Acronyms in Facebook Status Updates

Hello friends, Today I have a short update for you, as I've been fairly busy of late. However, that's not a great excuse for the fact that I haven't updated for a really long time - I just haven't made the time, so to make up for it I will soon post a video of me and my new keyboard (since we're going to JC Superstar next month). Hopefully this one will have fewer than four costume changes, and none of them will involve a mesh shirt.

Anyway, I just saw the following post on Facebook:

As an accountant, I live in a world of acronyms - so I'm usually pretty good at picking out what someone is referring to. But this "DPS" intrigued me . . . in inter-web terms, it usually refers to "Damage-Per-Second", which is one of the three archtypal MMORPG character classes [that you find in games like World of Warcraft and Diablo III]. But this post came courtesy of someone a few years older than myself, who I'd never known (or even suspected) of being a gamer, so I was more than curious to find out what it referred to.

Based on sales, the eleven year wait seems to have been worth it.

This didn't make any sense, so my next thought was to go to Urban Dictionary. The first few entries were expected, but not helpful. The next few were a confusing, and not at all related to what I was looking for.

Finally, things got really explicit, which went from uncomfortable to hilarious in about 3.5 seconds, as I imagined the reaction of the original poster to read the definitions Urban Dictionary came up with.

Enjoy!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dps