Acronyms Perfected! Relations Organic/Obvious! Now Your Memory Scintillates!
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% | HILTON (2) | Hospitality Is Like That Of Nobility |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 77% | HIPPARCHUS | Higher Intelligence (than) Ptolemy? Precession Angle Reckoning Closer to Hypothesis of Undisputed Scientists. |
Angela Brett. (Hipparchus's value for the precession of the equinoxes was much more accurate than the value which Ptolemy obtained 300 years later.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HIPPASUS | He Incensed Pythagoreans, Perhaps After Showing Unholy Sizes |
Angela Brett (Hippasus was expelled from the Pythagoreans, possibly because of disclosing the existence of incommensurable magnitudes) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 88% | HIPPIAS | Hatched In Peloponnese, Practised Instruction in All States. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 88% | HIPPIAS (2) | He Instructed Poorly... Payment Isn't Acquired in Sparta. |
Angela Brett (Hippias was not paid for his lectures in Sparta because Spartans weren't very interested in mathematics.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 95% | HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS | His Inter-Personal Proficiency's Often Considered Rusty... Although The Exceptional Squaring Of Fragments (of) Circles Held Importance, Observed Scholars. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HIRE (2) | Having Implement Requires Expenditure |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| 100% | HITCH | Hitched? Is The Ceremony Hindered? |
Angela Brett, since many people 'get hitched' without a hitch. People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HITCHHIKER | Hop In The Car... Heading Home? I Know Expedient Route. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | HITMONCHAN | He Is The Master Of Nasty Chopping, Hands Are Nimble. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonchan is Pokemon #107) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | HITMONLEE | He Is The Master Of Nasty Legwork... Extremely Effective. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonlee is Pokemon #106) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | HOBBY | Hopefully Outcome's Big Bucks, Yes? |
Angela Brett, when Mike from acronymfinder.com mentioned that his hobby now earns him money in advertising and licensing. Commerce |
| 100% | HOBO | Homeless Or Broke One |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | HOLLAND | Hordes Of Low-Landers All Need Dykes |
Angela Brett Places:States & Regions |
| 100% | HOME | House Or Mansion, Essentially. |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND | Here Our Mothers Endured Labour - A Nation Divine |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND (2) | Heart Of My Existence Lies Amid Native Dominion |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND (3) | Here Originated My Ethnicity, Language, And Negative Discrimination |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | HOMER | Holding Onto Marge - Extreme Reliance |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | HOMICIDE | Horror Of Murder Is Captured In Deceased's Expression |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | HOMOGRAPHY | Helpful Orthographic Method - One Graphical Representation And Phoneme Homogeneously Yoked |
Angela Brett, who doesn't think Homogeneously is the best word for it. Science:Linguistics Communication |
| 100% | HOMOSEXUALS | Hump Other Men Only, So Eschewing XX. Unusual, Although (Lately) Sanctioned. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| 92% | HOMOSEXUALS (2) | Heterosexual-Otherwise Men Often Supposedly Experience X-rated Urges Around Lesbian Sex |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| 100% | HONEY | Harvest Of Nectar - Extremely Yummy |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | HONEYMOON | Hours Of Nighttime Experimenting - You Might Orgasm... Or Not. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HOOD | Here's Owner Of Degree |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| 100% | HORSE | Humans Often Race Speedy Equines. |
Angela Brett. (Tony replied 'I've never raced a horse in my life! I'm (just about) smart enough to know it would win ;-)') Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | HORSE (2) | Here's One! Relentlessly Sheep Elsewhere. |
Angela Brett, who saw a lot of sheep but very few horses on her way from Auckland to Palmerston North. Science:Biology:Animals |
| 92% | HORSE AND CART | Having Obedient Reliable Slaves, Each Affluent Nobleman Drove a Carriage. Archaic Road Transport. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | HOSPITAL | House Of Sick Patients Itching Their Amputated Limbs |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOSPITAL (2) | Hearses Offer Some Patients Into The After-Life |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOSTEL | How One Shuns The Expensive Lodges |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOT | Heightening Of Thermoactivity |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Science:Physics |
| 100% | HOT BOX | Help/Halt! Our Train's Becoming Overly Xerantic! |
Angela Brett (According to the glossary on http://trackbed.com, hot box refers to excessive heating of a plain bearing axlebox due often to a loss of adequate lubrication and which required the locomotive to be stopped before severe damage and possible derailment occurred.) Transport:Trains |
| 100% | HOT CHIPS | Hot Oil Tastily Cooks Highly Irresistible Potato Sticks |
Angela Brett, while waiting for hot chips to be cooked at the UNIVERSITY cafeteria. Food & Drink |
| 100% | HOT-CROSS BUNS | How Oddly They Celebrate Religious Occasion... 'Sweet & Savioury' Bread Undoes Numerous Sins. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 100% | HOT-CROSS BUNS (2) | Holy On-Top Crucifix... Remember Our Saviour Suffered Brutality Undoing Numerous Sins |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 100% | HOTEL | House Of Travellers - Expensive Lodgings! |
Angela Brett/Dustan Dowsing, while listening to an mp3 of 'Hotel California' by The Eagles. Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOUSE | Home Of Usual Suburban Entities |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOWARD | How Other-Wordly... A Rationalising Duck. |
Angela Brett, referring to the film 'Howard The Duck'. I'm after a better word than Rationalising... something meaning 'humanoid', 'anthropomorphised', 'beer-drinking', 'blokey' or one of the other traits Howard possessed which are otherwise exclusive to humans. Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | HTTP (2) | How They Transfer Pages |
Angela Brett, inspired by HTML. HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | HTTP://ACRONYMS.CO.NZ | Have The Time, Phone, And Computer? Read Our Newest Yabberings - Mostly-Sane Creations Of Novel Zeitvertreib |
Angela Brett, referring to the ACRONYMS web site of course. Computers:Internet:URLs |
| 100% | HTTP://UN.CO.NZ/ANGELA | Have Time To Peruse? Using Netscape, Come Over 'N' Zip Around. Newly Generated Eloquence Lies Ahead. |
Angela Brett, acronymising her website (since moved to http://macintosh.geek.nz) This includes the ACRONYMS site which is updated with new acronyms every week. Computers:Internet:URLs |
| 100% | HUH | Hardly Understood Her |
Angela Brett Main |
| 80% | HULK | Has Unnaturally Laid-out Karyotype |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | HUNGRILY | He Uncovers Nude Genitals, Revealing Intense Lustful Yearnings |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | HURRY! | High Urgency... Result Required Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | HURTS TO BE A CARRIER | However Unafflicted, Relaying This Sickness To Others Becomes Equally A Curse... Always Remembering Risk, I'm Etiologic Recluse. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | HUSBAND | He Usually Sleeps Beside A Nuptial Darling. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HYATT | Here, You Are The Top |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HYDROCARBONS | Have You Done Rudimentary Organic Chemistry? Alkynes' Redundant Bonds Offer No Saturation. |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry |
| 89% | HYDROGEN | Helpfully Yields Deuterium, Rarely. Often Gaseous, Extensive in Nature. |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | HYMEN (2) | Hasn't Young Maiden Experienced Nymphomania? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HYPERCARD | Highly Yoozerfriendly Programming Environment Requiring Clean And Rapid Development |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications |
| 100% | HYPERTALK | Have You Programmed Especially Rapidly? Try Another Language, 'Kay? |
Angela Brett. (The 'Kay is short for Okay and also a reference to my C programming lecturer whose last name is Kay.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Programming |
| 90% | HYPSICLES | Had Your Polyhedra Spherically Inscribed... Contributed Lots to Euclid's Studies. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HYSTERIA (2) | Have You Stopped To Engage Reason? It's Alright! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | I AM COOL | 'It's A Myth!' Claim Objective On-Lookers |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | I AM IN LOVE | It's A Miracle! (I'm Not Lazarus, Only Very Emotional.) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I APOLOGISE! | It's A Pity, One Loathes Often Getting Internal Server Errors. |
Angela Brett, after the webserver being reconfigured caused some pages on the Acronyms web site to give internal server errors. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 71% | IBOOK | It's Brilliant! Online, On-the-go, Kingpin! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 83% | IBOOK (2) | Introduction Brought Ovations - Obviously! - at Keynote. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (3) | It Belongs On One's Knee |
Angela Brett, partly as a response to those who complain that the iBook won't fit on an aeroplane tray. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (4) | "It's Breathtaking!" -- Owner Of KeyLime |
Angela Brett, who has a key lime iBook. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (6) | Its Bright Outside's Overly Kooky |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (7) | It's Bought Out Of Kindness |
Angela Brett (see THANKS!) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples |
| 100% | IBOOK (8) | It Blocks One's Oesophagus, Killing. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | IBOOK (10) | It's Best Of Orchard-Kind! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 90% | IBOOK SPECIAL EDITION | It's 'Black-tie Optional,' Overpriced Kin of Slower Portables. Elegantly Coloured, It Appears Lovely Except Disappointingly Increments The Inexpensive Other Notebooks. |
Angela Brett, who thinks the iBook SE is a bit too expensive for only an extra 66MHz and a different colour, but wouldn't mind having one anyway. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBRAHIM | Iraqi-Born Reasoner Analysed Hyperbolae, Integration & Motion. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | ICAB | It Criticises Any Blunder |
Angela Brett (iCab is a Mac web browser which gives reports on all the tiny inconsequential problems in pages' HTML code. Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (2) | Internet Chauffeur, A Beauty! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (3) | It Crashed! Aah, Bugger! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (4) | It Crashes A Bit |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (5) | I'll Choose Another Browser. |
Angela Brett, who likes some of iCab's features but finds it to be missing a few important ones, and unstable too. Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST | I Can Achieve Nothing Desiring Only A Lazy Life... Through Him I'm Near God, Shown The Harder Road Of Understanding God's Help Can Have Responsibilities... I Seize Them! |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | ICE CREAM | In-Cone Extravagance... Can't Resist Eating Another Mouthful. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | ICED COFFEE | Icy-Cold Espresso, Delicious Cream Or Foam For Enhancing Experience |
Angela Brett, who is slightly obsessed with iced coffee. In fact, when the heap of spare parts later to be known as KeyBoard came up with that acronym in the first episode of The ADVENTUREs of MacGirl and KeyBoard, MacGirl replied, "Actually it's not just icy-cold espresso. A lot of people think that iced-coffee is just cold coffee with ice in it but it isn't... it has to be made with milk, and sugar, and cream on top, and sometimes icecream and vanilla essence. It's a treat, not just a cold drink.Ó Angela and Dustan will be starting up an iced coffee website some time soon, rating all of the iced coffees they've tried in the quest for the perfect one. If they can manage to get permission from the superhero herself, they might even quote MacGirl somewhere on the site. MacGirl & KeyBoard Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | ICY | It's Cold... Yikes! |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | ID | Initialized Dynamically |
Angela Brett (an 'id' can be assigned any kind of object) Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| 100% | ID (2) | Introspection Dominates |
Angela Brett, because the type of an object in Objective-C/Cocoa is not bound at compile time (where all object pointers could be the generic 'id' if you like) but is discovered at run-time by introspection. Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| 100% | IDEA | Information Does Electronically Advance. |
Angela Brett, after she'd said something about throwing ideas around and Tony replied 'I can't throw an idea out the hall door, never mind as far as New Zealand!' Communication People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 83% | IDIOT | I Don't Intend to Overstudy This! |
