A Page-header Renders Our Novelties, Yet Makes Sense
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| 100% | MILO | May I Loudly Object? |
Jeff Anonymous, because he thinks that 'Milo' is such a simple-sounding name for the protagonist of 'The Phantom Tollbooth' by Norton Juster. Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | MISSION CRITICAL | My IBook Should Stay Inerrantly Operating, Neccessarily. Can't Risk It Taking Ill; Couldn't Annotate Lectures. |
Jeff Anonymous, when it was thought (mistakenly) that Apronyms for Mac OS X would not work on JAGUAR, explaining: I'd upgrade to PANTHER except my only Mac is MISSION CRITICAL. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MONEY (2) | My Other Nasty Evil Yearning |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to the greedy feelings often associated with money) Commerce:Money |
| 100% | MORTON | Man Often Rooted Trees Onto Nebraska |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to Julius Sterling Morton of Arbor Day fame, whilst answering a failed search. Names:Famous people Science:Biology:Plants Time:Special Occasions |
| 80% | MS PAC MAN | Missus Strikes Popularly And Collects Money All [over the] Nation. |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Games:Game Characters Computers:Games |
| 100% | MUGGLES | Magic Users Gloat, 'Goofy Losers, Extremely Stupid' |
Jeff Anonymous Art & Literature |
| 100% | NADS | Need Autoerotic Dirtiness Sometimes |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 80% | NASA | Newbies: "Acronym [for] Space Agency" |
Jeff Anonymous Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | NEW ACROS | Nice Extremely Weird Acronyms, Created Rapidly Online, Stupendous! |
Jeff Anonymous, after he'd capitalised NEW ACROS in a forum post and Angela reminded him to acronymise capitalised words. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | NEWBIE | Not Even Weaned, Baby Is Extraordinary |
Jeff Anonymous, noting that an unweaned baby is basically a 'newbie' to life. Science:Biology People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | NIC | Nasty Internal Cuts |
Jeff Anonymous, explaining why not to eat a Network Interface Card Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 92% | NO AD BANNERS | No Overloading Advertisement Documents, Bub! And Nowadays, Newbie Ezboarders Reek (of) Sweat. |
Jeff Anonymous, during a discussion about archiving some forum threads, saying: Anywhere else I'd say move the board to ezboard.com. Here, though, we have a good script and everything, and NO AD BANNERS! Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | NZ | 'Nother Zone |
Jeff Anonymous, noticing that in New Zealand's timezone it was already Halloween. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Places:Countries |
| 100% | OA | Over-Ate |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to Overeaters Anonymous) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Food & Drink |
| 100% | O FOR THE JOYS OF PARENTHOOD | Oh Fiddlesticks. Over Run Tonylet... Hit European Jalopey. Overall, Youth Survived, 'Owever, Flattened. Perhaps Another Reason Exclaiming 'Need The Helmet'? Optional? Oah Dunthinkso. |
Jeff Anonymous (Tonylet suggested by Angela Brett) in response to CYCLISTS SHOULD BE CAREFUL Transport |
| 100% | OI | Over, Izzit? |
Jeff Anonymous, when Angela capitalised OI. This one is best understood if you look at the 'Illiterations' thread on the Acronyms forums, at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=984136095 Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | OLDBIE (2) | Often Lauded Dinosaur, Being Inexplicably Experienced |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | ONCE AND FUTURE KING | Oversea, Never, Created Era. Arthur Never Dominated. Fiction, Untrue. Terribly Unreal. Really Evil Konspiracy. Is No Good. |
Jeff Anonymous Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 100% | PC ROMANCE (2) | Private Chat Room: Old Maids Actually Nastily Claim Exoticism |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust Computers:Internet |
| 100% | PEDANT (2) | Person, Educator, Does Algebra 'N' Trigonometry |
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that a pedant is a male schoolteacher. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | PEDANTRY | Plumbum Est. Don't Alter Nixages/Notation, That's Rather Yucky. |
