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| ABET | Aid By Encouraging Transgression |
Angela Brett |
| ALARM | A Loud Appliance Ringing Madly |
Edwin Hermann Science:Electronics Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| ASHCROFT | Arrogant Supporter Hates Criticisms Raised Over Firearms Threat |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians Military:Weapons |
| ASHCROFT (2) | Anti-Semite Helps Christian Right's Openly Fundamentalist Teachings |
Chris Kjelgaard. The term "Anti-Semite" here is used in its true dictionary meaning, which refers to any person of several races and persuasions, including Arabs, Phoenicians and others - not just the Jewish people. Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| ASHCROFT (3) | Attorney's Stance Harms Constitutional Rights, Only Furthering Terrorism |
Chris Kjelgaard. "Only Favoring Theology" could be an alternative ending Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| AVOIDANCE | A Villainy Of Investing Dollars And Not Contributing Excise |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| BLACKSTONE | British Lawyer Authored "Commentaries", Keenly Saving Tomes Of Notable Expoundings. |
Roger Williams Names:Famous people |
| BROKEN | By Rebelling, Outlaws Keep Everyone Noticing |
Angela Brett, because laws are made to be broken. The theory is that criminals are really just doing what they do because they want attention. Sentence potential criminals to preventative attention and everything will be fine. |
| BUSINESS OF POLICE PROTECTION | Because Unpaid Security Is Not Effective, Somebody Should Offer (For Pay) Officer Left In Charge, Exclusively Premises Requested Of The Employer's Client. This Is Ordinary Nowadays. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| CALL A COP | Cancel All Laws Limiting Any Christmas Office Party |
Rico Leffanta Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| CIA | Criminals In Authority |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| CIPA | Can't I Play Anywhere? |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| CIPA (2) | Censoring Internet Pages Always |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| CIPA (3) | Congress Institutes Protections Awkwardly |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| CLEANERS | Criminal Leaders Extracting Assets Never Expecting Redemption Settlements |
Rico Leffanta |
| CLUE | Close Look Uncovers Evidence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CLUE (2) | Criminal Left Us Evidence |
Angela Brett |
| CONSTITUTION | Contract Offering Numerous Sequential Tenets Intended To Unitedly Temper Its Own Nation |
Patricia Rix Politics |
| COPOUT | Cunning Operation Planning On Upbraiding Target |
Katherine |
| COPULATE | Constables Outnumber People Usually Late At Tort Events |
Rico Leffanta (Cop! You Late!) |
| COUNTERFEIT | Creating Own Undetectable Notes To Earn Revenue Freely Evidently Is Tricky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| COUNTERFEIT (2) | Coiner Operates Under Noticeable Threat; Every Risky Forgery Extends Illegal Trafficking |
Patricia Rix Commerce:Money |
| COURTS | Churn Out Unacceptable Rejects To Society |
Rico Leffanta |
| CRIME | Committing Robbery Is Manifestly Erroneous |
Patricia Rix |
| CRIMINALS: GET WEALTH, POWER, FAME! | Criminals Repent: Invest Mind/Money In Nurturing Altruism/Achievements, Living Sacrificially. Get Eternal Treasure. Wealth Earned Assures Life's/Lasting/Luxe: True Happiness. Power: Omnipotent's Wonderful Encouragement Receive. Fame: Almighty's Measureless Empathy! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. The Organising Principles of Expansion: 1. Each Word of Apronym Expands to one sentence. 2. Each Word of Apronym is the Expansion of its Initial in the APRONYM. These contraints strengthen the APRONYM, because the expansion is more predictable. I like that. Religion People & Relationships:Advice |
| DEED | Due Extreme End: Divorce |
Angela Brett, referring to the title of a property which has to be split in a divorce. People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| DEFENSE | Detective's Evidence-Finding Etiquette Not Strictly Endorsed |
Angela Brett (If TV shows are to be believed, people often get off because the evidence which proves their guilt was not obtained in the right way.) |
| DETECTED | Detailed Examination That Eventually Caught The Evil Doer(s) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DMCA | Don't Make Cables Abroad |
It's not just DeCSS that US Customs doesn't want coming into the country. Check out http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mcmillen/dmca for another viewpoint. (DMCA usually stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ERIC | Exact Retribution In Coinage |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Crossworders will know that an 'eric' was a fine payable by a murderer to the family of the victim) |