Angela Brett, when one of her lecturers was spending an extremely long time explaining a very simple concept. Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | IDIOT (3) | I Deal Insurance... Outsmart Tomorrow! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | IDIOTS | I Don't Insult... Only Triumph Scorewise. |
Angela Brett, when someone on an online game called less able players idiots. People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | I DISAPROVE | Its Disastress Incorect Speling, A Por Riter Ofers Vulger Elision |
Angela Brett (see APROVE) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Communication |
| 100% | IF ONLY YOU'D KEPT THE CONTACT DETAILS ON YOUR MAC AND USED ISYNC TO COPY THEM TO THE PHONE. | It's Fortunate On New Links You Yuppies Only Use Desktop's Keyboard Entering People's Telephones To Have Everywhere -- Clie Or Nokia, They All Can Take Down (Electronically) Telephone/ Address Information. Lost Something? Only Need Your Other (Unaffected) Repository, Make A Copy And No Data's Unavailable. Synchronising Every Day Is Superfluous, Your Numerous Contacts' Telephones Only Change Once Per Year (That's Horrible Estimate, Maybe Their Own Treasured Handhelds Escaped!) Personal Humble Opinion: Not Essential. |
Angela Brett (who has been without a mobile phone for the past few years and hasn't missed it) in response to MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED. An alternative to 'Clie Or Nokia' would be 'Cellphone or Notebook'. Computers Communication |
| 100% | IF YOU ARE GOOD | I'll Finance Your Own Unicorn! (Alicorn's Really Elephant's, Glued On... Oh, Devious!) |
Angela Brett (any young girl would be good if promised a unicorn, and parents can be sneaky when it comes to making young girls be good.) Assorted Phrases |
| 88% | IGNORED | Isn't Getting Noticed? Only Response is Exaggerated Disinterest. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | I HAD A GREAT TRIP | I'm Home And Delighted About Global Roaming Except, Alas, That The Revelry Is Past. |
Angela Brett, after going around the world. Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| 100% | I LEFT AN 'F' OUT OF MY ACRONYM AND I NEVER NOTICED | It's Laughable! Each Flaw-Teasing Acronym: New Flaw. One Unfailing Typed Output From Me, & Yucky Acronym Cycle's Rounded Off. Now, You Must Always Notice Details... Initials Not Excluded, Valid Expansion, Recheck Nothing's Omitted - Type It Correctly, Everything Done. |
Angela Brett, after Tony acronymised a similar phrase pointing out a missed letter in one of Jeff's acronyms, but Tony's expansion was missing an F-word. Perhaps he's just too polite. ;) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | I LIKE SWORDS | I Loathe Insignificant Knives - Even Swishing With One Rarely Disturbs Soldiers. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the ACRONYMS website. Military:Weapons |
| 100% | I LIKE SWORDS (2) | I Live, I Kill... Enemies Shall Weep, Or Rather, Die Suddenly. |
Angela Brett Military:Weapons |
| 100% | ILL | Invalid Lies Lethargically |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 89% | I LOVE YOU | It's Like On Valentine's, Except Year-round. Overused Utterance. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I LOVE YOU (2) | I Live On Valuing Everything You Output, Unconditionally. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I LOVE YOU TOO | Involuntarily Lips Open, Venting Emotions You've Often Uttered (Through Obligation Only?) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | IMAC (2) | I Mailed A Companion! |
Angela Brett, after emailing Tony from an iMac at MacJava Cybercafe, the coolest cafe in Auckland. (Great ICED COFFEE, all sorts of historic Macs and Macazines, and great people.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 80% | IMAC (3) | It's Mainly Aimed at 'Consumers' |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 80% | IMAC (4) | Increased Marketshare of Apple Computer. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 80% | IMAC (5) | I'm a Mean Acronym Creator |
Angela Brett, after Steve said he was trying to think of a mean expansion for iMAC. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (7) | It's Mostly Always Colourful. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (8) | Indigo Model Ain't Costly |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (13) | Its Monitor Angle's Configurable |
Angela Brett, referring to the flat-screen iMacs. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (14) | Its Makers Added Character |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC DV | Intuitively Makes Amateur Cinema... Delicious Variations! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 96% | I'M GLAD YOU'RE GETTING THE MAC! | It's My Goal... Let All Decide 'Yes!' On Understanding Relative Excellence of G3/G4 Electronics. The Truth Is, Nobody's Going To Have Eventual Misgivings About Computer. |
