A Perfect Rendition Of Names, You Must See!
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| 100% | IA | Its Astronomical |
Rico Leffanta (Ia is Hawaiian for Milky Way) Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | IACHIMO | Implicates A Chaste, Honest, Innocent Maiden - Obnoxious |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Cymbeline |
| 100% | IAGO | Incites A Ghastly Overreaction |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Othello Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Othello |
| 100% | IAI-DO | Interesting Artistry In Defensive Operation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Martial Arts |
| 93% | I AM A CHILD OF GOD | Identity About Me, Absolutely Coming Home In Last Days (to) Omnipotent Father, Great One Divine |
Jan Morgan Religion People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | I AM COOL | 'It's A Myth!' Claim Objective On-Lookers |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | I AM COOL (2) | Indicates A Master Craftsman Of Obvious Laidbackness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | I AM GETTING THE MAC | Ibooks Are Much Greater Even Than The IBMs 'N' Gateways. Truly, Hypercard Even May Activate Correctly! |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | I AM HE | Infinity's Announcement Mean's He's Eternal |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | I AM IN LOVE | It's A Miracle! (I'm Not Lazarus, Only Very Emotional.) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I AM JEFF | I Actually May Just Effectively Fool, Friends. |
Virgil Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| 100% | I APOLOGISE! | It's A Pity, One Loathes Often Getting Internal Server Errors. |
Angela Brett, after the webserver being reconfigured caused some pages on the Acronyms web site to give internal server errors. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | IBERIA | In Between European Regimes Invading Africa |
Rico Leffanta Places History |
| 100% | IBIZA | Indulgent Brits In Zany Activities |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | IBM | Incredibly Bad Machine |
Gavin Shapiro Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | IBM (2) | I Broke Mine |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | IBM (3) | It's Barbarically Megapriced |
Jeff Anonymous, after mentioning IBM in I AM GETTING THE MAC Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 71% | IBOOK | It's Brilliant! Online, On-the-go, Kingpin! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 83% | IBOOK (2) | Introduction Brought Ovations - Obviously! - at Keynote. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (3) | It Belongs On One's Knee |
Angela Brett, partly as a response to those who complain that the iBook won't fit on an aeroplane tray. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (4) | "It's Breathtaking!" -- Owner Of KeyLime |
Angela Brett, who has a key lime iBook. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 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:Linux |
| 100% | IBOOK (6) | Its Bright Outside's Overly Kooky |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (7) | It's Bought Out Of Kindness |
Angela Brett (see THANKS!) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples |
| 100% | IBOOK (8) | It Blocks One's Oesophagus, Killing. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | IBOOK (9) | I Bought One, Oh Kay! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (10) | It's Best Of Orchard-Kind! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 90% | IBOOK SPECIAL EDITION | It's 'Black-tie Optional,' Overpriced Kin of Slower Portables. Elegantly Coloured, It Appears Lovely Except Disappointingly Increments The Inexpensive Other Notebooks. |
Angela Brett, who thinks the iBook SE is a bit too expensive for only an extra 66MHz and a different colour, but wouldn't mind having one anyway. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBRAHIM | Iraqi-Born Reasoner Analysed Hyperbolae, Integration & Motion. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | ICAB | It Criticises Any Blunder |
Angela Brett (iCab is a Mac web browser which gives reports on all the tiny inconsequential problems in pages' HTML code. Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (2) | Internet Chauffeur, A Beauty! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (3) | It Crashed! Aah, Bugger! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (4) | It Crashes A Bit |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (5) | I'll Choose Another Browser. |
Angela Brett, who likes some of iCab's features but finds it to be missing a few important ones, and unstable too. Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST | I Can Achieve Nothing Desiring Only A Lazy Life... Through Him I'm Near God, Shown The Harder Road Of Understanding God's Help Can Have Responsibilities... I Seize Them! |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | I CAN FLY | I'm Completely Airborne, No Feathers, Look You! |
TMcCO'G, It's been a while now since I had dreams wherein I could fly, but they were thrilling, though always ultyimately disappointing upon awakening. Transport |
