Acronyms made our life’s verbal aspect easier, but you’ll frown at this list!
Using Acronyms. Photo from osakabentures.com
I’m thankful for the invention of it. I can breath smoothly while talking because there’s no need for me to say ‘National Aeronautics and Space Administration’; I’ll just mouth NASA. It’s more convenient and safe too, especially when in conversation about a person in the vicinity. It would mean no harm if I say TBT than ‘That Bastard There’ or ‘TIIC’ than ‘Those Idiots in Charge’.
I could use acronyms to score a girl by pulling out pawns like HOLLAND, which meant ‘Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies’ – touchdown! Asia will do fine as well, like INDIA, which meant ‘I Nearly Died In Adoration’; or I could jump in Africa, like EGYPT, which meant ‘Everything’s Great, You Pretty Thing!’. Okay, let’s stop this continental atrocity.
FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, always appear to me as a cool word. YOLO is nice too, ‘You Only Live Once’. But regardless of the meaning of an acronym, some of it just sound damn great and appropriate, but not the list below. I scraped the internet for the worst acronyms ever created. Here they are:
Acronym: ASOL
Meaning: The American Symphony Orchestras League
Side comment: It’s just that, it sounds like you know what hole.
Acronym: STUPID
Meaning: St. Thomas University of Public International Diplomacy
Side comment: I feel so sorry for the university, such an irony to be called stupid.
Acronym: MANPADS
Meaning: Man-portable air-defense systems
Side comment: This is effin’ hilarious!
Acronym: ASS
Meaning: American Society of Scotts
Side comment: I imagined it how the man would say “Hi, I’m the president of ASS”.
Acronym: PUMCODOXPURSACOMLOPOLAR
Meaning: Pulse Modulated Coherent Doppler-Effect X-Band Pulse-Repetition Synthetic-Array Pulse Compression Side Lobe Planar Array
Side comment: If I ever need to use this in a sentence (don’t think it’ll happen), I’ll refer you as ‘that thingy’.
Those are my favorites. You could check out more in Beg to Differ’s NOMO: The 25 worst acronyms in the world and in Linkedin’s discussion Worst acronym for an organization name?
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The acronym STUPID for a University is just horrible 😐
I love the PUMCODOXPURSACOMLOPOLAR! Cool yo! Hahaha
I know! If I go to university of STUPID, I’ll be embarrassed.
Can you even pronounce PUMCODOXPURSACOMLOPOLAR in one go? HAHA
I agree! It’s not that good to hear.
Hmm. I pronounced it straight when I first read it, but I got lost when I tried to repeat it. Hahaha
I like some of the older ones used in letters, imho.
Yhs
Yeah! What’s yhs? haha
Your humble servent
This was hilarious..truly enjoyed it.. 🙂
Great! These kind of comments keep me going
Made me laugh!
You made me happy!
*smiling!*
Manpads? Hahahahahahaha great post!
Hilarious HAHA! But disturbing mental image
not to mention “IANAL”…. I Am Not A Lawyer
It would be funnier if we present it as iANAL. Jeez, I’m definitely not a lawyer!
Thank you, I was probably the person not living under a rock who didn’t know what YOLO meant. I’ve been meaning to Google it, but I always forgot. Yea, now I know! Great post BTW. Hahah.
Glad you found that information here! Now you can use YOLO and mean it 🙂
I laughed so hard at MANPADS!
It’s my favorite too, HAHA!
Hysterical! I like them too. 😉
Glad to make you laugh 😀
Too funny – this reminded me of my days in the US Navy – EVERYTHING had an an acronym and the old sailors who’d been in forever used them all the time and acted like you should know exactly what they were talking about when they did. I remember acting like I understood then running and asking someone what a BUPERS manual was or why everyone was freaking out because COMSUBLANT was coming. What is a COMSUBLANT? LOL, thanks for sharing!
That was so badass going to the US Navy! I guess your acting skills are also honed HAHA. COMSUBLANT, is it Commission on Submarine Plant? lol
Great post, wonderful detective work, funny, thanks! “.”
Thanks too for your kind words!
TGMAGMM! cute post.
YOLO is my favorite from the list. 😀 The others are hilarious.
Anybody using a “Pulse Modulated Coherent Doppler-Effect X-Band Pulse-Repetition Synthetic-Array Pulse Compression Side Lobe Planar Array” wouldn’t call it “that thingy”.
Far more likely to be “the machine” or “the device”, otherwise you’ll loose all your sinister overtones 🙂