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| 100% | ACTIVE LISTENING | Attentiveness Can Turn Into Vocation (Ear 'Lent' In Silence), Therapist Ensures Noninterruption Into Narrative Gabbling |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (who has no idea was "active listening' is, but assumes it is Jargon from Psychotherapists) |
| 100% | APROPOS | A Pertinent Response Or, Perhaps, Opening Statement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | A QUESTION | Angela Quite Usually Enquires, "Support This Idea, Or Not?" |
Angela Brett, as the subject of an email asking whether to implement an idea in the ALTSCAPE software. Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| 100% | ASK | Aquire Some Knowledge |
Bruce Siegel -- apronym came to me in a dream - really |
| 100% | BEEB | Big 'Eaded Establishment Broadcaster |
Mick Bridgstock, referring to the BBC |
| 100% | BEN | Boings Evoke Newstime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Big Ben's chimes are used for the introduction to a UK TV news bulletin) Time Time Places:Landmarks Places:Landmarks |
| 100% | BRIEFS | Basic Requirement Is Explanation For Solicitor |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BYLINE | By Your Leave I Need Exposure! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | CABIR | Cells Affected By Internet Rage |
Sean Lamb (Cabir is the name of the first worm to infect cell phones) |
| 100% | CABIR (2) | Creating Another Bluetooth Infection Readily |
Sean Lamb (Cabir is the name of the first worm to infect cell phones via their bluetooth capabilities) |
| 100% | CALLING TREE | Communication Ala Land Line In Necessary Goings To Reach Everyone Eventually |
Jan Morgan -- many organizations use this system so one person doesn't have to make 50 or so phone calls |
| 100% | CAROLINE | Created A Radio Offshore, Living In Nautical Environment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Radio Caroline, a 1960s pirate radio station based off the coast of England and the forerunner of modern rock stations Entertainment:Music Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | CELL PHONE | Carrying Enables Listening Luxury, Please Have One Near Ears |
Jan Morgan Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 100% | CELL SITE | Children Exhibit Lack-Lustre Scores In Their Exams |
Steve Keate, thinking about the effect of cell sites being near schools. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | CENSORSHIP | Can Expect No Submissions On Rude Subjects Have Immediate Placement |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | CHEERS | Convivial Host Enjoys Everybodyís Rousing Salutation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CHRISTMAS HAMPERS | Customer Hasn't Received IPod! Says The Mail Authority: Scheduled Hampers Are Making Parcels Evaporate. Retrieval Soon." |
Angela Brett, because Christmas HAMPERS the delivery of her iPod. (said hampers are coming from a company which allows people to overpay for the hamper over the year and then receive it around Christmas time, so it was a scheduled influx of hamper deliveries.) Time:Special Occasions:Christmas Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| 100% | CODE (2) | Confusingly Ordered Diatribe, Enigma |
Gavin Lambert Science:Mathematics Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | CODE (3) | Condensation Of Data. Extraction |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | CODER | (Condenser Of Data) = (Expert - Recorder) |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | COHERENT (2) | Consistently Orderly, He Evinces Rationally Expressed Neat Thinking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Thoughts People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | COMMUNICATE | Conveying One's Meaning - Maybe Using Notepaper - Is Considered A Talent, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CRICKET | Cellular Reasons/Restrictions In Connecting Kinfolk, Excessive Talk |
Jan Morgan - name of cheap but frequently dropped calls cell phone company Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | CURSED | Completely Uncouth Ruffian Swore, Execrating Deity! |
TMcCO'G Religion Religion |
| 100% | CUSS | Creatively Utter Some Sw**rw*rds |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CUSS (2) | Can't Understand Such Swearing |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DECADIC | Dials Elegantly Click - Actually Digital, If Countermodern |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to pulse telephone dialing, a digital system, and the rotary dial phones that implement it. I keep a Western Electric 500-type rotary phone next to my iBook to remind me that while newer isn't always better, elegance is timeless. Or more practically, it doesn't fall off the desk. |
| 100% | DIAGRAM | Drawings (Incorporating Artistic Graphs?) Reinforce Article's Message |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 91% | DISCOURSES | Dealing In Strategically Calculated Oral Utterations Regarding Specific Events or Subjects |
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| 100% | DO NOT YELL | Dearest One, No-One Thinks You Endearing, Less Loud! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Advice People & Relationships:Advice |
| 100% | ECHO (3) | Enough! Content Heard Overmuch |
Gavin Lambert, when BIAS (2) was mentioned twice in THE ACRONYM TIMES |
| 100% | EMERSON | Enjoy Massachusetts Education Regarding Science Of Notification |
Angela Brett (according to http://www.emerson.edu/ Emerson College is the USA's only four-year college devoted exclusively to the study of communication and performing arts) Education Education |
