RE: BS and OlderwisernowRicky, BS is French for Sans Balogne, the letters are reversed, because like you confusion reigns. Other meanings for BS are as follows:
BS, B.S., Bs or bs is an abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:
- Bachelor of Science degree, also abbreviated BSc
- Bachelor of Surgery
- Bullshi*, phrase
- Bullshi* (game), a card game
- Bullshi*, a TV series starring Penn & Teller
- Backspace and the backspace control character in the C0 control code set
- Back Stage
- BackSmack
- Bahamas (ISO 2-letter country code)
- .bs, ccTLD for the Bahamas
- Baker Street, a street in London
- Balance Sheet
- BASIC or cyBASIC (file extension)
- Barbra Streisand
- Baritone Saxophone, a musical instrument
- Bart Simpson, a character of the animated series; "The Simpsons"
- Basel-Stadt, the Swiss canton
- Ordo Basilianus Ssmi Salvatoris Melkitarum (Arrouhbaniat Albassiliat Almoukhalissiat/Institute of Consecrated Life), a Roman Catholic Monastic Order
- Bassas da India
- BellSouth, a United States incumbent phone company
- Bee sting, the act of being stung by a bee
- Beijing Subway
- Benjamin Sisko, captain of the space station in the TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
- Bruce Springsteen, an American musician
- Bikram Samwat, calendar established by the Indian emperor Vikramaditya
- Bible study (Christian)
- Big Sister family
- Billy Sheehan, a bass player
- BioShock, a first-person shooter created by Irrational Games
- Black Sabbath, a heavy metal band formed in 1969
- Blood Sugar
- Blacksmith, someone whom forges items out of metal
- Bolívar, symbol for the Venzuelan currency
- Bonus Stage, a webtoon
- Bosnian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, bs)
- BotServ (IRC Bot Server)
- Boundary stone
- Boy Scouts, An organization for boys focused on outdoor activities and character building
- Bologna sandwich, a type of sandwich usually filled with bologna and cheese
- Blood sugar in medical shorthand
- Bow string
- Braunschweig, a town in Germany
- Brendan Shanahan, a professional ice hockey player
- Bridgestone, Japanese rubber conglomerate
- Bristol postal sorting office, the United Kingdom post code for the region in western England
- British Shipbuilders
- British Standards
- British subject
- British Sugar, private company
- BS, NHK's satellite broadcaster mark of NHK-BS
- Biuro Szyfrów, the agency that solved the Enigma machine with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II
- BS or BraveSentry, a clone of SpySheriff
- Britney Spears, American singer
- British International Helicopters (BS), the IATA code
- Broadcasting Satellite (Japanese), a sort of Japanese communication satellites.
- Broadcast Satellaview, a satellite modem add-on for Nintendo's Super Famicom system in Japan
- Broad Street
- Bubble sort, a sorting algorithm.
- Bus stop, a place where a bus stops
- Bumper Sticker, a sticker on the back of a vehicle's bumper with a picture or short message written on it
- Business Studies
- Base Transceiver Station or just Base station, a node in a mobile telephony network.
- Bikram Sambat, the Nepali calendar
Ricky, now look up all of these and try and figure out which one best suits the application. It may prove to be FUNDAMENTAL in your education.
I just want to make sure you get it right, especially, short term!
Cheer up Ricky, and make sure you keep that ego in check, it may come back to bite you one day. You notice now, being a careful teacher, I have moved up to words with three letters, vs two! Meanwhile HRG is not doing anything short term that is difficult to comprehend. Its a flying wedgie! With consolidation, as a few short term trader types fade and the stock moves into the long term fundamentalist camp.
Ricky, which of the above definitions fits your BS anyway? Care to guess?
Consolidation