Isn’t it absolutely glorious fun to run a line like that past a covey of MBA’s and watch ‘em get all buggy-eyed?
I told one that my password was “warlock” once. Must have had some effect, because for the next six months, nobody in his little office clique would even get on the same elevator with me. Cut ‘way down on the snotty rejoinders in Status Meetings, too.
True story. Back in the late 70's I was a design engineer doing computerized industrial motor controllers. We were using the standard NMOS microprocessors of the time (6800, 6502), but we were trying to convert most of the other logic over from TTL to CMOS. We brought up our desire for migrating to "CMOS technology" in a status meeting with upper management.
The next week a memo came out from the managers, speaking highly of "Sea Moss Technology", and causing much merriment in Engineering.
Another true story. Same place, a month later. Another status meeting. Management -- especially the Sales VP -- is all agog about making sure we're using the latest and greatest technology. They mention that they've heard our competition is now using CMOS (they got it right finally) technology and what was Engineering doing to counter this existential threat?
My boss, the Chief Engineer, said that we were already on top of it, and we were going to migrate to "LCF technology". Management was beside themselves with joy, and memos started circulating about "LCF technology".
A few days after this, I go into the Chief's office to chat and he's looking concerned. "What's up?" says I. "It's that damn LCF technology I mentioned. Now they want me to do a presentation on it!" says he. "No worries, boss", says I, "We'll put something together. By the way, what does 'LCF' stand for anyway?"
He gets this evil grin, and says, "Laminated Chicken Fat. I made it up on the spur of the moment in that meeting."
We invented a more suitable "Back-ronym" for "LCF", and did the presentation. No one was ever the wiser.