A Page-header Renders Our Novelties, Yet Makes Sense
Angela has not had time to update this website recently, because she is also a mathematician by training, programmer by trade, physicist by association and writer by Sunday midnight. She would like to remind people that anyone who submits an acronym to this website may send a short blurb like this one to go on their page of acronyms.
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| 100% | REACHING YOUR LIMITS | Remember, Even A Champion's Human. Invincibility's Not Given You, Only Use Responsible Low-Impact Machines If Training's Starting. |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation |
| 57% | REAL | Really Entertaining Acronym List (like this one!) |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | REAL TIME ACQUISITION SOFTWARE | Retrieves (Electronically) A Library. The Information Must Enter A Conduit Quickly, Use Ideal-Speed Internet To Integrate Our Nous So Our Fellow Thinkers Will Always Research Efficiently |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | REAL TIME INTEGRATED SOFTWARE | Render Everything As 'Live' Then (If My Ethernet Is Not Too Erratic) Get Reactions As Things Emerge. Don't Sit Otiosely, Forced To Wait As Report's Edited |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | REBECCA | Raises Every Boy's Excitement, C-Cups Advertised |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | RECAP | Repeated Explanation Clarifies A Point. |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | RECENT ACRONYM | Reflects Everyone Constantly Expanding New Terms, All Carefully Recorded Online. 'Ncludes Yours, Maybe! |
Angela Brett, who thought she'd better acronymise the headings of the tour of recently added acronyms at http://acronyms.co.nz/tours/recent/recent1.html since they're in capitals. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | RECRUITING | Remember Employers Can Reject Unskilled Individuals - That Includes New Graduates |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | RECTUM | Regular Egestion Causing Trouble? Use Metamucil! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | RECURSIVE | RECURSIVE Expansion Continually Unfolds Reflecting Successive Interations, Virtually Endless |
Angela Brett (expand the first word in this expansion for hours of fun. Don't forget to eat.) Words & Wordplay |
| 75% | RED | Reminder of Everpresent Danger |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | REDMOND, START YOUR PHOTOCOPIERS | Remember, Everyone, Don't Mention Our Nemesis Directly, Since They're Always Ready To Yell Objections Using Representatives Paid Hundreds Of Thousands. Obvious Clone Of Product Is Expected Relatively Soon. |
Angela Brett, referring to a banner at WWDC unveiled after the announcement of Mac OS X 10.4 code-named TIGER. It's quite clear which company the banner is referring to without it being spelled out. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | REEBOK | Really Expensive, Exceeds Budget Of Kids. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | REHASHED | Rejected Essay He Again Submitted, Having Edited Document. |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| 100% | RELIGION | Reaches Every Life, If God Is Or Not |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | REPORTS | Regular Evaluation Procedure Often Reveals Torporific Staff |
Angela Brett Communication People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | RESERVOIR DOGS | Rampant Excitement, Supposedly. Extremely Rare Violent Occurrences, It's Really Dull - Oh God, Stop! |
Angela Brett, after watching all she could stand of the movie 'Reservoir Dogs.' The video cover pretty much admitted there was no plot, but promised an explosive, break-neck speed spree of violence - that wasn't there either which left the movie somewhat empty. Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | RETARD | Really Exhausting To Attempt Reading Dictionary. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 86% | RETINA | Residing in Eye, This Is Never Amputated! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | RETIRE | Rich Elders Trade-In Relentless Employment |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| 100% | REVELATION (3) | Reads Each Virtual Electronic Life Agent, Translating Into Original Notation |
Gavin Lambert, Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY |
| 88% | REVENGE | Receiving Extreme Violence Entitles Nobody to Genocidal Extermination |
Angela Brett Military:War & Terrorism |
| 90% | REVOLTING | Recharging Electrical Voltage Over Lithium Terminals when Ions Need Generating |
