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| 100% | LIFE (2) | Lasts If Food's Effective |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | LIFESTYLE | Lets Ignore Financial Efficiency, Spend 'Til You Lose Everything |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ordinary poor people have 'lives', foolish rich people have 'lifestyles'!) |
| 100% | LIVE (2) | Love Immensely/Innovatively Violent Enemies! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | LOL (3) | Little Old Lady |
Angela Brett, while comparing LOL with DOM (DIrty Old Man) Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | LONER | Love's Only Nightmare Escaping Rejection |
Rico Leffanta |
| 93% | LYING CREATURE | Lazy Youth Is Not Generally Conceived of Responding Ever Accurately. The Unreliable Rotten Entity! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MA AND PA KETTLE | Maternal Android Almost Never Directs Paternal Android, 'Kiss Each Time True Lovers Elope' |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MAMA | Mano A Mano Acrobatically |
Rico Leffanta |
| 83% | MASON (3) | Member of A Secret Organisation; Nameless |
Gavin Lambert - I seem to recall reading about some secret society called the "Masons", out to run the world from behind the scenes, or something like that. Like most secret societies, most members didn't know anyone else's real name. |
| 100% | ME | My Existance |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ME (2) | My Ego |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MEET ME | Make Every Effort To Make Encounter |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MENSANS | Maybe Edwin's Not Slow, Angela's Nauseatingly So. |
Angela Brett -- in about 1998 I filled in an application form to join MENSA, so that Edwin (a MENSA member) would have a chance of winning something. In 2001 I found the form and mailed it. It's now November 2003 and every so often I get an email announcing the next inconvenient entrance test date. Sorry Edwin, I don't think you'll win that competition. |
| 100% | MERIT BADGE | Must Educate Rising Individual, Tries Best Ability, Does Get Eventually |
Jan Morgan Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | MIDGET | Many, If Diminutive, Get Exceptional Treatment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MIDGET (2) | Miniature Individuals Don't Get Especially Tall |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | MISS YA | Mostly I'm Sad Since You're Away |
Edwin Hermann |
| 100% | MONSTERS (2) | Mothers On Night Shifts Teenagers Expecting Reasonable Sex |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MORALS | Mindless Orations Ridiculing Alternative Lifestyle Selections |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MOTIVATING PEOPLE | Making Others Take Initiative. Vitally Activating Them Into New 'Get-Profits' Enterprises, Often Pathetically Lacking Empathy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MOTIVATION | Misinform Officeworkers They're Individually Valued And They Increase Output, Normally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | MY FRIEND | Missing You - For Really, I Enjoyed (our) Nightly Discussions. |
Angela Brett, after not having heard from Tony in 15 days. |
| 100% | MY LIFE | Many Years Lost In Futile Endeavours |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MZEE | My Zombie's Extremely Elderly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | NAG HIM | Nudge And Guide Heedless Individual to Modify |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NERD | Never Experiences Romantic Dates |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NERD (2) | Not Exactly Romantic Dude |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NO OFFENCE | Not Offering Objectional Feelings For Expressions. No Calumny Expressed |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | NUDIST | Nakedness Usually Doesn't Involve Sexual Thoughts. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NUTHOUSE | Never Underestimate The Happy, Organised, Urban Spouse's Evening! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | OBLIVIOUS | Obviously Believes Love Is Visible Instead Of Understanding Spirituality |
Rico Leffanta |
| 80% | ORGY | One Raucous Group of Youths |
Sean Lamb |
| 100% | PADDY | Particularly Angry , Don't Destroy Yourself |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PALS | Personable And Likeable Soulmates |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PATRIOT | Person Acclaiming Territorial 'Romance' Is Often Terrorist |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:War & Terrorism Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PAUPER | Poor And Unfortunate Person - Evidently Ravenous |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PEACE | Perhaps Enmity's At Complete End |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military Military |
| 100% | PERSONALITY | Property Expressing Real Self Often Not Altogether Liked - Is That You! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PHILANTHROPY | Plainly Humanity Is Loved - And Normally This Has Romantic Overtones & Pecuniary Yield |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PHILANTHROPY (2) | Past Hippy In Los Angeles Now Throws His Riches On Poor Yuppys |
C. Frost, E.C.V. #49 |
| 100% | PHILATELIST | Person Hoarding Interesting Letter Adornments To Examine & Lookup In Stamp Tomes |
Angela Brett Communication Communication |
| 92% | PHILOLOGISTS | Pathetic Horrid Individuals Lusting Over Language Origins Getting Instant Sexual Turn-ons Simultaneously |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela suggested that people might think from some of these acronyms that we have DIRTY MINDs. He concluded we're just PHILOLOGISTS. |
