A Punster Reworks Old Names - You May Smile
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| ARCHIVE | A Resource Containing Hoarded Items, Very Extensive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when it was suggested that some of the old forum threads be archived. Assorted Nouns |
| ARE | Acronym Requests Expansion |
Angela Brett, when Jeff capitalised ARE on the Acronyms forums. |
| ARE (2) | Angela, Resolved, Exceptionally. |
Jeff Anonymous, in response to ARE. |
| CONTRACT | Contributors Ought Not To Reveal Any Contrary Thoughts |
Angela Brett, after Tony jokingly said on the Apronyms forums, 'I have to agree with Angela -- It's in my contract' |
| CONTRACT (2) | Co-Operative? No! That's Right, Angela Controls Tony |
Angela Brett, after Tony jokingly said on the Apronyms forums, 'I have to agree with Angela -- It's in my contract' |
| COPY AND PASTE | Can Original Postings You've Abandoned Now Depart. Perhaps Archive Should Thread Elsewhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when it was suggested that some of the old forum threads copied and pasted into an ARCHIVE. |
| DANIEL (2) | Doesn't Appreciate Nuances In English Language |
TMcCO'G, after somebody on the Apronyms forums said that he needed an alliteration for Daniel. Names:First names:Male |
| DAVEN | Discovered Apronyms Via Entering Name |
Angela Brett, after somebody posted on the Apronyms forums, 'It's Daven here I was searching google for your name and found this' Names:First names:Male |
| DOUBLE POSTING | Don't Often Use Binary Letter Express - Perhaps One Submitted Twice In Naughty Gamefulness? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela accidentally posted the same message twice on the Acronyms forums. |
| EDWIN HERMANN (4) | Evident Delay With Instalment - Not Having Expendable 'Readies' Means Acronymsite Now Nonfunctional |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, thinking that Edwin not paying his webhosting bill on time might be the cause of the outage of the Acronyms forums. Names:Acronymists |
| FAILS | 'Flocci...' Acronym Is Laudable Subject! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, responding to Jeff's THEORY with 'As I am not my own son, this idea - like many things - works fine in theory but fails in practice.' Jeff had promised to acronymise floccinaucinihilipilification if his THEORY were correct. |
| FAILURE | Feeding Acronymic Irishman's Large, Unusually Robust Ego |
Patricia Rix, when Tony said 'When it comes to acronyms, I don't acknowledge this as a word' after challenged to acronymise failure when someone searched for it on the website. Patricia said he was asking to be TAKEN DOWN A PEG and then produced this acronym. |
| FORBIDDEN ACCESS | Finding Oneself Repulsed By Internet Domain, Do Everything Necessary About Creating Complaint - Email Someone Sensible. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to the same outage of the Acronyms forums which prompted Jeff's FOUR OH THREE. Computers:Internet |
| FORUMS | Friends Overseas Regularly Use Message Service. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FORUMS (2) | Floor Open... Rejected Using Moderated System. |
Angela Brett, who decided not to make the Acronyms forums at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/start.cgi?id=acronyms moderated. |
| FOUR OH THREE | Forum Outage (Urk) Really Ouches Herr Tony's Honorable Ramblings. 'Elp, Edwin! |
Jeff Anonymous, when the Acronyms forums weren't working due to an error 403 - forbidden access. |
| FOUR ZERO THREE | Found One Useless Remote Zone? Edwin Required Obviously! Tell Him Ratty Eireannach's Enraged! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Eireannach = Irishman, in Irish) in response to Jeff's FOUR OH THREE, saying that "Oh" is a letter of the alphabet, not a numeral. One doesn't count Oh, One, Two, Three... It is either None, Nought or Zero. |
| GOBSMACKED | Genuinely Overcome By Speechlessness. Mouth Apparently Completely Knackered - Extremely Dumbfounded. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who was gobsmacked that Jeff acronymised his forum post - see http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=983076143 Assorted Adjectives |
| HOW DO I SUBMIT? | Hello O Wise Dictionary Owners. Is Submission Undertaken By Me Ideally Tackled? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when someone capitalised 'HOW DO I SUBMIT?' on the Acronyms forums. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| IN RETROSPECT, I AGREE WITH YOU | I Never Really Expected To Receive 'Onor. Some People Esteem Calendar Turnovers, I Ambitiously Grasped - Recklessly Expecting Equality With Irish Tony, Had You Only Understood! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, acronymising what Jeff said when Angela explained (on the Acronyms forums) why he wouldn't get an honour for the first acronym in 2002. |
| INSTANT FAME | Immediate Notoriety, Simply Tack Advertising Nonsense To Forums And Miff Everybody! |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on a website... something you could achieve by posting a message on the forums. I don't recommend spamming the forums, however, please post something constructive instead. |
| INSTANT FAME (2) | I'll Now Spam To Attract Nitwits To Find About My Eminence |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on a website. The site appeared to be run by the Yellow Pages, and as I doubt they would resort to forum-spam for advertising, I can only assume the poster was trying to attract people to the site in order to increase his or her own 'fame'. Although, if having your name on a website counts as fame, then the simple act of posting on the forums gave just as much fame as the fame website itself. |
| INSTANT FAME (3) | "I'm Not Stupid... To Achieve Notoriety, Try Forming Apronyms." -- Miss Expansion 2003 |
Angela Brett, when somebody spammed the Apronyms Forums about a website promising 'instant fame', where the fame was no more than having your name on the website. If having your name on a website counts as fame, then a much better way to get famous is to submit apronyms to this site. (Note that this apronym was added in 2005... but I haven't added many apronyms recently so I won't claim that fictitious title for this year.) |
| IS THIS A STRANGE PREOCCUPATION? OR WHAT? | It's Suggested Tony Has Interesting (Strange And Suggestive?) Tendencies - Really! A Natural Gentleman Elegantly & Properly Resists Exposing Overt Clothing Concerns. Unpleasant People Are Teasing, I Opine. Normally Only Rogueish Women Hiss At Tony |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Patricia asked that very question when Tony demonstrated his familiarity with women's undergarments with his WONDERBRA (3). Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| ITS SO COOL!! | If They Spam Several Other Communities Online, Others'll Look! |
Angela Brett, expanding the capitalised phrase (complete with bad punctuation) in the INSTANT FAME forum spam. |
| JAFF | Just Angela's Freaky Falilure |
Jeff Anonymous, when Angela mistyped his name on the Acronyms forums. |
| LAST MESSAGE | Latest Acronym Seems To Make Everyone Suggest Some Alternative, Good, Expansion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LAST MESSAGE (2) | Lately Angela's Slow To Make Expansions, Since She's A Good Employee. |
Angela Brett |
| NEW ACROS (2) | New Entrant Waives Anonymity - Cautiously Reveals Original Surname |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Jeff. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| NEW POST TO THIS THREAD | Need Exposure? Write Pointing Out Something To The Others That Habituate Interesting Site. They Hopefully Relish Entertaining Acronyms Daily. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to one of the buttons at the Acronyms forums, at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/start.cgi?id=acronyms |
| NYMFORMANIA | Numerous? Yes - My Frequency Of Referring Means Abbreviated Name In Addresses |
Tony -- I have a bookmark for this Forum among my browser's addresses. As the site name is too long I shortened it to 'NymFor' and then _saw_ the connection with my favourite mania :-) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| PAIN (TWO) (ONE) | Parentheses Activate Interesting Novelty That We Only Occasionally Need Encounter |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when he began a forum thread called 'PAIN (2)' but since there was one post in the thread, it was displayed in the thread list as 'PAIN (2) (1)' |
| PI TIMES THREE I | Perchance If Thou Inexplicably Mutters Expandable Shoutings, Thou Hasto Really Expand 'Em Immediately! |
Jeff Anonymous ('Immediately' suggested by Tony McCoy O'Grady) rationalizing semi-imaginary rule pi*3i, which states that all things rendered in capitals on the Acronyms fora must be acronymised. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| PI TIMES THREE I (2) | People Ignoring To Immediately Make Expansions Should Try Harder - Rendering Expansions Educates Individuals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see PI TIMES THREE I) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| POST | Press OK Single Time. |
Steve Keate, after he accidentally posted the same message twice on the forums. |
| POSTING TWICE | Pressed Once & Slipped! Two Identical Notices Got Through. Worried, I Cry, 'Edwin!' |
Angela Brett, when she accidentally doubleclicked on the button to post a message on the forums, and needed Edwin to delete the duplicate post. |
| SMALL LETTERS | Some Minds Acronymise Lowercase Letters Leading Even Tony To Exemplify Resounding Silliness. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when a newcomer on the acronyms forums deliberately used small letters throughout a post in order to avoid having to acronymise any capitalised words. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| SPAMMED | Some Putzhead Apparently Multiply Messaged Eventless Discussion. |
Jeff Anonymous, after someone posted a URL multiple times on the Apronyms Forums. Computers:Internet |
| SPAMMED (2) | Stupid Punter Annoyed Masses, Moderator Exercised Discretion |
Sean Lamb, when the Apronyms Forums were SPAMMED and Angela deleted the offending posts. |
| THE WHOLE SHEBANG | Terribly Huge Expansion: Worldly Hours Of Liquiditity Expunged Simply. Horrible Expansion Be Alliterative, Nice, Good. |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the forum thread at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=984136095 Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| THE ACRONYM TIMEZONES | Tony Has Experienced Altered Chronological Rhythm. On NZST You Might Travel Inter-Meridian, Entering Zone Of Nearly Earliest Sunrise. |
Angela Brett, when Tony complained that the acronym forums (http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/start.cgi?id=acronyms) said he'd posted something in NZST, when he only does things in BST or GMT. |
| THE ACRONYMISTS' CHARTER | Take Heed Everyone And Carefully Read Our Necessary Yardstick Manifesto (Imaginary Sometimes - Theoretical Sometimes) Contained Herein Are Rules That Everybody Recognises |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the set of imaginary rules described at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=1006583985 |
| WHO GOES ON HERE ANYWAY? | We Have One Grand Orator, Everyone Shares One 'Nother's Humor. Enjoy Reading Everyone's Apronyms. Now You Will Apronimize. Yahoo! |
Sean Lamb, apronymising something that was asked on the apronyms forums. |
| WHO IS IT? | Would HyperUnit Offer Individual Signature Identifying Themself |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |