Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Annoying McBadass, F.T.J.S.

I was reading an email at work today and i realized that it is annoying to me when people list letters after their name. I understand the obvious ones, like MD, PE (atleast in my profession its pretty significant), even PhD, but what bothers me is the other ones that in my opinion are not significant enough to add the letters.

For instance masters degrees. I have one. I dont need to put a bunch of letters at the end of my name to tell everyone. Like hey everyone, I am so awesome I went to school for an extra year(or two). I paid extra for this! It doesnt make you better than someone else. Another is a member in a society (this is the one that motivated me to make this post). A society that you pay to join. Oh hey co-worker, i pay money to join this professional club. And not only that, but I am so old and have been in it so long and paid so much money that they bumped my status from associate to member.

Anyways, i am considering editing my email signature and adding the following after my name:

MCE, SM ASCE, M ASHE, SC CSX, EIT

So if we are going to go that far to brag about ourselves but try and act like we are not, we might as well think of some others that people can start adding. Some I thought of:

APA (Amateur Pornographic Actor/Actress)
DIC (Dislikes Ice Cream)
VT (Very Tall)
L2B (Loves Bunsen Burners)
KHE (Keeps Hamsters for Entertainment)
WG (Wears Glasses)
BR (Big on Rules)
AD (Administered a Dagger)
BAMF (depends on context, either from Samuel L Jacksons wallet or Bet Against Matt Frese)

Wouldnt that make my roommate Eric Mack D.I.C.K.H.E.A.D.?

7 comments:

Eric said...

You forgot one, I believe Frese signs his emails like this:

Matt Frese, S.O.T.E.

Mike said...

This reminds me of some of our names for people in college that we didn't know. Like F.U.G.W.T. Here at work we have Wendy, CHB (cold-hearted bizzle) and Bill Guilday, DMW (dead man walking - he's our 80+ year old glassware salesman).

Wendy said...

Wow, Mike, I can't beleive you forgot Jeff, H.R.D. (human rain delay)

Anonymous said...

I ran across your blog, and I think you are hilarious and probably good looking!

Mike said...

Brian, stop making comments on your own blog as "anonymous" posters.

Brian said...

I was just going to tell Wendy to start posting under her real name...

Anonymous said...

I suppose, if I had a Bachelor of Arts degree, I could introduce myself BA MF.