Anyone's Permitted Ratifying O'Grady's Neologism? Yes, Make Some!
Angela has not had time to update this website recently, because she is also a mathematician by training, programmer by trade, physicist by association and writer by Sunday midnight. She would like to remind people that anyone who submits an acronym to this website may send a short blurb like this one to go on their page of acronyms.
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| GLASS (3) | Get Lacerated As Some Shatters |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| GLASSEL | Good-Looking At Sea Side, Elsewhere Lacklustre. |
Angela Brett ('Glassel' is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday. Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| GLASSES | Good-Looking Angela Sees Smallprint Extra Sharply. |
Angela Brett, who has perfect close-up sight. Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| GLASSES (2) | Geriatrics Lacking Acuity Sometimes Seek Enhanced Sight. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| GLASSES (3) | Good Looking, A Spectacle... Strange Equivocal Synonyms |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| GLITCH | Good Lord! Imperfect Timing Causes Havoc! |
Angela Brett, after hearing about how delays in electricity flowing through logic gates can cause glitches in electronic circuits. Science:Electronics |
| GLOBE TROTTING | Glamourous Life/Lust Of Being Elsewhere, Then Returning Only To Totally Ignore Native Geography. |
Angela Brett, while pondering her globe trotting planned for mid-2004. Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| GO APPLES (2) | Gone Overboard At Pretending Placidness... Losing Extant Sanity. |
Angela Brett, thinking that 'go apples' could have a similar meaning to 'go bananas'. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| GOAT | Gnaws On Any Thing! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| GO AWAY | Go On, Ask, We'll Astound You. |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| GO AWAY, NOW! | Get On A Wing, And You'll Navigate Our World. |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| GOD | Great Omniscient Deity |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (4) | Great Omnipresent Deity |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (5) | Goliath's, Or Davids? |
Angela Brett... A lot of people seem to fight each other because they believe in different gods - the Old Testament is littered with stories of God helping the Israelites defeat their enemies. I wonder how bible stories would read if told by the other side. Religion |
| GOD (6) | Generous, Or Destructive? |
Angela Brett - some churches (at least Reverend Lovejoy's one on The Simpsons!) lean towards the idea that if we don't do exactly what God says we'll all burn in hell. Others describe a more benevolent God. Religion |
| GOD (7) | Gender's Often Debated |
Angela Brett - Most texts refer to God as 'He' although there are jokes about God being female and logically (if logic even applies to gods) God is neither. Religion People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| GOD (8) | Guess One's Desires |
Angela Brett (there are so many arguments and no direct ways of finding out what a god might want us to do.) Religion |
| GOD (9) | Gestalt Of Devotees |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (10) | Greets Our Dead |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (11) | Goodness On Demand |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (12) | Giver, Observer, Destroyer. |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD (13) | Generated Our Domain |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD IS GOOD | Generator Of Divine Inspiration Should Get Our Ongoing Devotion |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOD LOVES YOU VERY MUCH | Great One Doesn't Look On Viciously, Expecting Something You're Obviously Unable. Vices Embraced... Remember Your Most Unsaintly Characteristic -- Humanity! |
Angela Brett (If God loves me very much, He wouldn't send me to HELL whatever petty evil I were involved in... and certainly not for simply being imperfect.) Religion |
| GODS | Generous Omni Developers Share |
Angela Brett, because the Omni Group (http://omnigroup.com) makes some excellent products for Mac OS X, including frameworks for other Cocoa developers to use. Some might regard the Omni folk as GODS. Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| GODS (2) | Greek? One Doesn't Suffice. |
Angela Brett Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses |
| GODS (3) | Glut Of Different Sorts |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GODS (4) | Glut Of Denominational Schisms |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GOLD (2) | Geniality Of Long Duration |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the gold (50th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| GOLGI | Good Old Lipoproteins Get Instructed |
Angela Brett, after someone told her that a golgi apparatus is a 'structure where proteins go to college.' Science:Biology Education |
| GOLGI (2) | Gulper Of Leftover Garbage, Indeed. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| GONAD | Generates Ova Night And Day |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| GOOD | Greatly Overused, Ordinary Declaration. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| GOOD (2) | Glosses Over One's Depression |
Angela Brett, because most people say, 'good' or something similar when asked how they are, regardless of their true situations. Assorted Adjectives People & Relationships:Emotions |
| GOOD DAY | Generosity Of Others Definitely Does Affect You |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases Time People & Relationships |
| GOOD OR BAD | Get Out Of Doldrums Of Reasonable But Amoral Deeds. |
Angela Brett, in response to an unsuccessful search, because life wouldn't be as interesting if we only did things that were neither good nor bad. People & Relationships |
| GOWN | Graduate's Otherwise Wearing Nothing |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating - there are bound to be pranksters who wear nothing under the gown. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| GRADUATION | Get Ready Academics... Depart University And Turn Into Overpaid Novices |
Angela Brett Education Time:Special Occasions |
| GRAPE IMAC | Gag, Retch... Argh! Purple Equipment Isn't Meal... Actually Computer! |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad |
| GRAVE | Grievers Remember A Vanished Embodyment |
Angela Brett Places People & Relationships:Death |
| GRAVES | God Requests A Visit, Eternal Souls. |
Angela Brett Places People & Relationships:Death |
| GRAVITY BAR | Guinness Room's Awesome View Impresses Tourists, Your Beers Are Ready. |
Angela Brett (The Gravity Bar, at the Guinness brewery in Dublin, has an almost 360 degree view of the city.) Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Places:Buildings |
| GREAT YEAR | Get Ready, Everyone, As Tony's Year Exceeds All Records! |
Angela Brett, on Tony's birthday. Time |
| GRIEVOUS | Grave Robber Is Extolling Virtues Of Using Shovel |
Angela Brett (grave robbing is rather a grievous thing to do.) People & Relationships:Death |
| GROUP THAT SAVES SCHOOLS | Gathers Rallying Over Underfunded Public Teaching-Houses, As Teachers' Salaries And Valuable Education Shouldn't Stop 'Cause Honchos Overseeing Our Laws Say. |
Angela Brett, not on any particular group but responding to an unsuccessful search. Politics Education |
| GUFFAW (2) | Gut Undulates From Fun And Wit |
Angela Brett Laughter |
| GUICIDE | Graphical User Interface Crashed... Instant Disaster Ensued! |
Angela Brett, pondering whether deinstalling a GUI (Graphical User Interface) would be committing 'guicide' Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers |
| GUICIDE (2) | Gnome User Intentionally Caused Its Death, Evidently. |
Angela Brett (Gnome is a Linux GUI) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers:Linux |
| GUICIDE AFTERMATH | Great, Unintuitive Incoherent Commands Involved During Everyday Actions. For This, Everything Requires Mindpower - All Too Hard! |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers |
| GUN SALUTE | Give Umpteen Numbered Shots As Laurels (Usually Toward Elsewhere) |
Angela Brett Military |
| GURU (2) | Geek Using Real Unix |
Angela Brett, when the installers at a Linux installfest were called gurus. Computers:Linux |
| GWEN | Good Welsh Effeminate Name |
Angela Brett (Gwendolyn is a Welsh name meaning fair haired) Names:First names:Female |
| GYARADOS | 'Goldfish' Yields A Rare Atrocious Dragon Of Size |
Angela Brett (Gyarados is Pokemon #130) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| GYMNASTICS | Girls & Young Men Now Attempt Stretches That Impossibly Curve Spine |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation |
| GYROSCOPIC | Get Yours! Rotates Omnidirectionally So Centre Of Positition Is Constant. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| GYROSTABILIZER | God! You're Rolling Over! Stop That! Aircraft Begins Inclining, Luckily Implement Zeroes Endangering Rotation. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| GYVE | Got You! Villain's Entrapped. |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| HAHA | Harder Acronyms Hamper Angela |
Angela Brett, when it took her a while to respond to a challenge to acronymise haha, after she'd said she couldn't resist acronymising capitalised words. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| HAL | He's Artificial Lunacy |
Angela Brett, referring to the computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| HALL OF FAME | Have A Laugh... Lots Of Fantastically Funny Acronyms Might Eventuate. |
Angela Brett (The Acronyms Hall of Fame is at http://acronyms.co.nz/halloffame.html) Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| HALL OF FAME (3) | Here Anthony Looks Like One Fine Fellow... Added Most Expansions. |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| HALLOWEEN | Houselights And Lanterns Light One's Way Entreating Each Neighbour. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HAMPERS | Hinder[s] Angela's MP3 Player's Expected Reception Speed |
Angela Brett, several days after her IPOD was supposed to arrive, on finding out that due to an influx of CHRISTMAS HAMPERS some smaller packages are getting lost. Communication Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| HAM SANDWICH THEOREM | Here's A Mathematical Statement Anyone (Not Dealing With Integrals) Can Hungrily Test. Halve Exactly Outer Rolls, Even Meat. |
Angela Brett (From the Collins dictionary of Mathematics: ham sandwich theorem, n, a colourful name for the theorem that given three volumes in Euclidean three-space, there is at least one plane which simultaneously bisects the three volumes. As a consequence, any sandwich may be cut in such a way that the two pieces have equal amounts of filling and equal amounts of each slice of bread.) Science:Mathematics Food & Drink |
| HAND | Hard Acronym Not Done |
Angela Brett, when Steve was trying to think of a HAND acronym and then asked her for an expansion when he couldn't think of one. Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HANDYMAN | Husband's Apparently Now Doing Yearly Maintenance Around Nest. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| HANNAH | Here's A Nice Name - And How! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| HANS | Has A Nutty Scalp |
Angela Brett, referring to HANS MOLEMAN - HOMER once kissed him on the head and exclaimed, 'It's just like kissing a peanut!' Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| HANS THOMAS | His Autobiographic Novel Spans Two Hundred Or More Autumn Seasons! |
Angela Brett, referring to the character in 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| HAPPY B-DAY | Here's A Present, Proving You've Blocked Death Another Year. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY! | Here's A Properly Phony Year... Because In Roman, The (Heard) Digits Announce You're Allowed Non-Truths. Have One Neat Year! |
Angela Brett, when Tony became old enough to li about his age. Words & Wordplay Time:Special Occasions |
| HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY! | Hardly A Party Pooper, You'll Be Incrementing 'Round The Helios' Digits, Announcing 'Yippee! Tony O'Grady's New Year!' |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HAPPY HOLIDAYS (2) | Here's A Plan: Pamper Yourself! Hours Of Lie-Ins Dissolve Away Your Stress. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HAPPY HOLIDAYS (3) | How American People Phrase Yuletide Hellos... One Living In Diversity Atheises Yearly Sentiments. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HARD DRIVE | Hardly A Readily Digestible Diet... Rarely Is Vitamin Enriched. |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat |
| HARM | Humans Are Really Mean |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Military:War & Terrorism |
| HASSOP | Here Armchair Stores Sterling Or Plastic |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (Hassop is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego.' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| HASTINGS | Hardly Anything Suspicious - The... Icing Needed Glazing, See? |
Angela Brett (Hastings is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Things said on the spur of the moment to explain to someone who comes into a room unexpectedly precisely what it is you are doing.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| HATE | Humans Attack Their Enemies |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism |
| HATING | Humans Attack Those Idolising Neighbouring Gods |
Angela Brett Religion People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism |
| HAVE A NICE DAY | Hopefully A Very Enjoyable And Not Irritating Circadian Episode Does Await You. |
Angela Brett Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| HEAD | Hat/Hair Envelops Axons & Dendrites |
Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEAL | Helpful Education About Life/Love |
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as WATCH OUT People & Relationships:Abuse |
| HEART | Hopefully Evident Arrhythmias Repair Themselves. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEART (2) | Healthily, Each Atrium Rhythmically Twitches. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEART (3) | Holds Emotion And Romantic Thoughts? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEART (5) | He's Expired... Atria Rhythm Terminated |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEAVEN | Highly Ecclesiastical Angelic Vista - Eternal Nirvana |
Angela Brett (the Angelic one ;^) Places Religion |
| HEEL | Holds Extremity, Ends Leg. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HELP | Have Extremely Large Problem |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| HELP DESK | Hasn't Even Learnt Primary Data Everyone Should Know |
Angela Brett (see also HELPDESK) People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations Communication |
| HELPDESK | "Hello... Eh? Lifeless PC? Depress Electricity Switch."-- Knowall |
Angela Brett Computers |
| HELP ME FIND THE CAT | Hopefully Every Lost Pet May Eventually Find Its Next Dinner (The Human's Emotions Clearly Aren't Topmost!) |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for that phrase on the website. Science:Biology:Animals |
| HELP ME GO PEE | Have Especially Large Prostate? Maybe Envisioning Gently Oscillating Pond'll Ease Embarrassment. |
Angela Brett, after somebody searched for that phrase on the website. Other unsuccessful searches are now listed at http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| HEMP | Hardly Emulates Marijuana's Potency |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants |
| HEMP (2) | Herb Exhibits Medicinal Properties |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants |
| HENG | His Earthquake-Noticer's Great! |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| HERBALIFE | Hate Every Repulsive Banner Accosting Linked-In Food Eaters. |
Angela Brett, who sees a lot of annoying pop-up ads (not exactly banners... put some demerit points on my creative license) for Herbalife but prefers to get her nutrients from a balanced diet rather than from herb pills. I'm glad only have to put up with those ads when I'm at work... the web browsers on my own computer block unrequested pop-up windows. Commerce:Companies Food & Drink |
| HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES - THE MISFITS, THE REBELS, THE TROUBLEMAKERS. THE ROUND PEGS IN THE SQUARE HOLES. THE ONES WHO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. THEY'RE NOT FOND OF RULES, AND THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE STATUS QUO. YOU CAN QUOTE THEM, DISAGREE WITH THEM, GLORIFY OR VILIFY THEM - ABOUT THE ONLY THING YOU CAN'T DO IS IGNORE THEM. BECAUSE THEY CHANGE THINGS. THEY PUSH THE HUMAN RACE FORWARD. AND WHILE SOME MAY SEE THEM AS THE CRAZY ONES, WE SEE GENIUS - BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CRAZY ENOUGH TO THINK THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD ARE THE ONES WHO DO. | Hello, Emmy! Really Emotive Script That Offers The Heroically Engendered Computer. Respect Apple's Zeal - Yes, One Needs Enthusiasm. 'Similar Thinking' Holds Evil, Microsoft Is Slowly Filtering Into These Similar-Thinkers' Heads, Essentially Revenue-Enhancing Brainwashing. Enter Lifestyle Spot Touting Home Electronics That Rebels Outputted. Used By Lunatics, Einsteins, Misfits Alike, Key Element's Revolutionary Spirit. This Has Everything... Rapid Operation, Userfriendliness - No Dot-PUB Endings (Gates' System Insists Names Trail Horrid 'Extensions' So Quasi-Understandable Abbreviation Represents Executable's Handle.) Owners Love Easy Software That Has Enhanced Output - Nay... Enhanced, Somehow, World! Hail Our Steves - Evolving Electronics, They Have, Indeed, Near-Godly Status. Doing It For Fun, Eventually Rewarded... Even Now They Leave You Thinking, "He's Extraordinary! Yes, Really Extraordinary! Not One To Fear Originality." New Discoveries Often Find Ridicule, Until Losers Eventually See Advantage - Now Different Thinking Has Exterminated Yesteryear's Harmonistic Attitude. Value Eccentricity, Not Ordinariness - Revolutionary Equals Strange... Perspective Entirely Changes The Face Of Rebellious Thoughts. Help Existing, Stagnating Technology Advance Through Using Some Quality Unheard Of Yet. Outcasts? Underdogs? Called Anything Nasty (Quoting Usually Others' Thoughtless Exclamations) The Hardworking Engineers Made Dust Into Silver, Analogously. Gutsy Recovery Ensued... Everything's Worth It, To Hear The Heartfelt Evangelism Macintosh G4 Lovers Offer. "Rapid Innovation Fulfills