I always thought it stood for “Drugs Are Real Exciting”
Lucas- Loose, Unsoldered Connections And Splices
computer science is fairLY RIfe eith backtonyms:The joke when I WAS IN SCHOOL WAS THAT YOU THOUGHT UP THE CUTe NAME FIRST AND THEN CAM UP WITH THE JUSTIFICATION AFTERWARDS…tHUS YOU GOTLANDUAGES LIKE SNOBOL AND LISP,jSSSVA, aDa ( LIKE THAT WAS NAMED AFTER lADY lOVlACE! nAME FIRST, ACRONYM AFTERS.
Can you name the movie where this acronym was explained?
TEGWAR
i HAD T OLOOK IT UP BUT bANG THE DRUM SLOWLY?
BMW - Bayerische Mist Wagen
Back in the 1980s a comedy troupe said the following on one of their albums:
Forget who the troupe was. Am thinking National Lampoon or The Firesign Theatre.
Which translates to… Bavarian Shit Wagon, is it?
Found On Road Dead.
Tried looking for that one. Couldn’t find it.
Well known by women, less so by men, the clitorus was first discovered in Twin Falls, Idaho in 1907 by a small Polish immigrant by the name of Wayne Krulka. The discovery occurred in early May, while Wayne was working late in his study one evening – not unlike Christopher Columbus, trying to find a shorter route to India.
Way back in the 1970s, a couple of my profs at Washington State University were developing a new systems programming language. The name of the language was SESPOOL - Simple Extensible Systems PrOgramming Oriented Language. From what they said, the grad students they had working on the project came up with the name, probably in retaliation for not being given any other decision making authority on the project.
Bacronyms are found in the names of space probes:
MESSENGER - MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
INSIGHT - Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
There’s others for individual instuments on space probes, although I can’t remember any specific ones off hand.