Acronyms' Punny Retrievers! Organized Novelties! Your Memory Smiles!
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| 100% | ALARM | A Loud Appliance Ringing Madly |
Edwin Hermann People & Relationships:Law & Order Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | AUTOMATION SYSTEM | Apparently Used To Override Manpower And Thus Improve Our Next Stock. You're Superfluous - They Employ Machines. |
Angela Brett |
| 80% | BARCODES | "Black-and-white Arrangement" Reading Computers Offer Dealers Enhanced Stocktaking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce |
| 100% | BATTERIES | Began A Trip Thinking Extra Required... Instead, Existing Survived. |
Angela Brett, who took plenty of batteries with her to Palmerston North only to find that the ones already in her Newton lasted the whole trip. (Well, apart from the last few hours on the bus. But they would have survived that easily if they hadn't been a third used to begin with. If you're not happy with the slight deception, change it to 'Eight's Sufficient' in your head.) |
| 100% | CALCULATOR | Complex And Liberating Creation - Users Lose Ability To Orchestrate Ratios |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | CALCULATOR (2) | Challenged - Arithmetically Love Computing Using Least-Advanced, Typically Onmoney Reckoning! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | CALCULATOR (3) | Children Always Love Computing Using Least-Advanced, Typically Onmoney Reckoning! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | CALCULATOR (4) | Children Always Look Comfortable Using Least-Advanced, Typically Onmoney Reckoning! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | CAMERA | Capture A Moment - Enlargements Readily Available |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CAMERA (2) | Can A Machine Easily Record Activities? |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | CASSETTE | Cartridge And Spools 'Show' Electronic Tape Through Encoding |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | CELL PHONE | Carrying Enables Listening Luxury, Please Have One Near Ears |
Jan Morgan Communication |
| 100% | DOG (7) | Digital Office Guard |
cheater200227 -- got the idea when I found the description of a mechanical dog on the internet Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DYNAMO | Doth Yield New And Much Output |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ELECTRON | Even Little Electric Currents Take Ridiculously Oversized Numbers |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | ENERGY MANAGEMENT | Everyone Needs Electricity. Remember, Get Your Machines Audited Now And Get Extra Money Every New Term |
Angela Brett (if you take notice of what's using more electricity than necessary you can save money on power bills.) |
| 100% | FAX | Forward A Xerograph |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 100% | FINAL UPGRADE | Finished It Now, And Launched Unto Public. Get Ready Advertisements Defining Enhancements |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | GADGET | Got Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | 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. |
| 100% | KARMA (2) | Karmas Are Radical Music Appliances |
Sean Lamb (who has a Rio Karma on his wish list). Entertainment:Music |
| 83% | KIRBY | Kleaning Instrument Running Birds [over] - Yummy! |
Taylor Rundell |
| 100% | LOGIC | Lots Of Gates In Combination |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | LOGIC GATE | Logical Operators Give Integrated Circuits Great Abilities To Evaluate. |
Angela Brett |
| 91% | MICROPHONE | Made In China - Reverberations Over Power Hearers. Overly Noisy for Eardrums |
Angela Brett, after seeing a "Made in China" sticker right before turning the light off to go to sleep. |
| 83% | MICROPHONE (2) | Made In China - Rather Old-fashioned Plastic Handheld Object Not-unlike Ears |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MIKE | Man Installs Klutzy Electronics |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | PHOTOCOPIER | Place Hand On Top Of Copier & One's Palm Is Endlessly Reproduced |
Tony McXerox O'Grady |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! (4) | Piece Intervention! Examine Computer Execution Of Following: Cake Assemblyline! Kindly Expedite! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Food & Drink |
| 100% | POWER TOOLS | Plug On Wall - Electricity's Released To Operate On Lumber Stocks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects |
| 92% | PROFESSIONAL | People Really Oughta Find Electrician, Since Short-circuits Inevitable Occasion Nicks And Lacerations |
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of the electician's motto: electricity is not a hobby - hire a professional) People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | RADAR | Remote Aircraft Detected Along Radius |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (RADAR actually stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | RECORDER | Register Everything, Catching On Rotating Discs Each Remark. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 93% | REENGINEERING | Rewriting Electrical Engineers' Notes Generally Insinuates Nobody's Ever Entirely Right. It's a No Go. |
Sean Lamb |
| 93% | REMOTE CONTROL | Recent Electronic Masterpiece, Operates Television, Enables Controller Obviate Necessity To Rouse Oneself a Little |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | REVOLTING | Recharging Electrical Voltage Over Lithium Terminals when Ions Need Generating |
Angela Brett, when Tony suggested that a battery charger could be said to be re-volt-ing. |
| 100% | SAFE (2) | Systems Adapted! Fully Electronic! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | SINGER | Sewing Invention - Needles Get Electric Revolution |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 87% | SOLDERING IRON | Seriously Overheated Little Device; Enables Relatively Insignificant Numbered Gizmos Integrating into Radios or Other Necessities |
Gavin Lambert (Without soldering irons, it'd be hard to create electronic devices) |
| 80% | SONY | Sounds Outstanding (with) No Yanni |
wishes Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | STATE OF THE ART | Spending The Amount That's Expected, One Finds They Have Encompassed All Recent Technologies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | SWATCH | Swiss Watches Aren't Too Costly Here |
Angela Brett (while most brands of Swiss watch are ridiculously expensive, Swatch makes watches that are more generally affordable, and sometimes even digital! Call me primitive but I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.) Time Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | TIME SAVERS | These Innovative Machines Enable Someone Avoid Valuable Energy / Resource Squandering |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time |
| 100% | TIMER | Timer Increments Minute Entities Repeatedly |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Time |
| 100% | TABLES | Truth Arrays... Boolean Logic Explicitly Stated |
Angela Brett, referring to truth tables. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | WALKMAN | While A Listener's Kinetic, Music Around Noggin. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who wasn't sure whether Angela would know the term 'noggin' for head. Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | WATCH | Wrist-Attached Timer Counting Hours |
Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Time Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | WATCH (2) | Wrist Attached Timepiece Chimes Hourly |
Jan Morgan Time Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | WIRE SOLVER TRICK! | Workers I, R, E! Solve Ohm's Law: Voltage (E ) = R (Total Resistance ) * (I Current). Kudos! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. My first "Apronym on Demand" ^:) I started with IRE. Angela suggested trying WIRE. This my fourth try. THANK YOU APRONYMISTS my teachers. ^:) |