PEBCAK

(humour)

(Or "PEBKAC") Tech support shorthand for "Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard".

See also UBD.

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PEBCAK

"Problem exists between chair and keyboard." In other words, the problem is the user. Following are similar "digispeak" acronyms. See digispeak.

EBCAK
Error between chair & keyboard.

PLBCAK
Problem lies between chair & keyboard.

PICNIC
Problem in chair, not in computer.

PEBKAC
Problem exists between keyboard & chair.

EBKAC
Error between keyboard & chair.

PLBKAC
Problem lies between keyboard & chair.

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I can't cook, as you know, Marilla, and--and--I don't mind going to a picnic without puffed sleeves so much, but I'd feel terribly humiliated if I had to go without a basket.

She is going to wear it to the picnic. Oh, I do hope it will be fine next Wednesday.

But for the rest of the week she talked picnic and thought picnic and dreamed picnic.

On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the pulpit.

I don't think I'd ever really believed until then that there was honestly going to be a picnic. I couldn't help fearing I'd only imagined it.

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