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| 100% | APRONYMS (28) | A Perfectly Reasonable Option? No, You Mangy Sonafabitch! |
Word Nerd This came to me as I was looking at NYMS today, my first visit to your site. Coming from a background in which I routinely read trials about blood pressure and heart-related issues, almost all of which have an apronym attached, this is something I've engaged in over lunch and coffee for years, as in: The "Bitch" Trial, i.e., Best Innovation to Control Hypertension, and so on. Thank you for giving creative outlet for my frustrations! :) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 89% | CLICKLOC | Computer Lady In Cyber-Killing - Links (with) Organised Crime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, CLICKLOC is another supervillain, and also a HyperTalk function. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| 50% | G4 | Grasping 4 |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | HTML | How They Make Links |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (HTML usually stands for HyperText Markup Language) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | HTTP | Here's That Titled Page |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - People seem to think that 'http://www.co.nz' is the 'name' of a page, rather than the 'address'. (HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | HTTP (2) | How They Transfer Pages |
Angela Brett, inspired by HTML. HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 97% | HYPERCARD STACKS BELONG ON APPLES | Have You Perhaps Erased Reasoning Cells After Riotous Drinking Session? That Apple Computers' Killer-app Should Be Elsewhere Looks Overly Nitwitted. Gatesians Often Need A Planned Periodical Logic Examination Service. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Jeff suggested an as-yet-incomplete expansion for 'HyperCard stacks can too be run on windows.' Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software |
| 100% | HYPER PETE | Hello Yeomen. Please Extend Rhetorical Presumption Explaining 'Tactful' Ebullition. |
Hyper Pete (AKA Hyper Unit) in response to Tony's HYPER UNIT expansions. Names:Acronymists Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | HYPER UNIT | Has Your 'Puter Ever Ruined User's Newly Input Typing? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after seeing Hyper's anti-Macronyms. Names:Acronymists Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | MAC (5) | Marginally Acceptable Computers |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MAC (6) | Minimal Ability, Capacity |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MAC (7) | Marginal Aptitude Computing |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MACINTOSH (8) | Motorola And Company Incessantly Negate Truth On Superior Hardware |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 90% | MACINTOSH (9) | Monumental Arguments Concerning Intellectual Nemeses To Obscenely Small-minded Hooligans |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 90% | MACINTOSH (10) | Minor, Absurd Company, In-between Nothingness. Totally Overconfident, Sadly Humiliating. |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 75% | PHP | Phasing-out HyperCard Pages |
Angela Brett, after Tony accused her of geek-speek when she mentioned that more of the formerly HyperCard-generated web pages had been switched to PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Programming Computers:Programming Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 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 Computers:Programming |
| 100% | STEVE | Swings To Extremes Very Erratically. |
Angela Brett, describing Steve Jobs according to what she's read about him. (If he happens to be reading this... hey, no offense... oh great, all-powerful iCEO (who owns lots of G3s and therefore deserves my respect.) You're doing a great job, just as long as you don't can HyperCard. :) Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton Names:Famous people Names:Famous people |
| 83% | SUCCESSFUL | Several Unreal C-words Confirm Extended Storage Space Functions Unerringly - at Last! |
Angela Brett, after testing this stack's ability to use 'ESS' (Extended Storage Space - some scripts I wrote to get around the fact that HyperCard only allows 30,000 characters in each field) by adding 250 fake acronyms beginning with C. And surprisingly - for one would expect there to be at least one small probem - all of the tests were successful. Which means that, should all you acronymists out there send in more than about 260 average-length acronyms all beginning with the same letter, the stack will still function normally. Well, it's always good to be prepared for the future. Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |