OTD (Official TLA Directory)

OLAs - Official Latest Additions

2009-06-10T07:49:00.095+01:00

[This summary post last updated 15.i.12]

The best place to leave your suggestions for new TLAs is in the comments to this post.

OBE (facial hair)
AVB (Chelsea)
EMH (economics, finance)
EBA (Eurozone crisis Nov 2011)
POC (interactive media)
NTC (Libya)
DSK (IMF dodgy geezer)
SCG, MCG (cricket)
WFT, WIT (flexible working)
FBI (female bodies)
KoT (youth)
FPM, CPM (bad language)
WRU, FAW (Welsh sport)
CDA (Francais)
DUI (Mel Gibson)
LOL (Northern Irish politics ...and love)
VBM (property development)
OBR, NHT, IFS (UK politics)
ICO, DPA, DPO (data protection)
2IC (military)
TFP (photography/modelling)
WHL, MoS, RSA (football)
BFD (urban argot)
MBW (friend of Banksy)
ADT (The Beatles)
NIB (journalism/press)
FGM (barbarism)
MNU (District 9)
PBR, IDS, DWP (UK politics)
FAG (Team America)
TLV, EMP, REG, OCR (Dan Brown)
POD (geek speak)
TAS (from the mouth of Jack Nicholson)
ATM (a multifaceted one)
HWC (football again)
FIA + FFF (football & cheating)
CPH (to mark CPH:DOX film festival)
AIC (music)
NCM (relationships)
GDD (video games design)
FLK - courtesy of Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies
HABs - football
SCD (TV)
GSI (Scotland)
TOS (impolite)
RTG + OIC - from The Wire
G4P - stems from Antony Gormley's One & Other
QBM - 80s haircut
PIC - from Role Models movie
TYM - a break-through in Alzheimer's, improves screening from 50% to over 90%

Neologisms

As well as being on the look out for new TLAs, I'm also starting to collect Neologisms (newly coined words and phrases) which I'm dumping here (again, any you can add to the pot would be gratefully received):
sans sausage = female

meatspace = the real/off-line world

merch = merchandise (especially at music gigs)

zenployment = fulfilling work, even if the pay's not as good as you may be used to

Riot Wombles = volunteers who help clear up their neighbourhood after rioting/looting (9.viii.11)

Schadenfreudgasm = more 'joy in destruction' than you can handle - courtesy of John Oliver on Jon Stewart

Gliberal = comfortable people's style of being liberal

Ledge veg = food grown on windowsill or balcony

Slacktivism = online activism with no personal effort or real commitment

Hobby bobby - community support officer (William Boyd, Ordinary Thunderstorms)

Crash for cash - insurance scam involving ramming people's car rear ends

Hackney tax - theft of bike {courtesy of Alfie Dennen}

Floordrobe - where teenagers leave their clothes

Tanorexic - obsessed with having a sun tan

Autocutie - a sexy newsreader

Halfologue - one side of a conversation like when you overhear a mobile phonecall on the train

A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment - as in WTF = What the Fuck?!

Subvertiser - a remixer of advertisements {courtesy of Clifford Singer, creator of MyDavidCameron.com and Big Art Project}

Screenager - the generation addicted to web and games

Miaow Miaow - mephedrone, a legal high (for now at least)

Security theatre - giving the appearance of carrying out proper security checks {courtesy of Roger Graef, Films of Record}

Bromance - the development of a deep friendship between two buddies (came across several times in reviews of Judd Apatow's Funny People)

Frenemy - a so-called friend who is not genuinely on your side

Staycation - a vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer AKA Holistay

Go To player - the player you have to get the ball to for success (Matt Dawson referring to the magnificent BOD [Brian O'Driscoll] (24.vi.09 Radio 4)

Flipping - changing the designation of your primary home for fraudulent purposes

Polypill - cocktail of 5 non-patent drugs to counter heart disease (30/31.3.09 reporting of article in medical journal)

Virtual reality financial products - the labyrinthine 'products' that brought about the Credit Crunch (31.3.09 Rowan Williams on BBC Radio 4)

to preg up - to get pregnant (Jen Topping's friend who loves One Born Every Minute)

Picture credit: FAS at SFU (Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Canada)

A B C D E

2009-06-09T23:04:00.104+01:00

A

ABT = American Ballet Theatre (Michelle Obama's favourite arts organisation - if she had Irish antecedents like her husband she could be MOB)
ACE
= American Cinema Editors
= Arts Council England
ADT = Automatic Double Tracking (a recording technique much used in The Beatles later work, makes instruments and vocals wobble)
AIB = Association for International Broadcasting
AIC = Alice in Chains (band from Seattle) {courtesy of Topfife}
ALW = Adult Learners' Week
AMR = Autonomous Machine Reasoning (artificial intelligence aka AI) {The Fear Index by Robert Harris}
AOE = Age of Extremes (a RiceNPeas film directed by Ishmahil Blagrove)
ASC = American Society of Cinematographers
ASM = Assistant Stage Manager {courtesy of Moblogger OJ and the BBC}
AFK = Away From Keyboard {courtesy of Moblogger Puddlepuff}
AFP = Advertiser Funded Programming
ACL = Anterior Cruciate Ligament (which footballers damage just when they are most needed) {courtesy of Paul Chappel}
ATL = Above the Line (advertising) {courtesy of Simon Hankin, Holler}
ATV
= Automated Transfer Vehicle [launched by the ESA (= European Space Agency) in March 08 bound for the ISS (International Space Station)]
= Appointment to View {courtesy of Hideous Productions}
ADP = Automatic Data Processing
ASD = Autistic Spectrum Disorder {courtesy of Siren's Cry}
AVB = André Villas-Boas, the hapless Chelsea manager
AWS = Amazon Web Services (see 4iP)
APB = All Points Bulletin
APC = Armoured Personnel Carrier {courtesy of a script by Peter Kosminsky}
API
= Compulsory Advance Passenger Information for the Spanish authorities (required if you are flying from the UK, Republic of Ireland, Switzerland or Morocco to Spain) {courtesy of Ryanscrewthemforeverypennyair}
= Application Programming Interface
APP = Assessing Pupil Progress (another educational assessment initiative)
ARP = Air Raid Precautions
AIG - American International Group
AET = After Extra Time (in sad rememberance of Carling Cup Final 1st March 09 in which Spurs lost on penalties AET)
ATA = Added to Agenda {courtesy of PGS}
ATM
= Airtime Management (Channel 4)
= Automatic Teller Machine AKA Hole in the wall (banking)
= Army Training Memorandum {Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms}
= At the moment {courtesy of Alfie}
ATP = Adenosine Triphosphate (in cellular respiration)
AUM = Assets Under Management
AFM = American Film Market
ACR = A Certain Ratio (Factory Records band as seen in 24 Hour Party People)