| 95% | I CAN'T AGREE MORE, TONY | In Complete Agreement - Nothing To Argue. Gladly Reinforce Evocative Emotions Mentioned. One Re-echoes Exactly Thoughts Originally Noted Yesterday. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Jeff said on the forums, 'I can't agree more, Tony.' Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | ICARUS | Individuals Crusading Against Rampant Unchecked Stupidity |
Geoffrey Russell, who is responsible for ICARUS at http://www.h2g2.com/A159374 People & Relationships |
| 100% | ICE | It's Coldness Embodied |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | ICE (2) | It Chills Everything |
TMcCO'G Science:Chemistry Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | ICE AGE | Infant Child Enjoyed Animals' Great Expedition |
TMcCO'G Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | ICE CREAM | In-Cone Extravagance... Can't Resist Eating Another Mouthful. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | ICED COFFEE | Icy-Cold Espresso, Delicious Cream Or Foam For Enhancing Experience |
Angela Brett, who is slightly obsessed with iced coffee. In fact, when the heap of spare parts later to be known as KeyBoard came up with that acronym in the first episode of The ADVENTUREs of MacGirl and KeyBoard, MacGirl replied, "Actually it's not just icy-cold espresso. A lot of people think that iced-coffee is just cold coffee with ice in it but it isn't... it has to be made with milk, and sugar, and cream on top, and sometimes icecream and vanilla essence. It's a treat, not just a cold drink.Ó Angela and Dustan will be starting up an iced coffee website some time soon, rating all of the iced coffees they've tried in the quest for the perfect one. If they can manage to get permission from the superhero herself, they might even quote MacGirl somewhere on the site. MacGirl & KeyBoard Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | ICELAND | It's Continual Earthquakes Leave A Natural Desolation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | ICEMAN | Inuit Chappie (Esmiko Man) At Northpole? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 93% | ICHTHYOLOGIST | I Can't Help That Hatcheries You Opened Lack Oxygen Gills Ill-treated Soon Terminate |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology |
| 100% | ICON | It's Clicked On Needlessly |
Apronymous Anonymous Computers |
| 100% | ICON (2) | Image Connoting One's Notions |
Sean Lamb Art & Literature |
| 100% | ICY | It's Cold... Yikes! |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | ID | Initialized Dynamically |
Angela Brett (an 'id' can be assigned any kind of object) Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| 100% | ID (2) | Introspection Dominates |
Angela Brett, because the type of an object in Objective-C/Cocoa is not bound at compile time (where all object pointers could be the generic 'id' if you like) but is discovered at run-time by introspection. Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| 100% | IDAHO | Its Diversity Actually Has Options |
Jan Morgan Places:States & Regions |
| 100% | IDEA | Information Does Electronically Advance. |
Angela Brett, after she'd said something about throwing ideas around and Tony replied 'I can't throw an idea out the hall door, never mind as far as New Zealand!' Communication People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | IDEA (2) | Intelligent Development, Encourages Action |
Gavin Lambert People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | IDENTITY | It Describes Everyone's Natural Traits Ingenuously To You |
Edwin Hermann People & Relationships |
| 100% | IDI AMIN | If Destiny Impels, Are Men Intrinsically Nefarious? |
Rico Leffanta Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 83% | IDIOT | I Don't Intend to Overstudy This! |
Angela Brett, when one of her lecturers was spending an extremely long time explaining a very simple concept. Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | IDIOT (2) | International Director, Intranet Office Technology |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations:Humorous Job Titles |
| 100% | IDIOT (3) | I Deal Insurance... Outsmart Tomorrow! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | IDIOTS | I Don't Insult... Only Triumph Scorewise. |
Angela Brett, when someone on an online game called less able players idiots. People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | I DISAPROVE | Its Disastress Incorect Speling, A Por Riter Ofers Vulger Elision |
Angela Brett (see APROVE) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Communication |
| 100% | IDOC | Individuals Dependent On Computers |
Stan Cheney, explaining: We are starting a new organization or movement called "Individuals Dependent On Computers" or IDOC (pronounced: "Idiocy") Computers |
