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| 100% | AMIGA | Archaic Machine, It's Gone Away. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Computers Computers |
| 100% | ANARU | A Naughty And Rambunctious Underling |
Steve Keate, acronymising his son. Names:First names:Male Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | APPLE COMPUTERS | A Perplexing Productive Large Enterprise Creating Obnoxious Monstrosities Plus Useful Tools. Employs Recycled Steves. |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | BAUD | Blazing Access Using Dialup |
Steve Keate Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | BRASSIERE | Breast-Restraining Apparatus, Sometimes Shown In Extremely Raunchy Exposes |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| 100% | BREAST | Beautiful, Round, Entertaining, Appetising, Supple, Tittilating. |
Matthew Oram and Steve Keate Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | BREAST (2) | Becomes Really Erect After Some Tweaking |
Matthew Oram and Steve Keate Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | BUDDING | Breasts Usually Do Develop In Nubile Girls |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | CAPS | Cease All Pathetic Shouting |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Advice People & Relationships:Advice |
| 75% | CAT (3) | Created to Attack Toes |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CD | Can't Digest |
Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | CELL SITE | Children Exhibit Lack-Lustre Scores In Their Exams |
Steve Keate, thinking about the effect of cell sites being near schools. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Communication Communication |
| 100% | CHAIR | Can Hold An Interested Reader |
Steve Keate Household Objects:Furniture Household Objects:Furniture |
| 100% | CHEDS | Crackers Having Extremely Delicious Seasoning. |
Steve Keate Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | CHIMERICAL | Can't Handle Installing Mozilla? Easily Remedied: Install Chimera And Laugh. |
Steve Keate, referring to the web browser for Mac OS X Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | CHUNDER | Could Have Used Normal Digestive Enzymes, Really. |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | CORD | Clogs Oesophagus, Really Dry |
Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | CRAP | Challenge Requiring A Professional |
Steve Hartsell (referring to CRAP as in "Look at all the CRAP my boss expects me to complete before I go home.") People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | DAMN | Didn't Acronymise... More Needed. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett, because Eric had created enough new acronyms to overtake Steve on the hall of fame. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | DISK | Digestus Interruptus - Slender Kilojoules. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | DOG | Dull Organism. Growls. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG (2) | Disgusting Odour - Gross! |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG (4) | Drools On Groin |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG (5) | Defecates On Garden |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DONGLE (3) | Devoid Of Nutrition, Gives Little Energy |
Steve Keate, who is thinking of creating a series of acronyms explaining why not to eat computer accessories. Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | DOOR | Don't Open On Route |
Steve Keate, referring to a car door. Transport:Car Parts Transport:Car Parts |
| 100% | DOPE (3) | Does Offer Pseudo-Enlightenment |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Drugs Drugs |
| 100% | DVD | Didn't Vomit -- Died! |
Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | DYLAN | Died Young, Lump Attacked Neurons |
Angela Brett, referring to Steve's son. Names:First names:Male Names:First names:Male |
| 94% | EVIL TWIN BROTHER | Entirely Vile Intel-Loving Twit With Innovators' Name - Beige Remains On Top in His Evil Realm. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, thinking of Dustan's gatanist friend Steve and wondering how he could share a name with Jobs and Wozniak, then deciding perhaps he is COMMISSIONER STEVE's evil twin brother. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| 100% | FEMALE | For Ever Moaning About Littlest Errors |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | FEMALES (2) | Flimsy Entities Males Attain Lewdly Enforcing Sexuality |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | FEMALES (3) | For Entertainment, Many Are Laying Evil Scheme(r)s |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | FRIDGE | Freezing Receptacle Including Digestable Goodies Endlessly |
Matthew Oram and Steve Keate Food & Drink Food & Drink Household Objects:Appliances Household Objects:Appliances |
| 100% | GEEK (2) | Greatly Enjoys Enhancing Kernels |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Computers Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 89% | GISBORNE | Gatanistic Inhabitant Steve Brings Out Rampant Nerdiness in Everyone |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, thinking about Dustan's gatanist friend Steve who lives in Gisborne. (See EVIL TWIN BROTHER) Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand |
| 100% | GNU | Good News, Usually |
Steve Keate (GNU actually stands for 'Gnu's Not Unix' and is a project by the free software foundation to make a free alternative to Unix.) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers Computers |
| 100% | GNU (2) | Gates Now Unhappy |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers Computers |
| 83% | GOURD | Good, Often Underrated, Receptacle for Drinks. |