| 88% | PIONEER | Persecuted Individuals On New Environmental Expedition (for) Relief |
Jan Morgan - for relief from religious persecution or relief of better place to live and work |
| 100% | PLACARD | Pagan Libidos Are Cocked And Readily Discharged |
Rico Leffanta, who explains that placards are public labels; just as black men are placarded as having oversized organs, pagans are placarded as having overactive libidos. |
| 100% | PLACARDS | Public Labels Announce Community's Assumptions, Rapidly Diffusing Stereotypes. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | POLITICALLY CORRECT | Possible Offense Lies In This, I'll Carefully Avoid Language Lest You Complain, Or Race Relations Executives Concern Themselves |
Angela Brett Politics Politics |
| 100% | POOR MAN | People Ordinary Opulent Retaining Mana And Nous |
Mary Carr Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | POSITION (2) | People Often Suppose It To Indicate One's Nobility |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | POSITIVES | Perfect! Opportune! Sentient! Innovative! Triumph! Invincible! Victory! Excel! Self! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | POTENTIAL | People Ought To Eschew Natural Talents, Is Advice Lately. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to TALENT |
| 93% | PRACTICAL JOKES | Prankish, Risky Activity Comically Torturing Innocent Cat's-paw, And Leaving Jovial Onlookers Keenly Expressing Sniggers. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PRINCIPAL | Person Responsible Is Normally Chief Instigating Player, And Leader |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PRINCIPAL (2) | Person, Reputedly In Nominal Charge, Is Prolix And Loquacious |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PROMISE | Proclamation's Read Only Memory... It Shall Endure. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PROTEST | People Register Opposition To Enemy's Sinister Threat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics Politics |
| 100% | PROTOCOLS | Procedures Rigidly Observed To Obviate Crassness Or Looking Stupid |
His Excellency, TheAmbassador@TheCourtOfSaintJames |
| 100% | PUNK | Person Uncovering Nobby Knees |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | QUANTUM MANAGEMENT DATABASE | Quickness Unquestionably Always Necessary... This Underaged Mischief-Maker Almost Needs A Gazillion Eyes (Mother's) Ever Noticing Those Dubious Activities That All Begin As Simple Exploration. |
Angela Brett, expanding an unsuccessful search, thinking of a database on how to manage her nephew QUANTUM. |
| 100% | QUARREL | Querulous, Unwanted Argument Rowdily Raiding English Language |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela mentioned that we hadn't yet come up with any acronyms beginning with 'Q.' |
| 100% | QUARREL (2) | Quashes Usual Amicable Relationship, Retorts Ever Louder |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | QUORUM | Qualified Unit Of Roughly United Minds |
Sean Lamb |
| 83% | RAKES | Rich Aristocrats Kicked-back, Enjoying Scandal |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | RANK | Regal Attitude Needs Kingdom |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | RAPPORT | Reach A Particularly Pleasant Ongoing Relationship Together |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RASCAL | Rake After Seasoning Consummates Autumn Leaves |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | READ AND SUCCEED | Readers Evidently Apply Details Article Notates Duly Surfing Up Career Chart? Essentially Empty Dross! |
TMcCO'G - Self-help manuals for success always seem to be tailored for someone else. Otherwise all those who read them would be whoppingly successful, instead of lurking in bookstores looking for more 'How to Succeed...' books Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | REALIZING DREAMS | Restoring Esoteric Aesthetic Language Into Zine Is Now Getting Difficult Regardless Exact Allegorical Meanings Sought |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| 100% | RECOGNITION | Realising Each Cherished One Gives Nasal Inflection That Identifies Owners Name |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RELATIONSHIPS | Rather Enjoyable Linkages Are Those I Open Nowadays Seeking Happiness In Platonic Situations |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RICH PEOPLE | Rolling In Cash, Having Potential Excess Over Probable Lifetime's Expenditure |
Tony McPauper O'Grady Commerce:Money Commerce:Money |
| 86% | RIGHTS | Regardless of Innocence / Guilt, Humane Treatment's Sure. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RIOT | Raucous Is Obviously Taboo |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | SAFE | Single Accountable Functional Empathetic |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SAPIENT | Seeking Another Person Invariably Eases Natural Termination |
Rico Leffanta |
| 90% | SCAPEGOAT | Stand-in Culprits Are Provided - Ergo Guilty Ones Avoid Torture |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SCAPEGOAT (2) | Someone Can't Accept Personal Error, Gutlessly Outsources Aftermath-Tackling |
Angela Brett |
| 88% | SHOW OFF | Such Haughty One-upmanship Will Often Fall Flat |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SILLY | Somehow I Love Loving You |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SIN | So, It's Naughty! |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SIN (2) | Satan Is Near. |
Roger Williams Religion Religion |
| 100% | SIN (3) | Sacrifice It's Not! |
Roger Williams Religion Religion |
| 100% | SIN (4) | Shamefully, It's News! |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SLACKER | Someone Lolling About Claiming Knicker Elastic Ruptured |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SMART ALEC | See Me After Rehearsals Tonight And Let's Exchange Costumes |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SNIT | Sans Niceness, Inexplicable Tantrum |
Angela Brett, when her sister asked if their mother was still 'in a snit' with her. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | SNIT (2) | Selfish Noxious Irritating Trait |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | SOCIAL STUDIES | Students Of Community Interactions Across Lateral Strata. Theories Usually Descend Into Endless Squabbles |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Education Education |
| 100% | SOLE | Someone Owns Lone Effort |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SOLE CONTRIBUTOR | Someone On Lonesome Expands Content Of New Topic, Rebuffing Incisive & Brilliant Utterances That Others Remit |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | SOLITUDE | Sometimes One Likes Isolation. Though Usually (it) Doesn't Endure. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SOLO | Single Only, Lonely One |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | SORRY | Such Offensive Rudeness Riles You. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SPANKING | Somatically Punishing A Naughty Kid Isn't Necessarily Good |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SPANKING (2) | Some Pains Are Not 'Kindness' - Ignore Naive Gossip |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (I've never believed that "you've got to be cruel to be kind".) |
| 100% | SPUNK | Spouse Pursuing Usable New Kitchen |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SURVIVAL | Still Unbeaten, Resisting Valiantly Irritating Vicissitudes Along Lifepath |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology Science:Biology |
| 100% | SWAIN | Someone Women Avow Is Nobody |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | UNIFORM (4) | Unquestioning Nonvariance *Is* Fashion... Others Reflect Me! |
Angela Brett, in response to UNIFORM (3) Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | UNIFORM (5) | Unquestioning Nature... I'll Form Opinions Resembling Master's |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | UNIFORMITY | Unlikely - Nature Is Full Of Renegade Minds, I Tell You! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNITE | Undivided Nation = Individuals Treated Equally |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNITY | Unlovable Neighbour Is Tolerating You! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNITY (2) | Understand Neighbour; It Teaches You. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNITY (3) | Underneath, Negro's Identical To Yourself |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNTRADITIONAL | Using New Techniques, Rituals Are Destroyed Instantly. Those In Office Never Alter Laws |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | VALUES | Vision A List, Usually Ensures Success |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | VERY IMPORTANT PERSON | Vague Eulogistic Reportage - Yawn! - Invites My Perusal Of Rumours That A Notable Tabloid Personality Escorted (Romantically) Someone Of Note |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (nowadays VIPs are anyone who romances another VIP) Names:Famous people Names:Famous people |
| 100% | VULTURE | Violent Uncle Looking To Upset Ravisher's Enterprise |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | WAIF | What An Insignificant Figure! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | WAIFS | We Are In Financial Strife |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money Commerce:Money |
| 100% | WE CAN DO | With Everyone Cooperating All Nasty Dilemmas Overcome |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WHATEVER (2) | We Have A Terrific Eventful Very Extraordinary Relationship |
Judy Bishop. Created it while e-mailing back and forth to friend |
| 100% | WHIPPING BOY | Work Harder, I Pay (Peanuts) Iff Niggers Get Bloody Over Yield! |
Angela Brett |
| 83% | WIMPS | Weak-willed Individuals Make Pathetic Superheroes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady MacGirl & KeyBoard MacGirl & KeyBoard |
| 100% | WINNERS | Winners Innovate! Navigate Naturally. Empathetically Realise Success! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | WOBBLER | Went Overboard By Blusteringly Launching Enraged Response |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - in Ireland the term "He threw a wobbler" is used to describe someone's reaction to bad news |
| 100% | XENOPHOBE | Xenophobes Enjoy Noting Other People Holding Old Biases Everlasting. |
Sean Lamb (http://august1.com/pubs/dict/ is the only legal dictionary online that I've seen with entries under X, including this one. Since a xenophobe is biased against alien residents, one would need others with similar biases to rationalize such views.) |
| 100% | YOKEL | You Only Kiss Engaging Lips |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | YOKEL (2) | Your Own Kin Evoke Lust |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | YUPPIE | You Use Phone in Porsche... It's Extravagant! |
Angela Brett Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | YUPPIE (2) | Young Unsocial Pretentious Pig Ignorant Executive |
John Richard Jones. I thought of this after an encounter with three yuppies on a train. |
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