APRONYMS BY GAVIN LAMBERT
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ACRONYM (5)All Concealed, Revealed Only Now You Meditate Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ANTONYMAnother Name, Totally Opposite, Negative Yielding Moniker Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay
APARTMENTAbode Placed Adjacently; Rather Tiny, Microscopic Even -- New Territory. Gavin Lambert - I recently bought an apartment, which I'm now living in. It seems quite small now (though nice) -- but that is almost certainly just a side-effect of my PACKRATITIS; I've just got too much Stuff :)
Places:Buildings
APRONYMS (5)Appellations Positioned Right, Organising Names You 'Member Smoothly. Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
BORG (2)Bloody 'Orrible Robotic Guys! Gavin Lambert
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters
BORG QUEENBeautiful Or Really Gruesome? Questions Usually Entail Excess Notionalising Gavin Lambert
Politics:Royalty
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters
BRAIN (2)Biologic Reasoning Apparatus; Intelligence's Nest Gavin Lambert
Science:Biology:Body Parts
CAT (6)Cute At Times Gavin Lambert - My cat can look quite cute sometimes -- when she feels like it :)
Science:Biology:Animals
CD-ROM (2)Can't Download - Rate 'Orribly Mired Gavin Lambert - I periodically try to download a Linux install CD (mostly out of curiosity), but as I've only got a 56k connection it takes too long :(
Computers:Linux
CHRISTMAS (10)"Come Hither, Rejoice In Saviour's Teachings!" Many Angels Shout Gavin Lambert
Time:Special Occasions:Christmas
CODE (2)Confusingly Ordered Diatribe, Enigma Gavin Lambert
Science:Mathematics
Communication
COLONYCollection Of Life, Organised, Nurturing Yield Gavin Lambert - "Nurturing Yield" meaning increasing productivity :)
Science:Biology
COMMA (2)Come On, Many More Acronyms! Gavin Lambert, pointing out a missing comma in an acronym featured in THE ACRONYM TIMES
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ECHO (3)Enough! Content Heard Overmuch Gavin Lambert, when BIAS (2) was mentioned twice in THE ACRONYM TIMES
Communication
ELEVATOREntire Levitation Etymology Varies According To Origin's Requirements Gavin Lambert (referring to how a different name is used for the same thing in other parts of the world)
Science:Linguistics
Places:Buildings
EMAILEmbarassingly, My Account Is Lacking Gavin Lambert, when his email address changed
Computers:Internet
EUDORAEmail Utility Demonstrates Over Reaching Achievement Gavin Lambert, who really likes it - most of the time!
Computers:Internet
EXCEPT THAT ONE!Explicit Xclusion Communicated Excitedly: Pressing That Toggle Has Adverse Thrust. One Never Engages! Gavin Lambert, when Angela reminded him to expand anything in capitals -- his email signature is 'Press any key - EXCEPT THAT ONE!!!'
Computers
GAMEGenerally About Mass Entertainment Gavin Lambert, thinking mainly about sports games and the like rather than board games, but you could extend the parallel...
Sports & Recreation
Entertainment:Games
GAVIN LAMBERTGenerating Acronyms, Velocity Irregular. Natural Laziness Assumed; Maybe Boredom Enhances 'Ronymising Tendencies? Gavin Lambert (since I felt it was about time I "ronymised" my own name) :)
Names:Acronymists
GLASSGlossy 'Lucent Article, Secures Sustenance. Gavin Lambert ('lucent as in 'translucent')
Household Objects:Eating Utensils
GLASS (2)"Gimme Lotsa Alcohol!", Some Say Gavin Lambert
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
Household Objects:Eating Utensils
GOOGLE (3)Great Oracle - Only Gives Live Entries Gavin Lambert
Computers:Internet
HUMAN (2)Hands Used Mainly Affecting Neighbourhood Gavin Lambert - After all, our hands are our primary means of manipulating our environment.
People & Relationships
Science:Biology:Animals
IDEA (2)Intelligent Development, Encourages Action Gavin Lambert
People & Relationships:Thoughts
IN MY ARROGANT OPINIONI Never! May Your Absolutely Ridiculous Ruminations Oppose Greatness? Are Not Thinking, One Presumes; I Need Idiotic Opinions Not! Gavin Lambert
Assorted Phrases
People & Relationships:Thoughts
JUDGEMENTJava Users/ Developers Group, Extended: Macintosh Enthusiasts Now Taken! Gavin Lambert, thinking up a new name for a group Angela told him about which is ostensibly a Java users group but is actually a group of Mac developers, one of which develops using Java. Its previous working title was JUGWOXACI so this is a big improvement! JUDGEMENT day is the second Tuesday of each month.
