# Making Acronyms Out of Nothing at All **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443 "2018-06-20T14:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/21 "2018-06-21T03:38:49Z")
NUNI – never up, never in SOASM – stoned on a Saturday morning ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/22 "2018-06-21T04:52:27Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > NUNI – never up, never in > > SOASM – stoned on a Saturday morning Where are those common words? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/23 "2018-06-21T05:25:46Z")
When I was a wee child, my mom told me that the STOP sign meant “Step Toe On Pedal” (brake pedal). I believed it for some time, and wondered why they used the word “stop” on Little House on the Prairie, clearly before cars. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/24 "2018-06-21T06:12:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Where are those common words? Oops, sorry…posted while thinking of something else entirely…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/25 "2018-06-21T10:02:02Z")
From WWII, BOAC = Bastards Overseas Avoiding Conscription. Employees of crown corporations were exempt from mandatory military service/ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/26 "2018-06-21T11:51:15Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > When I was a wee child, my mom told me that the STOP sign meant “Step Toe On Pedal” (brake pedal). _My_ mother once told me that when she was school they said STOP stood for “Sales Tax On Pussy.” Fortunately I wasn’t a wee child when she said it. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/27 "2018-06-21T12:45:57Z")
> [@CharmaChameleon](#): > > I used to work on a DoD program called Integrated System Test Capability. > > Not long after we started up on that, lots of people had to make a “word” out of it: Iss-tick. > > Morons. There are lots of them, everywhere. That’s just an ordinary acronym, not a bacronym. Coming up with a word-like pronunciation for the random sequence of letters that is the usual acronym is not uncommon and does not convert it to a bacronym. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/28 "2018-06-21T14:14:18Z")
The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/29 "2018-06-21T14:24:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Found On Road, Dead. That’s pretty much where ours ended up…_after_ the fire dept put out the engine fire. :eek: There’s also a non-PC one for Pontiac. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/30 "2018-06-21T14:47:13Z")
ADIDAS does not stand for “All Day I Dream About Sports (sex)” Is actually from the founders name, Adolf(Adi) Dassler. (fun fact, his brother Rudolph Dassler founded Puma) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/31 "2018-06-21T15:36:30Z")
Don’t forget to TIP your waitress, To Insure Promptness ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/32 "2018-06-21T17:16:25Z")
Anyone who’s ever owned one will agree that BOAT stands for “Break Out Another Thousand”. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/33 "2018-06-21T20:13:05Z")
Time for a Polari word: naff. I have no idea how well known the word is outside the UK. In standard (English) English it means useless, of no value. Polari is a gay slang. The story is that in Polari, naff means “heterosexual”, and is an acronym of Not Available For Fucking. Great story, but it appears the be a backronym. j ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/34 "2018-06-21T22:02:41Z")
JEEP = Just Empty Every Pocket FORD = Found On Road Dismantled My friend used to to have a fake DARE shirt that said Doughnuts Are Really Expensive ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/35 "2018-06-22T06:43:01Z")
Most of these listed were created as a joke, and everyone knows it, No one insists FORD is truly an acronym for Found On Road Dead. Those aren’t what OP was referring, I think people like them because they think they have some rare bit of knowledge, so it is easy for them to believe, and want to share their information, that Manure being used for fertilizer would be loaded on top because of the smell, and had to be stamped SHIT, for Ship High In Transit. Those irritate me, too, because people insist on telling everyone that, and will get upset if you attempt to correct them, the others listed are not bothersome, because they are obviously a joke, and not taken as fact by anyone. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/36 "2018-06-22T19:31:57Z")
> [@pool](#): > > JEEP = Just Empty Every Pocket > > FORD = Found On Road Dismantled TOYOTA = Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/37 "2018-06-22T20:19:06Z")
> [@pool](#): > > JEEP = Just Empty Every Pocket Junk, Each & Every Part ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/38 "2018-07-02T00:20:28Z")
Any Confused Reader Only Needs Your Mind ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/39 "2018-07-04T00:09:19Z")
FORD- Found On Road Dead ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443/40 "2018-07-04T00:14:42Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > From WWII, > BOAC = Bastards Overseas Avoiding Conscription. Employees of crown corporations were exempt from mandatory military service/ I have read that they also sometimes referred to the FILTH (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-acronyms-out-of-nothing-at-all/816443.md?page=3)