Jeff Anonymous, in response to PENCIL (5) If anyone can think of a better N word for an ending, let me know. Words & Wordplay |
| 88% | PENANCE | Preacher Extends Needless And Narcissistic Clearance of Errors |
Jeff Anonymous Religion |
| 78% | PENANCE (2) | Pastors, Evangelists, and Nuns Advocate Nightly Confession of Errors |
Jeff Anonymous Religion |
| 100% | PEPCID | Pill Eliminates Perilous Common Indigestion Daily |
Jeff Anonymous (see TACO BELL) Drugs |
| 100% | PICHU | Pikachu Infant. Cries Horribly, Unpeacefully. |
Jeff Anonymous (Pichu, Pokemon #172, is a baby Pikachu.) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | PICKAX | Please Ignore Craggy Kaves. Awkay, Xplore! |
Jeff Anonymous, on what could be consdered a good tool for spelunkers. Sports & Recreation |
| 80% | PICO | Personally I'm Confused [by] Others |
Jeff Anonymous, who can't quite understand EMACS, so he uses good ol' PICO for his Linux text editor. Computers:Linux |
| 100% | PI TIMES THREE I | Perchance If Thou Inexplicably Mutters Expandable Shoutings, Thou Hasto Really Expand 'Em Immediately! |
Jeff Anonymous ('Immediately' suggested by Tony McCoy O'Grady) rationalizing semi-imaginary rule pi*3i, which states that all things rendered in capitals on the Acronyms fora must be acronymised. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | POKENYMS | Pokemon Original Kreations. Even Nicer, You Might Say. |
Jeff Anonymous, because some Pokemon acronyms might be more interesting than actual Pokemon. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers:Games |
| 92% | POLITICIANS (9) | Poor Old Lollygaggers In Time Ingeniously (be)-Come Ignorami... Actually Nice Sorts. |
Jeff Anonymous Politics |
| 100% | POST A MESSAGE | Please Omit Sexual Transmissions. "Adult" Messages: Eww! Stay Sane And Good, Eh? |
Jeff Anonymous (with a little help from Angela Brett), pleading for continued decency on the ACRONYMS forum, not that it's ever breached or anything. Communication:Acronyms Forums:Page Titles |
| 100% | POUND | Phasing Out? UK's Not Deciding. |
Jeff Anonymous Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PRINTER | Pitiful Rectum Injured. Never Try Epson Rolls! |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | PUBERTY | Penis, Uterus Be Expanding Rapidly Through Youth |
Jeff Anonymous Science:Biology |
| 100% | QA | Quirky A**holes |
Jeff Anonymous, in reference to the many failures that go on in Quality Assurance Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | RA (2) | Really Ancient |
Jeff Anonymous (In reference to the ancient Egyptian sun god) Religion |
| 100% | RAICHU | Radically Awesome, Intelligent, Cute, Herculean... UBERCOOL! |
Jeff Anonymous (Raichu is Pokemon #26) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | RAM | Rudely Affects Middle |
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that eating random access memory may cause stomach cramps. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | RED HAT (2) | Reliable, Easy, Defensible Hardware Access Technology |
Jeff Anonymous, speaking of the Linux distribution. Computers:Linux |
| 100% | REJECTS | Regurgitation Exemplifies Justice Et Cleanliness. True, Simple. |
Jeff Anonymous Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | RIMMING | Regurgitation-Inducing Mutual Masturbation Is No Good |
Jeff Anonymous, replying to a failed search; if you don't know, you don't want to know. Believe me. People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | ROFL | Raunchy Overlord Fell Lasciviously. |
Jeff Anonymous, when Tony said 'ROFL' on the forums, and Jeff thought he ought to supply a more original expansion for it than 'Rolling On Floor Laughing'. Laughter Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 0% | SANTA* | Anonymously Tony? Nobody? Angela? Steve? |
Jeff Anonymous (see SANTA) Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | SAREVOK | Stupid Axemurderer Really Enrages. Voice Of Kevin. |
Jeff Anonymous (The voice actor for this character from the Baldur's Gate computer game series was apparently called Kevin Richardson.) Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| 100% | SCHOOL (2) | Some, "Cruel Hatred Object." Others Love. |
