My initials are GFC. I figure every possible three letter combination has been grabbed as an abbreivation for something. In my case, twenty somethings:
GFC Gaelic Football Club
GFC Gaining Force Command
GFC Gay Football Club
GFC Geelong Football Club (Australia)
GFC Gel Filtration Chromatography
GFC General Fabrication Contractor
GFC General Facilities Card (Newbridge)
GFC General Functional Code
GFC Generic Flow Control
GFC Georgia Forestry Commission
GFC Global Foncard (Sprint)
GFC GMD (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense) Fire Control
GFC Going For Coffee
GFC Government-Furnished Concept
GFC Grand Falls Central Railway Company, Ltd
GFC Granulite Facies Complexes (geology)
GFC Graphite Fiber Composite
GFC Greatest Common Factor
GFC Grumman-Flexible Corporation (bus manufacturer)
GFC Gun Fire Control
(source http://www.acronymfinder.com)
Going for coffee is my favorite. I think somebody got dyslexic with greatest common factor though. Gay football club?! Isn’t it easier just to say soccer team?
Greg
P.S. You know G and C already. I could tell you what F stands for, but then I’d have to kill you.
LBC:
LBC Albanian Airlines (ICAO code)
LBC Lakeside Bible Camp
LBC Lancaster Bible College (Pennsylvania)
LBC Laser Beam Ceilometer
LBC Laser Beam Cutting
LBC Lateral Boundary Condition
LBC Launch Base Complex
LBC Laurentian Bank of Canada
LBC Lawrence Bible Chapel
LBC Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
LBC Legion of Black Collegians
LBC Linear Binary Code
LBC Linear Block Code
LBC Linked Boundary Conditions
LBC Liquid Based Cytology
LBC Little British Car
LBC Local Boundary Condition
LBC London Broadcasting Company
LBC Long Beach California
LBC Long Beach City
All kind of boring, IMHO.
Master of Space Studies [sounds action hero-y and nerdy at the same time]
Member of the Same Sex [well, I AM the same sex as myself]
Memphis Soaring Society [aviation group]
Mississippi Space Service
And here’s an interesting twosome:
Ministry of State Security (Chinese counterintelligence organization)
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (the Iraqi Minister of Information!)
MES Main Engine Start
MES Management Engineering Squadron A whole Squadron, no less
MES Manawatu Evening Standard (New Zealand newspaper)
MES Manufacturing Execution Systems A Pro-Death Penalty group, I’m sure.
MES Maple Equipment Specialists
*Syrup professionals? *
MES Marconi Electronic Systems
MES Marine Evacuation System
MES Measurement Evaluation System (semiconductors)
MES Mechanical Event Simulator
MES Medan, Indonesia - Polonia (Airport Code)
MES Medical Equipment Sets
MES Medical Expense Statement
MES Message Entry System
MES Microembolic Signals (transcranial doppler monitoring)
MES Microfilm Exposure System
MES Microsoft Exchange System
MES Military Engineering Services
MES Mine Effects Simulator
MES Mines Effects Simulation
MES Miniature Edison Screw (type of cap on electric bulb) I think I know that guy, but we always just called him 'Eddie."
MES Ministério do Equipamento Social (Portuguese Ministry for the Social Equipment) what’s social equipment? Do I want to know?
MES Mis En Scene (film terminology)
MES Miscellaneous Equipment Specifications
MES Mississippi Engineering Society
MES Mitered End Section um . . . never mind.
MES Mobile Earth Station (INMARSAT)
MES Mobile End System
MES Mossbauer Emission Spectroscopy
MES Motor End Support
MES Multilateral Education System
Sidenote: When my folks whould get on me about cleaning my room as a kid, I’d tell them it was their fault it was messy. They named me, after all. That argument never went very far, but you can’t blame a kid for trying, right?
Well, aside from my initals being a word on their own…
MEN Manchester Evening News
MEN Master Equipment Number
MEN Master of Engineering
MEN Menu (File Name Extension)
MEN Ministère de l’Education National (France)
MEN Multiple Earth Neutral (electrical system used in New Zealand)
MEN Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
Since science class at age eleven I’ve been known as the Light Emitting Diode. Now I see I am also destined to remain unmarried. Thanks, folks.
LED Light Emitting Diode
LED Law Enforcement Desk
LED Ledig (German: unmarried)
LED Lethality Enhancing Device
LED Library Education Division
LED Light Emitting Device
LED Linear Energy Density
LED Logical Error Detection
LED Logic-Evolved Decision Model
LED Lupus Erythematosus Disseminatus
LED St Petersburg, Russia - Pulkovo (Airport Code)
Acronym Finder says it’s Let Me Know, as well as an abbreviation for landmark; but Google says I’m the Landsforbundet av Motorhistoriske Kjøretøyklubber. If anyone here is from Norway, I’d love to know what the hell that means.
MBB Make Before Break
MBB Master Black Belt (Six Sigma)
MBB Math-Model Based
MBB Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
MBB Men Behaving Badly (TV)
MBB Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
MBB Modular Building Block
MBB Modulated Broadband
MBB Moisture Barrier Bag
MBB Multi-Batch Buffer
Heh. Men Behaving Badly.
IML Image Markup Language
IML Impedance Matrix Localization Method
IML Imperial, Nebraska (airport code)
IML In Mold Labeling
IML In My Life (Beatles song)
IML Industrial Might and Logic (fictional company in Night Shift, an old LucasFilm PC game)
IML Information Markup Language (superset of Wireless Markup Language)
IML Initial Machine Load
IML Initial Microcode Loader
IML Initial Microprogram Load
IML Inner Mold Line
IML Institut Monetaire Luxembourgeois
IML Instituti I Mjekësisë Ligjore (Lawful Medicine Institute, Kosova)
IML Instrument Markup Language
IML Interactive Matrix Language
IML Intermediate Maintenance Level
IML International Medical Libraries Ring
IML International Microgravity Laboratory
IML International Mister Leather
IML Internet Mailing List
“Inner Mold Line”? Great. At least “International Microgravity Laboratory” is cool.
