Poll: do you know wh at IBM abbreviates?

[ryan]

Just wondering how many of us know this (a lot of the people I talk to, most of them techies mind you, didn't know exactly and figured it out by intelligent guessing). I figured a poll would be fun, it's on the honor system, but it's anonymous so there's nothing to lose for not knowing.

It's International Business Machines by the way.

[hausman]

Not even close

I Became Macintosh
I Beg Mercy
I Believe in Mediocrity
I Blame Microsoft
I Bought Macintosh
I Built Macintosh
Icky Blue Machines
Idiotic Bull Meter
Idiots Become Managers
Idiots' Bewilderment Machines
Idiots Bought Me
Idiots Bumblers and Morons
Idolized By Morons
I'll Buy Macintosh
Illustrative of Bad Marketing
I'm Being Mobbedwithwhatdoesibmstandforanswers
I'm Being Moved
I'm Bloody Mad
Imitation Burrough's Machine
Immense Bins of Money
Immense Bowel Movement
Immense Bucket of Manure
Imperialism By Marketing
Impossible to Become Macintosh
Impractical, But Marketable
In a Befuddled Manner
In Bleakest Mordor
In Business for Money
Incest Breeds Morons
Increasingly Becoming Moot
Incredible Bunch of Muffinheads
Incredible Bundle of Money
Incredibly Barbaric Merchant
Incredibly Big Machine
Incredibly Big Monopoly
Industry's Biggest Mistake
Incredibly Boring Machine
Incredibly Brilliant Marketing
Incredibly Brutal [censored]
Inefficient But Marketable
Inept Bull Meter
Inert Blue Monoliths
Inferior But Marketable
Infernal Bonehead Machines
Infernal Bloody Monopoly
Inherently Bogus Measurements
Insipid Brainless Monster
Insolence Breeds Mediocrity
Installed By Masochists
Installed By Mistake
Institute of Broken Minds
Institute of Black Magic
Integrated Bad Manners
Intelligent Bull Meter
Intensely Boring Machines
Interactive Boot Machines
Internal Bowel Movement
International Ballistic Missiles
International Big Mother
International Big Mouth
International Brotherhood of Magicians
International Buraeucracy Merchants
International Business Machines
International Business Manipulators
Intrepid Bureaucratic Madness
Involuntary Bowel Movement
Iron Brain Masters
Italian Branch of the Mafia
Italian Business Men
It Beats Mattel
It'll Be Messy
It's a Big Machine
It's a Blue Monolith
It's Better Manually
It's Big Money
It's Black Magic
It's Blue Magic
It's Boring Me
It's Broken, Mommy
It's Busted, Man
Itty Bitty Machines
Itty Bitty Manuals
Itty Bitty Minds
Itty Bitty Monopoly
Itty Bitty Morons
I've Been Misled
I've Been Molested
I've Been Moved
I've Been Mugged

[G-Man]

Someone has too much free time. A good one though.

Regards,
G-Man

[hausman]

Someone has too much free time.

Just a couple of minutes with Google.

Can't imagine how life was lived before the Internet

[BillMorrow]

IBM = I'm Bill Morrow

[GoyoNeuff]

Yep. That's too much free time. Although, the last one, Bill...that's imagination!!!
Cheers!

K.