Angela Brett, when Tony suggested that a battery charger could be said to be re-volt-ing. Science:Electronics |
| 100% | REVOLTING (2) | Reproducing Erotica Via Open-Line Talkback Is Not Good! |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | REVOLTING (3) | Retailing Emasculated Vagina On Local Toilets Is Normally Grotesque. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 67% | REWARD | Recognising Employees Who: (pick one) Augment Reputation/Record of Department |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Employee Recognition Program |
| 86% | REWARD (2) | Recognising Employees Who Achieve Respect of Department |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Employee Recognition Program |
| 86% | REWARD (3) | Recognising Employees Who Achieve Relative to Department |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Employee Recognition Program |
| 100% | RICE | Repast Is Consumed Everywhere |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | RICKI LAKE | Revealing Information Concerning Kinky Interludes - Lackadaisical Audience Kept Entertained. |
Angela Brett Entertainment:TV shows:Talk Shows |
| 100% | RICKI LAKE (2) | Rampant Infidelity - Colloquially 'Kickin' It' - Lesbian Adulteresses & Kooks Everywhere. |
Angela Brett Entertainment:TV shows:Talk Shows |
| 90% | RICKI LAKE (3) | Routine Investigations Concerning Kids' Initiators... Lie-detectors And Karyotype Examinations. |
Angela Brett Entertainment:TV shows:Talk Shows |
| 100% | RICO (2) | Rich In Calorific Overindulgence |
Angela Brett Names:You Are What You Eat |
| 100% | RICO LEFFANTA | Readily Invents Copious, Often Lusty Expansions - Frighteningly Fast Acronymising Now Tailing Angela |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 77% | RIEMANN SUM | Rewrite (as) Integral (for) Exact Measurement of Area. New Notation Spawns Unerring Method. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | RIFLE | Right In Firing Line... Eeeek! |
Angela Brett Military:Weapons |
| 86% | RIGHTS | Regardless of Innocence / Guilt, Humane Treatment's Sure. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | RIP-OFF | Really Isn't Percentage Of Fat Free |
Angela Brett (see FAT FREE) Food & Drink |
| 100% | RIPON | Review Is Plagiarism Of Novel |
Angela Brett (Ripon is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, '(Of literary critics.) To include all the best jokes from the book in the review to make it look as if the critic thought of them.' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | RISK MANAGEMENT | Real Investors Should Know Millions Are Not Always Gained... Ensure Money's Entirety's Not Together |
Angela Brett, thinking of 'spreading the risk' Commerce:Money |
| 100% | RISK MANAGEMENT (2) | Remembering I Should Keep My Ample Nuggets Apart - Golden Eggs Maybe Empty Nest Tomorrow. |
Angela Brett, thinking of not putting all of one's golden eggs in one basket. Commerce:Money |
| 100% | ROAD RAGE | Rulers Of Automobiles Don't Remember About General Etiquette |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | ROAD TRIP (2) | Result Of A Desire To Retch In Public? |
Angela Brett, thinking about carsickness Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Transport |
| 100% | ROAST PORK | Rotated On A Spit, The Pig Overtly Ruins Kosher |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | ROBE | Resolution Of Blasted Education |
Angela Brett, just after graduating. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| 100% | ROB RIX (2) | Represents OS By Roman Inscription 'X' |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | ROB RIX (3) | Retains Objects By Rapidly Instructing X |
Angela Brett, since Rob programs for Mac OS X, which involves retaining objects. Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | ROHYPNOL | Rapists Often Have Your Phone Number - Over Later! |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett. (Rohypnol is a tranquiliser which has been linked with date rapes.) Drugs |
| 100% | ROHYPNOL (2) | Randy Old Hack Yields Pharmaceuticals Numbing Obstinate Ladies |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Drugs |
| 100% | ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING | Rolling Over Laughing Loudly, It's Not Good Over Night To Happily Exude Frenzied Laughter On One's Rug, Loud And Uncontrollable Good Humour Irritates Neighbouring Grandma. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Laughter |
