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90% MACINTOSH (10)Minor, Absurd Company, In-between Nothingness. Totally Overconfident, Sadly Humiliating. Hyper Unit
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
89% MACINTOSH CLASSICModel-name Accidentally Contains Implied Nudity... The Old SE Had Changed to Lewd Apple SEX - Suffix-Initiated Copulation! Angela Brett, after hearing that the Macintosh SE was renamed to Macintosh Classic when Apple decided to append an X onto all of their model names. That's not actually true though, it turns out.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware
95% MACINTOSH IS THE BEST!My Apple Computer Is Not The Only Sort of Hardware. It's Superior, Though - Hardly Ever Breaks. Exceptional Software Too! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
94% MACJAVA CYBERCAFEMake A Coffee, Jumpstart Apple's Very Attractive Computers... You'll Be Exhilerated, Really. Chat to A Friendly Employee. Angela Brett, on her favourite cafe so far. (see IMAC (2))
Food & Drink:Food Outlets
88% MACLESSMy Adored Computer is Lost, Extend Some Sympathy! Angela Brett, while Tony was Macless for a while.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
90% MACMORRISMainly Accented Comedy Making Objectionable Reflection (of) Rough Irish Soldiery Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry V
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry V
100% MACNIFICENTMy Apple Computer's Now Incredibly Fast. It Crunches Extraordinary Numbers Tirelessly Tony McCoy O'Grady
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MAC OSMay Apple Cleanse Our Souls Angela Brett, thinking that it could be a prayer of converted gatanists.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MAC OS (2)May Angela Crave Only Steve Steve Keate
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
100% MAC OS (3)Majorly Addictive, Causes Overuse Syndrome. Steve Keate
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MAC OS (4)Men Are Completely Over-Sexed Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
100% MAC OS (5)Many Assume Computer's Over-Simplified Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MAC OS (6)Makes Apple Computers Operate Smoothly Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MAC OS XMemory Available? Come On, Sample Xtravagance! Angela Brett, because Mac OS X requires quite a lot of RAM, but like most extravagances, is great to have if the RAM is available.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MAC OS X (2)Must Attempt Cocoa - Oh, Such Xcitement! Angela Brett, remembering when she first got Mac OS X and was impatient to try COCOA PROGRAMMING.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
100% MACPACMany A Camper Prefers Acclaimed Carrybags Angela Brett
Sports & Recreation
100% MACPAC (2)Makes Adventure Camping Products - All Canvas Angela Brett
Commerce:Companies
Sports & Recreation
89% MACPHONEMobile All-purpose Communicator - Police Have One Nearly Everywhere Tony McCoy O'Grady
MacGirl & KeyBoard
89% MACRONYMMacintosh Aided Creation of Ridiculous Obscurities Necessitates Youthful Mirth Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
100% MACSMost Astounding Computer Standard Jeff Anonymous
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MACS (2)Macintoshes Accept Crummy Software Nicki Foster
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MACS (3)Macintoshes Aren't Computers (Seriously!) Carl Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MACS (4)Microsoft Authors Crummy Software! Angela Brett, in response to MACS (2)
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MACS (5)Mackintoshes Are Chewy Sweets Angela Brett, in response to MACS (3)
Food & Drink
100% MAC'S SPECIAL LIGHTMysterious Ale Containing Strange Substances, Purposefully Encouraging Comas In All Liberal Liquor Ingesters, Giving Hangovers Tomorrow. Dustan Dowsing, after seeing a brand of beer called Mac's Special Light. (Angela thought it was the LED on her PowerBook which flashes when it's sleeping!)
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
100% MADAGASCARMuch Abject Destitution, A Generally Agricultural Society, Constituted As Republic. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MADAMMakes A Dame A Mistress Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships:Titles
100% MADCAPMental Ability's Defective - Call A Psychiatrist Tony McCoy O'Grady
Assorted Adjectives
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness
100% MADE FOR EACH OTHERMaybe Adam Dated Eve For Obvious Reason; Every Alternative Couldn't Have Offered Truly Human Effect, Rootwise. Angela Brett, as Adam and Eve were the only couple truly made for each other, but they didn't have much choice in the mat[t]er so it wasn't necessarily as romantic as is implied by that phrase nowadays.