B

BAS = British Art Show
BBM = Blackberry Messenger
BBQ = barbecue
BDA = Big Dumb Advertisers / Big Dumb Agencies
BDM = Bund Deutscher Madel - League of German Girls - Hitler Youth for the girls
BEE = Brett Easton Ellis, author of LTZ
BEF = British Expeditionary Force (WW2)
BIS = Dept. for Business Innovation & Skills (aka Mandelsonia)
BMI = British Midland International soon to be swallowed by IAG
BNC = Bayonet Nut Connector ("y’know, the locking connectors like what you use to join co-ax together") {courtesy of Mat}
BPB = Brighton Photo Biennial
BFD = Big Fucking Deal
BFF = Best Friend Forever {courtesy of Lisa Devaney}
BOF = Beurre Oeufs Fromage [a blackmarketeer in wartime occupied France - read in Murder in the Marais by Carla Black]
BBC = Bucks Boarding Centre {sticker on the tube today 11.1.08}
BAA
= British Animation Awards {4mations}
= British Airports Authority
= Bibliotheque d'Art et d'Archeologie (Geneva) which includes the CdE = Cabinet des Estampes
= Bachelor of Applied Arts {Simon Mayo & Mark Kermode's film review}
BRB = be right back
BTP = British Transport Police
BTS = Behind The Scenes {courtesy of Morgan Clark}
BOA = British Olympics Association (to mark this first day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics 08/08/08 )
BEA = British European Airways (BBC Radio 4 1968 Day-by-Day)
BGT = Britain's Got Talent
BoE = Bank of England (to mark the credit crunch meltdown)
BBW = big breasted woman
BYO = bring your own bottle
BIP = Brand Information Page (channel4.com jargon)
BOD = Brian O'Driscoll (in commemoration of Ireland-England 6 Nations international at Croke Park at which BOD scored a telling try and drop goal 28th Feb 09, watched at McKevitt's in Carlingford)
BMC = British Motor Corporation (responsible for creating the Mini whose 50th anniversary was this month Aug 09)
BME
= British Music Experience (launched 3.3.09 by Harvey Goldsmith at the old Millennium Dome)
= Black and Minority Ethnic
BPD = Baltimore Police Department (The Wire)
BPG = Broadcasting Press Guild
BFC = Britain's Forgotten Children, forthcoming season on Channel 4 starting 9.v.09 - not to be confused with BFG = Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl) {courtesy of Jodie Morris} or KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken
BRB = be right back
BSG = Broadband Stakeholders' Group (which I helped establish in 2000)
BSD = Bullshit Detector {courtesy of The Clash - and me}
BSL = British Sign Language {courtesy of OAD Alex Horstmann}

C

C4C = Channel 4 Corporation (Digital Britain report)
CAA = Civil Aviation Authority (making a call on the ash cloud 5.10)
CAR = Centre for Appearance Research at UWE (= University of the West of England)
CAS
= the Contemporary Art Society (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
= the Careers Advice Service
CAT = Computed Axial Tomography (scanning/radiographic technology)
CCC
= Cork County Council
= Clapham Community Centre (The London Pigeon Wars, Patrick Neate)
CCE
= Central and Eastern Europe (international TV sales territory)
= Creative & Cultural Education
CDA = Celles des autres - Other people's ciggies in France "Moi je fume des CDA, ce sont les meilleurs" {courtesy of Marcelino Truong}
CDW = Collision Damage Waiver (car hire)
CEG = the Consumer Expert Group
CFP = Common Fisheries Policy - see its madness at FishFight.net
CGT = capital gains tax (commonly avoided through 'flipping' - see Neologisms)
CiL = Cover It Live (software)
CLG = Communities and Local Government
CMF = Canada Media Fund
CMN = Contemporary Music Network {Arts Council = ACE}
CMS = Content Management System
CRR = Contract Rights Renewal (ITV)
CRT = Chemical Response Team {24 season 5}, desperately needed at CTU = Counter-terrorism Unit
CTA = Call to action {courtesy of Adam Preloaded}
CSF = Customer Says Faulty {East Finchley Library - DVDs or CDs}
CSF = Comic Sans FTypingerror / Cerebro-Spinal Fluid {courtesy of Mobloggers Seaneeboy and Hildegard}
CSO = 'a compression method for the ISO image format. It is used to compress dumped PSP (PlayStation Portable) UMD games, and is an alternative to the DAX compression method.' So still no idea what it stands for but that's a good run of TLAs by any standards.
CSR
= Comprehensive Spending Review (to mark the Tory axe-wielding of 20 Oct 2010)
= Corporate Social Responsibility
CSU = Crime Scene Unit {The Killing}
CPF= Close Personal Friend {Mojo - used with irony i.e. celebs/musos you don't really know properly but pretend you do}
CPH = Copenhagen [to mark my visit to CPH:DOX documentary film festival, Nov 09]
CPR = Courtesy Professionalism Respect {NYPD}
CPZ = Controlled Parking Zone, a means for local councils to extort money from their residents and visitors
CDO = Collateralized Debt Obligations [what made Goldman Sachs even richer this year - i.e. dumping them]
COD = Call of Duty (game)
CBT = Cognitive Behaviourial Therapy or Computer-based Training (so if you do an online course you could find yourself doing CBT CBT)
CSF = Cheltenham Science Festival (where we recently filmed Richard Dawkins speaking on Charles Darwin)
CPO = Chief Petty Officer
CPM
= Cost Per Thousand
= Cunts per minute (film/tv curse count) {courtesy of The Word podcast}
CPU = Central Processing Unit
CRT = Cathode Ray Tube (which provided digital storage for The Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, made in Manchester in 1948)
CIM = Come in Mouth
CPD = (Continuing Professional Development) + Compulsive Price Disclosure [as in 'Oh this top, £5 from Primark' or 'these shoes, £20 in the sale'] {courtesy of Technokitten, she's outdone herself}
CDN = Content Delivery Network {courtesy of Mint Digital} + Cultural Diversity Network
CWU = Communication Workers Union (arch-enemy of Royal Mail)
CYA = Cover Your Arse {courtesy of Andy Parker, Channel 4}