| 87% | ROLLING STONES | Romps Of Late-night Loving In Night Gowns, Sexy Tights, Or Naked. Expectations of Sex. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | RON AND JANE | Remember Our Names, All Net Denizens... Joint Acronymic Notoriety Everywhere |
Angela Brett, who doesn't know who Ron and Jane are, but speculates that the Ron and Jane who searched for that on the website were just hoping that someone would see their names on the unsuccessful searches page and expand them, so that they'd be 'famous' by being on a web site. Names |
| 100% | RON'S SECOND WIFE | "Ready Or Not," She Said, "Everyone's Celebrating Our Nuptials. Don't Wallow In First's Extinction." |
Angela Brett, expanding an unsuccessful search, wondering if this mysterious Ron got married again soon after his first wife's funeral. People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | ROTE | Repeat One Thing Exhaustingly |
Angela Brett Education |
| 100% | ROTORUA | Rotten Ova, The Olfactory Receptors Usually Assume |
Angela Brett (Rotorua smells like rotten eggs because of the sulphur in the air due to geothermal activity.) Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand |
| 100% | ROUTERS | Rhymes Outers? Uters? The Easiest Route's Silence. |
Angela Brett, as geeks sometimes argue about the pronunciation of the word router. Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | RSVP | Reply Soon Via Phone/Post |
Angela Brett (RSVP usually stands for Respondez S'il Vous Plait) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Communication |
| 100% | RTFM | Reflects 'Teaching Fishing' Metaphor |
Angela Brett, when there was a discussion on the Cocoa-dev mailing list about whether RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual) responses are productive. Some people argued that it's better to show people where to look to find information rather than just giving the information, and one mentioned the saying, 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | RUBBISH | Repeatedly Uttering 'Blah Blah' Is So Humdrum. |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | RUBY | Relationship Untouched By Years |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the ruby (40th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | RUBY (2) | Resistant Unity Began Yesteryear |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | RUNTIME SYSTEM | Rarely Used, Not That I Mind... Everything's So Yucky & Slow That Engineers Murder! |
Angela Brett, who actually loves things like HyperTalk and Objective-C for their runtime systems. 'Rarely Used, Not That I Mind' was just too good to resist. Slowness is about the only possible criticism of runtime systems, and I don't notice that. (Perhaps Mope would be a better M word, but I don't agree with the expansion anyway.) Computers:Programming |
| 83% | RURAL | Reject Urban Rat-race - Alternative Lifestyle. |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | SADDAM HUSSEIN (3) | Should A Dictator Die At My Hands? United States Soldiers Entertain Idea Now. |
Angela Brett Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | SAFARI (2) | Small And Fast And Relatively Incorrect |
Angela Brett, when Steve said, 'Chimera is small, fast and correct. Safari is smaller, faster and incorrect.' Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 92% | SAFETY PHIRST | Superhero Application Form Ensures That You're Protected by Honest Individuals Respecting Superhero Tradition. |
Angela Brett. This is the sign above Commissioner Steve's door, as he processes the Superhero Application Forms. (See the ADVENTUREs of MacGirl and KEYBOARD, episode #1) MacGirl & KeyBoard |
| 100% | SAILOR | Seasickness Affects Inlanders... Lean Overboard Retching |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations Transport:Drivers |
| 100% | SAINT CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY | Someone At Institution Needed To 'Cleverize' Lettering Of University, Didn't Say The Apronym's Topic... Expansion's Unfortunately Not Interesting. Valid Expansion Regardless... Searcher, I'll Teach You! |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for this phrase on the site, but didn't leave any information on what sort of apronym was wanted. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Education:Schools |
| 100% | SALAMANDER | Sever A Limb, And Miraculously A Near-Duplicate Emerges. Radical! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | SALES GOALS | Shamelessly A Lad Expounds Spurious Gobbledygook On Acme's Latest System |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| 100% | SALT | Staple Additive Lends Taste |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Condiments |
| 100% | SALT (2) | Sprinkle A Little Taste |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Condiments |
| 100% | SALT CAN KILL | Sodium's A Lethal Toxin, Chlorine's Also Noxious, Keep Ingestion Levels Low! |
Angela Brett, recalling that sodium and chlorine are each lethal on their own but combine to form table salt which is mostly harmless. Food & Drink:Condiments |
| 100% | SAND DRAG | Stop And Not Derail Delinquent Railcars... A Godsend! |
Angela Brett (according to http://www.glue-it.com/trains/general-information/glossary/glossary/frames.htm a Sand Drag is a short length of railway track buried in sand, and running from a set of catch points. It is designed to bring runaway vehicles to a halt rather than derailing them.) Transport:Trains |
| 100% | SANDSHREW | Stays Around Near Desert, So He's Rarely Ever Wet |
Angela Brett (Sandshrew is Pokemon #27) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | SANDSLASH | Sand-Attack Never Damages, Simply Lowers Accuracy, Stopping Hits. |
Angela Brett (Sandslash is Pokemon #28) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | SAN FRANCISCO (2) | Saw Alex, Nearly Fainted, Ran Away... Nah, Clearly I'm Saying Complete Offal. |
Angela Brett (I met my internet friend Alex in San Francisco... he's not really that scary.) Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 100% | SAN FRANCISCO (3) | Saw Apple's/ NeXT's Founder Reveal All-New Cocoa Interface Stuff -- Crowd Overjoyed/Overawed |
Angela Brett, who went to San Francisco for WWDC 2004. Computers:Programming Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 100% | SAN FRANCISCO (4) | Seeing Apple News For Real, After No Confirmed Internet Spoilers Came Out |
Angela Brett, who went to San Francisco for WWDC 2004. I usually watch a keynote like that a few hours after it happens, after I've already read the announcements on Apple's website. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 100% | SAN FRANCISCO (5) | Such A Nerd, Found Rambling About Nirvana (Campus In Sunny Cupertino) Online |
Angela Brett (At the WWDC Apple Campus Bash I went online and told my friends where I was.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 100% | SAN FRANCISCO (6) | Several Awesome New Friends, Reports About New Computer Ideas, Software (Confidential Offering!) |
Angela Brett, who went to WWDC 2004 in San Francisco -- Confidential Offering refers to the developer preview of Tiger all attendees got. Places Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Programming |
| 100% | SANTA (5) | Spreading Acronymania Northward To Axis |
Angela Brett (see SANTA) Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | SANTA CLAUS (2) | Stack Allows Names To Accrue Credit - Left Anonymous = Un-Sung. |
Angela Brett, reminding SANTA why it's a good idea to post using your real name. Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | SANTA CLAUS (3) | So... Assuming Now That Angela Can List Acronyms Under 'Santa'? |
Angela Brett (see ACCRUE) Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | SANTA CLAUS (4) | Sleeping As New Toys Arrive, Children Love An Unstinting Stocking |
Angela Brett Names:Famous people Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| 100% | SAPPHIRE | Solid And Predictable Partnership Having Intimate Romantic Embraces |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the sapphire (45th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | SARAH | She's Always Royal At Heart |
Angela Brett (Sarah means 'Princess') Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | SARCASTIC | Sometimes Ambiguous Reverse Comments Aren't Sensed, Triggering Incorrect Conclusion. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Communication |
| 100% | SARCASTIC (2) | Should Always Remain Calm - Anything Said's Tongue-In-Cheek. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Communication |
| 100% | SARS (3) | Stop Agent's Rapid Spread! |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | SARS (4) | Scientists Are Rapidly Strategising |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | SATIRE (2) | Six Awesome Tiles In Rack? Excellent! |
Angela Brett - it's well known amongst Scrabble players that the letters in SATIRE plus almost any other alphabet letter can form at least one seven-letter word. Entertainment:Games |