| EVIDENCE | Evidence Vindicates Indictment. Defenders Explain Nothing 'Cept Embarrassment. |
Sean Lamb |
| FAKE | Forgeries Are Kinda Expensive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FAKE (2) | Fraud Artists Kid Everyone |
Angela Brett |
| FAKE (3) | Fools Are Knowingly Ensnared |
Angela Brett |
| FAKE (4) | Forged A Karat, Expertly |
Patricia Rix |
| FAKES | Fool And Kwanza Easily Separated |
Angela Brett |
| FINED | For Infraction, Ninety-Eight Dollars |
Angela Brett |
| FINGERPRINTS | Forensic Investigators Now Get Enhanced Results, Putting Rogue Individuals Near 'The Scene' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FOREMAN OF THE JURY | Finished Off Reviewing Evidence, My Announcement Notes Our Findings. Trial Has Ended, Judge Usually Rules Years. |
Angela Brett |
| GAOL | Girls Are Only Lads |
Rico Leffanta Places:Buildings |
| HOLDUP | Hoodlums Often Loud Demands Upset Personnel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HOMICIDE | Horror Of Murder Is Captured In Deceased's Expression |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| INFANTICIDE | It's Not Fair, And Not Tolerated - Innocent Child Isn't Deserving Evisceration |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| INS | It's Now Security |
Sean Lamb (INS was the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the US until it merged into the DHS [Department of Homeland Security]) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| JAIL | Just Another Inmate Lodging. |
Roger Williams Places:Buildings |
| JOHN JAY | Justice Of Historic Notoriety, Just Another Yankee |
Robert Anonymous Names:Famous people |
| JURY | Judge: Unanimous? Representative: Yes. |
Angela Brett |
| JUSTICE (2) | Jury's Undecided? Seems That I'm Convicted Erroneously. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see GUILTY) Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL! | Just Us! Selfish Temporisers! Individuals Completely Egotistical! For Ourselves! Ruin Antagonists! Low Lifes! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| LAW | Levelled Against Wrongdoing |
Angela Brett |
| LAWFUL CONDUCT | Love And War: Fair Until Lawyers Come, Openly Nicking Dollars Using Clever Tricks |
Angela Brett |
| LAWSUIT | Legal Actions Will Sometimes Use Intricate Terminology |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LEGAL | Loopholes Exploited, Getting Around Laws |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate |
| LOOPHOLE | Lawyers Out Of Principles Halting Other Legal Effects |
Rico Leffanta |
| MISTRIAL | Maybe It's Supposed To Result In A Liquidation |
Sean Lamb |
| MURDER | Motive Usually Revenge, Dealt Excessively Ruthlessly. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| NAB | Net A Baddie |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NAB (2) | Now Apprehended Burglar |
Jan Morgan |
| NET | Now Everyone's Thieves |
Sean Lamb (NET, in this reference, is the acronym given by the US Congress to the No Electronic Theft Act, which is supposed to simplify criminal prosecution for distributing proprietary files online) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| ON THE LAW | One Night They Had Extra Labor And Wages |
Sean Lamb (A train crew is "on the law" when they have exceeded their allowed work time between rest periods) Transport:Trains |
| OUTLAWS | Old Uncles Talking Laughingly About Wayward Sisters |
Rico Leffanta |
| OUT OF HERE | Once Under That Old Fence, He'll Evasively Run East |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| PATENT | Prior Art Treated Egregiously, Not Trusted |
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent) |
| PATENT (2) | Patent Application Truthful? Eolas Needs Tutoring |
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent) Computers:Internet |
| PIRACY | Pernicious Individuals Rob And Cheat You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PLEA BARGAINS | Protagonist's Lawyer Expects A Bad Answer, Reasons Guilty Announcement Induces Nicer Sentence |
Angela Brett |
| POLICE PROTECTION | Probity Of Lieutenants Is Central, Ensuring Public Resources Operate To End Criminal Threats .... Intimidation's Outlawed Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| POLICE STATION | Place Of Lies, Injuries Coerce Explanation. Suddenly They Are Terminating Investigation - Oh No! |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| PURSUIT | Police Under Requirements So Ultimately I Tergiversate |
Taylor Rundell's the name. I thought of the acronym in my brain, but I also used the thesaurus @ thesaurus.com |
| RACKETS | Running A Criminal Kingdom - Evil Thugs Succeed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RANSOM | Recovery Attempt Needs Shooters Or Money |
Eric Bridgstock, after Angela's laptop was held to ransom. |
| RANSOM NOTE | Really Awful Notice. Statement Of Malice. Not Often Tackled Easily. |
Eric Bridgstock Communication |
| RAPE | Rascal Assaults, Penetrates Eagerly. |
Steve Keate |
| RAPE (2) | Readily Aborted Pregnancy Eventuates. |
Angela Brett |
| RETRIEVE | Recover Everything They Robbed In Evening's Violent Episode |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, whose mother once retrieved some of what had stolen in a burglary |
| RICHARD PERLE | Reaganite's Influence Conquers - Has Administration Reject Diplomacy, Preferring Extremely Right-Leaning Enforcement |
Chris Kjelgaard. "Extremely Rigorous Law Enforcement" could be an alternative ending Names:Famous people:Politicians Military:War & Terrorism |
| SAFE (2) | Systems Adapted! Fully Electronic! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Electronics |
| SAFE (3) | System Adapted! Fully Executed! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Capital Punishment. |
| SEARCH WARRANT | Since Everyone Assumes Real Criminal's Here, We Are Raiding Rooms And Not Tidying. |
Angela Brett |
| SECURITY | Safe Existence Creates Uniquely Relaxed, Incredibly Tractable You |
Patricia Rix |
| SECURITY (2) | Safe Evolvement Causes Us, Relaxed In Trusting Yield |
Jan Morgan |
| SHARON TATE | Skelter, Helter Atrocity, Repulsive. On News Telling August's Terrible Event |
Jan Morgan - the Tate-La Bianca murders that Charles Manson orchestrated (the song 'Helter Skelter' by The Beatles was written in blood on the walls) Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| SIGNATURE (2) | Smallprint Is Giving Nobody A Total Understanding... Refrain/Retract Endorsement. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| SLANDER | Spoken Libel And Now Defamation Endanger Rights |
Sean Lamb |
| SOSUMI | Sound. Overtly Shagging Up Music Industry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. The makers of the early Mac computers stated that they would never be used to make music. The name of the sound called "sosumi' translates as "so sue me". (see http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2002-04/1425.html for more information) Computers:Macintosh & Newton Entertainment:Music |
| SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS | Some Police Experts Can Incapacitate A Larrikin With Exceptional Armaments. Positions Often Need Surrounding All Night / Day... The (Armed?) Criminal Then Is Captured / Shot |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| STICK 'EM UP | See This? It Could Kill Everybody. Make Unarms Prominent! |
Angela Brett ('unarms' are arms without arms, that is, unarmed arms. An alternative ending is 'Money Upfront, Please!') |
| STICK 'EM UP (2) | See These? I Collect Kingly-Embossed Monies, Undo Purses! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| STICKY END | Saying That I Could Kill You Evoked Nasty Death |
Angela Brett -- don't threaten people, they might be armed with glue guns or worse. People & Relationships:Death |
| STIPULATE | Set Terms In Place Under Legal Agreement That's Enforceable |
TMcCO'G |
| SUSPECTS | Soaking Up Sunbeams, Probably Exceeding Contractor's Time Schedule |
Rico Leffanta |
| TORT | Twist Out Revenue Tidily |
Jeff Anonymous, since 'tort' comes from the Latin 'torquere' 'to twist' |
| TERMS AND CONDITIONS | They Explicitly Restrict Mature Signers' Actions. Never Disobey Commands, Or No Deal! In Truth, Individuals Often Nonchalantly Skim. |
Angela Brett |
| UIFSA | Ultimatum Insures Families Secure Alimony |
Sean Lamb - UIFSA really stands for the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, an act that will enable the state that issues the first support order to have jusrisdiction over the payor (sic) regardless of which state the payor resides in. I used 'Families' instead of 'Fathers' because there are quite a few deadbeat moms out there with the deadbeat dads (growing up with a father prosecuting child support cases taught me that lawbreaking is an 'equal opportunity employer'). Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Family |
| VICTIM | Villain Is Cruelly Torturing & Injuring Me. |
Angela Brett |
| ZERO TOLERANCE | Zap Experimental Rounds Of Thievery, Offender's Liberty Encourages Repeated And Nastier Criminal Exploits. |
Angela Brett |
| TRIAL | Tricky Reasoning Is Almost Laughable |
Angela Brett |
| TRIAL (2) | Two Rival Ideas About Law |
Angela Brett |
| TRIAL (3) | To Rally/Reconcile Interpretations And Loopholes |
Angela Brett |