| 80% | EPISTLES | Eloquent Presentations of Intellect Stylishly Translated into Letters - Email Sent! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FASTPHONE | Funds Are Speedily Transferred, Particularly Handy On Near-Empty. |
Angela Brett, who often uses her bank's Fastphone service to transfer funds from her savings account to her EFTPOS one. Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | FAX | Forward A Xerograph |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 100% | FIAT | Fascist Is A Tyrant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - "fiat" is Latin for "let it be done" and means a formal or solemn command (Star-Trek-speak is "make it so"!) Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | FILES (2) | Frequently Issued Letters Ensure Satiation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | FINE! | Fine! In Next Encounter ...! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | FLAMES | Forum Language And Manners Explode Spectaucularly |
Sean Lamb (who tries to stay out of 'net flame wars) |
| 100% | FLIRTING | Feel Like I'm Ready To Investigate New Guys/Girls |
Angela Brett, while pondering the difference between flirting and ordinary conversation. People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | FLYER | Frightful "Literature" You Eternally Refuse |
TMcCO'G referring to the handbills handed out on streets to passers-by Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | FORA | Friendly Objection: Really "A" |
Jeff Anonymous, who prefers the term 'fora' to 'forums' |
| 100% | GET A DANG PDA | Greatly Expand Technological Abilities; Disregard Ancient Newtons' Greatness, Palms Do Admirably. |
Jeff Anonymous, after MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED, explaining: Then it'll be harder to lose your phone book. With all due respect to the Newton, I seem to recall you having a USB Mac and I understand adapters can be a bit messy, especially with OS X. My Palm Tungsten C is pretty good; a bit pricey, but they make ones that are more economical, without Wi-Fi and whatnot. Computers Computers |
| 100% | GOSSIP | Gabbling Openly, Some Spicy Information's Passed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | 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. Time:Special Occasions:Christmas Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| 100% | HEARING | Hearing: Environment Aurally Receive / Interpret Navigate Grasp |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Biology Science:Biology |
| 100% | HELP DESK | Hasn't Even Learnt Primary Data Everyone Should Know |
Angela Brett (see also HELPDESK) People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | HELPDESK (2) | Has Everyone Left Phone Department? Emergency Service's Kiboshed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | 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 Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | IDEA | Information Does Electronically Advance. |
Angela Brett, after she'd said something about throwing ideas around and Tony replied 'I can't throw an idea out the hall door, never mind as far as New Zealand!' People & Relationships:Thoughts People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | I DISAPROVE | Its Disastress Incorect Speling, A Por Riter Ofers Vulger Elision |
Angela Brett (see APROVE) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | IF ONLY YOU'D KEPT THE CONTACT DETAILS ON YOUR MAC AND USED ISYNC TO COPY THEM TO THE PHONE. | It's Fortunate On New Links You Yuppies Only Use Desktop's Keyboard Entering People's Telephones To Have Everywhere -- Clie Or Nokia, They All Can Take Down (Electronically) Telephone/ Address Information. Lost Something? Only Need Your Other (Unaffected) Repository, Make A Copy And No Data's Unavailable. Synchronising Every Day Is Superfluous, Your Numerous Contacts' Telephones Only Change Once Per Year (That's Horrible Estimate, Maybe Their Own Treasured Handhelds Escaped!) Personal Humble Opinion: Not Essential. |
Angela Brett (who has been without a mobile phone for the past few years and hasn't missed it) in response to MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED. An alternative to 'Clie Or Nokia' would be 'Cellphone or Notebook'. Computers Computers |
| 100% | INFORMATION | I'm Not Fond Of Reading Magazines About The Importance Of Nailcare. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | INQUISITION | I Never Quite Understood It... So Is This It, Or Not? |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ITALICS | Indolent's Typographical Additive Littering Immeasurable Current Sentences |
Kenneth T. Davis -- giving back to an application I love -- no, distraction from present writing project |
| 100% | JOURNALIST | Just One Unusual Reporter, News Announces Latest Incidents, Sharing Tales |
Jan Morgan People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 86% | KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT | Knowledgeable Network Operators Will Leverage Experience and Degrees to Gain Enlightenment. Many Apprentices Never Appreciate Gurus, Expecting Mere Elucidation of Network Terms. |
Sean Lamb |
| 100% | LATE BREAKING NEWS | Look At This Emerging Bulletin Relating Events And Keeping Interesting Narration Going - National Events, Worldwide Stories |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | LEADER | Large Editorial Arousing Deep Empathetic Responses |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LETTER | Little Envelope Tries To Elicit Reading |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LOGO | Let Our Gays Observe! |
Logo, debuting in june 2005, was the first ever gay cable network People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 100% | Messages And Interesting Letters |
Edwin Hermann | |
