Interestingly (OK Boringly 
) BLOB didn’t stand for anything originaly, it was just a blob of data, Binary Large OBject came about as a later date. wiki has the story Binary large object - Wikipedia
No, no, you guys got it all wrong.
GED:
Good Enough Degree.
Sort of related–I’ve been to *three * different professional trainings on HIPAA standards where “HIPAA” was misspelled “HIPPA” (what they thought it stands for, I don’t know) and EVERY POWERPOINT SLIDE had a picture of a HIPPO on it. Every new slide made me want to stand up and scream, “It’s not HIPPA! It’s HIPAA! Your little HIPPO joke is not only stupid, it makes no sense!” I mentioned it to one presenter afterward, and she just looked at me with her dull little eyes in a way that made it clear that she had no idea what I was talking about.
Except that they may have changed their actual company name from “Internationale Nederlanden Groep” to ING. Thus, no redundancy.
I worked at a place once where a bank known as The National Bank of Detroit was on one occasion publically referred to as “The National Bank of Detroit”. All the bank’s branches had big signs and logos all over the place that had always read: “NBD”, and indeed it was “The National Bank of Detroit” that had established these branches in our city.
But unbeknowst to our employees, the whizboys in the bank’s marketing (and/or legal) department has recently changed the name to NBD. We received an angry letter telling us that “The National Bank of Detroit” was *not * **their name, it was now “NBD”, and please make sure to never make that mistake again.
I think KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) plays the same game.
SOS doesn’t mean “save our souls” - it actually doesn’t mean anything at all.
(I always thought that NCR stood for No Carbon Required)
I was taught SOS was “Save our Ship”.
I’ve never served in the military, but there is a useful acronym that I’ve heard sometimes, probably a bit of an inside thing: HMFWIC.
And yes, I do know what it means:
Head Mother Fucker What’s In Charge
And don’t forget BOHICA- bend over, here it comes again!
And REMF- rear-echelon motherfucker.
Parents of college age kids know all about the FASFA – except that it’s the FAFSA – Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
However, “FASFA” is easier to pronounce.
Um, people, this thread is about acronymns that people often get the wrong meaning for. Just listing random acronyms is definitely OT (which does not stand for Old Tesatament in this context)
And all good war stories begin with TINS or NSTRH (this is no shit, and no shit, this really happened).
he said, ignoring the preceeding post.
So clearly the less-than-hairy know the most about BLOBs and CLOBs.
I’ve always heard it pronounced FAFSA.
It’s “obviously terrific”? Wonderful; my previous posts can stand.
I’m always amazed by the number of people that refer to Toronto’s CN Tower (Canadian National) as the CNN Tower. They not only don’t know what it stands for, they even get the initials wrong.
They sneaked that one past the censor in, of all things, the Beezer (English kids’ comic) Annual in the mid-1960s. In a written story (kids’ annuals used to have these) called The Arch of Time the hero found himself in 2065 and saw an advertisement for the new year’s model of computer: “Don’t be satisfied with last year’s model! Get the XYZT-2065 from Snafoo Electric!”.
The word went way over my head as an innocent prepubescent, but obviously it stuck. 
Many people think R.I.P. stands for “Rest In Peace”. That’s a colloquial translation of Requiescat in pace, but my Latin teacher would have insisted on translating the verb correctly: May (s)he rest in peace.
A neighbor told me that the scroll over Jesus’ head on the crucifix – INRI – stood for “I’m Nailed Right In”.
It was a joke, of course – most people (including him, I;m sure) don’t know the real meaning, because they never tell you.
Unfortunately, when he started the joke by asking me what it stood for, I ruined it, because I did – “Iesu Nazoreorum Rex Iudeorum” – “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”
You shouldn’t have written that.
Last sounds from the Space Shuttle’s black box recorder :
“Oh, let her drive then”