Religion
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
100% MADE IN USAMexicans Are Deviously Employed Illegally. No Unions Should Apply Tony McCoy O'Grady
Commerce
100% MADE WITH A MACMacintosh At Doorstep - Euphoric Writer Is Terribly Happy. Apple Made A Customer. Jeff Anonymous, who got his 12.1" iBook (CD-ROM, vanilla except 256 MB RAM) this morning. This acronym was written in the Acronym Checker for OSX. However, due to configuration issues, it was submitted via Web.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% MAD MACSMonthly Apple Developer Meetings & Annual Conferences Society Angela Brett, as a suggested name for a group which will do just that, if all goes to plan.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
Computers:Programming
100% MADMANMentally Am Defective, Maybe Am Normal? TMcCO'G who, looking around him, wonders if the 'norm' for society is to be a bit abnormal.
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness
100% MADMAN (2)Makes Apronyms Daily... Maybe Assumes Normal? Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness
100% MADMAN (3)Maybe Anthony's Defective, Maybe Angela's Not? TMcO'G, in response to MADMAN (2)
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness
100% MADMENMental Asylums Detain Many (Euphemistically) Nutters Tony McSane O'Grady
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness
100% MADONNAMusically Adept Dancer. Often Nurtures Naughty Antics. Eric Bridgstock
Entertainment:Music:Artists
100% MAE WESTMen Always Eagerly Watched Every Sexy Turn Roger Williams -- We're talking about the actress here, not the life jacket...
Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses
100% MAFMuch About Flora Angela Brett, referring to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Science:Biology
100% MAFFMany Abhor Factory Farming Tony McCoy O'Grady (MAFF usually stands for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
100% MAFIAMany Assassins From Italian Ancestry Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals
100% MAGGIEMute Agile Girl, Generally Intensely Expressive Tony McCoy O'Grady
Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons
100% MAGGIE (2)Magnificent And Gigantic Girlcat Is Embraceable Patricia Rix, referring to her cat
Names:Pet Names
100% MAGGOTMany Anglers Get Grubs Outta Tins Izaac Walton
Science:Biology:Insects
83% MAGICMuggles Are Gulled In Con-tricks Tony McCoy O'Grady
Entertainment
100% MAGIC (2)Make Anything Go Invisible, Crikey! Tony McCoy O'Grady
Entertainment
100% MAGIKARPMuch Ancentral Greatness - Immediate Kin Aren't Really Powerful. Angela Brett (Magikarp is Pokemon #129)
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
100% MAGISTRATESMust Always Give Incarcerative Sentences To Repeatedly Arrested Thieves, Extortionists & Swindlers TMcCO'G
People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations
90% MAGNESIUMMetal Able to Generate Nasty Explosions. Sulphate Is Used Medicinally. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% MAGNETMetal's Attracted, Getting Near Electromagnetic Thingies! Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Physics
100% MAHOGANYMuch Admired. Having Originally Grown About Ninety Years? TMcCO'G
Science:Biology:Plants:Trees
100% MAIDENHEADMarry Assets, Initiate Divorce, Ensnare New Husband, Enjoy And Divorce Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce
100% MAILMessages And Interesting Letters Edwin Hermann
Communication
100% MAIL (2)Maze Allocating Individual Letters Rico Leffanta
Communication
100% MAIL ADDRESSMailing Address Information Lapsed! Another Disaster? Damage Reversed, Everybody See Signature Gavin Lambert
Computers:Internet
100% MAINEMarginal Area Is North Eastern Jan Morgan
Places:States & Regions
100% MAINE (2)Mariners Abound In New England Tony
Places:States & Regions
100% MAINFRAMEMachine Adds Immense Numbers For Researchers - Absorbs Much Electricity Tony McCoy O'Grady
Computers
91% MAINSTREAMMost Anti-Indie Nerds Sell-out. Tripe Reigns Everywhere... And Moulds. Rob Rix
Assorted Adjectives
100% MAINTENANCEMadness! Apparently I Need To Endure (No Arguments) Numerous Cosmetic Enhancements! Angela Brett, whose idea of maintenance is eating, breathing and fixing bugs.
