APRONYMS BY ROB RIX

About Rob Rix

Fortunately for everyone involved, Rob has deigned to engage in shameless self-promotion: go to his website, listen to his music, read his blog, and submit with grace to his rulership.


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AMANDA (2)A Much Adored, Nearly Divine Amigo Rob Rix
Names:First names:Female
AMANDA (3)Appropriate Moniker Assigned Nicely Demure Artist Rob Rix, describing an incredibly artistic Amanda he knows.
Names:First names:Female
AMERICAArgumentative Multitude Encamped Right In Canada's Arse Rob Rix
Places:Countries
APLENTYA Plethora; Loads; Excesses Not Tested Yet Rob Rix
Main
APRONYMISMAddressing Prior Requisite Omniscience, "Not Your Median" Is Smart-Mouthed. Rob Rix (see APRONYMS (14))
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (14)Abbreviated Pronunciations Require Omniscience -- Not Your Median Science. Rob Rix
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
AUTOMAGICAnything Unexplained That Ordinary Magic Avoids, Given Its Confines Rob Rix - thought up after an e-mail to Angela wherein she used the word "automagically"
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
CAMINOCan't Anyone Make Intelligent Naming Options? Rob Rix (they changed Chimera's name to Camino recently. I think there is/was an X-Windows browser called Chimera already out there.)
Computers:Internet:Web browsers
CANOE (4)Canada's Apparently National Overwater Experience Rob Rix
Transport
Sports & Recreation
COWGIRLCattle-Owning Women Gain Interesting Random Lyrics Rob Rix, while listening to Cowgirl by Underworld
Entertainment:Music:Songs
FEAR AND LOATHINGFOLDOC Explains Acronym; Really, All Now Do Loathe "Other" Architecture That Honestly Is Not Good Rob Rix, inspired by the FOLDOC entry at http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=fear
Computers
FLAWS (3)First Love All Went South. Rob Rix
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
GOWANSTOWNGowanstown, Oh What A Name! Surely That Only Was Nonsense. Rob Rix
Places:Towns & Cities:Canada
HAVE A LOVELIER DAY THAN...Have A Very Excellent And Lovely (Oh, Very Entertaining) Life! I Expect Record Days And Years To Happen! And NOW! Rob Rix, after he capitalised that phrase in an email and Angela challenged him to expand it.
Assorted Phrases
HEPWORTHHighly Entertaining Place Where Oldsters Raid Tim Horton's George Rix, Rob Rix and Patricia Rix (Tim Horton's is a coffee shop chain found across Canada. It is also the social centre of its community in small towns, where people meet & chat or just hang out.)
Places:Towns & Cities:Canada
JAGUAR (6)Joins Aqua GUI, Unix, And Reality Angela Brett and Rob Rix (reality as in, not vapourware)
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
Names:Code Names:Apple
LESSER SANITARIALost Every Sensible Strand? Enter Rob's Stupendous Asylum! Nonsense Is There; Any Reasonableness Is Absent. Rob Rix, when Angela challenged him to acronymise it after he suggested that the custard-extracting nets of UNDILUTED GRADE A CANADIAN NONSENSE CONCENTRATE would be the primary export of Lesser Sanitaria.
Art & Literature:Fictional Places
NSDICTIONARY (2)Name Strings Denote Instances. Collection Takes In Objects, Named And Readily Yours Rob Rix and Angela Brett (see http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSDictionary.html)
Computers:Programming:Cocoa:Foundation Classes
PATRICIA (7)Particularly Artistic Temperament Results In Creating Incredible Acronyms Patricia Rix and Rob Rix
Names:Acronymists
RCMPRixes Care; McCop Provokes. Rob Rix - Responding to Tony "McCop" O'Grady's explanation for ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations
ROB RIXReally, Only Bothersome Rune Is 'X' Rob Rix
Names:Acronymists
SAFARI (3)Simplicity's Audience Forges A Reasonable Influence. Rob Rix
Computers:Internet:Web browsers
TARATara! Aack! Rrack! Aack! Rob Rix, explaining: Tara is rather icky. The buildings aren't nice the way most of Bruce County is, they're little ugly boxes (like PCs, sort of). The main street is positively depressing. The whole place makes you feel that it hasn't any air.
Places:Towns & Cities:Canada
WASAGA BEACHWhat A Sad And Gross Atrocity; Billboards Everywhere; A Complete Hole Rob Rix
Places:Waterways
WINDSOR (2)Where Is North Detroit? Straight Over River! Rob Rix - Windsor is the S. Ontario town which is a border crossing to Detroit and is colloquially known as N. Detroit
Places:Towns & Cities:Canada