Computers:Programming
LEFT HANDLittle Enterprising Feline Taken Hold; Abandoning Normal Digits Gavin Lambert (I'm having to type this one-handed because my cat is sleeping on my right hand. And I'm right-handed!)
Science:Biology:Body Parts
LIFT (2)Levitating Interior, For Transportation Gavin Lambert
Places:Buildings
LINKLocates Internet Networked Knowledge Gavin Lambert
Computers:Internet
MAIL ADDRESSMailing Address Information Lapsed! Another Disaster? Damage Reversed, Everybody See Signature Gavin Lambert
Computers:Internet
MASON (2)Master At Stone Object Nascency Gavin Lambert
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
MATRIXMental Agility Transfigures Reality; Insane Xperience! Gavin Lambert, after seeing The Matrix: Reloaded
Entertainment:Movies
MORSE CODEMessages, Orders? Really Short Encoding, Common Organisation, Decryption Easy Gavin Lambert
Communication
MUNTEDMalfunctioning; Used Normally To Express Disgust Gavin Lambert
Assorted Adjectives
NOW (3)Near Oriented "When" Gavin Lambert
Time
NZ ACRONYMSNow Zey're Apronyms! Creatively Rearranged Original Name, Yet Meaning Similar. Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Places:Countries
ON A ROLL (2)One New Acronym -- Randomly Ordered Lyrical Language Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ONOMATOPOEIAOriginal Noise Obviously Mandates Alphabetical Text Ordered Phonetically; Openly Encapsulating Intended Allusion Gavin Lambert
Science:Linguistics
Assorted Nouns:Noises
OWLOverhead When Lightless Gavin Lambert and Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals:Birds
PACKRATITISPerson Accumulating Crap; Keeps Really Ancient Things Indefinitely, Taking Infinite Storage. Gavin Lambert, explaining why he has so many old computers.
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
PARSERProgrammed Algorithm Reading Sentences, Expressions, Runes Gavin Lambert
Computers
PHYSICS (2)Puzzling Heuristics; Your Scientific Information Contains Spuriosities Gavin Lambert, after Angela corrected the credit for PROTON (2)
Science:Physics
PROTONPositive, Resists Orbiting To Occupy Nucleus Gavin Lambert
Science:Chemistry
Science:Physics:Particles
PUNCTUATIONPerhaps Underutilised, Need Commas To Understand Acronyms! Trivial Indeed, One Nods Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Science:Linguistics
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
ROMULANReally Overly Militaristic; Uses Light Attracting Node Gavin Lambert (Romulans use an artificial black hole as a power source)
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek
SIGH (2)Silent Inhalation, Gusty 'Huuuuuhhh' Gavin Lambert
Assorted Verbs
SYNONYM (2)Similar, Yet Not Original Name, You Mean? Gavin Lambert
Words & Wordplay
TAFFYThat's Another Freaky Foodstuff, Y'know/Yes? Gavin Lambert
Food & Drink:Confectionery
THE APRONYM TIMESTargeting Humans Enjoying Apronyms: Publicly Revealing Original Nomenclature You May Think Is Mightily Effective - Semimonthly! Gavin Lambert, when the ACRONYMS website was renamed APRONYMS in order to be more specific, and THE ACRONYM TIMES needed a new name too.
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website
THINKTo Have Idea, Needing Knowledge Gavin Lambert [Prerequisites of thinking are something to think about and some related knowledge to connect it to]
People & Relationships:Thoughts
VULCAN (2)Vigorously Uses Logic. Comedic Antics? Never! Gavin Lambert
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek
WARP (2)With Abnormally Rapid Progress Gavin Lambert (referring to 'warp speed' in shows like Star Trek)
Art & Literature
Entertainment
Science:Physics
WARP SPEEDWhere Are Real Physics? Some Plot Elements Entail Distortion Gavin Lambert
Art & Literature
Entertainment
Science:Physics
WICKWith Illumination Comes Knowledge Gavin Lambert (thinking lantern wick in an old library or something)
Art & Literature
Household Objects
WICK (2)What's Inside Candles; Kindling Gavin Lambert
Household Objects
WICKED WITCHWoman In Castle Knows Extremely Dangerous Wiccan Incantations To Create Havoc Gavin Lambert
Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Mythical Creatures
WINDOWS DEVELOPERWell, It's Not DOS; One Windowing System Demands Engineers, Very Easily Learnable, Only Problem: En Redmond! Gavin Lambert
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
Computers:Windows