| 100% | SAUSAGE | Sizzlers Are Usually Scrumptious, Always Good Eating |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | SAVE A SPECIES | Socially Acceptable Value Entrusted, And Some People Elsewhere Can Inhibit Extinction Somehow |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 93% | SAVING NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS | Stopping Another Vexing Installation of National Grocery Network; Education Is Good, However [much] Buying Our Radishes Hurts! Our Overpriced Dairies Should Continue Having Oligopoly, Or Learning Suffers. |
Angela Brett, thinking of schools which might be destroyed to make way for a new supermarket. Education Commerce |
| 100% | SAVING SCHOOLS | Sometimes A Vacation Is Not Good... Small Children Have Outlet Of Learning Stoppered. |
Angela Brett Education |
| 100% | SAW | Split Apart Wood |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs Household Objects |
| 100% | SAW (3) | Seen Around Workshops |
Angela Brett Household Objects |
| 100% | SCANDAL | Sensationalism Creates A National Disaster - Away, Lewinsky! |
Angela Brett Politics |
| 100% | SCANT (2) | Swimming Costumes Approach Nudity Today! |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | SCAPEGOAT (2) | Someone Can't Accept Personal Error, Gutlessly Outsources Aftermath-Tackling |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | SCARFIES - THE MOVIE | 'Shithole' Cottage A Real Find - It's Empty, Students Thought... Hardly Expecting Marijuana Oasis! Very Interesting Ending. |
Angela Brett. (Scarfies is a recently released New Zealand movie... it's great, go see it.) Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | SCENARIO ANALYSIS | Somebody Can Excessively Notate A Really Insignificant Occurrence, Adding Not A Lot You'd Say Is Sensible. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 86% | SCENIC | See Countryside En-route, Nestled Inside Coach |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | SCEPTICAL MAN | Sculley Created Essential Peruser, The Ideal Computer-Aided Learner Multiply Analyses Notions. |
Angela Brett, because in his book, 'Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple,' John Sculley says that the ideal reader is Sceptical Man... and that, 'Sceptical Man does not take ideas on faith; he uses a multiplicity of information to compare and contrast. The computer makes such information available easily and in great quantity.' MacGirl & KeyBoard:(Wannabe) Superheroes |
| 100% | SCHNOZ | Sleeping, Causes Horrible Noise - Onomatopoeically 'Zizz' |
Angela Brett ('schnoz' being slang for nose) Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 88% | SCHWEPPES APPLE | Sweetened, Carbonated H2O With Effervescent Properties. Particularly Enjoyable Smell - Aroma Passes to People Like an Explosion. |
Angela Brett, describing one of her favourite soft drinks... as soon as the bottle is opened, everyone within a 2 metre radius is hit with the delicious smell of it. Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | SCIENTIFIC METHOD | Some Creationists Insist Even Now That Investigating Fossils Is Chicanery/Conspiracy. Ministers Explain The Heresy Of Dinosaurs. |
Angela Brett Science Religion |
| 100% | SCISSORS | Snips Cardboard In Seconds - Slashing Others Requires Sharpening. |
Angela Brett Household Objects |
| 100% | SCOFF | Scornfully Criticise Others For Fun |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | SCONE | Stale Clump Of Non-Edibility |
Angela Brett, when Steve tried to find some food at the UNIVERSITY cafeteria and found that the only vaguely edible thing they had was some stale scones. Food & Drink |
| 100% | SCROTUM | Sac Containing Reproductive Orbs, Tucked Underneath Manhood. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | SCSI CHAIN | Scanner Connection Sans Instructions Can Halt Angela's Imaging Nascency. |
Angela Brett, when she couldn't get her scanner to work, due largely to the fact that it came with no instructions whatsoever regarding the setting up of a SCSI chain. Poor Angela actually had to resort to looking at her Mac's manual, and Mac users don't need manuals! See SCANNER Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | SCUBA | Suffocation Can Usually Be Avoided. |
Angela Brett (SCUBA actually stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | SCUBA (2) | Seawater Can't Usually Be Aspirated |
Angela Brett Re-expansions of existing acronyms Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | SEARCH HELP | Strongly Endorsed... A Reading Can (Hopefully) Help Explain Location Parameters. |
Angela Brett, referring to the Search Help page at http://acronyms.co.nz/searchhelp.html Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | SEARCH WARRANT | Since Everyone Assumes Real Criminal's Here, We Are Raiding Rooms And Not Tidying. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 82% | SECRETARY | Seduces Executives, Can't Resist Enjoying Torrid Affair in Response to Yearning. |
Angela Brett. (Tony responded that they're not all called Monica, you know!) People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | SEEING IS BELIEVING | Such Eye Enthusiasm Is Not Good - It Sometimes Blinds! Evidence Lies In Everything, Visibility Is Not Guaranteed. |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases:Sayings |
| 100% | SEEING IS BELIEVING (2) | Such Eye Enthusiasm Is Not Good - It Sometimes Blinds! Eyes 'Lie' (Illusions Etc.) Vision Is No Guarantee. |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases:Sayings |
| 100% | SEGWAYS | Scooters Employing Gyroscopes Will Assure Your Stability |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | SELF HARM | Somebody Evidently Looking For Hugs - A Real Masochist. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| 100% | SELF REFERENTIAL | Some Entries Lack Fully Relevant Expansions (Found Example? Rethink... Expect Now That It's A Lie.) |
Angela Brett (see if you can work out whether this apronym is self-referential. Don't forget to eat.) Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | SEMEN | Spermfilled Emission Men Ejaculate Naughtily |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 81% | SEND ME AN EMAIL | Sadly, Email is Now Dependent on Myself Expectantly Asking for New Electronic Messages. Alas, I'm Lonely! |
Angela Brett, when it seemed that none of her friends was emailing her. Computers:Internet |
| 100% | SEQUENCE | Some Expect Quite Unremarkable Ending - Numbers Converging Evenly. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | SEQUENCE (2) | Sometimes Especially Queer Unruly Entity Named Chaos Emerges. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | SETI | Spread Ears Toward Infinity |
Angela Brett (SETI usually stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SETI (2) | Some Expect Tiny Irishmen |
Angela Brett, referring to 'little green men' (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SETI (3) | Spacemen Everywhere Tune In |
Angela Brett (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SETI (4) | Sentience: Earthbound? The Investigation |
Angela Brett (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SETI AT HOME | Supercomputers Everywhere Try Isolating Alien Technology's Hallmark - Obfuscated Mathematical Equations? |
Angela Brett Computers Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SETUP | Something Easy To Understand, Please! |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 75% | SEXIST | Slagging Extra X-gene Implies Superiority of Testoserone? |
Angela Brett, after Tony came up with FEMININE People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL | Someone's Hungry, And Knows Exactly Required Aliments. Thickshake, Then Long Edible (And Newly Dead) Reptile On Little Loaf. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 82% | SHAREWARE | Software Having A Requirement of Expenditure Worth Access to Restricted Elements |
Angela Brett/Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| 100% | SHAREWARE (2) | Some Hardworking Authors Rightly Earned Whatever Amount Registration Entails. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | SHAUN | Somebody Has An Unremarkable Name |
Angela Brett Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | SHEEP | Sexually Harassed - Evidently Entertaining People. |
Angela Brett, who saw lots and lots of sheep on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | SHEEP (2) | Stupid, Helpless, Edible. Eat Pasture. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | SHEEP (3) | Shearers Help Extract Everyday Product |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | SHIVER | Surrender Heat In Vibrating Extremities Rapidly |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | SHOES | Socks Have Often Emitted Stink. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | SHOOK | Spatial Harmonies Out Of Kilter |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 93% | SHOP CATEGORIES | Shopkeepers Have Obviously Planned to Call Attention To Each Grouping - Order Related Items Easily, Shoppers! |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| 100% | SHORTS | Summer's Half-Outfit... Remember T-Shirt! |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 86% | SHORTS (2) | Southern Hemisphere's October - Roll-up Trousers Slightly |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
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