A Punster Reworks Old Names - You May Smile
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| ALAS! | Advantage Lost! Abashed! Surprise! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| APLENTY | A Plethora; Loads; Excesses Not Tested Yet |
Rob Rix |
| BITE ME | Blonde's Invited To Eat My Epidermis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases |
| BUMMER | Big Unpleasantness Makes Me Extremely Regretful |
Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| DEFAULT | Designer Encapsulated 'Favourite' As Usual Look / Theme |
Tony McCoy O'Grady who feels that not all default settings are the most logical, therefore they are probably the favourite of the makers |
| DROWSY | Dozily Reposed On Waking, Stretched, Yawned. |
Angela Brett |
| EACH (2) | Every Available Choice Heard |
Jan Morgan |
| ET CETERA | Echoing Thoughts Create Endless, Termless Expressions, Repeating Aimlessly |
Melanie Merswolke |
| HEREWITH | Have Eventuated Resulting Enclosure Which I Tender Hopefully |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HUH | Hardly Understood Her |
Angela Brett |
| INCREASING | Is Not Contained Really Easily As Size Is Now Growing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| IS (2) | Inexplicably So |
Jeff Anonymous, when he capitalised IS in 'This one IS Tony'. |
| KRISTINE | Knows Reading Is Shared, Teaching Ideas, Necessary Enlightenment |
Jan Morgan |
| MAY (6) | Merely Asking, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (on the 'May I do...' meaning of may.) |
| MAY (7) | Means Achievement Yielded. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (on the 'It may happen that...' meaning of may.) |
| OH | Outraged Horror |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| OH (2) | Optimistic Happiness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, just to confuse those who think he means Outraged Horror! :-) |
| PSHAW | Pathetic Sarcasm Hasn't Actually Worked |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| QUITE | Quantitatively Unspecific, It's Tentatively Extensive. |
Angela Brett |
| SO | Soon & Often |
Angela Brett, when Jeff said, after reading 'The Meaning of Liff', 'I am SO going to acronymize some of these.' |
| SO (2) | Spiritedly, Overenthusiastically |
Angela Brett (see SO) |
| SO (3) | Some Othertime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see SO) |
| SOME | Subset Of Mentioned Entirety |
Angela Brett |
| STRATINO | Someone Transforms Rubber And Tries Inventing New Operation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when someone searched for stratino on HTTP://ACRONYMS.CO.NZ>. He didn't know what it is but found a reference to it (as a brand-name?) in a web-search under the heading 'Rubber and Plastic Transformation' |
| þÿTA | Thanks Announced |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| THE | That Hitherto Explained... |
Angela Brett |
| WEES | What Everyone Else Said |
Acronymous Anonymous |
| WHAT? | Would Happily Accept Teaching |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WITH-OUT | Who Invented This Horrid , Objectionable, Unpleasant Term? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela used 'With-Out' in an expansion. |
| WOOT | While Owning, Outcry This |
I though that "woot" needed to be an apronym, and I saw that no one created one yet so... |
| YIKES | Your Intense Keening Evinces Surprise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| YIPPIE | You Ignore Peer Pressure In Extremes |
Rico Leffanta |
| ZORBA | Zesty Old Rogue Barters Adventure |
Rico Leffanta |
| TRIVIA | Tiresome Recollection? It's Very Interesting Actually |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| TRUISM | The Ruddy Usual Inane Sentence - Meaningless! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |