# What do your initials stand for? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346 "2004-10-15T10:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/41 "2004-10-15T21:39:38Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > DTH Die Toten Hosen The trousers: they are dead. ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/42 "2004-10-15T21:41:16Z")
Nothing too exciting here: JDM Japanese Domestic Market JDM Journal of Department Managers JDM Jovi Deo Magno (Latin: To Jupiter the Great God, epigraphy) JDM Junior Department Manager JDM Juvenile Dermatomyositis JDM Juicy Delicious Melons ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/43 "2004-10-15T22:41:34Z")
Wow, I’ve gone international… MMK Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Open Joint Stock Company MMK Magyar Mérnöki Kamara (Hungarian Engineering Chamber) MMK Magyar Mozgókép Közalapítvány (Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary) MMK Marinens Musikkår (Swedish Navy Band) MMK Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz Procedure MMK Mayr-Melnhof Karton Ag (Mayr-Melnhof Cardboard Boxes Inc, Austria) MMK Medische Milieukunde (Dutch: environmental medicine) MMK Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation (German: Human-Computer Interaction) MmK Moeders met Kindjes (Flemish: Mothers with Children; Luxembourg) MMK Money Matters for Kids MMK Multimedia Koordinator (Multimedia Coordinator, German) MMK Multimediakommunikation (German: multimedia communication) MMK Murmansk, Russia - Murmansk (Airport Code) MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt/Main, Germany) MMK Myanmar Kyat (ISO currency code) ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/44 "2004-10-15T22:47:48Z")
Heh. Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (and, unfortunately, Campus Crusade for Christ) also Camelback Collectibles Club 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/45 "2004-10-15T23:23:29Z")
TLM Median Tolerance Limit TLM Target Location Message TLM Target Locator Module TLM Telemetry TLM The Learning Manager TLM **Thick** Lime Milk ?? TLM Top Level Menu TLM Top Level Menu (interactive television menu systems) TLM Topographic Line Map (NIMA) TLM Tout Le Monde (French) TLM Transaction Level Modeling TLM Transmission Line Matrix TLM Two-Layer Method TLM Two-Level Maintenance Hey, not too bad at all. Apparently, thick lime milk is used to treat slurry on Brucellosis breakdown farms, I feel so important! ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/46 "2004-10-16T00:53:04Z")
Once upon a time I edited a training curriculum in the social services field. It was commonly referred to by it’s acronym and it wasn’t until later that I learned some people had called it the (not real acronym): WWCPT = Willie Whistlepig’s Crazy People Training The fun part was, only some people knew that every chapter contained an example with the name of my dog - Roberto Pero, Robert Hund, etc. I know have a training material where the examples are for Eric, Kenny, Bebe, Stan, Wendy, etc. So far, no one has got it. Whistlepig ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/47 "2004-10-16T04:42:10Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Absotutely nothin’. > > I’m Just Very Kool. Similarly, I was informed that > [@](#): > > Sorry, RLK was not found in the database. Guess posters to political boards haven’t seen a need to acronymize “Radical Leftist Kook” or “Rightist Lying Klansman”… ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/48 "2004-10-16T07:00:50Z")
CLB Church Lads Brigade CLB Classroom and Laboratory Building CLB Club CLB Coal Lease Bonus CLB Common Logic Board CLB Configurable Logic Block (microchip technology) CLB Crash Locator Beacon CLB Creepy Little Bastard (WWF) CLB Current Licensing Basis CLB Cute Little Baby CLB Surf Clam (FAO species code) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/49 "2004-10-16T08:26:02Z")
Narrow-Band Gaussian National Bank of Georgia National Bank of Greece National Botanical Gardens Natural Born Gamers (gaming clan) Naval Beach Group Need Before Greed (Everquest game slang) No Bloody Good :dubious: Fascinating… ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/50 "2004-10-16T08:41:28Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > IML International Mister Leather I liked this one, heh. Two under HMB: Hit Me Back Metabolite ß-Hydroxy ß-Methylbutyrate Monohydrate (branched-chain amino acid) ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/51 "2004-10-16T19:50:08Z")
ANE Anarchy ‘n’ Explosives ANE Ancient Near East ANE Antioch New England Graduate School ANE Anything ‘n’ Everything ANE Automotive News Europe Mine are shitty! The first one is kind of cool though. But Antioch New England Graduate School? I think ya added a few extra letters in there, hoss. ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/52 "2004-10-17T17:10:31Z")
Like my father before me, I’m DNA. I can’t think of any for that, can you guys come up with something? 😉 My son’s name is R, and I was sorely tempted to give him my same middle name. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/53 "2004-10-18T02:21:43Z")
SSK 1. Convential Submarine\* 2. Slip 2 Stitches, Knit 1 (a knitting instruction) 3. Soft Sweet Kiss - awwww 4. Sosyal Sigortalar Kuruma - Google was not my friend tonight. ☹ I tried to find exactly what SSK stood for in relation to submarines, but most of the articles seemed to _assume_ one reading the articles would already know. I’m thinking (based on my search) that it is some combo of submergible, submarine, surface and killer. Does anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/54 "2004-10-18T02:23:13Z")
I have no middle name. RH I can’t come up with anything accurate that has to do with reading or chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/55 "2004-10-18T04:09:46Z")
There are three for my initials: JMB Joint Maintenance Board Journal Message Block Journal of Molecular Biology ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/56 "2004-10-18T04:35:48Z")
I didn’t expect there to be any results for “JMI,” but there are: [ul] [li]Jamia Milia Islamia (India) [/li][li]Japan Market Intelligence [/li][li]Java Metadata Interface (Sun Microsystems) [/li][li]Journal of Medical Imaging [/li][li]Justice Management Institute[/li][/ul] My brother and I have the same initials. If you take just the first and last initials, I share them with my brother, father, and an uncle. And if you take just the first and middle initials, I apparently share them with **Mona Lott**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/57 "2004-10-18T04:45:43Z")
TJB Taejon Broadcasting (Korea) TJB Telephone Junction Box TJB Tonnage en Jauge Brute (French: gross register ton) By the way, are we getting around the Too Many Game Threads in MPSIMS thing by putting them here? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/58 "2004-10-18T14:19:44Z")
KDA Kachin Defense Army KDA Kanpur Development Authority (India) KDA Kansas Dental Association KDA Karachi Development Authority (Pakistan) KDA Kentucky Department of Agriculture kDa Kilodaltons (molecular weight) KDA Known Direction of Arrival KDA Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Norway) ---
**Author:** ![colour\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@colour\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colour_wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/59 "2004-10-18T14:35:14Z")
CPC Wow. 117 results including: California Pistachio Commission Cook’s Pest Control Canadian Pork Council ---
**Author:** ![electrozion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@electrozion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrozion)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346/60 "2004-10-18T14:54:12Z")
Mine took ages: TKR Team Knight Rider (TV show) TKR Total Knee Replacement I like the second one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-initials-stand-for/269346.md?page=4)