Angela Brett, in response to I AM GETTING THE MAC - I do tend to prod people toward getting Macs, but most people (especially long-suffering Windows users, or Linux users entranced by the genuinely translucent terminal windows) don't need any prodding once they have all the information. So it's 'my' goal to get the people I meet to use/buy Macs, but they really decide yes for themselves. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | I MISS YOU | It's Miserable In Solitude Sometimes... Yearning's Overwhelming, Unfulfilled. |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | IMPACT | I Might Perform A Crash Test |
Angela Brett Transport Science:Physics |
| 100% | IMPOSSIBLE | I Mustn't Pass On Something So Irresistible... 'Bad' Letters Expanded! |
Angela Brett, when it was said that EPHEMERAL was impossible to expand. Assorted Adjectives Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | IMPOSSIBLE (2) | Insomniac Mrs. Pleads, "Oh, Stop Snoring!" Instead Bringing Louder Explosions. |
Angela Brett (some people won't stop snoring no matter what you do!) Assorted Adjectives Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | IMPOTENT | I Mightn't Perform On Time Every Night, Temptress! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | I'M SLOW | It's My Sad Life On Windoze |
Angela Brett, as an explanation for not having noticed JAGUAR (7), OBJECTIVE-C and COCOA (2) which were hidden uncapitalised in an email. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | INANE | It's Not A Nip Exciting |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | INCEST | Intergenerational Nookie Compromises Extreme Sexual Taboos. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | INCEST (2) | Intrafamilial Natality Can End So Tragically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | INCH | It's Not Considered Highbrow |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | INERT | It's Not Especially Readily Transported |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| 100% | INFANTICIDE | It's Not Fair, And Not Tolerated - Innocent Child Isn't Deserving Evisceration |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Death |
| 92% | INFATUATION | Infuriating Neurotic Feeling of Adoration That Unfortunately Attacks The Intelligence Of Nerds. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | INFINITY | Increment Numbers Forever - It's Nuts, I Tell You! |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | INFORMATION | I'm Not Fond Of Reading Magazines About The Importance Of Nailcare. |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | INFORMATION SYSTEMS | Incomsequential Notational Fumblings, Often Recording Methodologies Attached To Inflow Of Notions - Supposedly You'll See The Exercise Means Something. |
Angela Brett, who so far thinks that information systems analysis is a load of rubbish, but understands that some people feel the same way about mathematics. Computers |
| 100% | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | It's New-Fangled Organisation - Relaying Messages Across The Internet... Only Now They Electronically Can Have Nookie! Online Lovers Often Gull You. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 89% | INFURIATED BY SLOW TEACHERS | It's Not Fair! Using Repeated Iterations is Always Tedious, Especially Done By You... Such Lavish Overuse of Whiteboard Takes Eons. Anyone Calculates in Head, Even Retarded Students! |
Angela Brett... (see SPANNING TREES for an explanation.) Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | INITIATION | Insult Newcomers Intensely... This Is A Test (Idiotically, Of Nothing!) |
Angela Brett, on the humiliating initiation rituals which movies would have us believe fraternity/sorority members have to go through. People & Relationships |
| 100% | INMATE | I've Not Murdered Anyone (This Evening) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| 100% | INQUISITION | I Never Quite Understood It... So Is This It, Or Not? |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | INSANELY-GREAT.COM | Internet Niche Showing Apple's Next Electronic Leap. Your G3s Rule, Endangering All The Companies Opposing Macintosh. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing... and yes there is a Mac website at http://www.insanely-great.com. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Internet:URLs |