| 100% | I DON'T BELIEVE YOU | I Doubt Obvious Nonsense - Tis Beautifully Embellished - Lacks Indications Endorsing Veracity, Evidently You're Outrageously Untruthful |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | I'D RATHER DIE | It's Depressing Reading.... And The Hurt/Horror Escalates Rather Dreadfully.... It's Endless |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE | In Fervid Moments Use Stringed Instruments Creatively. By Encouraging The (Hopefully) Erotic Fervour Of One's Dearest, One Fires Lots Of Venereal Emotions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | IF ONLY YOU'D KEPT THE CONTACT DETAILS ON YOUR MAC AND USED ISYNC TO COPY THEM TO THE PHONE. | It's Fortunate On New Links You Yuppies Only Use Desktop's Keyboard Entering People's Telephones To Have Everywhere -- Clie Or Nokia, They All Can Take Down (Electronically) Telephone/ Address Information. Lost Something? Only Need Your Other (Unaffected) Repository, Make A Copy And No Data's Unavailable. Synchronising Every Day Is Superfluous, Your Numerous Contacts' Telephones Only Change Once Per Year (That's Horrible Estimate, Maybe Their Own Treasured Handhelds Escaped!) Personal Humble Opinion: Not Essential. |
Angela Brett (who has been without a mobile phone for the past few years and hasn't missed it) in response to MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED. An alternative to 'Clie Or Nokia' would be 'Cellphone or Notebook'. Computers Communication |
| 100% | I FORGOT TO RANT ABOUT MY NEW DELL COMPUTER | I Feel Overjoyed. Radeon Graphics, Optical Twosome, Transflexive Oversized Readout, And No Tubes. Arrived Bouncily, Overconfident UPS Trafficker Must Yaw. New 'Experienced' Windows... Disk Expansive... Let Linux Claim Open Megabytes. Pleased User Thinks: 'Elephantine RAM' |
Jeff Anonymous, after getting a Dell Dimension 8250 with: 2.4 Gigahertz Pentium IV, Dual boot Windows XP and RED HAT Linux 8, 120 gigabyte hard drive, 512 megabytes of RAM, 17 inch flat panel display, 128 megabyte ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card and two optical disc drives. See also UPS Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | IF YOU ARE GOOD | I'll Finance Your Own Unicorn! (Alicorn's Really Elephant's, Glued On... Oh, Devious!) |
Angela Brett (any young girl would be good if promised a unicorn, and parents can be sneaky when it comes to making young girls be good.) Assorted Phrases |
| 97% | IF YOU PUT A WORD IN CAPS YOU MUST ACRONYMISE IT | In Future You Obey Us! Please Undertake To Acronymise Words (Of Recent Design) Into Novel & Comedic Acronyms. Please Say You'll Observe Uniformity. Most Users Subscribe To Agreement:- Capitals Required? Okay, Now You Must Instantly Spell-out Expansion In Text. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | IGLOO | Ice-Girth Lodge Or Outpost |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 87% | IGNORANT PANSY | Intelligence Going Nowhere, Organic Ranting Around Nonsensical Trifle Pertaining to Antagonistic Nonsense of Screaming Youth. |
Mary Carr People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | IGNORE | I Guess No One Really Exists |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Verbs |
| 88% | IGNORED | Isn't Getting Noticed? Only Response is Exaggerated Disinterest. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | I HAD A GREAT TRIP | I'm Home And Delighted About Global Roaming Except, Alas, That The Revelry Is Past. |
Angela Brett, after going around the world. Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| 100% | I HATE YOU | Ideal Hope Abideth, Thou Endureth Years Of Unpopularity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | I HAVE NOTHING TO DO! | I Have A Vapid Existance, Never One To Hear Interesting News. Great Things Oncoming? Dream On! |
Robert Anonymous Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | IKEBANA | It's Kado. Eclectic Botany, Artful New Arrangements |
Sean Lamb (Ikebana, also known as Kado, is the ancient Japanese art of formal floral arrangement) Art & Literature |
| 100% | I LEFT AN 'F' OUT OF MY ACRONYM AND I NEVER NOTICED | It's Laughable! Each Flaw-Teasing Acronym: New Flaw. One Unfailing Typed Output From Me, & Yucky Acronym Cycle's Rounded Off. Now, You Must Always Notice Details... Initials Not Excluded, Valid Expansion, Recheck Nothing's Omitted - Type It Correctly, Everything Done. |
Angela Brett, after Tony acronymised a similar phrase pointing out a missed letter in one of Jeff's acronyms, but Tony's expansion was missing an F-word. Perhaps he's just too polite. ;) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | I LIKE SWORDS | I Loathe Insignificant Knives - Even Swishing With One Rarely Disturbs Soldiers. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the ACRONYMS website. Military:Weapons |
| 100% | I LIKE SWORDS (2) | I Live, I Kill... Enemies Shall Weep, Or Rather, Die Suddenly. |
Angela Brett Military:Weapons |
| 100% | ILL | Invalid Lies Lethargically |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | ILL (2) | Is Laid Low |
Roger Williams Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | ILLINOIS | It's Lincolns Land, It's Nature's Option In Soybeans |
Jan Morgan - More soybeans are grown Here Places:States & Regions |
| 100% | ILLINOIS CENTRAL | It's Like Long In New Orleans Is Sighing. Canadian Equipment, New Trains Running Around Louisiana |
Sean Lamb (Huey Long was governor of Louisiana earlier in the 20th century, and the Illinois Central, now owned by Canadian National, was well-known for the passenger train "The City of New Orleans" [remember the song made famous by Arlo Guthrie?]) Transport:Trains |
