In another thread, there’s a bit of a sidebar about the name of the “school” in the upcoming movie Accepted - South Harmon Institute of Technology. S.H.I.T. In the same thread, it is pointed out that the Simpsons did the same joke earlier, with Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
This triggered an amusing little memory of the clever names used for a local community college near my hometown: Harford Community College, in Churchville MD. One such name for the school is UCLA. University of Churchville, Left of Aberdeen. A clever acronym that should have earned its creator an immediate acceptance of his Associates degree from the school. (Another less clever name, and not an acronym, is to just slur the word “Harford” a bit, and leave it at a one word name, and maybe drunk women will assume you said “Harvard.”)
Once upon a time, my father was a teacher at Overlea High School in Baltimore MD. Every year they had a school golf tournament, teachers vs students clusterfuck, that they named the Overlea Senior High Invitational Tournament, or the OSHIT. My dad subsequently had OSHIT golf towels, OSHIT tees, maybe even a few OSHIT balls. Which, really, is nicely fitting if you’re a very amateur golfer as many high schoolers or teachers are likely to be.
And, to turn it around to “we didn’t mean that!” accidental acronyms: I get a chuckle every time I walk past an office of the Washington Telephone Federal Credit Union. WTF indeed.
It’s not a real acronym–I saw it in a magazine cartoon–but I found it clever and never forgot it. The cartoon dealt with an organization called “Aroused Citizens Representing Oppressed New York Minorities.”
Once upon a time in January 2000 two Canadian right-wing political parties, the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party, decided to merge and held a founding convention for the new party. The name the convention initially adopted for the new party? The Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party. They quickly recognized the ramifications of their choice, and it ended up being just the Canadian Alliance Party, but to this day some of us like to refer to the Conservative Reform Alliance Party.
UTA (University of Texas at Arlington) = “University of Texas… Almost”
TT (Texas Tech) = “Tortilla Tech” (home of the Texas Tech Tortilla Tossers :D)
And some Aggie in-jokes:
TS (Transportation Services) = “Ticketing Services” (They were originally PTTS, short for Parking, Transportation (another T I could never figure out) Services. I’m pretty sure the second T was likely for “Ticketing” as well.
Perhaps not quite what the OP has in mind, but there’s a running gag on The Daily Show where a wide variety of organizations are referred to by name, followed by “or NAMBLA.” e.g. “The National Rifle Association, or NAMBLA”…“The Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries, or NAMBLA”…and so on.
Explain? Do you mean fop? Fortran Assembly Program?
I used to live in Idaho. The university in Boise is called Boise State University. The unofficial school motto for BSU is “the school where we put the BS in front of U”.
I’ve seen sneering references to the University of Southern California (USC) as the “University of Spoiled Children” and to Northern Arizona University (NAU) as “Not A University”.
And, as anyone who was a USA resident during the Watergate era should remember, the pro-Nixon Committee to Re-Elect the President was known as CREEP.
A friend of mine once went to Armidale University, in New South Wales’ northern tablelands region. There are a couple of other small university colleges in the region and a few (read about 20) years back, there was a plan to unify them. The name suggested for the unified universities was the Combined Universities of the Northern Tablelands. The name was nixed after someone pointed out the acronym! :smack:
An inherited condition caused by a mutation in a gene that is inherited in an autosomal dominant way.
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“Fap” is also an onomatopoeia and a verb referring to masturbation, gaining popularity after its use in the webcomic Sexy Losers. The slang meaning for the word, “to masturbate furiously”
I was at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic at the time it became a university. The name “City University of Newcastle upon Tyne” was under consideration at one point. (They eventually settled for “the University of Northumbria at Newcastle”. Boring.)
It was also the favorite word in lieu of a curse word in an old comic strip, possibly Bringing Up Father, but something tells me maybe not. Anyway, whenever frustrated to anger, the character would say “Fap!”
In one of Trevanian’s Novels, I forget which, He mentions an Intelligence position known as the ‘Deputy International Liason Duty Officer’, who was always referred to by the acronym.
In a Dilbert comic, the Pointy-Haired Boss’ secretary, Carol, ordered him new business cards. He came to her and told her that the next time she ordered new cards, she should write out his full title: Director Of Product Enhancements, rather than using the acronym DOPE. Her response was that she hadn’t known that his full title was Director Of Product Enhancements.
