Originally Posted By: Dignan
Originally Posted By: hybrid8
I use "app" for appetizer when I'm at a restaurant. wink I'm not sure if I picked it up when I worked at a restaurant in 1988 or later.

Must be some sort of weird Canadian slang wink

But seriously, I've never heard anyone I've dined with use that abbreviation. I'm not saying nobody says it, I'm just telling you that I've never heard it. Perhaps it's a regional thing, like soda/pop.


No. You mean "Tonic" frown

OK, non-sequitur time. Not really a joke, but close. "Mike" works in a department at my university. A hard science department (think chem, physics, biology) and gets a call from an otherwise brilliant young professor (so many of these are urban legends, but Mike has cred...but feel free to send me UL URL!)

Prof: "I am having this strange problem with application (fil_in_the_blank) on my PC!"

Mike: "Okay, I can use remote desktop to take a look."

Prof: "OK..."

[Mike connects w RDP, Prof watches mouse cursor move around, various menus and dialogs popping up]

Prof: (paraphrased) "Any luck?"

Mike: "I don't know. Still looking."

Prof: "Would it help if I turned the lights off?"
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