Strange acromyns

[Geeth]

What are you favourite / strangest acromyns?
Doesn't have to be computing based.

Mine would be: EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

[elija]

Most Applications Crash. If Not The Operating System Hangs!

Also (An Oxymoron rather than an acronym)

Microsoft Works

[bigtomrodney]

FIAT :- Fix it again, Tony

LOTUS :- Lots of trouble, usually serious.

And of course, AUDI :- Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.

[AutisticCuckoo]

PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

[fingal]

I was handed a project to overhaul a database of printed resources for non-English speakers. This was called NERD: None English Resources Database.

I renamed the project to DALI: Disabilities And Languages Information. It worked for me!

There's a furniture retailer in the UK called MFI. My family called it the Matchstick Furniture Institute. A slightly ruder one (and this is very old) was for BSA bikes. Actually this stands for Birmingham Small Arms, but it was commonly known as Bloody Sore Arse. The saddles were quite hard.

There's a guesthouse in the village (now a small town) where I grew up. This is called Oglee. The name mystifies most people, but the owners were religious and it stands for Our God Loves Everyone Everywhere.

I know a few more, but they are far too rude to post here.

[techieMoe]

My fiancee's father is taking a computer class, and in the glossary of his textbook they have a definition for FUBAR. Theirs is slightly sanitized (obviously): fouled up beyond all recognition. They also have a definition for SNAFU, with a strategically placed "fouled" as well. I got a kick out of the fact that they even included the terms in a college textbook.

[Thrillhouse]

My fiancee's father is taking a computer class, and in the glossary of his textbook they have a definition for FUBAR. Theirs is slightly sanitized (obviously): fouled up beyond all recognition.

Yeah, there seems to be two versions of that, FUBAR and foobar. The former comes from WWII, I believe, and the latter is used in CS curricula all over the world. The Wikipedia article on FUBAR is interesting.

Lucky me, I work in the Computer industry and for the US government so I get a double dose of acronyms. I had to create a spreadsheet just to keep track of them all.

[Geeth]

PEBAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard.

[techieMoe]

Here's another classic: ID-10-T errors.

[Geeth]

good ol ID-10-T.
Reminds me of a customer that I had when I worked for an ISP. He put an ice pack under his adsl modem becuase he thought that it shouldn't be warmer then room temp :S