinds of things. And it causes people a problem all the time. Again, make sure you download that ICT terminology handbook. It's free. Just go to Google, type in uh uh ICT terminology handbook, and it'll find it for you. SLC slumps a bunch of guys coming into the fireworld even after it's explained. SLC. SLC. You got me confused, Willie. What does it mean? I don't do fire alarm, so I'm not sure what SLC means. Service level contract? Maybe? I don't know. Tell me, chat box, what does SLC mean? I'm gonna Google it right now. Okay. Salt Lake City, Utah? No, I'm I'm pretty sure you're not somewhere with that. The whole ERTRT makes me growl. Oh hey, honeycomb, I got the I got your honeycomb thing. I got it. I I need to have a call with you because I want to talk about the correct way to use it. So when I make a video, I don't mess up. So um message me so we I can share you my phone number and we can we can have that talk, okay? Signaling line circuit. See the signaling and then think notification. Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, there's even acronyms in the fire alarm world. Uh there's acronyms in the telecom world, there's acronyms everywhere, and it it confuses the heck out of everybody. It truly does. It truly does. And that's why, you know, just today I was saw a post on no, no, no, it was a video. Somebody made a video on TikTok, and it was a good video, but he said, Oh yeah, I'm running cable from the MDF, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, that's not the right term, but I'm not gonna call you out on it because number one, I don't want to, I don't want to make anybody feel like they they know less just because they messed up one acronym, right? One acronym. And uh, but if I if I think, if I get the feeling from talking to you and knowing you that you're the kind of person who likes to learn, I will take the time and explain an acronym to you. I'll even give you the history on most of the acronyms. But if you're one of them people that I know everything, you can't teach me nothing, you old boomer. Fine, call it whatever you want. I don't care. I don't care. I ain't got time to deal with negative people. I got enough negative people in my life, I don't need to add more to it. Right? PS, power, pool station, or power supply, right? There you go. MPOE, main point of entry versus DMARC versus entrance facility. So here's another one. MPOE and MPOP, main point of presence, right? Right? That there's another one. So that's that's actually a great, great one, Justin. So the main point of entry, that's where the cable from the service provider comes into the building. Okay, that's called the main point of entry. Sometimes that's going to be in the MDF, the main distribution frame. Sometimes it's not. Most of the time it will be at the entrance facility. The entrance facility is a room, well, not always a room, but it's it's always an area where the outside plant cable comes in, the lightning protection is there, the uh the telecom bonding conductor is there, right? And also the primary bonding bus bar. And then that brings the dial tone or the fiber optic cable in, and then they may run a cable from that to the data center. We now call it the equipment room. Some people used to call it the PBX room, private branch exchange. There's another acronym for you, right? So, yeah, a lot of people will really confuse the heck out of things sometimes. They truly, truly will. Some data centers call it the ME room. You might meet the ISP and the data center. Right? And again, I've heard people call main equipment room, main communication telecom closet. That actually brings up a great point, Justin, because a lot of times you will have differences, regional differences, right? We might call it something in in Florida, but you might call it something. I didn't realize how pervasive this was, and still I started traveling to the country teaching classes. Because I would talk to people and they're and I'd I'd say an acronym and they'd go, oh no, that's uh that's this. I'm like, oh, okay, well, that makes sense, but it's not the acronym that we use. So there's also regional differences on top of everything else. On top of everything else. It's kind of funny that that uh that we have those kinds of things, right? Hey, tell me in the chat box, what acronym, what acronym stumps you the most? Go ahead and tell me in the chat box. Let me flip over to the other chat to see if anybody said anything. Nobody said anything over there, right? Uh Justin, I just launched a training program, would love to pick your brain sometime. Justin, just direct message me and I'll coordinate for us to have a call and talk. And uh absolutely, absolutely. If you're training people, I'll I'll give you any kind of help I can uh within the limits of of my tight time frame as it is now because I got a day job, I got the podcast, I got a farm, and my wife and I like to go to uh to travel. So lots of stuff goes on, right? I live in the belly of the acronym. Oh yes you do, Daryl, the RCDD. The military is worse on on acronyms than we are, right? Than we are, right? So there you go. You did my limited training a few years ago. That's my day job. That's my day job. So that's that's how I've met 24,000 people teaching that class. 24,000 people. That's a lot of people. A lot of people, right? Uh so again, tell me the chat box, I'll give you another few minutes. Technically, we're past the 30-minute mark. I'll give you guys a few more minutes. Tell me what acronyms are you having problems with? Okay, what acronyms are you having problems with? Because you know what? I still from time to time, and here's the thing: if you someone uses an acronym and you don't know what it is, don't be afraid to ask. The only stupid question is the question left unasked. So if you don't know what an acronym is, don't be afraid to tell people what that is, right? My students struggle with W-R-B-Y-V. W-R-B-Y-V. I would struggle with that. I don't know what that one is. W-R-B-Y-V. W Oh, white, red, black, yellow, violet. There you go. There you go. Um uh so yeah, we have mnemonic sayings to help people remember those, right? Um uh there's some acceptable ones and some unacceptable ones, right? So you can I've heard the Washington Redskins bring you victory while running you vomit. Winchester Rifles bring you venison, right? There's lots of them out there, lots of them out there. Uh, if you can bring up that one, you gotta bring up the blue, orange, green, brown slate, the the secondary colors, right? Bell operators give bad service. Um browns over Green Bay on Sunday, right? Uh big old Gorilla Breath stinks. Keith says network engineering also has a lot of acronyms. Oh, yes, it does. I wonder if I can can I uh put that on the screen. And it's not letting me put it on the screen for some reason. I am not sure why. I am not sure why, but it's not letting me put it on the screen. Okay, there we go. Alrighty, we're at 633. I typically try to do 30 minutes. Have you studied the R56 manual? Tons of acronyms in there. I'm curious if the TDM uses the same terms. I have not studied the R56 manual. I don't even know what the R56 manual is. Uh look, even though I may know a lot of things, I don't know everything. So, Greg, let me know what is the R56 manual. Is it free? Does it have to do with communications? And where can I get it? Because I'll look at it, and I'm telling you, the TDMM also uses a lot of acronyms, but the TDM, here's the funny thing: the acronym section in the TD MM doesn't have all of the acronyms that they use in the TDM. I have found acronyms in the TDM that's not listed in the acronym section. That's why I always tell people download the ICT terminology handbook. Because that's a book from Bixie, it's free. And I don't I don't think it has all of them. Because I actually, you know, CO it only had those two definitions listed. Somebody said certificate of occupancy. That is another one it can be used for, right? Um, but I don't know. It has a lot of them. I don't know if it has all of them, though. So so there you go. Alrighty, let's go ahead and uh shut down the live so I can go outside, take care of the and until next time, remember knowledge is power.