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| 100% | BABY | Boisterous And Bouncy Youth |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, inspired by Quantum Reid, Angela Brett's nephew - see his homepage at http://www.angelfire.com/az/lizreid/quantum.html Science:Biology Science:Biology People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | BUGS (2) | Blame Users' Genuine Stupidity |
Angela Brett -- a few of the programmers where I work are coming up with self-deprecating phrases to put on T-shirts to give out at the company Christmas party. One of the T-shirt slogans is, 'Of course it crashes if you do that!' Computers Computers |
| 100% | BUSH | Bombs Upon Saddam Hussein |
Elf Qrin Names:Famous people:Politicians Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | COUNTESS OLIVIA | Cesario Opens Up Newly Triggered Emotions. Sebastian Strides On Later... Instantly Viola's Identity Announced |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 100% | DEBRA | Divine Emissary Beeing Resisted Aggressions |
Angela Brett -- according to http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/Content.cfm?ContentTypeID=1002&NameID=16085&BabySiteID=7712592, Debra comes from Hebrew 'Dvorah' meaning Bee, and According to the Jewish scriptures, Deborah was one of the earliest judges, or leaders, of her people. Considered a divinely inspired prophetess, she mobilized the Jewish nation (which was only beginning to regard itself as such) to affirm its relationship to God and to resist the aggressions of the neighboring Canaanites. Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | DIDO | Die I Do. Oh... |
Lizzie - Dido stabbed herself on a funeral pyre and was consumed in the flames after Aeneas rejected her. Art & Literature:Myths & Legends Art & Literature:Myths & Legends |
| 91% | DUKE ORSINO | Dispatches Unknown Kid (on) Errand Of Romancing Suitor - It's Noble Olivia |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 100% | FESTE | Fool Enters Singing Three Elegies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 100% | HAGRID | Huge Adult Gives Rare Insights Disconcertedly |
Jan Morgan -- Harry Potter friend always backs himself into a corner and has to explain himself in a very unsettled way "I shouldn't have said that" Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Harry Potter Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Harry Potter |
| 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 MacGirl & KeyBoard Food & Drink:Drinks Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | IMHO | I Make Humungous Overstatements |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: Let's subvert the accepted standard interpretations of some well known internet nyms, so that when we see them we can smile to ourself knowing that the writer is 'really' saying... (IMHO usually stands for In My Humble/Honest Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 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 Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | KARATE | Kicking Athlete, Reaching At Taming Emotions |
Jan Morgan - Great sport - teaches the individual self-control and how to defend themselves in a threatening situation if you can't talk it out Sports & Recreation:Martial Arts Sports & Recreation:Martial Arts |
| 100% | KID | Kinky Irish Deviant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, perhaps describing Keyboard... or himself? People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 80% | LAZY HATS | Lovely And Zany - Your Headgear is Always Tacky and Shoddy. |
Angela Brett, when Tony mentioned he was wearing his 'lazy bastard' hat. When asked to describe it, he replied, "It was a beautiful hat when I came across it, but after years of neglect (due to laziness) it is probably a real mess by now, I don't know. When I'm wearing it, I'm too lazy to look at myself in the mirror." Household Objects:Clothing Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | LINGUA LATINA | Latin Is Not Gone -- Used 'AM' Lately? Also There's Information Not Anglicizable. |
Jeff Anonymous, expanding the Latin language's name for itself -- and noting its continued relevance, even in daily conversation where in abbreviated form 'ante meridiem' its head rears, in addition to the fact that there are many literary works that do not translate terribly well into English -- the meter of Virgil, for example, cannot be preserved well in a translation out of Latin. Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics |
| 0% | LISP* | Locution Ith Thingularly Problematic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after seeing AT & T (with apologies to anyone with a lisp - I myself still have the remnants of a childhood stammer) Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Communication:Talking Communication:Talking |
| 89% | MALVOLIO | Mad Actions Lead Vindictive Olivia (to) Lock In Offender |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 100% | MAMA (2) | Meaningfully, Athinai Mirrored Anita |