| 100% | MAIL (2) | Maze Allocating Individual Letters |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | MESSAGE | Mainly Excessive Silly Stories About Ghastly Events |
Jon Barker |
| 100% | MESSENGER | My Errand's Successful Since Employee Never Goes Erring Route |
TMcCO'G People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 89% | METH INKS | Methanol Employed To Handwrite Inscriptions - No Known Side-effects |
Angela Brett, to go with METHINKS |
| 100% | MISQUOTE | Most Idiots Seldom Question Understanding Of The Eclipse |
Rico Leffanta Science:Astronomy Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | MISREADING | Maybe I Should Reread Everything, As Different Interpretations Never Gel. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MISSING MOBILE PHONE - MY LIFE'S RUINED | Man I'm Suddenly Speechless - It's Not Good. My Only Beloved Is Lost. Each Person's Home/ Office Numbers Escapes Me. Yet Loss Is Finite, Everything's (Slowly) Replaceable. Usefully Insured, New Equipment's Delivered |
Toneless Tony -- I have been at a great loss since last Thursday when my mobile phone went missing. |
| 100% | MORSE CODE | Messages, Orders? Really Short Encoding, Common Organisation, Decryption Easy |
Gavin Lambert |
| 100% | NEWS | National Events, World Stories |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NICETIES | Not Interesting Comments, Essentially They're Insignificant, Empty Smalltalk. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NOKIA PHONE | Next Of Kin Is Alerted Promptly, Hearing Over Network Ethereal. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NOTATION | Nun Of The Above Tests Idiotic Observations Neurotically |
Rico Leffanta, who explains: To pass exams, Americans don't need to know the subject, just randomly choose between A, B, C, D, or None of the above. Nun of the Above is my jeu des mots for "Lady Luck". A notation is representative signs or symbols. |
| 89% | PATIENCE | Postage Across Timezones Is Exceptionally Non-fast. Check Everyday. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela was impatient to find out what Tony had put in with her MacAddict, when sending it back after a loan. People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PEN | Paper-Embellishing Nib |
Angela Brett Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PENCIL | Please Erase Non-Correct Illustrations/ Letters |
Angela Brett Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PENCIL (2) | Prudish Euphemistic Name Concerns Its Lead |
Patricia Rix Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PENCIL (3) | People Enjoy Nice Colours In 'Leads' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PENCIL (4) | Printing Enabled. Notable Contribution Is Lead! |
Roger Williams Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PENCIL (5) | Plumbus's Excluded, Now Carbon's In Lieu |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PENCIL (4). Pencils have never, ever contained lead. Carbon in the form of graphite has been misnamed for ages. (See PEDANTRY for a correction.) Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | PHILATELIST | Person Hoarding Interesting Letter Adornments To Examine & Lookup In Stamp Tomes |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | PHOTON | Particle Helps One Talk Over Networks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who sincerely hopes that photons operate in fiber-optics Science:Physics:Particles Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | PLUME (2) | Pen Lacking Usual Metallic Element |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | POSTAL SERVICE | People Offering Service Transmitting All Letters Swiftly, Ensuring Registered Valuable Item's Carried Efficiently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | POSTCARD | Picture Of Somewhere Tourists Can Attach Romantic Description (to) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 88% | POSTMAN | Person Offering to Send The Mail Across Nations |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | POSTMAN (2) | Parcel Operative - Scrunches The Mail Ad Nauseam |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, describing his POSTMAN as being somewhat different from Angela's. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | POST OFFICE | Purchase One's Stamps There, Or Forward 'Freight' In Cardboared Envelopes |
TMcCO'G Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | PRESS | Publications Reporting Everyday Stories Sensationally |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | PROPOSAL | Paper Relating One's Purpose, Or Strategy, At Length |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PROPOSALS | People Readily Offer Personal Opinions Solving A Locked Situation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 71% | QUERY | Question to Understand Enigmatic Response of Yours |
Angela Brett |
| 0% | QUERY (2) | Question is Urgent - (I) Expect Reply Yesterday |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | QUOTE | Quotation Used On Thy Email |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | QY | Questioning You |
Jan Morgan (QY usually means 'query') Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | RADIO | Ranting About Deity Is Omnipresent |
Angela Brett, while on a long car trip when her brother pointed out that the only radio station you can rely on getting just about everywhere in the country is a religious station. Religion Religion Entertainment Entertainment |
| 100% | RADIO (2) | Relayed Across Distances - It's Omnipresent. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RADIO (3) | Receives And Decodes Inaudible Oscillations |
Edwin Hermann |
| 83% | RADIO (4) | Remote Audio Distribution Is Old-fashioned |
Tony |
| 100% | RADIO NEWS | Regular Audio Dispatches Interrupt Other Noisy Entertainment With Stories. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RAMBLING | Ranting About Marginally Bearable Little Insights - Nothing Great. |
Angela Brett, who is an expert on rambling. |
| 100% | RANSOM NOTE | Really Awful Notice. Statement Of Malice. Not Often Tackled Easily. |
Eric Bridgstock People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | RANTS | Read As Notes To Self |
Angela Brett, as many rants are more like outlets for the ranters feelings with little thought of the person being ranted at. |
| 100% | RECAP | Repeated Explanation Clarifies A Point. |
Angela Brett |
| 78% | RECEIPT | Registered and Entitled Conductor of Electronic Intercourse, Preferential Treatment. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to the TICKET. |
| 100% | RECORDS (2) | Remarkable Events Contained On Registered Data System |
Tony McCoy O'Grady History History |
| 86% | REPEAT | Rendered Exactly Pluralised; Edit with Added Thoughtfulness |
Gavin Lambert, when an apronym in THE APRONYM TIMES was repeated. |
| 100% | REPORTS | Regular Evaluation Procedure Often Reveals Torporific Staff |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | REPORTS (2) | Records Exhibiting Progress Of Regulars Towards "Satisfactory" |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | REPORTS (3) | Regular Evening Profiles On Regional Television Service |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:TV shows Entertainment:TV shows |
| 100% | RSVP | Reply Soon Via Phone/Post |
Angela Brett (RSVP usually stands for Respondez S'il Vous Plait) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | RSVP (2) | Replying Seems Very Polite |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see RSVP) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | RUBBISH | Repeatedly Uttering 'Blah Blah' Is So Humdrum. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SAID | Smart Arses Inferiority Disorder |
John Richard Jones This is for those who can only say negative things against you but have no grounds for it. If it can only be said, then it has to be SAID. People & Relationships:Abuse People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 100% | SARCASTIC | Sometimes Ambiguous Reverse Comments Aren't Sensed, Triggering Incorrect Conclusion. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | SARCASTIC (2) | Should Always Remain Calm - Anything Said's Tongue-In-Cheek. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | SARCASTIC (3) | Saying A Rude, Cutting And Silly Thing, In 'Comedy' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | SASS | Sibling's Argument; Snippy Speech |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SEARCH | Seek Every Available Resource Checking Hits |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 90% | SIGNATURE | Sufficient Identification? Greatly Needing A Totally Unforgeable Replacement or Extension. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SILENCE | Somehow It's Like Expensive, Nicely-Coloured Element. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SOAP (2) | Stand On A Platform |
Angela Brett, thinking of a soapbox but too lazy to think of an x word. |
| 100% | SQUABBLE | Some Quarrel Usually About Boys Being Loved Elsewhere |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | STAMP | Send This Air-Mail Please. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | STAMP (2) | Shipping Trade Attracts Most Philatelists. |
Angela Brett |
| 83% | STAMP (3) | Sticker That's Applied to Mail Packages |
Sean Lamb (most US stamps are self-adhesives now...) |
| 100% | STD | See Telephone Directory |
Angela Brett (STD usually stands for Subscriber Trunk Dialling) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | STIPULATE (2) | Sincerely, That Is Promised; Upholding Literally All Terms Expressed. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SUCCINT | Short / Unadorned / Compact Communication! Informative, Not Talkative/Tedious! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | SURRENDER | Say Uncle Really Rapidly, Else No Deal's Ever Reached |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | VERBOSE | Vocal Exercises Replacing Burning Off Sexual Energy |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | VODAFONE | Voice Or Data Apparently Fry Owners' Neurons Eventually. |
Angela Brett (Vodafone is a cellphone network) Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 83% | WAVES (2) | Waggles Arms Very Energetically - So-long! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WHATEVER | We Hear All That's Expressed - Valiantly Eschewing Reasoning |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - many people with a closed mind will say "whatever" to end a discussion they are bored with. |
| 100% | WRITE | Write Right! Inscribe Talents! Endure! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | WRITING | Without Reading Instruction, This Is No Good. |
Angela Brett Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | WRITTEN COMMUNICATION | We Read It Thoroughly, Then Enscribe Notes Commenting On Material. Markers Usually Notice Incoherence... Complete Assignments To Inevitably Obtain Notability. |
Angela Brett Education Education |
| 100% | WROTE | Words Relayed Orthographically To Endure |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature Art & Literature |
| 100% | YARN | You Are Really Nice! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER | Yuck... Old, Useless Rubbish... It Doesn't Even Allow Searching. One Needn't Print A Perfect Electronic Record. |
Angela Brett, expressing her ideas on paper in response to an unsuccessful search term. |
| 100% | ZIP CODE | Zilch If Postal Code Omitted - Dead End! |
Patricia Rix |