| 100% | I'LL PANIC IF I WANT TO | In Life's Less Pleasant Accidents, Natural Inclination Causes Intense Frustration. Individual Witters About, Not Thinking Things Out |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after DON'T PANIC People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | ILLUSIONS | If Lovers Lose Union Should Imbeciles Operate Nuclear Stations? |
Rico Leffanta, because people imagine lovers sticking together which, of course, they don't do for long, and that bureaucrats are competent to manage nuclear stations, but Chernobel wasn't an illusion, was it? Politics People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | I LOVE MY CATS | Intelligent-Looking Only Very Exceptionally -- Mostly Yowling, Careening Around Tired Sleepers |
Patricia Rix Science:Biology:Animals |
| 89% | I LOVE YOU | It's Like On Valentine's, Except Year-round. Overused Utterance. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I LOVE YOU (2) | I Live On Valuing Everything You Output, Unconditionally. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I LOVE YOU TOO | Involuntarily Lips Open, Venting Emotions You've Often Uttered (Through Obligation Only?) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | IMAC | Incomparable Macintosh Awaits Connection |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (2) | I Mailed A Companion! |
Angela Brett, after emailing Tony from an iMac at MacJava Cybercafe, the coolest cafe in Auckland. (Great ICED COFFEE, all sorts of historic Macs and Macazines, and great people.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 80% | IMAC (3) | It's Mainly Aimed at 'Consumers' |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 80% | IMAC (4) | Increased Marketshare of Apple Computer. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 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 Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (6) | It Made Ample Cash |
Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (7) | It's Mostly Always Colourful. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (8) | Indigo Model Ain't Costly |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (9) | It Might Also Choke |
Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) 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 |
| 100% | IMAC (11) | I Made A CD! |
Steve Keate, since most of the new iMacs have CD writers in them. 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 |
| 100% | IMAC (13) | Its Monitor Angle's Configurable |
Angela Brett, referring to the flat-screen iMacs. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (14) | Its Makers Added Character |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC (15) | It May Abridge Crashing |
Jeff Anonymous, who ordered an iMac G5 (17" combo drive) last Tuesday. It should ship by Thursday and will be replacing a Windows 98 PC that's freezing up a lot. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAC DV | Intuitively Makes Amateur Cinema... Delicious Variations! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IMAGE! | Interceding Man, Almighty God: Emmanuel! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Refers to Colossians 1:15 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" (King James Version) Religion |
| 100% | I'M AN IDIOT | I Must Amend Neglectfulness -- I Didn't Inspect Original Typing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when he missed out a word when typing an acronym on the forums. Assorted Phrases Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | IMBALANCE | It Might Begin A Lean And Not Correct Error |
Angle-aaah! Brett Assorted Nouns |
| 96% | I'M GLAD YOU'RE GETTING THE MAC! | It's My Goal... Let All Decide 'Yes!' On Understanding Relative Excellence of G3/G4 Electronics. The Truth Is, Nobody's Going To Have Eventual Misgivings About Computer. |
Angela Brett, in response to I AM GETTING THE MAC - I do tend to prod people toward getting Macs, but most people (especially long-suffering Windows users, or Linux users entranced by the genuinely translucent terminal windows) don't need any prodding once they have all the information. So it's 'my' goal to get the people I meet to use/buy Macs, but they really decide yes for themselves. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | IMHO | I Make Humungous Overstatements |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: Let's subvert the accepted standard interpretations of some well known internet nyms, so that when we see them we can smile to ourself knowing that the writer is 'really' saying... (IMHO usually stands for In My Humble/Honest Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | I MISS YOU | It's Miserable In Solitude Sometimes... Yearning's Overwhelming, Unfulfilled. |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | IMMAC | Incredible Moustache Moving Applicator & Creme |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, inspired while watching a TV advert for Immac hair remover. Drugs People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products |
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