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% | FRANT | Fellows Restlessly Await Next Train |
Angela Brett (Frant is defined in The Meaning of Liff as meaning, 'The legal minimum distance between two trains on the District and Circle line of the London Underground. A frant, which must be not less than 122 chains (or 8 leagues) long, is not connected in any way with the adjective 'frantic' which comes to us by a completely different route (as indeed do the trains).') Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 80% | FREEWARE | Forget Rude Expectations of Expenditure, Wallets Abhor Requests for Extraction |
Angela Brett/Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers Computers |
| 100% | FREEWARE HYPERCARD STACK | First Reason Everything's Easier With Apples: Reduced Effort Has Your Programmers Expecting Reduced Cost, And Readily Developing Something That All Consider 'Killer' |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| 91% | FRENCH KISS | Frantic Romantic Encounter Nightly, Can Herald Kinky Introduction to Steamy Sex |
Angela Brett/Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | FRESH BREAD | Following Recipe's Essential - Some Half-Baked Rolls Even Appear Doughy. |
Angela Brett, who was determined to create an acronym with 'Half-Baked,' in it since that is used as an example in Tony's acronymising tips. Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | FRODE | Fiftyish Residents Of Deck Enlivened |
Angela Brett, referring to the character in 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | FROG IN THROAT | False Ribbits One Gets If Needing The Health Resources Otorhinolaryngologists Assent To |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | FROM BEHIND | Frightened Reaction Obviously Must Be Expected - Hindsight Is Not Directional! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady, when somebody searched for 'from behind' on the Acronyms website. Places:Positions & Directions Places:Positions & Directions |
| 100% | FROSSES | Folks Really Organise Stupid Stuff, Eh Sista? |
Angela Brett (Frosses is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The lecherous looks exchanged between sixteen-year-olds at a party given by someone's parents') Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | FROSSES (2) | Folks Really Organise Such Stupid Events... Seeya! |
Angela Brett (see FROSSES) Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | FRY | Food Ready Yet? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | FTP | Follow That Puppy! |
Angela Brett - FTP actually stands for File Transfer Protocol, but at least two Macintosh FTP clients have dogs in their icons. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 89% | FULL TEXT | Found Under Lexicographic Listings... The Entire Xpansion Treasure-trove. |
Angela Brett, guessing that whoever was searching for 'full text' on the ACRONYMS website was probably after the alphabetical listings at http://acronyms.co.nz/A.html Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 92% | FUNDAMENTALS | First-year Undergraduates Not Dumb, Although Many Evidently Need To Always Learn Slowly |
Angela Brett Education:Slow Teaching Education:Slow Teaching |
| 92% | FUNDRAISING | From Unneeded Nickels to Dollars, Reviving An Invalid's Smile... It's Nice Gesture. |
Angela Brett Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | FUNERAL | Family Uncovers Necropolitan Expenses Reducing All Legacies |
Rico Leffanta and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | FWIW | Following Writing Is Waffle |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | FWIW (2) | Find Whether I'm Wrong |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | FYRD | Forced Youth Recruitment Decreed |
Angela Brett Military Military |
| 100% | FYRDS | For Year-Round Defense Services |
Angela Brett Military Military |
| 50% | G4 (2) | Good 4tune |
Angela Brett, because anyone who has a G4 is fortunate. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | GAB (2) | Garrulous Annoying Blether |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GABBLE | Garbage Articulated, 'Blah Blah...' Lacking Eloquence. |
Angela Brett, not long before checking her email and discovering she'd been beaten to first G acronym by Tony's GAB. Communication:Talking Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GADGET | Got Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 100% | GAM | Green And Mauve |
Angela Brett ('gam' is the collective noun for weasels, and the story which the h2g2 researchers are writing at http://www.h2g2.com/A255007 is plagued with mauve and sometimes green weasels.) Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | GAMBLE | Gain A Million By Losing Empire |
Angela Brett Entertainment Entertainment |
| 100% | GAMBLE (2) | Get Additional Money But Lose Everyone |
Angela Brett Entertainment Entertainment |
| 100% | GANTT | Graph Allocating Necessary Tasks & Timescales |
