Appeal: Please Resist, Or Naive Young Minds Subverted!
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| 100% | AIRLINES | Aviation Industry Regularly Leaves Individuals Needing Extra Space |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | AIRPLANE | Aerial Innovation Rising Perpendicular, Lifts Achieving Necessary Elevation |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | ALABAMA (2) | Americas Largest Active Battleship Alabama, Mobile Area |
Jan Morgan - Can Be toured here it saw action in WWII and was the largest ever built Military Places:States & Regions |
| 100% | ALITALIA | Aircraft Leave Italian Territory And Land In Adriatic |
Chris Kjelgaard |
| 100% | ANCHOR | A New Cruiser's Held Off Rocks |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | ARGUS | A Really Great Unusual Ship |
Jan Morgan -- see THE ARGUS Sports & Recreation:Scouts |
| 100% | ATMOSPHERIC (2) | As Transport Machinery Overtakes Sense, Particulates Have Exercisers Racked In Coughs |
Angela Brett - in some places it would be faster to walk than drive due to all the traffic, if it weren't for the exhaust fumes you'd have to breathe. Science:Environment |
| 100% | AUTOMOBILE | Almost Universal, Though One Man On Bike Is Less 'Exhausting' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | AUTOMOBILE (2) | An Unmerciful Taker Of Money, Often Being In Lien Eternally |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | AUTOMOBILE (3) | A Useful Tool Often Making Our Busy, Involved Life Easier. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | BATTLE TANK | Bush Artfully Targets Threat-Lapsed Enemy, Totally Avoiding North Korea |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:Weapons |
| 88% | BIG DENT | Banged Into Garage - Didn't Even Notice it There. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BLIMP | Balloon's Lines Impede Marauding Planes |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | BOATS | Best Ones Are Trailer-Sailers |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BOMBER | Billions Of Megatons Bring Earthly Ruin |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military |
| 100% | BRIDGES | Busy Road If Deep Gorge's Elaborately Spanned |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Waterways |
| 100% | BULLDOZER | Big Ugly Land Lifting Digger, Often Zealously Engineering Roads |
Dustan Dowsing |
| 100% | BUS | Backbreakingly Uncomfortable Sleep |
Dustan Dowsing, after having a sleep on an INTERCITY BUS and finding it had left him with, among other things, a pain in the neck. |
| 100% | BUS (2) | Big... Umpteen Seats |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BUS (3) | Brought Us Southward |
Angela Brett, after going from Auckland to Palmerston North in one. |
| 100% | CAB | Contains Autoist Bottom |
Dustan Dowsing |
| 83% | CAMEL (2) | Carrying Amorous Males to Exquisite Ladies |
Mary Carr Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CANOE | Can Anyone Navigate Ocean Ebb? |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | CANOE (2) | Can A Novice Overturn Easily? |
Roger Williams Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | CANOE (3) | Canada's A Neat Overseas Experience |
Angela Brett, who spent a fair bit of time in canoes while visiting Canada. Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | CANOE (4) | Canada's Apparently National Overwater Experience |
Rob Rix Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | CAR | Carries Around Riders |
Edwin Hermann |
| 100% | CARAVAN | Cruises All 'Round Area - Vacationers' Abode, Normally. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CARPOOL | Can Assist Reducing Pollution On Our Lives |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CARS | Carriages Are Roadworthy, Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CARTS | Clydesdales Are Really Tough Species |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 91% | CHALLENGER | Christa Had A Life; Lost in Explosion. National Grief Eternally Remains. |
Roger Williams Science:Astronomy History |
| 92% | COMPETITION | Co-operation Of Major Petrol Empires Throws Insult To It, One Notices. |
Angela Brett, when she received an email urging people to boycott major PETROL companies in order to force the price down. (See also CO-OPERATION) Commerce |
| 100% | CO-OPERATION | Complete Oligarchy Of Petroleum Empires Riles All The Innocent Oil-Needers. |
Angela Brett (see COMPETITION) Commerce |
| 100% | CRUISE CONTROL | Car Runs Uniformly If Specialty's Engaged Correctly - One Needn't Turn Right Or Left. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CYCLISTS SHOULD BE CAREFUL | Caution Your Children! Lessons In Safe Transport Should Save Harmful Outcomes..... (Unsafe Learner Drivers, Badly Educated, Cause Accidents) .... Repeat Every Fortnight Until Learnt. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining: My son was knocked down in a collision between his bicycle and a motorcar. He is not badly injured and we are unsure as to who was at fault, but as his father I have decided that the car driver was ;-) |
| 100% | DELIVERY | Direct Everything Lost If Verification Exists Register Yawn |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DIESEL | Dirty Internal Engines Should Emit Less |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | FAIRCHILD | Fine Aircraft, It Reaches Cloud-Height Instead of Lower Down. |
Angela Brett, when she realised that the aeroplane she was travelling in was a Fairchild... yep, that is the kind of plane that those people crashed in and ended up eating each other. See also WINDOW SEAT. |
| 100% | FALLING | Forget About Lost Luggage - Incompetence's Now Grave! |
Angela Brett, referring to a falling aircraft and the presumed incompetence of whoever's flying it, compared with that of the luggage clerk who sent your luggage to Murmansk. |
| 100% | FAST | Fleet And Speedy Travel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | FEET | Fantastically Effective & Environmentally-friendly Transport |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | FERRY TICKET | Forget Enduring Road Rage - You'll Travel In Comfort, Knowing Entrance Time. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GALLEONS | Great Armada Lost Lives Entering One Nasty Storm |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The Spanish Armada was defeated as much by the weather as by the British Navy) History |