D

DAD = Die Another Day (movie)
DEF = Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik - Oskar Schindler's factory in Krakow in which he saved 1,200 people from the Nazis
DCC = Dublin City Council
DHL = DH Lawrence
DLC = Downloadable Content {courtesy of Jen Topping}
DNF = Did Not Finish (running race)
DoD = Department of Defense (US) (Audrey worked for them in 24, season 5)
DOF = Depth of Field {courtesy of Picture This}
DOG = Digital On-screen Graphic [those watermarky things on the corner of on-line video and digital tv channels]
DoS = Denial of Service (attack on web service)
DPS = Double page spread {courtesy of Claire Badhams, Holler}
DTO = Download to Own {courtesy of Gareth RDF} aka EST = Electronic Sell-Through
DIC
= Dubai International Capital [who want to dic about with Liverpool FC]
= Death is Coming [medical term]
= Detective in Charge {Kevin Smith, film director}
DSK = Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ex-boss of IMF = International Monetary Fund
DSS = Dinosaur Space Service [Astrosaurs]
Dgl = Donegal {courtesy of Maura Logue of Ballyshannon}
D2T = Direct to Tribe ["marketingspeak - not 1 to 1, not 1 to many, but 1 to some"] {courtesy of Technokitten}
DCD = Digital Cinema Distribution {courtesy of UK Media Desk}
DRC = "(not so) Democratic Republic of Congo" {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
DSA = Daily Supplementary Allowance
DPA = Data Protection Act
DPO = Data Protection Officer
DFI = Different Fucking Idea (production crew codeword on TV shoots) {courtesy of Sarah Mulvey, Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, Channel 4}
DIY = Don't Involve Yourself (Roy on The Archers 28Nov08 )
DFP = Documentary Film Program (1/09 the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Sundance Film Festival announced a new partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program to take the innovative documentary pitching forum, the Good Pitch, on the road in North America)
DHC = Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (BNW = Brave New World - Aldous Huxley)
DHS = Department of Homeland Security
DUI = Driving Under the Influence e.g. Mel Gibson
DVD = Digital Versatile Disc
DWP = Department of Work and Pensions

E

EAP = Employee Assistance Programme
EBA = European Banking Authority
ELP = East London Printmakers
The E.N.D. = The Energy Never Dies (by Black Eyed Peas) {courtesy of Noah}
EOF = End Of File {courtesy of Mat}
EDM = Early Day Motion
EDP = Education Projects {Pirate, heart of the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of Channel 4 commissioning}
EFM = East Finchley Methodist
EHD = Extravascular Disorder (Philip Kerr, The Second Angel)
EiA = Entrepreneurs in Action (Derek Browne's company)
EMH = The Efficient Market Hypothesis {The Fear Index, Robert Harris}
EMP = Electro-magnetic Pulse {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown}
EAB = Education Advisory Board {courtesy of Channel 4 Education - some lovely peeps involved}
ETB = Embarrassing Teenage Bodies
EPC - Elasto Plastic Concrete {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
ECM = Editions of Contemporary Music + Every Child Matters
ECB = England & Wales Cricket Board (Wales doesn't get its dubya) + European Central Bank
ESO = European Southern Observatory
ECT = Eastern Caribbean Time
EST = Eastern Standard Time
EVF = Electronic Viewfinder
EYA = Emerging Young Artists

F G H I

2009-06-09T23:01:00.058+01:00

F

FAD = Fish Aggregation Device - see Hugh's Fish Fight / www.fishfight.net
FAG = Film Actors Guild (Team America)
FAI = Football Association of Ireland
FAS = Funeral Arbitration Scheme
FAW = Football Association of Wales
FBE = Foundation for the Built Environment - Prince Charles's outfit that opposes architecture like Richard Roger's plans for Chelsea Barracks
FBI = Female Body Inspector (The Other Guys)
FCP = Final Cut Pro
FFF = Fédération Française de Football - the friggin feckin fuckers who cheated the FAI out of their place at the World Cup finals 2010 (Nov 2009)
FFS = for fuck’s sake
FGM = Female genital mutilation
FoI = Freedom of Information
FLO = Family Liaison Officer
FOL = Fuck Our Lives
FOP = Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva - a condition where your body slowly freezes/hardens
FML = Fuck My Life not to be confused with FME = FremantleMedia Enterprises
FMV = Full motion video {courtesy of Alice Taylor}
FDR = Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FEP = Future England Player {courtesy of practicalpsychologist}
FHS = Fairley House School
FLK = Funny Looking Kid (doctors' notes term) {courtesy of Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies}
FPM = Fucks per minute (film/tv curse count) cf CPM {courtesy of The Word podcast}
FRO = fuck right off (as in “I’m going to FRO now” rather than as a term of abuse - courtesy of Cowbite)
FTW = For The Win (geeks, courtesy of Mike Butcher, TechCrunch) + Fuck The World (bikers) + Forever Two Wheels (motorcycle enthusiasts)
FPA = Funeral Planning Authority
FSA = Football Supporters' Assocation + Financial Services Authority

