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Posted by azerthoth on · 12 comments
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Well, the odds were good, but I know I never actually thought about it. Most people would recognize LAX as the three letter airport identifier for Los Angeles International or CHI for Chicago. So what is one of our (computer geek) favorite TLA (three letter anacronym), why GNU of course. In this case, as an airport identifier GNU is Goodnews Bay, Alaska.

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Comments (12)

happyfeet ·
There is ORD for O'Hare and MDW for Midway...no CHI...(spoken as a former resident of Illinois).
Bob_Robertson ·
...Because O'Hare was built on the site of an orchard. Orchard => ORD.
gus3 ·
CHI has two radio designations, both Chillicothe:

WCHI is in Chillicothe, Ohio.

KCHI is in Chillicothe, Missouri.
azerthoth Story submitter ·
oops, my bad

I'll fix it now.
happyfeet ·
az - to use one of my favorite TLAs - NBD (no big deal)
azerthoth Story submitter ·
The bad part is, I should have known better. Anyway, I hope everyone found atleast a little humor in that you can go to GNU.
jezuch ·
Um, so where's WTF?
azerthoth Story submitter ·
There is no WTF sadly. You can look through the following for any other good abbreviations.

http://www.airportguide.com/
NoDough ·
WTH? FWIW, AFAIC TLAs and ETLAs are NBD.

IITYWIMWYBMAD
jdixon ·
> OMGWTFBBQ

BBQ? Did someone say BBQ. Where? I'll tell a former editor. We can all bring cameras!

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