| 100% | GIRLS DON'T LIKE BOYS, GIRLS LIKE CARS AND MONEY. | Get It Right, Lads! She Doesn't Only Need True Love (I Know Everyone Believes Only Your Soul's Goodness Is Really Likeable) She Likes Incredible Kit, Excess Capital And Racing Spoilers. All Now Demand Men Owe Nothing Except Yabber. |
Angela Brett, who disagrees with this lyric from 'Boys and Girls' by Good Charlotte. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Commerce:Money |
| 100% | HIGHWAY | Having Itinerary, Guides Humans Wanderings, Achieving Yardage |
Jan Morgan Places |
| 100% | HITCHHIKER | Hop In The Car... Heading Home? I Know Expedient Route. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HITCHHIKER (2) | Hope I'm Travelling Carefully, Hope He Isn't Killer, Even Rapist |
Tony McCoy O'Serial Killer |
| 67% | HOBO (2) | Hop On Board, On-the-house! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | HORSE (3) | Harry Only Rides Sally East |
Uniasus Science:Biology:Animals |
| 92% | HORSE AND CART | Having Obedient Reliable Slaves, Each Affluent Nobleman Drove a Carriage. Archaic Road Transport. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HORSEPOWER | Humans Often Race Speedy Engines... Probability Of Wreckage Escalates Rapidly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | HORSES | Humans' Overiding/Overall Resource Speed Earthshakin' Steeds! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Biology:Animals |
| 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. |
| 100% | IMPACT | I Might Perform A Crash Test |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| 0% | INTERCITY BUS | I've Not Travelled Everywhere Round the Country In This Yet, Because (I) Usually Soar. |
Angela Brett, while on a nine hour bus trip from GISBORNE - she had flown down there in a FAIRCHILD originally. |
| 100% | JET | Joins Earth's Terminals |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | KAYAK | Keeps Away Yachties... Absent Keel! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | KLR | Kickstart & Let's Ride |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to MOUTH (2) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | KLR (2) | Keep Leathers Ready |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to MOUTH (2) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | KLR (3) | Keen Little Racer |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to MOUTH (2) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 94% | LATE TRAIN SERVICE | Left After The Evening Train Rolled Along, In Near-empty Station, Expecting Returning Vehicle Into City - Evfentually |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LIFEBOAT | Lucky Indeed For Everyone's Brought Onboard After Tragedy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | LOCK (2) | Loss Of Car Keys |
Matthew Oram |
| 90% | LOGISTICS | Long-distance Operation Generally Involves Shifting Things Into Certain Sites |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military |
| 100% | LOGISTICS (2) | Large Operation Gets Items Shipped To Infantry's Complete Satisfaction |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military |
| 100% | MECHANIC | Male Endangered Class, He's Always Nestled Inside Cars |
Mary Carr People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | MOTOR ACCIDENT | Met One/ Two Others Recently As Car Crashed Into Drinkers Exiting Nebraskan Tavern? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Gavin said he'd 'run across' one or two acronymists in Nebraska. |
| 91% | MOTORBIKES | Machines Of Transport - Or Rather, Bicycles (with) Increased Kinetic Energy & Speed |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, because when Angela asked Dustan's mother for a topic, bragging that there would probably be an acronym in this stack referring to it, she said 'motorbikes' and it was discovered that there was no acronym referring to motorbikes yet. Her second choice, horses, did already have acronyms referring to it, however - so the stack is *nearly* encyclopaedic. |
| 100% | MOTOR CAR | Mode Of Transport Often Raced. Can Also Rust |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 90% | MOTORCARS | Millions Of Them Overload Roadways, Causing A Right Snarl-up |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MOTORCYCLE | Means Of Transport Offering Real Catharsis: You Can Liberate Emotions |
Patricia Rix, adding: or perhaps one of the other meanings of "catharsis" might apply, if you have a scary ride! |
| 93% | MOVING FORWARD | Motion Of Vehicle Is Now Going Frontwards (Or Reversing With A Rear-facing Driver) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NASCAR | Numerous Afternoons Spent Careering Around Racetrack |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 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 |
| 100% | PADDLE | Propel A Dugout During Liquid Escapade |
Tony McCanoe O'Grady |
| 100% | PARK | Put Away Resting Kart |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PEDESTRIANS | People Evading Drivers - Eventually Squashed! They're Regularly Included As Newspaper Statistics |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 94% | PEDESTRIAN SAFETY | People Expect Drivers, Especially Speeders, To Resist Injuring Anyone - No Sidewalks Are For Entertaining Tear-away Youths! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PETROL | Prehistoric Extinction! This Revolutionised Our Locomotion. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PETROL (2) | Prefer Engines That Run On Light |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PLOW | Patrolboat Lurches Over Waves |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | PRAM | Pushing Round A Minor |
Tony McCoy O'Daddy |
| 100% | PUBLIC TRANSPORT | People Using Busses Locked In Commuter Traffic Repent, At Next Stop Purchase One Rail Ticket. |
Angela Brett |
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