G

G4P = Gormley 4th Plinth {courtesy of Jiblite and the Antony Gormley Flickr Group}
GHS = Gormley HimSelf
GNH = Gross National Happiness
GSM = Global System for Mobile communications {courtesy of Alfie Dennen}
GEH = Gormley Event Horizon {courtesy of Billy Liar}
GCT = Grand Central Terminal {courtesy of Bronx Elf}
GDD = Game Design Document (courtesy of Simon at Littleloud}
GIB = Government Investigation Bureau {Zac Power}
GTA
= Greater Toronto Area {encountered by chance in the Facebook Group 'Single Muslims looking for their Soulmate in the GTA'}
= Grand Theft Auto
GOK = God Only Knows [commonly used on doctors' notes - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
GBS = George Bernard Shaw
GFE = Girl Friend Experience
GBH = Grievous Bodily Harm + Godalming Borough Hall
GLF = Gay Liberation Front
GNR = Guns N' Roses (also GN'R)
GPF = Global Protection Force (Jack Stalwart books by Elizabeth Singer Hunt, current favourite of Enfant Terrible #2 - see GIB)
GPS = global positioning system
GQT = Gardeners' Question Time - an oasis of peace on a Sunday afternoon
GSE = Grapefruit Seeds Extract {courtesy of Denise on Medicine Chest}
GSS = Google Site Search
GSI = Great Scottish Invention (one I've coined at the Edinburgh Festival 2009)
GYO = Grow Your Own (came across thanks to my Landshare project with River Cottage)
GBF = Gay Best Friend ("every girl's gotta have one") {courtesy of Kate Quilton}

H

HABs = Husbands & Boyfriends - male equivalent of WAGs {Nicky Campbell discussing European Women's Soccer Championship on BBC Radio 5}
HMG = His Majesty's Government (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop)
HRD = Human Resource Development {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
HEI = Higher Education Institution
HoF = House of Fraser (as in "I'm nipping out to HOF") {courtesy of Alma Demirdzic & Lizzy Keene}
HLC = Hideous Lady's Cardigan {Nationwide TV ad}
HLF = Hadditon Literary Festival (Stephen Frear's Tamara Drewe - the HLF was shot in Muswell Hill Bookshop)
HMU = Hit Me Up {courtesy of @Tim / Tim Bradshaw via @technokitten}
HFR = Horseferry Road
HFW = High frequency words
HON = Health on the Net {courtesy of MedicineChest Ltd}
HOO = Hazardous Offensive Operations (a status of an army unit) {Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms}
HTH = hope that helps
HWC = Homeless World Cup {courtesy of Jan Bednarz at Buzz Films}

I

IAB = Internet Advertisers Bureau (trade association for internet marketeers)
IAG = International Airlines Group (BA + Iberia) - buying BMI in Nov 2011
IDF
= International Documentary Foundation (Prague)
= Israel Defense Forces
IPG = Independent Publishers Guild {Arts Council = ACE}
ISR = In-Situ Recovery (a method of extracting uranium) {courtesy of Adam James Gee of Uranium One in Australia}
ITB = Invitation to Bid {courtesy of the UN via Practical Psychologist}
ITT = Invitation to Tender {courtesy of Mike Flood Page of Illumina Digital}
ICT = (no, not the dull one but) Inverness Caledonian Thistle (the northerly football team)
IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome {Embarrassing Illnesses online, Maverick TV} - not to be confused with IDS = Iain Duncan Smith
IOC = International Olympics Committee [to mark the Olympics hand-over 24.8.08 ]
ICO = Information Commissioner's Office
IED = Improvised Explosive Device (heard in a recent news report about Afghanistan)
IEP = Individual Education Plan
ICE = US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (The Visitor)
ITT = Initial Teacher Training
IMO
= International Maritime Organisation
= In My Opinion
INM = Independent News & Media (owner of the Independent and IoS = Independent on Sunday)
ISA = Intelligent Speed Adaptation (mooted technology for limiting car speeds, in the news 12.08)
ISB = Incredible String Band {Some People Are Crazy, John Munro}
IRL
= In Real Life {courtesy of Mike Butcher of Techcrunch}
= Indy Racing League
= Ireland
IoM = Isle of Man (George Best Airport, Belfast)
ICC
= International Criminal Court (who yesterday 3.3.09 issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar al Bashir, President of Sudan who then withdrew the licences to operate of various NGOs in a new Waltz with Bashir)
= International Cricket Council
ITF = Indie Training Fund (where I spoke on Multiplatform interactive media yesterday 3.3.09 at the invitation of MFP [Mike Flood Page of Illumina Digital] but unfortunately my taxi arrived at ITF = International Transport Federation, so a real life example of the dangers inherent in TLAs)
IFB = the Irish Film Board aka Bord Scannan na hÉireann
IFS = Institute of Fiscal Studies (who told the 3 main parties in the UK general election that they had not detailed their planned spending cuts sufficiently for voters to make an informed judgment 27.4.10)
IRS = Internal Revenue Service
IOT = In Our Time (with Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4)
IWM = Imperial War Museum

J K L M N

2009-06-09T22:59:00.068+01:00

J

JCB = J.C.Bamford (founder of the world's 3rd largest construction equipment manufacturer)
JCC = Jewish Claims Conference (compensation for Nazi theft)
JIT = Just in Time
JKG = John Kenneth Galbraith
JLC = Justin Lee Collins {courtesy of Top Gear}
JO'C = Joseph O'Connor, Irish writer whose recent novel Ghost Light focuses on JMS
JMS = John Millington Synge, Irish playwright
JPF = Judean People's Front
JSG = the Jewish Socialists’ Group
JTG = Jump the Gun - Mod shop in Brighton

K

KBH = Kenmare Bay Hotel, Kerry
KBS = Kick Bollock & Scramble (technical film production term)
KCL = King's College, London {Kermode and Mayo Film Review}
KoT = Kids of Today {courtesy of David Hepworth of The Word}
KPS = Kosovo Police School {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
KTN = Knowledge Transfer Network {courtesy of TSB courtesy of DTI}
KGB = Komitjet Gosudarstvjennoj Bjezopasnosti / Committee for State Security + Knowledge Generation Bureau (owners of 118 118)

L

LAE = line against enquiry {courtesy of Justine Bower, Channel 4 Press}
LCP
= Liverpool Care Pathway (an approach to caring for the dying)
= London College of Printing (where my mum learned graphic design)
LDM = Life Defining Moment {courtesy of Practical Psychologist from his new book}
LFO = Low-Frequency Oscillator {courtesy of Not from Concentrate}
LGR = London Greek Radio (coming to you live&direct from North Finchley)
LSD = Light Space and Drawers [from Skins, when Chris was learning the ropes as a trainee estate agent]
LBB = London Borough of Barnet
LBD = Little Black Dress
LOL
= laugh out loud
= Loyal Orange Lodge as in this Thought
= lots of love
LOM = Lady Ottoline Morrell (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
LCT = Luxury Car Tuning {courtesy of spam}
LTS = Long Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
LTZ = Less than Zero, a novel by BEE = Brett Easton Ellis
LCC = London Cats Club, a Flickr group I just noticed with one member (go on, help her out)
LCN = London Centre for Nanotechnology, part of UCL
LHC = Large Hadron Collider [8 Sep 08 to mark the start of a grand experiment]
LFB = London Fire Brigade
LFW = London Fashion Week (starts today 21/09/09)
LHR = London Heathrow
LBV = Late Bottled Vintage (port)
LRP = Liquidity Replenishment Points (international finance)
LSA = Laser Sweat Ablation (as featured on Embarrassing Bodies)
LSG = the Left Student Group (A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks)
LSU = La Sainte Union, a school in Parliament Hill, North London, known to local schoolboys as Local Sluts Unit

M

MAH = Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) which is near the MHE = Musee de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie
MBW = Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) as featured in Banksy's film Exit through the Gift Shop {courtesy of Keo Films} payback time for Andy Warhol
MEW = Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona in Scott Pilgrim)
MCG = Melbourne Cricket Ground
MNF = Monday Night Football of the NFL variety
MIA = Missing in Action
MIC = Made in Chelsea
MIP = Meet in person {courtesy of Not from Concentrate}
MMA = Mixed Martial Arts
MNF = Monday Night Football
MNU = Multi-National United (District 9)
MOR = Middle of the Road
MoS = The Mail on Sunday (who damaged England's 2018 World Cup bid for their own greedy ends 5.10)
MPA = Metropolitan Police Authority
MPC = Monetary Policy Committee of the BoE
MPD = The Million Pound Drop (Channel 4 programme)
MPT = Movement Poise Thrill {courtesy of Body Data Space}
MPU = Mid Page Unit [i knew what they were - flat ad spaces within the editorial content of websites - but had never heard what it stood for]
MSC = Marine Stewardship Council
MSM = Mainstream (offline) Media
MTR = Mountaintop Removal {Freedom, Jonathan Franzen}
MDC = Movement for Democratic Change [who probably should be running Zimbabwe at this point]
Milk Development Council
MTS = Medium Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
MAV = Mothers Against Violence as featured in Secret Millionaire (series 3 episode 1 5/8/08 )
MAC = Motorised Ambulance Convoy [Christopher Landon: Ice Cold in Alex]
MJQ = Modern Jazz Quartet (inspired by listening to Joe Locke {courtesy of Tom Marcello})
MHQ = Mission Head Quarters {courtesy of Practical Psychologist, just back from a stint with the UN)
MAP = Membership Action Plan (what Georgia & Ukraine need to get into NATO 12.08 )
MLF = Martha Lane Fox (Channel 4 Non-Exec, fellow member of the C4 EAB = Education Advisory Board)
MPF = Multiplatform Commissioner (Channel 4)
MRC = Medical Research Council {courtesy of Daniel Glaser, Wellcome Trust}
MTP = My Tiny Plot (which I came across while working on Medicine Chest)
MVP = Most Valuable Player - from NBA via CNN (Lebron James is 08-09 MVP)
MVT = Multivariate Testing

N

NAO = National Audit Office 'Helping the nation spend wisely'
NEA = National Endowment for the Arts, not to be confused with DEA
NFC
= National Football Centre {Trevor Brooking}
= Not from Concentrate
= National Football Conference
NFL = National Football League
NHL = National Hockey League
NBA = National Basketball Association
NGC = National Geographic Channel
NHT = Notting Hill Tories (incl. David Cameron, George Osborne, Ed Vaizey)
NIB = News in Brief {courtesy of Vicky Powell, Channel 4 Press Office - used as a verb "he will NIB it in the magazine"}
NMA = New Media Age (mag)
NoW = New of the World (hacks in many senses including the telephonic)
NTC = National Transitional Council (Libya 22.viii.11)
NTK
= No to Knives {courtesy of Royal Armouries}
= Need to Know {courtesy of Dave Green}
NGA = Next Generation Access {Broadband Stakeholders' Group}
NCA = News and Current Affairs {courtesy of Jon Rowlands, Renegade Pictures}
NCR = North Circular Road - see TCR
NLA = New London Architecture - the centre for London's built environment
NQR = Not Quite Right [commonly used on doctors' notes - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
NFI - no fucking idea
NSU - Non-Specific Urethritis (" ’the clap’ to you and me" - courtesy of Practical Psychologist)
NID = Naval Intelligence Division (For Your Eyes Only James Bond exhibition at the Imperial War Museum 1.6.08 )
NCT = National Car Test, the Irish MOT + National Childbirth Trust
NFI - No Fucking Invite {courtesy of Ed Baker at the video dictionary Wordia} ("when you don't get invited to a party/gig - and all your friends have been invited" - 'I've been NFI'd')
NED = Non-Executive Director {courtesy of Martha Lane Fox aka MLF} + unruly layabout youth (Scottish, most likely derived from acronym for 'non-educated delinquent' according to The Septic's Companion)
NCM = Needy Child Man, a difficult type to be in a relationship with {courtesy of Sara Haq, photographer}
NVA = National Vigilance Association (who objected to Jacob Epstein's Maternity) {courtesy of art critic Richard Cork}
NYE = New Year's Eve {courtesy of Alex Proud}

O P Q R

2009-06-09T22:06:00.055+01:00

O

OAE = Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
OBE = One Big Eyebrow {John Cooper Clark referring to Martin Scorsese}
OBR = Office of Budget Responsibility (creation of the new ConDem coalition in its first week 17.v.10)
OCR = Optical Character Recognition {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown} - also the name of a typeface
ODA = Olympic Delivery Authority
ODC = Ordinary Decent Criminal
ODI = One Day International (cricket)
OFA = Office for Access (to higher education)
OIC = Officer in Charge (from The Wire 3)
ORT = Oxford Reading Tree {courtesy of Mr O'Shannessy, Our Lady of Muswell School AKA OLM)
OMG = Oh my god!
OMM = Observer Music Monthly
ONS = Office for National Statistics
OOC = Out Of Character {courtesy of Moblogger Puddlepuff}
OoO = Out of Office
OPA = Obscene Publications Act {courtesy of Mark Kermode}
OPM = Other People's Money
OBL = Osama Bin Laden (the Osama but not an Osama)
OSS = Office of Strategic Services [formerly COI = Central Office of Information, at the time of FDR - Philip Kerr: Hitler's Peace]
ODC = Ordinary Decent Crime (as opposed to terrorism - Radio 4 Today 27/9/08 )
OWA = Outlook Web Access (another bit of Microsoft stuff that doesn't work very well)
OWO = Oral Without Condom
ONS = Office for National Statistics to be found at NSO = National Statistics Online (overseen by UKSA)

P

PAC = Public Accounts Committee
PBR = pre-Budget report
PCB = Pakistan Cricket Board (under fire much of the time for cheating)
PCC = Press Complaints Commission
PEP = Politically exposed person
PFJ = People's Front of Judea (not to be confused with Popular Front of Judea {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
PIC = Partner in Crime (from Role Models)
PIN = Personal Identification Number which gives rise to the tautology 'PIN Number'
PIP = Pretty in Pink (the John Hughes movie)
PKB = Patients Know Best
PND = Penalty Notice for Disorder (on the spot fines for minor offences)
POA = Price on Application (on menu of RSJ restaurant, Coin Street SE1 with Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies 14.10.09)
POC = Proof of Concept
POD = Print on Demand
PPC = Pay per Click [I heard it used by a marketeer this afternoon to mean paid for search on web search engines - when I asked, it took her a good few seconds to remember what the letters actually stood for]
PWD = Public Works Department {courtesy of Empire's Children}
PSP = Public Service Publisher (if you're Ofcom, and something more straightforward that fits in your pocket if you're an everyday mortal)
Personal Support Plan (if you're a teacher)
PST = Please Send Tell (online gaming: send an in-game message) {courtesy of Moblogger Puddlepuff}
PQQ = Pre-qualification Questionnaire {courtesy of Mike Flood Page of Illumina Digital}
PVT = Public Value Test {BBC}
PDI = previous disco injury ["occurs in persons over 40" - courtesy of Maura Logue]
PDA = Public Display of Affection
PDW = Programme Data Warehouse (Channel 4 IS)
PMQs = Prime Minister's Question Time + Peter Mandelson's Question Time
PWL = Percy Wyndham Lewis (exhibition at the NPG [National Portrait Gallery] 7.09 )
PCA = the Professional Cricketers' Association (trade union for the men in white)
PSG = Paris Saint-Germain (in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
PWI = Possession with Intent (to supply) (Richard Price's novel Samaritan)
PHF = Paul Hamlyn Foundation (who I visited recently to explore synergies)
PAD = People’s Alliance for Democracy (Thai "yellow shirt" movement, whose leader was shot yesterday 16.4.09) - not to be confused with Pad Thai = Thai-style fried noodles
PLP = Parliamentary Labour Party
PPC = Prospective Parliamentary Candidate
PPP
= Pakistan People's Party (led by Benazir Bhutto until her death)
= Private Patients Plan, now looks like a double TLA as AXA-PPP but in fact isn't (Despite being written in upper case, "AXA" is not an acronym, but was chosen because its name can be pronounced easily by people who speak any language. The company hired an outside consultant to conduct a computer-aided search for a new name. The selection criteria consisted of a short and snappy name to convey vitality, a name that begins with the letter A so that it would appear near the top of all lists, and something that could be pronounced easily in every language.)
PRM = Persons of Reduced Mobility (the people Ryan Air charge extras to)
PTC = Piece to camera
PYT = Pretty Young Thing (Michael Jackson)

Q

QBM = Quiff bouffant mullet (Nicky Campbell describing his haircut back in the 80s on TOTP vi.09 BBC Radio 5)
QoS = Quantum of Solace or Question of Sport (Simon Mayo & Mark Kermode's film reviews on BBC Radio 5)
QVC - see TSV

R

RAD = Reichsarbeitsdienst / Empire/Reich work service - programme of work and military training for budding young Nazis
RAG = Raise & Give as in 'RAG Week' {courtesy of a student from Barts on the tube iii.10}
RCD = Residual Current Device - cuts off electricity supply when your lawnmower goes over the cable
RED = Retired - Extremely Dangerous
REG = Random Event Generators {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown}
RGS = Royal Geographical Society {Scoop, Evelyn Waugh}
RHH = Reticuloendothelial System (Philip Kerr, The Second Angel)
RIB = rigid inflatable boat (patrolling the Thames 28.4.10 as a counter-terrorist measure)
RIC = Royal Irish Constabulary (Neil Jordan's Michael Collins)
RIM = Research in Motion (makers of the Blackberry)
RSM = Resident Sergeant Major {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
RFP = Request for Proposals {courtesy of Alfred in Prague}
RSA = Regional Screen Agency + Royal Society for the Arts + Ridley Scott Associates + Road Safety Authority + Republic of South Africa [to mark the kick-off of the 2010 Football World Cup 11.vi.10]
RFO = Regularly Funded Organisations {courtesy of the Arts Council via Mike Smith of Carbon Media}
RLF = The Royal Literary Fund (benefited from the estate of Rupert Brooke)
RMU = Retail Merchandising Unit {Make Your Mark in the Mall}
RMC = Ready Mix Concrete {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
RAF = Rapid Action Force (the men in blue protecting the India vs England cricket test match 12.08)
RPG = Rocket-propelled Grenade {courtesy of the outstanding Waltz with Bashir} + Role-Playing Game {courtesy of Simon Meek of Tern TV}
RBS - Royal Bank of Scotland AKA Right British Swindle/Scandal
ROG - Ronan O’Gara {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
ROA = Rave on Air (annual event at Ravensbourne College on whose Broadcast Advisory Board I sit)
ROD = Recipe of the Day {courtesy of Zone and 4Food}
ROM
= Royal Ontario Museum
= Read-only Memory
RPS = Rock Paper Scissors - check out my new game
RTG = Rubber-tired gantry (from The Wire season 2 - a port term)
RVG = Rudy Van Gelder (one of the greatest sound engineers in jazz, at Blue Note records)
RWF = real-world friends {courtesy of Paul Carr}

