Canalonical Acronym List (Last Posting from me)
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Canonical List Of Acronyms
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
Airlines
AA Abort! Abort!
Always Awful
AI 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
American A Miricle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and
Nausea
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
Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
Doesn't Even Leave The Airport
Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
Don't Even Let Them Aboard
Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
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
Cars and Bikes
AMC All Makes off Cars
Almost Makes Corners
Audi Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
BMW Big Money Waster
Born Mighty Wealthy
Break My Windows
Boring Middle-aged Wheels
Belongs to My Wife
Buick Big Ugly Imported Car Killer
Dodge Dangerous On Days Gears Engage
Drips Old Dirt & Grease Everywhere
Fiat Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
Fix It Again, Tony
Fix It All the Time
Failed In All Tests
Ford Fucker Only Runs Damaged
First On Race Day
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On River-bed, Drowned
Found On Rubbish Dump
Found On Road, Dead
Fuck Off, Rally Drivers
Fucked On Race Day
Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge
Honda Hang On - Nicely Dangerous Apperatus
Helping Out Nips Dominating America
Mazda Making A Zillion Dollars Anually
Mini Made It - Now Indisposed
Nissan Never In Synch - Screeching Awful Noises
Needs Immediate Salvage So Abandon Now
Obupos Old Beat Up Piece Of Shit
Olds Old Ladies Driving Slowly
Pontiac Poor Old Nerd Thinks It's a Cadilac
RAC Ruins All Cars
Rolls Royce Regarded Only as Luxury Life Style.
Runs Over Your Current Expences
Saab Some Accesories Always Broken
Sable Same Auto But Less Engineering
Stop (ie rule) Spin Tyres On Pavement
Toyota Too Often Yanks Overrate This Automobile
VW Very Worthless
Computers and Language
ABE ABend Everything
Amiga A Merely Insignificant Games Addiction
Asinine Machine Invented for Gaming Adolescents
APL All Programming Languages
Apple All Programmers Pursuing Legal Ends
BASIC Bloody Awful System It Creates
BBB Blame IBM
BBC Bloody Brilliant Computer
BBI Branch on Burned-out Indicator
BPO Branch on Power Off
BTO Blame The Operator
BTP Blame The Programmer
BTU Blame The User
C Crap
COBOL Complies Only Because Of Luck
Complete Obsolete Business Orientated Language
Dos Defunct Operating System
EJZ Excrement & Jump on Zero
IBM Incredibly Bad Machine
Incredibly Boring Macines
Incredibly Beautiful Machines
Industry's Big Mistake
I Built Microsoft
I'm Building Macintosh
It's Being Mended
It's Been Malfunctioning
Imence Ball of Muck
I Believe in Memorex
It's Better than Macintosh
Idiots Built Me
Intense Bowel Movement
Inferior But Marketable?
It's Better Manually
Infinitely Better Macintosh
Indefinitely Buggered Machine
I Bought a Mac
I Broke Mine
I Blame Microsoft
Intentinally Brainless Machines
It's Backwards Man
Incompatible Bloody Machines
Infernal Bloody Monoploy
Internal Beurocratic Mess
Installed By Mistake
Inferior But Marketable
It's Backwards, Man
It Barely Moves
I Buy Mainframes
I Blew Money
Itty Bitty Machines
Itty Bitty Mentality
Incomplete But Marketable
Incepted By Monkeys
Incompetent Bumbling Morons
Immence Blue Monolith
It *Bit* Me!!
Idiotic Brainless Machines
I've Been Mugged
Imitation British Manufacture
Invented By Monkeys
LISP Lots Of Insipid, Stupid Parenthisis
Lots of Irritating, Stupid Parenthesis
MAC Maybe A Computer
Macintosh Machine Always Crashes. If Not, System hangs.
Nimbus Next, I'M Buying Useful System
Pascal Pretty Awful Slow Cunt of A Language
PCMCIA People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms
SPON Switch Processor ON
STS Switch To Spanish
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 The Heated Event Has Unfolded Now. That Foxy Old
Red October Red Russian Earns Defection Over Crisis. The
Operative Brought: Enigmatic Ryan.
The Sound This Has Everything: Singing Orphans, Uctuous Nuns,
Of Music 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
Miscellaneous
Adidas Advertising Does Influence Dumb Asshole's Selection
All Day I Dream Of Sex
Aids Adios Infected Dick Sucker
Anally Injected Death Serum
Anus Infected Death Sentence
Another Infected Dick Sucker
BR Bloody Railways
DNA National Dyslexic Association
Hillary's Highly Inexperienced Left Liberals Academic Righteous
Yuppies
Paye Pray As You Earn
Reagan Republican Ex Actor Governed American Nation
UHT Ugh, Horrible Taste
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
Master Of Brainless Axioms
Master of Bugger All
Mediocre But Arrogant
Minimal Brains Available
MS More Shit
PhD Piled High & Deep
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