Your Own Resplendent Visions, Its Lifelike Interface Frees You To Harness Effectively Machine's Awesome Battery Of Uses." Though That's Hardly Everyone's Opinion. Now, Like Yesterday, To Heedlessly Ignore Next-Generation Young Objects Usually Causes A Nightmare. Think Different! Outliers In Science Invariably Get Noticed... Often Resented, Esteemed, Totally Humiliated, Eulogised, Maligned... But Eventually Create A Utopia, Sending Earthlings To Heights Earlier You Couldn't Have Anticipated. New Greatness Entails Tumbling Headlong Into Nothingness, Gripping Some Thought, Hoping Earnestly You'll Progress Utopia Somehow. However, Try Hard... Extremely Hard. Use Magic And Neurons, Reckoning And Creativity, Effort, Flair, Outright Radical Wizardry - Anything. Rule Deviations Are Necessary - Domination Will Hinder Innovation, Lessen Enthusiasm, Stifle One's Mind... Even Might Augment Youth Suicide. Educate Each To Hold 'Educate Myself' As Slogan To Honour, Eventually Cultivating Real Autonomous Zealots... You'd Only Need Elementary Similarities. When Einstein Started Extensively Exploring Gravitation, Established Newtonian Ideas Undoubtedly Stopped Brainiac Earlier Concocting Alternative Universal Supposition. Egotistical Thoughtpolice Hide Enigmatic People Elsewhere, Only Promoting Learning Everything Within Habitual, Orthodox Academia. Real Extremists Create Ridiculous Acronyms... Zany Yield Except Not One Useful Gift Humanity Takes Of This. Hardly Inducing New Knowledge, This Huge Expansion Yabbers Continually About Near-Cliched Homogeny Attitude. Nowadays, Gosh, Everyone Thinks He's Eccentric... Widespread Opinion Regarding Looking Different As Really Extra Trendy Has Each One Now Effectively Seeking What He Opposes - Difference Omnipresent! |
Angela Brett, expanding the script of an Emmy-winning Apple advertisement. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Words & Wordplay:Ridiculously long apronyms |
| HERNIA | Hurts Excruciatingly! Really Needs Immediate Attention |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| HERON | He Estimated Roots Of Numbers. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| HEWLETT-PACKARD | Have Employed Wozniak - Looked Encouragingly Toward The Prototype Apple, Couldn't Know About Resulting Disadvantage. |
Angela Brett, since Steve Wozniak was working at Hewlett-Packard when he designed the Apple I, but luckily HP weren't interested in selling computers at that time so they didn't claim it as their own. Computers Commerce:Companies |
| HIGGS BOSON | Here Is GUT's Guts, Some Believe Only Stupidity Of Namesake |
Angela Brett, who originally misunderstood the Higgs boson and expanded it, 'Here Is Gravity's Glue...' GUT stands for Grand Unified Theory. Science:Physics:Particles |
| HIGH | Helicopter's Indispensible Getting Here. |
Angela Brett Places:Positions & Directions |
| HIGH (2) | Here Is Good Hashish! |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| HIGH SCHOOL | Here I Got High (Smoking Canabis, Hiding Out On Lavatory.) |
Angela Brett, who didn't. Education Drugs:Cannabis |
| HILARIOUS (3) | How I Laughed! A Rollicking Incident Of Utter Silliness |
Angela Brett Laughter |
| HILL | Huge Insipid Land Lump |
Angela Brett Places |
| HILTON | How I'd Love To Own Nine! |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| HILTON (2) | Hospitality Is Like That Of Nobility |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| HIPPASUS | He Incensed Pythagoreans, Perhaps After Showing Unholy Sizes |
Angela Brett (Hippasus was expelled from the Pythagoreans, possibly because of disclosing the existence of incommensurable magnitudes) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| HIRE (2) | Having Implement Requires Expenditure |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| HITCH | Hitched? Is The Ceremony Hindered? |
Angela Brett, since many people 'get hitched' without a hitch. People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| HITCHHIKER | Hop In The Car... Heading Home? I Know Expedient Route. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| HITMONCHAN | He Is The Master Of Nasty Chopping, Hands Are Nimble. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonchan is Pokemon #107) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| HITMONLEE | He Is The Master Of Nasty Legwork... Extremely Effective. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonlee is Pokemon #106) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| HOBBY | Hopefully Outcome's Big Bucks, Yes? |
Angela Brett, when Mike from acronymfinder.com mentioned that his hobby now earns him money in advertising and licensing. Commerce |