Jeff Anonymous Education Places:Buildings |
| 100% | SEX (2) | Sensual/ Emotional Xploration |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | SEX (4) | Sometimes Evildoers Xploit |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | SICNON | Simplified Inquiry-Created Necessity, Once Nameless |
Jeff Anonymous, when Angela wondered what to call the category at http://apronyms.com/category.php?ID=1985058, explaining: "Yesno" doesn't sound spiffy, so let's try some foreign variants...."JANEIN"? "Sicnon"? "Daniet"? Communication:Yesses And Noes |
| 100% | SPAMMED | Some Putzhead Apparently Multiply Messaged Eventless Discussion. |
Jeff Anonymous, after someone posted a URL multiple times on the Apronyms Forums. Computers:Internet Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | SSH | Superb System Handler |
Jeff Anonymous (SSH usually stands for Secure Shell) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | STAR WARS FOUR | Some Teen Aged Rascal Wins A Real Space Fight. Obviously Un Realistic. |
Jeff Anonymous Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | TACO BELL | Tummy Aches Common - Obliterating & Burning Esophagus Lining, Largely. |
Jeff Anonymous, who suggests PEPCID to solve the stomach acid troubles caused by eating Mexican. Food & Drink:Food Outlets |
| 100% | TARBELL | Told All, Rightly Blaming Evil Legal Loopholes |
Jeff Anonymous, answering a failed search evidently referring to muckraker Ida Tarbell (not sure if he was into loopholes or not, though) Names:Famous people |
| 100% | TELNET (2) | The Easy Lane - Not Even Tricky |
Jeff Anonymous (Reflecting on the lack in Telnet of the encryption found in SSH) Computers:Internet |
| 100% | THEORY | Tony's Heir Emulates Oldman's Rowdy Yappings |
Jeff Anonymous and Angela Brett, theorising on TRICKERTREAT's identity. Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | THE WHOLE SHEBANG | Terribly Huge Expansion: Worldly Hours Of Liquiditity Expunged Simply. Horrible Expansion Be Alliterative, Nice, Good. |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the forum thread at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=984136095 Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | THREAD LIST (5) | Truly Horrific, Right? Egads, A Deserted List Insanitizes, Senilizes, Tires. |
Jeff Anonymous Communication:Acronyms Forums:Page Titles |
| 100% | TIMOTHY MCVEIGH | Terrible, In My Opinion, Terrorist. Horrible. Y Mcveigh Caboomed, Victims Enquire? I Guess Hatred. |
Jeff Anonymous and Angela Brett Names:Famous people |
| 100% | TONY | Terribly Ornery Nutter, Yes? |
Jeff Anonymous Names:Acronymists |
| 94% | TONY MCCOY O'GRADY (2) | The Only Name. Ya May Call [him] Crazy Openly, Yessir, Over Gruel. Really A Dandy Youth. |
Jeff Anonymous Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | TORT | Twist Out Revenue Tidily |
Jeff Anonymous, since 'tort' comes from the Latin 'torquere' 'to twist' People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | TWISS | This Wordy Idiot Slandered, Somesay |
Jeff Anonymous (There is a tale about an Englishman called Richard Twiss who got a chamber pot named after him for slandering Ireland) Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | UA | Urky Acronymist? |
Jeff Anonymous, noting that whoever decided that the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (shouldn't that be the UAJAPPFIUSC?) should be called the UA must not be the greatest master of acronyms. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | UA (3) | Unskilled Acronymist. |
Jeff Anonymous and Angela Brett (see UA) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | UA (4) | Unexplicably Axed |
Jeff Anonymous, since it seems they cut off a bunch of letters. (see UA) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | UAJAPPFIUSC | Urky Acronymists, Jeff Amends "Putzheads, Purely & Factually." I Understand Some Criticism. |
Jeff Anonymous (see UA) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 80% | UMAX | Users May Archive Xposures [sic] |
Jeff Anonymous, expanding the scanner company per a failed search. Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | UPS | Ugh, Pierced Stomach. |
Jeff Anonymous (UPS=Uninterruptable Power Supply) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | UPS (2) | Uplift Packages Slowly |
