Those are DINKs on this side of the pond.
Not CLITORIS?
“Erm, I think we’re losing sight of the real issue here, which is ‘What are we gonna call ourselves?’ Erm, and I think it comes down to a choice between ‘The League Against Salivating Monsters’ or my own personal preference, which is ‘The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society’.”
I’ve always been fond of SCRAM! It’s such a wonderfully evocative term, I think.
Shutdown Control Rod Axe Man
and the newly coined SINKs for us single folk
LASER is a good one (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
HAL (Heuronistic Alogarithmic computer).
NASA (Not Another Stupid Astronaut). 
I’ll throw out one that isn’t an acronym but should be, POOH. Pull Out of Hole, unfortunatly its just used as an abreviation but come on.
nerdiest nitpick on the Dope this week: it’s dimension, singular, not plural.
Ever heard of a SITCOM family?
(single income, two children, oppressive mortgage)
MCTSI: Module Controller and Time Slot Interchanger
Please remind me where this reference is from!
No-one has answered the OP yet, but I’m sure you all know about Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
My favourite is one my father invented - he works in sex education, and suggested the standing committee be called the Sexual Health Alliance Group. They immediately realised - and agreed!
Red Dwarf.
Acronym invented by Rimmer in an episode where a mindsucking creature removed all the negative parts of his personality.
Therew’s a group of people going around deliberately defacing billboards that advertise tobacco products, and paint anti smoking slogans on them. The call themselves the Billboard Utilising Graffitiists Against Unhealthy Promotions. (BUGA UP)
(Hmm, I’m not sure if that expression is known in America)
Can’t believe no one has mentioned MILF yet!
The corollaries to NIMBY are NIABY (Not In Anyone’s Back Yard), NOTE (Not Over There, Either), BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything), and NOPE (Not On Planet Earth).
Defining NIMBY:
Another companion is NIMTOO: Not in my Term of Office. It’s for things that need to be done, but that will be unpopular.
My favorite environmental document acronym is FONSI: Finding of No Significant Impact.
Sadly this is the most incorrect nerdiest nitpick :eek: - it’s Dimensions.
A very religious co-worker once used the word “snafu” in a letter. I told her where it came from. She did not believe it.
I’ve read that English is a BASIC language, used in international Business, Airplanes, Science, Industry & Commerce.
No, singular. See first use of the word, explanation of the meaning, about 8:20
She must not have known very many squids. Or seen many movies.
Then again, I wonder what she’d have made of the story behind the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s WGASA monorail.
explain, please 
Qantas is one a lot of people don’t know about - ‘Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services’.