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When I was at Finningley, in the run up to Christmas if you saw ISS on the flying programme it meant ‘In Sheffield Shopping.’ DOCS was ‘Day Off Christmas Shopping.’ There were others but time and alcohol has dulled the memory. Apologies for the thread drift.
One doesn't even need abbreviations.
The senior science course members at the old Met Office College Shinfield Park were meant to devote an afternoon at a seminar or something in Reading.
Half of them were eventually found in the college library, dutifully reading.
My blame, I was nominally in charge. Herding Ph Ds Astrophysics is like herding cats.