Angela Brett, after a workmate mistakenly referred to a Gantt chart as a 'GANT'. The Gantt chart is named after Charles Gantt, and is not an acronym. Time Time |
| 100% | GANTT (2) | Generally Always Need Triple Time |
Angela Brett (see GANTT) Time Time |
| 100% | GANTT (3) | Guesstimates Almost Never The Truth |
Angela Brett Time Time |
| 100% | GANTT (5) | Generous Approximations, No Tiny Target |
Angela Brett Time Time |
| 100% | GANTT (6) | Generating Appropriate Notation Takes Time |
Angela Brett Time Time |
| 86% | GARAGE | Guests And Relatives Accommodated (at) Great Expense! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, upon hearing that Dustan Dowsing was living in Angela's sister's garage. Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | GARDEN OF EDEN | Gobbling Apple Revealed Dear Eve's Nakedness... One Figleaf Enhanced Decency Enough? No! |
Angela Brett Places Places Religion Religion |
| 100% | GARFIELD (2) | Gets Around Really Fast If Espying Lasagne Dish |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Names:Pet Names Names:Pet Names |
| 100% | GARRETT | Gaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There |
Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch') Names:First names:Male Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | GASBAG | Groan... Another Speech By Al Gore. |
Angela Brett Politics Politics |
| 80% | GATANISM | Going Against The Attitude of Niceness and Innovation Surrounding Macintosh |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows Computers:Windows |
| 100% | GATANISM (2) | Gleaning Apple's Trade, And Nerdishly Idolising Satanic Master |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows Computers:Windows |
| 89% | GATANISM (3) | Group of Antimac Terrorists, Adore Non-Intuitive Software Maker. |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows Computers:Windows |
| 100% | GATE | Grants Access To Everyone |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | GAUSS | Got Answers Using Simultaneous Solutions |
Angela Brett, thinking of Gaussian elimination, a way of solving simultaneous equations. I didn't feel like acronymising the whole thing! Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GAUSS (2) | Great Arithmetic Used Solving Systems |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GAUSS (3) | Geometry's An Unexpectedly Strange Subject. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GAYS | Genes Alter Your Sexuality? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology Science:Biology People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 100% | GAYS (2) | Gender Aside, You're Sexy! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 100% | GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett Computers Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEK (2) | Greatly Enjoys Enhancing Kernels |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Computers Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 83% | GEEKS | Gain Entry to Every Knowledge Society |
Angela Brett Computers Computers People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | GEEKS (3) | God's Electronic - Every Kilobyte's Sacred |
Angela Brett Computers Computers Religion Religion People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett Computers Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEKY (2) | Generally Everything Elicits Keyboard Yearnings |
Angela Brett Computers Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEKY (3) | Gigabit/ Exabit Ethernet Kindling Yottabytes |
Angela Brett Computers Computers |
| 100% | GEEKY ACRONYMS (2) | Gotos Evil, Everybody Knows. You Always Can Rely On (Names You've Mangled) Subroutines |
Angela Brett, thinking of abbreviated function names. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| 88% | GEMINUS | Gone! (his) Educational Mathematical Inscription. Noticed ÔUncoplanar' Stars. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | GENETIC ALGORITHM | Guesser Employing Nature's Evolutionary 'Tactics' In Creating A Likely Group Of Resolutions. Increase That Heuristic Measurement! |
Angela Brett Science Science Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| 100% | GENETIC ENGINEERING | Godlike Experimenters Now Ensure That It Couldn't Evolve Naturally, Given Its Not Especially Effective Reproduction Inhibiting New Generations. |
Angela Brett, as genetically engineered plants are sometimes made sterile in order to prevent the crops from spreading and/or increase profits for the companies which sell the seeds. This also ensures that the variety could never have evolved naturally, since anything which can't reproduce is a sitting duck (so to speak) for natural selection. Science:Biology Science:Biology |
| 100% | GEOMETRY | Golly, Elementary Orthogonal Matrices Excite These Randy Youths. |
Angela Brett, during a boring first-year algebra lecture. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Science:Mathematics:Geometry Education:Slow Teaching Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | GEOMETRY (2) | Go Euclid! One Man's Elementary Text Remained Years! |
Angela Brett (parts of Euclid's 'Elements' were used as a standard textbook for around 2250 years.) Science:Mathematics:Geometry Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 100% | GEOMETRY (3) | Greek Earth Observers Measured Everything, Trusting Real Yardsticks. |
Angela Brett, since geometry began with people actually measuring land and wasn't at all like the abstract science it is today. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 78% | GERMAIN | Gauss Expected Robust Male... Actually Ingenious Nom-de-plume. |
Angela Brett. (Sophie Germain wrote to Gauss with her mathematical ideas under a male name, because in her time it was expected that... (see GERMAIN (2)) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 88% | GERMAIN (2) | Girls, Especially, Rarely Maintain Avid Interest in Numbers. |
Angela Brett (see GERMAIN) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GET BENT | Get Exercise - Tae Bo Extinguishes Nervous Tension. |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | GET DRUNK | Gulp Ethanol To Dull Responses, Uncountable Neurons Killed. |
Angela Brett Drugs Drugs |
| 100% | GET UP AND GO | Great Energy That Urges People Along... Now Don't Go Overboard! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | GFOUR | Gigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 78% | GHERARD | Got Help (with) Enunciation to Read 'Almagest' - Romanisation Deficient. |
Angela Brett. (Gherard had to learn Arabic since there was no Latin translation of Ptolemy's 'Almagest.') Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GHOST (2) | Grief Has One Seeing Things |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | GHOULS | Give Hundreds Of Undead Life, Symbolically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | GIFT | Given In Friendly Transaction |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | GIFTS OF ACRONYMS | Giving Is For This Season Of Festivity. Acronymists Charter's 'Rule Of Namelessness' - - You Mustn't Speculate! |
? when Angela wondered if the forum poster 'Santa Claus' was THE REAL SANTA CLAUS bringing us GIFTS OF ACRONYMS or A KNOWN ACRONYMIST IN DISGUISE. Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | GIGABYTES | Gosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. |
Angela Brett Computers Computers |
| 100% | GIGGLE | Greatly Inspired Gleeful Guffaw... Laughing Ebulliantly |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | GIRLS DON'T LIKE BOYS, GIRLS LIKE CARS AND MONEY. | Get It Right, Lads! She Doesn't Only Need True Love (I Know Everyone Believes Only Your Soul's Goodness Is Really Likeable) She Likes Incredible Kit, Excess Capital And Racing Spoilers. All Now Demand Men Owe Nothing Except Yabber. |
Angela Brett, who disagrees with this lyric from 'Boys and Girls' by Good Charlotte. People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust Transport Transport Commerce:Money Commerce:Money |
| 89% | GISBORNE | Gatanistic Inhabitant Steve Brings Out Rampant Nerdiness in Everyone |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, thinking about Dustan's gatanist friend Steve who lives in Gisborne. (See EVIL TWIN BROTHER) Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand |
| 100% | GIVE | Gift Is Vicariously Enjoyed |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | GLASS (3) | Get Lacerated As Some Shatters |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | GLASSEL | Good-Looking At Sea Side, Elsewhere Lacklustre. |
Angela Brett ('Glassel' is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday. Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | GLASSES | Good-Looking Angela Sees Smallprint Extra Sharply. |
Angela Brett, who has perfect close-up sight. Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | GLASSES (2) | Geriatrics Lacking Acuity Sometimes Seek Enhanced Sight. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | GLASSES (3) | Good Looking, A Spectacle... Strange Equivocal Synonyms |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay Words & Wordplay Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | GLITCH | Good Lord! Imperfect Timing Causes Havoc! |
Angela Brett, after hearing about how delays in electricity flowing through logic gates can cause glitches in electronic circuits. Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 89% | GLITSCHS | Group/Geeks Leading Information Technology, School of Community Health Sciences |
Angela Brett (see UNITS) Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup |
| 100% | GLOBE TROTTING | Glamourous Life/Lust Of Being Elsewhere, Then Returning Only To Totally Ignore Native Geography. |
Angela Brett, while pondering her globe trotting planned for mid-2004. Sports & Recreation:Travel Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| 100% | GO APPLES (2) | Gone Overboard At Pretending Placidness... Losing Extant Sanity. |
Angela Brett, thinking that 'go apples' could have a similar meaning to 'go bananas'. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| 100% | GOAT | Gnaws On Any Thing! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | GO AWAY | Go On, Ask, We'll Astound You. |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | GO AWAY, NOW! | Get On A Wing, And You'll Navigate Our World. |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | GOD | Great Omniscient Deity |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (4) | Great Omnipresent Deity |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (5) | Goliath's, Or Davids? |
Angela Brett... A lot of people seem to fight each other because they believe in different gods - the Old Testament is littered with stories of God helping the Israelites defeat their enemies. I wonder how bible stories would read if told by the other side. Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (6) | Generous, Or Destructive? |
Angela Brett - some churches (at least Reverend Lovejoy's one on The Simpsons!) lean towards the idea that if we don't do exactly what God says we'll all burn in hell. Others describe a more benevolent God. Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (7) | Gender's Often Debated |
Angela Brett - Most texts refer to God as 'He' although there are jokes about God being female and logically (if logic even applies to gods) God is neither. Religion Religion People & Relationships:Genderalisations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | GOD (8) | Guess One's Desires |
Angela Brett (there are so many arguments and no direct ways of finding out what a god might want us to do.) Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (9) | Gestalt Of Devotees |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (10) | Greets Our Dead |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (11) | Goodness On Demand |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (12) | Giver, Observer, Destroyer. |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD (13) | Generated Our Domain |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD IS GOOD | Generator Of Divine Inspiration Should Get Our Ongoing Devotion |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GOD LOVES YOU VERY MUCH | Great One Doesn't Look On Viciously, Expecting Something You're Obviously Unable. Vices Embraced... Remember Your Most Unsaintly Characteristic -- Humanity! |
Angela Brett (If God loves me very much, He wouldn't send me to HELL whatever petty evil I were involved in... and certainly not for simply being imperfect.) Religion Religion |
| 100% | GODS | Generous Omni Developers Share |
Angela Brett, because the Omni Group (http://omnigroup.com) makes some excellent products for Mac OS X, including frameworks for other Cocoa developers to use. Some might regard the Omni folk as GODS. Computers:Programming:Cocoa Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| 100% | GODS (2) | Greek? One Doesn't Suffice. |
Angela Brett Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses |
| 100% | GODS (3) | Glut Of Different Sorts |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GODS (4) | Glut Of Denominational Schisms |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 86% | GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY! | God Ordered Freedom Of Related Twos Habitating Ark. Noah Decided to Make Use of Lovemaking To Increase Population of Live Young. |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 86% | GOLBAT | Good Old Leech-life Bloodsucking Attack's Tremendous! |
Angela Brett (Golbat is Pokemon #42) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | GOLD (2) | Geniality Of Long Duration |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the gold (50th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | GOLGI | Good Old Lipoproteins Get Instructed |
Angela Brett, after someone told her that a golgi apparatus is a 'structure where proteins go to college.' Science:Biology Science:Biology Education Education |
| 100% | GOLGI (2) | Gulper Of Leftover Garbage, Indeed. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology Science:Biology |
| 78% | GOLIATH | Giant Offed by Little Inferior Aiming for The Head. |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | GONAD | Generates Ova Night And Day |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | GOOD | Greatly Overused, Ordinary Declaration. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | GOOD (2) | Glosses Over One's Depression |
Angela Brett, because most people say, 'good' or something similar when asked how they are, regardless of their true situations. Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | GOOD DAY | Generosity Of Others Definitely Does Affect You |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases Time Time People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | GOOD OR BAD | Get Out Of Doldrums Of Reasonable But Amoral Deeds. |
Angela Brett, in response to an unsuccessful search, because life wouldn't be as interesting if we only did things that were neither good nor bad. People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | GOWN | Graduate's Otherwise Wearing Nothing |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating - there are bound to be pranksters who wear nothing under the gown. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| 100% | GRADUATION | Get Ready Academics... Depart University And Turn Into Overpaid Novices |
Angela Brett Education Education Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | GRAPE IMAC | Gag, Retch... Argh! Purple Equipment Isn't Meal... Actually Computer! |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad |
| 89% | GRAPHITE | G4's Radical, Apparently Pencil-like Hue Is Truly Elegant. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Assorted Adjectives:Colours Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | GRAVE | Grievers Remember A Vanished Embodyment |
Angela Brett Places Places People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | GRAVES | God Requests A Visit, Eternal Souls. |
Angela Brett Places Places People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | GRAVITY BAR | Guinness Room's Awesome View Impresses Tourists, Your Beers Are Ready. |
Angela Brett (The Gravity Bar, at the Guinness brewery in Dublin, has an almost 360 degree view of the city.) Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | GREAT YEAR | Get Ready, Everyone, As Tony's Year Exceeds All Records! |
Angela Brett, on Tony's birthday. Time Time |
| 71% | GREEN | Grass-colour Reminds Environmentalists of Extraordinary Nature. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives:Colours Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | GRIEVOUS | Grave Robber Is Extolling Virtues Of Using Shovel |
Angela Brett (grave robbing is rather a grievous thing to do.) People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | GRIMACE | God, Really I Must Abide Chelsea Everafter! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, complaining about Angela's ideas to include the sounds of her niece Chelsea in this stack. People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 92% | GROSSETESTE | Geometry & Research in Optics & Star Systems. Even The Extremely Small Things Envisionable. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GROUP THAT SAVES SCHOOLS | Gathers Rallying Over Underfunded Public Teaching-Houses, As Teachers' Salaries And Valuable Education Shouldn't Stop 'Cause Honchos Overseeing Our Laws Say. |
Angela Brett, not on any particular group but responding to an unsuccessful search. Politics Politics Education Education |
| 86% | GRUMPY | Gatanists Rendered Useless (your) Macintosh - Poor You! |
Angela Brett, when Tony's Mac was unusable for a long period due to problems with the power supply... obviously part of a Gatanist conspiracy to stop MacGirl and KeyBoard communicating. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 86% | GTHREE | Get The Hottest Range in Electronic Equipment! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | GUFFAW (2) | Gut Undulates From Fun And Wit |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | GUICIDE | Graphical User Interface Crashed... Instant Disaster Ensued! |
Angela Brett, pondering whether deinstalling a GUI (Graphical User Interface) would be committing 'guicide' Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers Computers |
| 100% | GUICIDE (2) | Gnome User Intentionally Caused Its Death, Evidently. |
Angela Brett (Gnome is a Linux GUI) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | GUICIDE AFTERMATH | Great, Unintuitive Incoherent Commands Involved During Everyday Actions. For This, Everything Requires Mindpower - All Too Hard! |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers Computers |
| 100% | GUN SALUTE | Give Umpteen Numbered Shots As Laurels (Usually Toward Elsewhere) |
Angela Brett Military Military |
| 100% | GURU (2) | Geek Using Real Unix |
Angela Brett, when the installers at a Linux installfest were called gurus. Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | GWEN | Good Welsh Effeminate Name |
Angela Brett (Gwendolyn is a Welsh name meaning fair haired) Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | GYARADOS | 'Goldfish' Yields A Rare Atrocious Dragon Of Size |
Angela Brett (Gyarados is Pokemon #130) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | GYMNASTICS | Girls & Young Men Now Attempt Stretches That Impossibly Curve Spine |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | GYROSCOPIC | Get Yours! Rotates Omnidirectionally So Centre Of Positition Is Constant. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | GYROSTABILIZER | God! You're Rolling Over! Stop That! Aircraft Begins Inclining, Luckily Implement Zeroes Endangering Rotation. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | GYVE | Got You! Villain's Entrapped. |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns Assorted Nouns |
| 83% | HABIT | Have A Big Interest in Tobacco? |
Angela Brett Drugs Drugs |
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