| 100% | INSANELY GREAT MAC | Innovative New Software Advancing New Electronic Lifestyle. You've Greatly Revolutionised Electronics... Apple Technology Makes A Comeback! |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing. (Steve Jobs described the Macintosh as being insanely great way back before it was even out of the bag, and we agree with him!) Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | INSOMNIA | I Need Sleep! Obviously My Nocturnal Inability's Annoying. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | INSPECIFIC | It's Not Strictly Perfect Expansion - Created In Friggin' Infinitesimal Chronos! |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained about her use of 'Inspecific' in GENERIC. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | INSPIRATION | I Need Some! Please Invent Rousing Acronyms To Inspire Others... Now! |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | INSTANT FAME | Immediate Notoriety, Simply Tack Advertising Nonsense To Forums And Miff Everybody! |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on a website... something you could achieve by posting a message on the forums. I don't recommend spamming the forums, however, please post something constructive instead. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | INSTANT FAME (2) | I'll Now Spam To Attract Nitwits To Find About My Eminence |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on a website. The site appeared to be run by the Yellow Pages, and as I doubt they would resort to forum-spam for advertising, I can only assume the poster was trying to attract people to the site in order to increase his or her own 'fame'. Although, if having your name on a website counts as fame, then the simple act of posting on the forums gave just as much fame as the fame website itself. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | INSTANT FAME (3) | "I'm Not Stupid... To Achieve Notoriety, Try Forming Apronyms." -- Miss Expansion 2003 |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on the website. If having your name on a website counts as fame, then a much better way to get famous is to submit apronyms to this site. (Note that this apronym was added in 2005... but I haven't added many apronyms recently so I won't claim that fictitious title for this year.) Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | INSULIN BALANCE TRIAL | I Need Sugar Undersupply Like I Need Broken Arms... Leg Amputation, Near Coma, Every Time Risking Injury And Life |
Angela Brett, responding to an unsuccessful search of the site - it's so unsuccessful that even searching for the phrase on GOOGLE only brings up the Apronyms Unsuccessful Searches page. This could have been done better if the searcher had expanded on what s/he was looking for. Science:Biology |
| 100% | INT | It's Neatly Truncated |
Angela Brett, when she had half an hour to spare in a C programming test. (In C, an int is a kind of variable which holds an integer, and values put into one get truncated.) Computers:Programming:C variable types |
| 100% | INT (2) | Its Name's Truncated |
Angela Brett, because int is short for integer. Computers:Programming:C variable types |
| 100% | INTEGERS | Include Naturals - They Even Generate External Rational Set. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Number sets |
| 100% | INTEGRATION PROJECT | It's Not Too Easy Getting Result... Adding That Infinity Of Negligible Parts. Relying On Just Exhaustive Calculation's Terrible! |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | INTEL | Invest Nothing, They'll Eventually Lose. |
Angela Brett, after Steve said that he wouldn't invest any money in Intel because he doesn't think they innovate any more. Computers Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | INTENSITY | Initial Nude Tryst Elicits Nervousness... Should I Touch You? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 0% | INTERCITY BUS | I've Not Travelled Everywhere Round the Country In This Yet, Because (I) Usually Soar. |
Angela Brett, while on a nine hour bus trip from GISBORNE - she had flown down there in a FAIRCHILD originally. Transport |
| 100% | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING | It's Not That Easy, Remembering Natives All Think In Own National Affectations. Language Dictates Ethnic Viewpoints, Every Line Of Program Must Echo Numerous Thoughts Concurrently, Or Numerous Separate UIs Litter The IDE... Nothing Generalised. |
Angela Brett, thinking of specifically of international software development. Science:Linguistics Computers:Programming |
| 80% | INTERNET | Interconnected Network of Terminals Enabling Rich Nerds to Exchange Technobabble. |
Angela Brett, describing the old perception of the internet. Computers:Internet |
| 100% | INVALID (2) | I Need Ventilator And Live In Diapers |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare |
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