# Define an Acronym

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-an-acronym/731933>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-an-acronym/731933 "2015-09-20T07:52:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-an-acronym/731933/41 "2015-09-23T00:14:49Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Acronyms:
> 
> SCUBA  
> SNAFU  
> FUBAR  
> Not acronyms:
> 
> ROTFLMAOSTC  
> YMMV  
> NCIS

Glad to see you’ve found the dead horse in this thread.

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**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-an-acronym/731933/42 "2015-09-23T03:37:37Z")

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Took me a while to figure that TMI means ‘too much information’ rather than ‘Three Mile Island’. Both more or less echoed the overall sense that I got: ‘you probably don’t want to go there’.

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