Steve Keate Food & Drink:Drinks Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | HAND | Hard Acronym Not Done |
Angela Brett, when Steve was trying to think of a HAND acronym and then asked her for an expansion when he couldn't think of one. Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HANDS | Have Above Nine Digits, Sometimes. |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEATER | High Electrical Appetite, Turns Element Red. |
Matthew Oram and Steve Keate Household Objects:Appliances Household Objects:Appliances |
| 100% | HEWLETT-PACKARD | Have Employed Wozniak - Looked Encouragingly Toward The Prototype Apple, Couldn't Know About Resulting Disadvantage. |
Angela Brett, since Steve Wozniak was working at Hewlett-Packard when he designed the Apple I, but luckily HP weren't interested in selling computers at that time so they didn't claim it as their own. Computers Computers Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | HOMER | Holding Onto Marge - Extreme Reliance |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 83% | HORNY | Hard-On Raging for Nubile Youth |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | HYSTERICAL (2) | Helplessly Yelping, Screaming Things Endlessly, Ranting Incoherently, Complaining A Lot. |
Steve Keate, after he lost Angela's Mac. People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | IBM (2) | I Broke Mine |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers Computers Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | IBOOK (5) | It's Broken, Obviously... Omitted Konsole! |
Steve Keate, summarising the reaction of a KDE (http://www.kde.org) user to an iBook. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | IBOOK (8) | It Blocks One's Oesophagus, Killing. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 80% | IMAC (5) | I'm a Mean Acronym Creator |
Angela Brett, after Steve said he was trying to think of a mean expansion for iMAC. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (6) | It Made Ample Cash |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (7) | It's Mostly Always Colourful. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (9) | It Might Also Choke |
Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | IMAC (10) | It Mated A Crayon! |
Steve Keate, describing the answer an iMac owner would give if asked what happened to his/her old Mac Classic. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (11) | I Made A CD! |
Steve Keate, since most of the new iMacs have CD writers in them. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (12) | It Made A Clunk |
Steve Keate, guessing what an iMac user might say on taking it to be repaired. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | INCEST | Intergenerational Nookie Compromises Extreme Sexual Taboos. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 92% | INFATUATION | Infuriating Neurotic Feeling of Adoration That Unfortunately Attacks The Intelligence Of Nerds. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | INSANELY GREAT MAC | Innovative New Software Advancing New Electronic Lifestyle. You've Greatly Revolutionised Electronics... Apple Technology Makes A Comeback! |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing. (Steve Jobs described the Macintosh as being insanely great way back before it was even out of the bag, and we agree with him!) Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | INTEL | Invest Nothing, They'll Eventually Lose. |
Angela Brett, after Steve said that he wouldn't invest any money in Intel because he doesn't think they innovate any more. Computers Computers Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | JAGUAR (5) | Just About Godlike... Unbelievers Are Reconsidering |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | JEALOUS | Justly Envious About Loved One Undressing Someone |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | JOBS | Janitors Outdo Bigwig's Salary! |
Angela Brett - Steve Jobs only gets paid $1 a year for being iCEO of Apple. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton Names:Famous people Names:Famous people |
| 100% | KEYBOARD (2) | Keys Enter Your Bowel Only After Ruining Duodenum. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | LAMP | Luminous Apple Macintosh Phosphors |
Angela Brett, after she was given a 512k Mac whose disk drive wasn't connected, so all it does is show the disk icon with a flashing question mark - Steve suggested it could be used as a lamp. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | LAMP (2) | Lost At Midnight? Press. |
Steve Keate Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | LEGAL | Loopholes Exploited, Getting Around Laws |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | LICE | Little Insects Crawl Everywhere |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Insects Science:Biology:Insects |
| 100% | LOVE (2) | Lust Overcomes, Vagina Entered |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LUST (4) | Lacy Underwear Stretched Taut |
Steve Keate and Blair People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LUST (6) | Largely Useless Sexual Tensions |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | MAC | Microsoft Ate Company |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MAC (2) | Makes Angela Comfortable |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MAC (3) | Mostly Always Condescending |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | MAC OS (2) | May Angela Crave Only Steve |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | MAC OS (3) | Majorly Addictive, Causes Overuse Syndrome. |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software |
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