S T

2009-06-09T22:05:00.058+01:00

S

SAM = Sound & Music {Arts Council = ACE}
SAS = Scandinavian Airlines System or Sparse Airline Service [newly coined after my flights to and from Copenhagen 10/09]
SAT = Schedule All Times – related to advice on when to schedule broadcast trails {courtesy of Channel 4 Compliance}
SBM = Secure By Mastercard
SCD = Strictly Come Dancing
SCG = Sydney Cricket Ground (where the 2010-11 Ashes in Oz victory was secured 5.i.11)
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
SFA = Scottish Football Association (fighting an uphill struggle)
SFC = Southern Fried Chicken
SFW = Safe For Work i.e no nudity or stuff that might get you in trouble {courtesy of sometimes NSFW Zoe Margolis}
SWA = Site Wide Applications, after first 4 years of development became WCL {courtesy Channel 4 New Media}
SWF = Screenwriters' Festival (sponsored by 4Talent)
SNF = Sunday Night Football of the NFL variety
SNL = Saturday Night Live
SNS = Social Network Service/Site {courtesy of Matt Locke}
SPV = Special Purpose Vehicle - meaning a not-for-profit organisation {courtesy of Caroline Norbury of South-West Screen} + Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle {Captain Scarlet}
SoS = Secretary of State
SPA = Snooker Players' Association
SPG = Special Patrol Group (who killed Blair Peach it was confirmed on 27.4.10 after 30 years' cover-up)
SPT = Sony Pictures Television
SIO = Senior Investigating Officer (UK police)
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service (UK WW2)
SIV = Special Investment Vehicle {mentioned on Radio 4 by Niall Ferguson, Harvard Professor of History and presenter of the Channel 4 series Empire} + Simian Immunodeficiency Virus {courtesy of Chris & Xand van Tulleken, the Medicine Men}
SSO = Single Sign On {BBC - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SSI = Single Sign In {Channel 4 - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SPD = Space Patrol Delta {courtesy of Finlay Gee, age 5}
SLA
= Software License Agreement {Apple Software Update}
= Service Level Agreement
SLT
= Science Lecture Theatre {unearthed by renowned archaeologist Nick Golson}
= Speech & Language Therapy {courtesy of Fairley House School}
SDM = Sustainable Defence Mechanism {courtesy of Practical Psychologist from UNFCCC, the UN Climate Change agency}
SID = Sound Inner Dialogue {courtesy of Practical Psychologist and his Assertiveness training know-how} + Seismic Intruder Device {courtesy of Sebasian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming in Devil May Care aka DMC}
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service aka MI6
SOE = Special Operations Executive {courtesy of Les Femmes de l'Ombre/Female Agents} + Society of Operations Engineers [professional engineering membership organisation promoting career development in road transport, plant engineering or engineer surveying, and light on gorgeous French actresses]
STB = Set-top Box
STS = Short Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
SFT = Students for a Free Tibet (who unfurled banners near the Olympic stadium in Beijing today 6.8.08 )
SRE = Sex and Relationship Education
SJP = Sarah Jessica Parker, creator of the scent SJP NYC
SFO = Serious Fraud Office (which today decided not to investigate TV phone-in scandals at the BBC and ITV)
SRE = Sex and Relationships Education (much in the news in the wake of Sexperience X.09 )
SOW = Scheme of Work
SHH = Special Half Hour (Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio 5, refers to 12.30-01.00)
SOP = Standard Operating Procedure (Billy Boyle by James Benn)
SDP = Social, Domestic and Pleasure only (car insurance jargon) + Social Democratic Party + Society of Decorative Painters + Session Description Protocol
SOB = Son of a Bitch
STV = Single Transferable Vote - the form of Proportional Representation favoured by the Lib-Dems (this entry is to mark the Lib-Dems entering the UK Cabinet on 11.V.10)

T

TAS = Toxic Anger Syndrome {Anger Management with Jack Nicholson}
TCR = Tottenham Court Road - see NCR
TCS = The Casting Suite
TBH = To Be Honest {Tom Loosemore of 4iP}
TCD = Trinity College, Dublin
TCM = Traditional Chinese Medicine (a shop in Muswell Hill)
TDC = Thinly Disguised Contempt {courtesy of Technokitten}
TFP = Time For Prints / Time For Portfolio / Trade For Prints / Trade For Portfolio {courtesy of Not From Concentrate}
TFP aka TOFP = that (other) fucking project {courtesy Mark Sheldon}
TGA = Tate Gallery Archive (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
TMF = The Media Festival
TML = Trans Manche Link {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TLC
= (no, not what you think) Taxi and Limousine Commission {New York City}
= Touch Look Check (Breast cancer awareness)
TLV = Total Liquid Ventilation {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown} (breathable liquid or Get Out of Jail plot card)
TSB = Technology Strategy Board {offspring of another TLA, the DTI, which is now an FLA}
TLD = Top Level Domain
TLR = Two-legged Rat [commonly used on doctors' notes to indicate experimental/extreme treatment - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
TNA = Total Non-stop Action
TNC = Transitional National Council, a variant of National Transitional Council still used on the BBC, for example, in the first days after the liberation of Tripoli (Libya 22.viii.11)
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers & Gals {Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2}
TSE = Testicular Self-examination (thanks for the leaflet Una, TS Eliot must be turning in his grave)
TSG = Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (EU food designation - formerly CSE)
TBH = To be honest {courtesy of Cowbite - "less pompous than imho" ihho}
TPT = Tara Palmer-Tomkinson [how many people are TLAs?]
TBL = Tim Berners Lee {courtesy of Stuart Cosgrove}
TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury {courtesy of Gary Trudeau as he addresses the issue of Iraq}
TLA = Three Letter Acronym + Teacher Learning Academy + Thomas Lord Audley school, Essex
TNA = The National Archive {courtesy of October Films & Illumina Digital}
TSV = Today's Special Value as seen on QVC {courtesy of LJ Rich via Technokitten}
TBS = Talk Between Ships {Philip Kerr: Hitler's Peace}
TMI = Too Much Information
TAC = The Archaeology Channel
TST = Traveller Support Team {courtesy of Siren's Cry}
THR = The Hollywood Reporter {courtesy of THR spam}
TLR = The Learning Revolution {courtesy of WEA}
TMO - Test Match Official {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TCG = Tir Chonaill Gaels (GAA Gaelic football club in London)
TYM = Test Your Memory (new Altzheimer's screening test from Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge - 6/09)
TOD = Time of Death {The Killing}
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers/Gits (Terry Wogan show on Radio 2)
TOS = Tide of Shit {courtesy of Lloyd Shepherd and RDH = Richard Davidson-Houston}
TOV = Tone of voice {courtesy of Airlock}
TRG = The Transliteracy Research Group {courtesy of Sue Thomas}
TSE = Thomas Stearns Eliot

U V W X Y Z

2009-06-09T22:02:00.040+01:00

U

UAF = Unite Against Fascism, sworn enemies of EDF = English Defence League and BNP
UBI = Unexplained Beer Injury [commonly used on doctors' notes - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
UAW = United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (from Julien Temple's Requiem to Detroit)
UBT = Unique Buying Tribe (from Zag by Marty Neumeier)
UCH = University College Hospital (where the Enfants Terribles were born) - so a potential life journey: UCH to UCS to UCL
UCL = University College London (home of the Slade)
UCS = University College School
UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship - see MMA
UKA = UK Athletics
ULR = Union Learning Rep
UNV = United Nations Volunteers {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
UOR = Urgent Operational Requirement = MOD's accelerated procurement process (much criticised by the PAC = Public Accounts Committee)
URL = Uniform Resource Locator [not a directory of army tailors but the most oft used TLA of which no-one cares about the long form]
USC = University of Spoiled Children (aka University of Southern California) {Less than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis}
UTC
= Co-ordinated Universal Time - a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) and I think it's the same as GMT, indeed looks to me like a dastardly Francophone plot to oust dear old Greenwhich {courtesy of Atto}
= The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
UUC = University of Ulster at Coleraine {courtesy of alumnus Practical Psychologist}

V

VBM = Vision Balls Money {the keys to successful property development according to Ian Lerner, redeveloper of the Black Cat Building, Mornington Crescent}
VBV = Verified By Visa
VLV = Voice of the Listener & Viewer
VFM = Value for Money {courtesy of Paul Deane at Aardman}
VMAs = MTV Video Music Awards
VoA = Voice of America {courtesy of Mike Stewart}
VOC = voice of the customer
VPN = Virtual Private Network

VPS = Violent Passion Surrogate (from Brave New World, Aldous Huxley: "We flood the whole system with adrenalin. It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences."

VPT = Very Personal Trainer {Gym Box, location for Body Shop (w/t)}
VTT = Velo Tout Terrain, mountain bike [learnt in Ondres, Les Landes]

W

WAGS = Wives & Girlfriends (football - see HABs above)
WBA = West Bromwich Albion FC
WCL = Web Component Library {courtesy Channel 4 New Media}
WHL = White Hart Lane, home of Spurs
WFK = Who fucking knows? {courtesy of Louby - "I made it up just for you."}
WEA = Workers' Educational Association
WFM = Whole Food market
WFH = Working from home {courtesy of Mark Sheldon}
WFT = Working from Toilet (courtesy of Sarah Rogers)
WIP = Working in Pants / Working in Pyjamas
WIP = Work in Progress {courtesy of Charlie Martin of Airlock}
WPP = Witness Protection Program (spotted in The Bloomsday Dead, Adrian McKinty)
WRL = Work-related Learning {Skillset}
WRU = Welsh Rugby Union
WTC = World Trade Centre {as in Man on Wire}
WTF = What the fuck! or WFH = Working from Home {courtesy of Louby}
WTG = Way to go! {courtesy of Dhamaka}
WTS = Want To Sell {courtesy of Moblogger Puddlepuff}
WTB = Want To Buy
WTT = Want To Trade
WtW = Wall to Wall (TV production co.) {courtesy of Claire Hungate, Shed}
WWE = World Wrestling Entertainment
WWF = Words with Friends

X

XRF = X-ray florescence {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}

Y

YBA = Young British Artist(s) like Marc Quinn
YIF = yours in friendship "and is used to sign off emails in groups like Ladies Circle and Girlguiding UK" {courtesy of Technokitten}
YMO = Yellow Magic Orchestra {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
YoY = Year on year
YSL = Yves Saint Laurent

Z

ZPL = Zero-error Probabilistic Logarithmic space {courtesy of Mat} (not too useful in my world but I think with Z it's probably a case of beggars can't be choosers)
ZSL = Zoological Society of London (of which Darwin was an early Fellow - to mark a great visit to the Zoo today 5.i.10)
ZTT = Zang Tumb Tuum {courtesy of Technokitten}

2IC = Second in Command {Apthorpe in Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arm}