Acronyms are HARD

[eruthros]

Me: Hey, here's a neat apartment. Might be too far up the hill, though.
thingswithwings: Oh, but look at the picture of the cabinets!
Me: Well, and maybe it's worth living too far up the hill for $950 rent, including utilities. And OSP. Whatever OSP is, this apartment INCLUDES it.
thingswithwings, googling: Oregon State Police? Outside Plant Magazine? Office of State Personnel?
Me, looking over her shoulder: oooh, orange smoothie productions! If it comes with free orange smoothies, I'm SOLD.
thingswithwings continues googling; I wikipedia.
Me: omg, Oral Service Provider!
thingswithwings, laughing: No, seriously?
Me: SERIOUSLY!
thingswithwings: Wait, how about Online Sexual Problems?
Me: Or, or, Oblate Sisters of Providence?
thingswithwings: Off street parking.
Me: What?
thingswithwings: It's totally off street parking.
Both: pause. Oh.

For your information, all possible things OSP can stand for, from the freedictionary's acronym page.

Comments

[nextian.livejournal.com]

Or a Polish village fire brigade! In some ways the most helpful.

[eruthros]

Absolutely! My friends would say "man, my fire alarm is always going off when I bake cookies." And I'd be like, "oh mine doesn't, because I have an unusual alarm type -- I have a twelve-person village fire brigade in the basement."

[nextian.livejournal.com]

Then the brigade is all, "Dziękują za *cookies* i sposobność usuwać wasz ogień (pożar)!"

... Maybe I shouldn't have used an automatic translator on that one.