Angela Brett (HANS THOMAS's mother Anita went to Athens to find herself, and Hans Thomas notices that the sign 'Athinai' is almost Anita backwards.) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | MARY (2) | Madam, Articulate Royal Yobbo. |
Mary Carr, describing herself. Names:Acronymists Names:Acronymists Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | MULTIBABEL | Most Uninteresting Language Typed In, But After Butchering Elicits Laughter! |
Angela Brett, referring to http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ which uses the automated translation at babelfish.altavista.com to translate English into several different languages and back consecutively. The results can be most amusing! Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | POM | Prince Of Moaning |
Angela Brett (I have no opinions on the issue myself, but I've often heard people refer to 'whining poms') People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 90% | RADIOHEAD | Rock Always Deserved International Oddities Having Established yet Abnormal 'Dos. |
All by myself, Taylor Rundell. I remember my last Apronym... Entertainment:Music:Artists Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | READ AND SUCCEED | Readers Evidently Apply Details Article Notates Duly Surfing Up Career Chart? Essentially Empty Dross! |
TMcCO'G - Self-help manuals for success always seem to be tailored for someone else. Otherwise all those who read them would be whoppingly successful, instead of lurking in bookstores looking for more 'How to Succeed...' books People & Relationships People & Relationships Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | SCORPIO (2) | Self Control Or Raging Person Is Original |
Jan Morgan -- has self control but can go off deep end if provoked (original = independent) Religion:Astrology Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | SCRAMOGE | Small Cut Received After Mishap On Gummed Envelope |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scramoge is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'To cut oneself whilst licking envelopes.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | SCUBA | Suffocation Can Usually Be Avoided. |
Angela Brett (SCUBA actually stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Sports & Recreation Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | SEBASTIAN | Storm Engulfs Brother And Sister, This Introduces Arranged Nuptials |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 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 Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | SIR TOBY BELCH | Stupid Idiot, Rude To Others, Boozy Yet Belligerent. Evidently Loathes Cesario Horridly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 83% | STAMP (3) | Sticker That's Applied to Mail Packages |
Sean Lamb (most US stamps are self-adhesives now...) Communication Communication |
| 80% | UNIT | Use N=-1 or I=1 Two! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. (Integers have 4 categories: 0, Unit (-1 or +1), Prime (an Integer>1 whose only divisors are Itself and 1) and Composite (none of above.) Science:Mathematics Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | UTAHRAPTOR | Unusually Talented And Harsh Raptor Attacked Predators That Once Roamed |
Sean Lamb (The Utahraptor had a 15" claw on one toe of each hind foot; it's believed that this creature attacked others much larger than itself using these claws and its razor-sharp teeth as weapons) Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 92% | VIOLA/CESARIO | Very Involved Over Ludicrous Alter-ego Creation Embroiling Sebastian. Agreeable Resolution Is Outcome |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| 100% | WATERFALL | Where A Torrent Eternally Rolls Forward - A Liquid Location |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who wants to see a submission from AngelFalls Brett Places:Waterways Places:Waterways |
| 100% | WATERLOO | When A Tyrant's Ended Revolution, Loses Over Onslaught |
Robert Tunney Waterloo was the name of the battle in which Napoleon was defeated. Napoleon was a self declared emperor who had restored stability to France after the French revolution. History History Military:War & Terrorism Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | WELFARE REFORM | Workers Everywhere Lose Finance As Redundant Extras Receive Easy Funds... Oust Robinhood Men! |
Angela Brett, who doesn't mind welfare but reforms usually seem to be a waste of time and money. Politics Politics Commerce:Money Commerce:Money |
| 100% | WIFE (5) | Wanted Immediately For Ever |
ALBERT JOSE. I found it myself. People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | XAN | Xuberant Angel -- Not! |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the morose elf in the "Baldur's Gate" computer-game series. Computers:Games:Game Characters Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| 100% | YASA | Yet Another Silly Acronym |
Original author unknown... however when Angela first used it in an email, Tony suggested 'You Are So Apposite', 'You're A Saintly Anthony', and 'Youth And Sex Abound.' Angela then replied with 'You Are Self-praising Also.' Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |