All Clever Rephrasings Of Notions, You Might Say.

ABOUT THE STACK

Last updated February 1, 2001 - description slightly modified from the one in ACRONYMS 2.1

The purpose of this FREEWARE HYPERCARD STACK is to provide an introduction to a MIRTHFUL use of ACRONYMS on the INTERNET. Have you ever wished you had a better alternative to LOL? Or thought "Who makes up these WITTICISMs?" Well anybody can, you can! Don't say you're JUST TOO BUSY! and you don't want to READ A MANUAL. You can create an ACRONYM out of ALMOST ANYTHING! You can make them from any old CLICHE, use them to tell people to SHUT UP, state that THAT'S NOT FUNNY, tell a GIRL that she's FEMININE, SMILE a SMUG SMILE or just find FLAWS in the MEMORY of a UNIVERSITY EINSTEIN.

Take a DIRTY MIND, add a CHUCKLE, stir in a QUIP, and a QUANTITY of SNORTING, stick on a DISCLAIMER, and that's THE WAY THINGS ARE!

You can politely tell people to PISS OFF, PUT A SOCK IN IT, BE CIVIL or tell them THAT'S CHILDISH. You can tell people that they're talking BOLLOCKS! And if you're ON A ROLL, you can create a HUMDINGER of a reply to someone who won't TRY ONSCREEN HELP.

So who began this BIZARRE ADVENTURE through the ALPHABET? A CRAZED KIWI and an ABNORMAL IRISH man with a DIRTY MIND, who found themselves making up LAUGHTER ACRONYMS during their EPISTLES to the ANTIPODES - a sequence of combinations started when TONY MCCOY O'GRADY (MAXIOGEE) sent ANGELA BRETT AN EMAIL about his SLEUTHing in some of her SHAREWARE. They decided not to continue DOING NOTHING about their HILARIOUS ACRONYM stash, so they compiled them into this STACK, and in the process created a SUPERHERO called MACGIRL, her SIDEKICK KEYBOARD, and many DASTARDly VILLAINs.

TONY MCCOY O'GRADY is an AGED ALCOHOLIC ASS HOLE who can acronymise ALMOST ANYTHING (SHORT WORDS and the occasional LONG WORD), given TIME, ENCOURAGEMENT, INCENTIVE, and some ASSISTANCE.

ANGELA writes ACRONYMS, short stories, POEMs, FREEWARE and SHAREWARE while she is meant to be STUDYing MATHEMATICS at MASSEY UNIVERSITY. She also has CEREBRAL PALSY. Both these WEIRD ACRONYM WRITERS like APPLE and think that MACINTOSH IS THE BEST! ANGELA had two old POWERBOOKs, one of which was held to RANSOM and replaced with an iBOOK and the DIRTY OLD IRISHMAN has a BONDI BLUE iMAC, a broken NEWTON and a few other MACINTOSHes. We haven't yet collected EVERY ACRONYM UNDER THE SUN, but we'd like to try... think some up yourself and send them to submissions@acronyms.co.nz for inclusion in the next update list for this stack.

Acronyms in this stack have been contributed by many different people. Please, if you wish to tell someone else about an acronym you found in this stack, tell them who contributed that acronym too - don't pass it off as your own. You might also like to tell them about this stack (or the website, if they don't own a Mac) so that they can look at all the other acronyms.

ACRONYMS is also on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Check out http://acronyms.co.nz to view all the acronyms - including new ones, download the latest update lists (which let you import new acronyms into the stack) and new versions of the stack, view the acronymist HALL OF FAME and honours list, subscribe to THE ACRONYM TIMES and more.