Lost In Translation

CCIE candidates share a unique vocabulary.  I will occasionally forget that others are not fluent in Nerd.

I was studying today when I received a text message from my wife:

what r u doing?

My reply:

watching a COD

What I meant:

COD (Class On Demand)

What my wife thought I meant:

Cod

Bad Juju

Another Cisco error message to add to my collection of amusing errors.

Seen on a Cisco AS5400XM (VoIP Gateway):

Jul 13 11:38:28.340: %SYS-3-MGDTIMER: Master timer has bad magic, timer