Jeff Anonymous, displeased because the United Parcel Service man dropped his computer in the front yard... but it works just the same, despite a rather odd clicking sometimes coming from the fan. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | USB | Users Sadly Blush |
Jeff Anonymous, saying, 'There must be a few Univeral Serial Bus users who are ashamed of it... afraid their friends will torture them for playing with the idea that serial might be dead.' Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | USENET | Users Sometimes Even Nasally Expel Tea |
Jeff Anonymous, answering a failed search, and referring to such newsgroup acronyms as "c|n>s" (coffee through nose to screen) Computers:Internet |
| 100% | VA | Vocally Aardvarkoid |
Jeff Anonymous, as a play of VA for Voice Actor. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Entertainment |
| 100% | VAGINA | Venereal Area. Girl's. I No 'Ave |
Jeff Anonymous, in response to PENIS and PHALLUS Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | VCD | Veins, Capillaries Damaged. |
Jeff Anonymous Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 81% | VERBOSE ACRONYMIST | [Jeff] "Verily, Everyone Really Barks Over Some Exclamations." [Tony] "Angela Can Relate Our (k)-Nowledge." [Angela] "Yessir, May I State... 'True'?" |
Jeff Anonymous Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | VOGUL | Vierd Old Grand Ulgric Lingo |
Jeff Anonymous (Vogul is a Finno-Ugric language of the Ugric group, spoken East of the Ural Mountains) Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | WA | Weird Anthropomorphoid |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to the noise made by ASH of Pokemon, and the fact he is anything but human) Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | WACOM TABLET | Woeful Artist Consumed Overly Metallic Tool And Burst Lardful Extreme 'Tomach. |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | WEBCAM | Woefully Explodes Bowels... 'Cause Actually Metal. |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 78% | WEBSTER | Worldly Evil Bookmaker Stupidly Took-away Ewes [before] R |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to Noah Webster's practice of taking out U before R in 'colour' and such. Words & Wordplay Names:Famous people |
| 100% | WELCOME BACK ANGELA! | Was Europe Lovely? Canada Offers Many Experiences. But Angela, Creative Kiwi, Absent Negates Goodtimes Everywhere -- Let's Apronymise! |
Jeff Anonymous, when Angela returned from a round-the-world trip. Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| 88% | WINDOWS (7) | Why Is Newzealander Deadset Ogre [to] Working System? |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Windows |
| 100% | WTC | War? Terrorism? Crime? |
Jeff Anonymous (given the lack of a proper term to describe the September 11, 2001, tragedy in New York City, resulting in the destruction of the World Trade Center) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Places:Buildings Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | WTC (6) | Will Terrorists Cry? |
Jeff Anonymous Re-expansions of existing acronyms Places:Buildings Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | WYOMING | When You Obviously Moan In Nerdy Gallop. |
Jeff Anonymous (Wyoming is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl, and no brown streaks on the seat.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | XAN | Xuberant Angel -- Not! |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the morose elf in the "Baldur's Gate" computer-game series. Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| 100% | XFREE (2) | X From Redhat Expires Easily |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Linux |
| 100% | XZAR | Xtreme Zhentarim Alongside Road |
Jeff Anonymous (this character from the Baldur's Gate computer game series claims to belong to a society known as the 'Black Network of Zhentarim'... yet he can be found alongside a road, as I recall) Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| 100% | ZZV | Zanesville's Zlichified Viewrange |
Jeff Anonymous (In reference to the Zanesville, OH, airport code and Zero-Zero Visibility) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Meteorology |
| previous apronyms by Jeff Anonymous |