That’s a very useful skill to have when determining whether tab A will fit in slot B.
I always giggle when I drive past the building that houses Somerville Community Access Television. They truly have no shame about that acronym -in addition to putting on the side of their building, their website gives you the option to learn About SCAT, Join SCAT, Watch SCAT, or view The SCAT Gallery.
As soon as there was a federal reimbursement program for cleaning up after them, “leaking underground stroage tanks” became “leaking underground fuel tanks.” Before that, the public wasn’t watching and a few local snickers were allowable.
Almost forgot about this one - I was a new admin in a sales department, and they were always coming up with themes for promotions and goofy acronyms to match.
On my first day, I was introduced to the Sales Winners Associate Team, a.k.a. “The SWATters.”
Picturing a scene out of Animal House (thank you, Sir, may I have another?) I almost turned and ran away!
The supra-municipal organization governing the municipalities of the Island of Montreal before the mergers in 2002 was called the Communauté urbaine de Montréal, or CUM.
Its transit company was the Société de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal, or STCUM. Yes, in the province whose maps are covered with St. Everything and Ste. Everywhere, our transit system was St. Cum.
This was probably one of the reasons (but only one) that the Gazette always insisted on anglicizing the acronyms and writing MUC and MUCTC.
I came in to mention SLUT.
The Navy has (or had) a program for certain specialized officers called Direct Input Limited Duty Officer. They were referred to as “LDOs.” It’s not hard to see why.
As a young naval officer, I was assigned to the Pentagon where I worked with the program coordinator for the then-new F/A-18. The F was for Fighter, the A for Attack. One of the other officers there said they needed to expand its capabilities to include a Reconnaissance Trainer.
The program manager didn’t much like the idea of a FART-18.
OK, **MsRobyn **snuck in there, so I need to say that I was not an LDO. I was a Line Officer. Just to make that clear. 
When I was put in charge of my company’s firmwide printing and scanning my title was changed to “Document Output Analyst”.
I’m DOA.
At the college bookstore I used to work at we sold these plastic paperweight things you could use when you were typing to help stand your paper up. They also came in a mini (or " baby") size, in assorted colors. They rang up on the receipt as “babies ass”
One of my high school social studies teachers was quite proud of his affiliation with the Friends University of Central Kansas.
Me too. Wasn’t it The Stranger that coined that? Or did they just gleefully repeat it until it became common usage.
Here’s another SCATfor you.
When I was in HS, I was part of the school role-playing game club. (Yes, I’ve always been a geek.) The name of the club was the Gaming Enthusiast’s League, or GEL. Which is fine.
But because geeks are also often smartasses, we submitted a petition to change the name of the club to the Organization of Role Gaming Youth.
School administration was…less than pleased with our wit.
OH! That reminds me of a picture I had to take with my phone recently on a trip to my local megamart: Mmmm. BM Lasagna.
(In this case, “BM” is short for “Blue Menu”, a line of products from President’s Choice (the PC part), but it makes a shitty abbreviation…)
This may or may not be apocryphal, but when the Special Patrol Group was being formed in 1961, they were known as “Fast Action Response Teams” until two days before the official launch.
When I worked TV crew many years ago, the studio manager had an unfortunate habit of abbreviating **Production Assistant **to Prod Ass.
And then of course there is the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, or BAAPS.*
*This is probably only funny in the UK. Small round breadrolls are called “baps”, a name also occasionally colloquially applied to other round objects which fall under the purview of BAAPS.
I already wrote once here about the woman who had the first initial “A.” and the last name “Nally.” Our e-mail system runs the first letter together with the last name as one word. I would always report on any correspondence with her (maliciously) “I communicated with her (anally) this morning…”
I once had to make a map for the First Assembly of God church. I made sure to name the file “FAOG.”
My old neighbor, Mr. King, named his second son “Solomon.” So all of his school forms were addressed to “King, Solomon.”
In a fit of corporate reorganization, my company adopted the Balanced Scorecard system.
The officers insisted on abbreviating it BSC, but I called it BS.
The firstborn was a David?
