Reply to: Cunning Acronyms

[TheFaQQer]

Toyota run a VOM Information Technology team / project - VOMIT.

[NotAllThere]

One more FART- Fairfax Area Rapid Transit. It's quicker by FART.

[Sockpuppet]

My all time favourite is Cardiff University Netball Team.

More over the shirts and posters they handed out before freshers fayre.

That shall amuse me till the day I die.

[wendigo100]

MEATVAN

After "Marconi Elliott Automation..." I cannot remember what the rest stood for, but it was some sonar signal processing kit for submarines we developed in the 1970s.

[NickFitz]

Way back in a previous millennium, we developed a bespoke COTS system which we provisionally named Sales and Purchase Entry for Retailing Manufacturers. We got the name past management and sales but a potential customer worked it out in a pre-release demo and pointed it out. We NEARLY got it marketed by that name.

Shame it didn't make it through, but for trying

[BA to the Stars]

Any Red Dwarf fans? How about 'Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'

Ah yes indeedy, but lets put that one on the back burner and hit them with a leaflet drop

[The Lone Gunman]

Any Red Dwarf fans? How about 'Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'

[wendigo100]

While I was working for GPT they opened offices in France. When you say GPT in French it sounds exactly like the French for "I farted".

[BrowneIssue]

I'm reading the process flows for my new project () at the moment, and I've just found out the acronym that they are using for our team.

Way back in a previous millennium, we developed a bespoke COTS system which we provisionally named Sales and Purchase Entry for Retailing Manufacturers. We got the name past management and sales but a potential customer worked it out in a pre-release demo and pointed it out. We NEARLY got it marketed by that name.

[TheFaQQer]

One of the product codes for a leather holder for a Sony phone ends TW-AT which surely can't be an accident.

[wendigo100]

Here are a few

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PUFF Pulsed Ultra High Flux

Should this be:

PUFF Dyslexic University Student Fizzissists

?

[Bluebird]

http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

[BoredBloke]

Here are a few
TIT Title
TIT Tactical Intelligence Team (Mad TV)
TIT Taste in Television (Married with Children)
TIT Teacher in Training
TIT Technician Induced Trouble
TIT Tenchi In Tokyo (anime)
TIT Tennessee Institute of Technology
TIT Ternary Digit
TIT The Internet Times
TIT This Is Terrible
TIT This Is Thailand (Bangkok Post)
TIT This Is True
TIT Time in Transit
TIT Titus
TIT Tokyo Institute of Technology
TIT Topkatours International Travel (Istanbul, Turkey)
TIT Torpedo Impulse Tank
TIT Total Information Technology (Robin Williams)
TIT Travel in Taiwan (magazine)
TIT Triangle Inequality Theorem (algebra and euclidean geometry)
TIT Trotter's International Trading
TIT Trotters Independent Trading
TIT Tugaya Institute of Technology
TIT Turbine Inlet Temperature

WANK Worms Against Nuclear Killers (worm virus released on the VMX network SPAN in October 1989)

Acronym Definition
CRAP Canadian Reform Alliance Party (now Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance)
CRAP Carrying Resentments Against People (12 step recovery)
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAP Citizens Raging Against Phones (Grand Theft Auto 3)
CRAP Citizens Revolt Against Poop
CRAP Cloudy Reporting Accounting Principles
CRAP Computerized Response Audience Poll
CRAP Consumer Research and Planning
CRAP Content Restriction and Punishment (aka Digital Rights Management; coined by Richard Stallman)
CRAP Content Restriction Annulment and Protection (aka Digital Rights Management; coined by David Berlind)
CRAP Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity (design principles)
CRAP County Rural Addressing Project
CRAP Courts, Roads, Avenues, and Places (mnemonic for East-West Streets in Miami)
CRAP Coventry Residents Against Phish
CRAP Cut Rate Auto Parts (auto parts distribution chain Olympia, Washington)

PUFF Pulsed Ultra High Flux
SLAG Safe Launch Angle Gate
CRAPS Common Radio Access Protocol Set
TURD Timed Universal Rearward Destroyer
JUGS James Watt Undergraduate Society (Birmingham University)
PLEB People's Law Enforcement Board (Philippines)
PLEB Pocket Linux Embedded Box

FART Fair & Accurate Reporting on Television (Daily Show)
FART Farmers Against Ridiculous Taxes (New Zealand)
FART Fast Action Response Team
FART Fast Armed Response Team (British, never used after realizing what this spelled) :-)
FART Fathers Against Radical Teenagers (popular bumper sticker)
FART Fathers Against Rude Television (Futurama cartoon)
FART Federal Acronym Registration Team (The Daily Show)
FART Fire Alarm Response Team
FART Fire And Rappeller Training/Tactics
FART Fire and Rescue Team
FART Florida Association of Respiratory Therapists
FART Fort Augustus Rally Team
FART Fresh Air Ram Technology

TWAT Tactical Women's Alert Team (Cheech & Chong skit)
TWAT The War Against Terrorism
TWAT The Warm As Toast (cafe in Cardiff, Wales, UK)
TWAT The Western Area Tourers (motorcycle club)
TWAT The Word Association Thread (game)
TWAT There Was A Time (Guns n' Roses song title)
TWAT There We Are Then
TWAT Traveling-Wave Amplifier Tube

BITCH Babe In Total Control of Herself
BITCH Birds in the City of Hollywood (MTV Jackass)
BITCH Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity

[FiveTimes]

We have a NIT team - Network Integration Team

[oracleslave]

No idea! There's no explanation of them, it's just BAD.

Used to be the "BAD Work Stream" which says enough.

We have BAD and BAT streams

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