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Acronym =
  Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbering Your Memory
  A Concise Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
  Another Cheap Round Of Network Yawn Makers
  A Capitalised Representation of Names You Memorize


computers

ACORN = Astounding Computers Often Ridiculed Nonetheless
AOL = A*sholes On Line
Amiga = A Merely Insignificant Games Addiction
Amiga = Asinine Machine Invented for Gaming Adolescents
AMIGA = A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
Apple = All Programmers Pursuing Legal Ends
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity BASIC = Bloody Awful System It Creates
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
COBOL = Complies Only Because Of Luck
COBOL = Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
Commodore = Come On Make My Ordinary Day Once Really Exciting!
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
DOS = Defective Operating System
FIDO = Finding Interesting Dead Organisms
FUBAR = F**ked Up Beyond All Repair
HP = High Price
IBM = I Buy Macintosh
IBM = Install Bigger Memory
IBM = Incredibly Bad Machine
IBM = Industry's Big Mistake
IBM = It Barely Moves
I Blew Money IBM = I Blame Microsoft
ISDN = It Still Does Nothing
ISA = it's so awful
LISP = Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses
MacIntosh = Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
Microsoft = Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
MIPS = Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
MIS = Many Insane Spendings
MR BIOS = Mentally Retarded BIOS
MSNBC = Microsoft Sues Nielsen Behind Cameras
Nimbus Next, I'M Buying Useful System NT = Not Tested
NT = Nice Try
NT = Not Trusted
NTFS = Normally To F**king Slow
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
PCI = pretty cheap imitation
Pascal = Pretty Awful Slow Cunt of A Language
Pentium = Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
SCSI = System Can't See It
TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TSR = Totally Stuck in RAM
VLB = very low budget
WINDOWS = Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WWW = World Wide Wait
WIT = Wordsmith In Training

Netscape - Nutscrape
Eudora - Eudorka



electronics and technology

NTSC = Never Twice Same Color
PAL = Pictures At Last!
SECAM = System Even Crappier than American Method



cars

AMC =
  Almost Makes Corners
  All Makes off Cars

Audi =
  Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
  Always Unsafe Designs Implemented

BMW =
  Big Money Waste
  Blastphemous Motorized Wreck
  Born Moderately Wealthy
  Break My Windows
  Broken Money Waster
  Brutal Money Waster
  Bought My Wife

Buick =
  Big Ugly Import Car Killer
  Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
  Big Ugly Indestructable Compact Killer

Chevrolet =
  Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips
  Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
  Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time

Chevy =
  Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet

Dodge =
  Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
  Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere
  Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
  Dangerous On Days Gears Engage

Fiat =
  Fix it again Tony
  Failure In Automotive Technology
  Failed Italian Automotive Technology
  Failed In All Tests

Ford =
  Fix or repair daily
  Found On Road Dead
  Fails On Rainy Days
  F**ker Only Runs Downhill
  Fraternal Order of Restored DeSoto's
  backwards -- Driver Returns On Foot
  First On Rust and Deterioration
  Fast Only Rolling Downhill

GM =
  General Maintenance

GMC =
  Garage Man's Companion
  Generally More Crappy

Honda =
  Had One Never Did Again
  Hang On - Nicely Dangerous Apperatus
  Helping Out Nips Dominating America

HYUNDAI =
  Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive

MAZDA =
  Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

Mini =
  Made It - Now Indisposed

Mopar =
  Most Often Passed At Races
  Mostly Old Parts And Rust
  Mostly Old Paint And Rust

Nissan =
  Needs increasingly special spendy automotive necessities
  Never In Synch - Screeching Awful Noises
  Needs Immediate Salvage So Abandon Now

Obupos =
  Old Beat Up Piece Of Shit

Oldsmobile =
  Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Every Day.
  Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment

Plymouth =
  Please Let Your Mother Out Under The Hood!
  Pussy Lips Your MOUTH

Pontiac =
  Poor old nut thinks it's a Cadillac

Porsche =
  Piece of retired Scrap, continually high expense

RAC =
  Ruins All Cars

Rolls Royce =
  Regarded Only as Luxury Life Style. Runs Over Your Current Expences.

SAAB =
  Swedish Automobile - Always Broken
  Send Another Automobile Back
  Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.

Sable =
  Same Auto But Less Engineering

Toyota
  Too Often Yankes Overprice This Auto

VOLVO
  Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object

VW
  Virtually Worthless
  Very Worthless

Stop (ie rule)
  Spin Tyres On Pavement



airlines

AA =
    Abort! Abort!
    Always Awful

American (AA) =
    A Miricle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
    Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea

AI (Air India) =
    Allah Informed

Alitalia =
    Always Late In Transit, Always Late In Arrival
    Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
    A Little Italian Tit And Lotsa Italitan Ass
    A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude

AUA =
    Almost Unknown Airline

AWA =
    Always Wasting Assets

BA =
    Bloody Awful
    British Apoplectic

BEA =
    Better Eat Afterwards

BOAC =
    Better On A Camel
    Blast Off And Crash

Boeing =
    Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens

BWIA =
    Baggage Wandering In Africa
    Better Walk If you're Able
    Born to Wait In Airports
    But Will I Arrive?

CAAC =
    Chinese Airlines Always Cancel

Dan Air =
    Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough

Delta =
    Damaged Engines Limit Take-off Ability
    Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
    Doesn't Even Leave The Airport
    Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
    Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
    Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
    Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
    Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
    Don't Even Let Them Aboard

EAA =
    Even Apes Aviate

El Al =
    Egyptian Louting Arab Loathing
    Every Landing Always Late
    Every Landing Always Lousy
    Everyones Luggage Always Lost

Finnair =
  Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airbourne In Reality

JAL =
    Journey Always Late

JAT =
    Joke About Time

Liat =
    Luggage Is Always Tardy

Lot =
    Lots Of Trouble

Lufthansa =
  Let Us Fiddle The Hostess And Not Say Anything

MAS =
    May Actually Shit

Northwest =
    Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport

Olympic =
    Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

PAL =
    Prick Always Long

Pan Am =
    Passengers Always Need A Mortician
    Pilots Are Not A Must
    Poor Airline Needs Any Money

PIA =
    Passenger's Illegal Abductor
    Perhaps I Arrive
    Please Inform Allah

PSA =
    Paul's Saturday Airline

PWA =
    Pete's Wobbly Airline
    Piddly Widdly Airline
    Please Wait Awhile

Qantas =
    Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
    Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
    Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
    Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
    Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
    Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship

Sabena =
    Such A Bad Experience - Never Again

SAHSA =
    Stay At Home, Stay Alive

SAS =
    Service After Sex
    Sex And Satisfaction
    Such A S***

Sia =
    Sex In the Air
    Singapore Imitates America

TACA =
    Take Another Carrier Always
    Take A Coffin Along
    Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda

TAP =
    Take A Parachute
    Take Another Plane

Thy =
    They Hate You

TWA =
    That Was Accidental
    That Was Awful
    Travel With Arabs
    Teeny Weeny Airlines
    Try Walking Across
    Try With Another
    Today's Worst Airline
    Tomorrow We'll Arrive
    Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
    Totally Wasted Airlines

United =
    U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
    Usually Not Enclined To Eliminate Disasters

USAir (used to be Allegheny Airlines) =
    Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality

Uta =
    Unlikely To Arrive
    Unable To Ascend

Varig =
    Virgin's Are Rare In Glasgow

Virgin =
    Very Interesting Ride: Going Into Nymphos



Films, Theatre and Television


Animal House = "Adolescents Need Idiotic Moves, And Landis Has Obliged Us "-Siskel & Ebert.
Dracula = Dark Royal As Cunning Undead Lady Attacker
Dune = Dull. Uninteresting. Needs Editing
Evita = Endless Vivacity In The Argentine
GMTV = Give Me The Valium
Hair = Hippies And Idiots Rejoice
Jaws = Just A White Shark
Mash = Medical Army Surviving Horrors
Rambo = Rocky As Military Bozo in Orient
Star Trek = Space Tirade About Romulan Tyrannical Rule, Evil Klingons
The Hunt For Red October = The Heated Event Has Unfolded Now. That Foxy Old Red Russian Earns Defection Over Crisis. The Operative Brought: Enigmatic Ryan.
The Sound Of Music = This Has Everything: Singing Orphans, Uctuous Nuns, Dancing Over Flowery Mountains, Unnecessary Sweetness In Concert
Twin Peaks = The Wierdest Imagary Never Previously Encountered. Also Kompletely Surreal.
Wayne's World = Wacky And Young Newcomers Excite Screen With Original Repartee, Lunacy, Dialogue
Yentl = You Evidently Need Talmudic Learning



Qualifications

ACCA = Any Cunt Can Account
BA = Bloody Awful
BEng = Brainless Engineer - Not Good
BS = Bull Shit
CPA = Can't Pass Arithmetic
GCSE = Generally Can't Spell Enything
ICMA = Incredibly Crooked Misleading Accountant
MBa = Married But Available
MBa = Master Of Brainless Axioms
MBa = Master of Bugger All
MBa = Mediocre But Arrogant
MBa = Minimal Brains Available
MS = More Shit
PhD = Piled High & Deep

other

FBI = Fat Bumbling Idiots!
FBI = Free Beer Inside.
FCC = Fools & Company Corp.
Adidas = Advertising Does Influence Dumb Asshole's Selection
Adidas = All Day I Dream Of Sex
DNA = National Dyslexic Association







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