| HOBO | Homeless Or Broke One |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| HOLLAND | Hordes Of Low-Landers All Need Dykes |
Angela Brett Places:States & Regions |
| HOME | House Or Mansion, Essentially. |
Angela Brett Places |
| HOMELAND | Here Our Mothers Endured Labour - A Nation Divine |
Angela Brett Places |
| HOMELAND (2) | Heart Of My Existence Lies Amid Native Dominion |
Angela Brett Places |
| HOMELAND (3) | Here Originated My Ethnicity, Language, And Negative Discrimination |
Angela Brett Places |
| HOMER | Holding Onto Marge - Extreme Reliance |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| HOMICIDE | Horror Of Murder Is Captured In Deceased's Expression |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Death |
| HOMOGRAPHY | Helpful Orthographic Method - One Graphical Representation And Phoneme Homogeneously Yoked |
Angela Brett, who doesn't think Homogeneously is the best word for it. Science:Linguistics Communication |
| HOMOSEXUALS | Hump Other Men Only, So Eschewing XX. Unusual, Although (Lately) Sanctioned. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| HONEY | Harvest Of Nectar - Extremely Yummy |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| HONEYMOON | Hours Of Nighttime Experimenting - You Might Orgasm... Or Not. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| HOOD | Here's Owner Of Degree |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| HORSE | Humans Often Race Speedy Equines. |
Angela Brett. (Tony replied 'I've never raced a horse in my life! I'm (just about) smart enough to know it would win ;-)') Science:Biology:Animals |
| HORSE (2) | Here's One! Relentlessly Sheep Elsewhere. |
Angela Brett, who saw a lot of sheep but very few horses on her way from Auckland to Palmerston North. Science:Biology:Animals |
| HOSPITAL | House Of Sick Patients Itching Their Amputated Limbs |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Places:Buildings |
| HOSPITAL (2) | Hearses Offer Some Patients Into The After-Life |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death Places:Buildings |
| HOSTEL | How One Shuns The Expensive Lodges |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| HOT | Heightening Of Thermoactivity |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Science:Physics |
| HOT BOX | Help/Halt! Our Train's Becoming Overly Xerantic! |
Angela Brett (According to the glossary on http://trackbed.com, hot box refers to excessive heating of a plain bearing axlebox due often to a loss of adequate lubrication and which required the locomotive to be stopped before severe damage and possible derailment occurred.) Transport:Trains |
| HOT CHIPS | Hot Oil Tastily Cooks Highly Irresistible Potato Sticks |
Angela Brett, while waiting for hot chips to be cooked at the UNIVERSITY cafeteria. Food & Drink |
| HOT-CROSS BUNS | How Oddly They Celebrate Religious Occasion... 'Sweet & Savioury' Bread Undoes Numerous Sins. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| HOT-CROSS BUNS (2) | Holy On-Top Crucifix... Remember Our Saviour Suffered Brutality Undoing Numerous Sins |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| HOTEL | House Of Travellers - Expensive Lodgings! |
Angela Brett/Dustan Dowsing, while listening to an mp3 of 'Hotel California' by The Eagles. Places:Buildings |
| HOUSE | Home Of Usual Suburban Entities |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| HOWARD | How Other-Wordly... A Rationalising Duck. |
Angela Brett, referring to the film 'Howard The Duck'. I'm after a better word than Rationalising... something meaning 'humanoid', 'anthropomorphised', 'beer-drinking', 'blokey' or one of the other traits Howard possessed which are otherwise exclusive to humans. Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| HTTP (2) | How They Transfer Pages |
Angela Brett, inspired by HTML. HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| HTTP://ACRONYMS.CO.NZ | Have The Time, Phone, And Computer? Read Our Newest Yabberings - Mostly-Sane Creations Of Novel Zeitvertreib |
Angela Brett, referring to the ACRONYMS web site of course. Computers:Internet:URLs |
| HTTP://UN.CO.NZ/ANGELA | Have Time To Peruse? Using Netscape, Come Over 'N' Zip Around. Newly Generated Eloquence Lies Ahead. |
Angela Brett, acronymising her website (since moved to http://macintosh.geek.nz) This includes the ACRONYMS site which is updated with new acronyms every week. Computers:Internet:URLs |
| HUH | Hardly Understood Her |
Angela Brett Main |
| HUNGRILY | He Uncovers Nude Genitals, Revealing Intense Lustful Yearnings |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| HURRY! | High Urgency... Result Required Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
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