Today’s blog is a recycle from a couple of years ago. Due to unusual time constraints and commitments, genius ideas and fresh blogs will be unavailable for the next two weeks. I hope you enjoy a couple weeks’ worth of oldies but goodies!
HDD
I assumed that each time I use the acronym HDD, you know what I am referring to. HDD stands for “High Desert Doppler.” That got me thinking, how many other acronyms do we use each day and have no clue about what they really mean.
LET’S REVIEW
I realize I am not addressing a group of kindergarteners however, l though we might review for old time sake. An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word. Now that our memories are refreshed (as if you needed it), here is a bit of trivia.
DID YOU KNOW…
WD-40 stands for Water displacement- 40th attempt. That’s how long it took manufacturers to figure out the recipe.
CVS stands for Consumer Value Store.
M&Ms stands for Mars & Murrie’s, the last names of the candy’s founders.
Pam (cooking spray) stands for Product of Arthur Meyerhoff.
YAHOO stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Office Oracle.
TASER stands for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.
Your ZIP code is actually your Zone Improvement Plan.
TIME magazine stands for The International Magazine of Events.
IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, named for the founder’s initials and his hometown.
LASER stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
CANOLA OIL stands for Canada oil, low acid. The is no canola plant; the oil comes from rapeseed.
HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH?
Good, in that case, let’s continue.
GEICO stands for Government Employees Insurance Company.
NABISCO stands for National Biscuit Company.
SPAM (not junk mail but the nasty canned meat) stands for Shoulder of Pork and Ham.
BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works.
3M stands for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
EPCOT center stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
NIKE stands for National Infrastructure for Knowledge Exchange (lifelong learning.)
GOOGLE I GOODLED GOOGLE and found a plethora of various possible meanings. There are way too many to list, so if you remotely care, GOOGLE it.
SOS…doesn’t stand for anything. It was chosen as a sign of distress for its unmistakable Morse code representation-three dots, three dashes, three dots.
IN SUMMARY…
FYI (for your information), JIC (just in case) you have an SOS (emergency), BAE (before anyone else), YSK (you should know) that IANAD (I am not a doctor) but IMHO (in my humble opinion), HDD (High Desert Doppler) is the leader in DMU (diagnostic mobile ultrasound…I made this one up.)
OAN (on another note), I’d like to give credit to Reader’s Digest and HUFFPOST for enlightening me and raising my CQ (coolness quotient) in updated acronyms I was clueless about. OMG (oh my gosh) I can’t believe I didn’t know!
In summary and in normal language, If HDD can help with any of your mobile diagnostic ultrasound needs, call us at 505-350-3397. TY (thank you!)