Assorted Nouns
100% MAJORMust Admonish Junior Officers Regularly Tony McCoy O'Grady
Military:Ranks
100% MAJORITYMany Absentees Justified Or Ratified Inane Trendy Yawns Rico Leffanta
Assorted Nouns
100% MAKE SENSE OF ITMaybe Anthony Kept Essaying Suitable Expansions. No Single Expansion Offered Fitted It Truely. Tony McCoy O'Grady. (See SENSE OF IT)
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
100% MAKE SENSE OF IT (2)Make All Key Elements Snuggly Enmesh - No Superfluous Es Or Fs In There Tony McCoy O'Grady
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
100% MAKING LOVEMake A Kiss Interesting, Next Get Leg Over - Very Exciting. Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
88% MALACHIMessenger Against Lacklustre Adoration (and) Cynical, Hypocritical, Insincerity Sue Johnson
Religion:Bible books
100% MALAWIMainly Agricultural, Labouring Against Whopping Indebtedness. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MALAYSIAMainly Agricultural Labourers And Yet Some Industrially Active. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MALCOLMMachismo's Absent - Loses Control Over Lord's Murderer Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Macbeth
89% MALDIVESMainly A Lot (of) Desert Islands - Valuable Export: Seafood. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MALEMasculine Anatomy Losing Extinction Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALE DRIVERSMeandering Around Like Erratic Daredevils - Recklessly, Impulsively Veering Everywhere 'Round Streets. Angela Brett
Transport:Drivers
100% MALESMost Are Lustily Expecting Sex Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALES (2)Many Are Lacking Experience Socially Steve Keate
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALES (3)Most Are Lazy - Expect Slaves. Steve Keate
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALES (4)Maybe Aren't Liking Excess Silicone Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALES (5)Machismo Attitudes, Larger Egos, Stupid Steve Keate and Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALES (6)Morning After, Leave. Enforcing Stereotypes. Steve Keate
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MALIMostly Agricultural - Little Industry. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MALPRACTICEMedical Accidents - Lousy Physician Regrets A Claim That Insinuated Cure's Ensured Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Biology:Healthcare
100% MALTMilky Adaptive Liquid, Thick Jan Morgan -- Thicker than a milk shake
Food & Drink
83% MALTAMediterranean Air, Loads (of) Tourists Attracted. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% MALTA (2)Men Always Less Than Angelic Rico Leffanta
Places:Countries
89% MALVOLIOMad Actions Lead Vindictive Olivia (to) Lock In Offender Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night
100% MAMAMano A Mano Acrobatically Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships
100% MAMA (2)Meaningfully, Athinai Mirrored Anita Angela Brett (HANS THOMAS's mother Anita went to Athens to find herself, and Hans Thomas notices that the sign 'Athinai' is almost Anita backwards.)
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery
100% MAMA (3)Metaphorically Amorously Marked Ace. Angela Brett (HANS THOMAS's mother is connected with the Ace of Hearts)
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery
100% MAMMALMother Animal Makes Milk And Lactates Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals
100% MAMMARIESMost All Manly Men Are Rapt If Eying Some. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Body Parts
90% MAMMARIES (2)Maybe A-cups, Maybe Mountains Always Restrained In Exo-Skeletons. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Body Parts
100% MAMMOGRAMManipulate And Mash Melons - Oncologists Gather 'Round And Murmur. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
100% MANMutters Ad Nauseum Angela Brett, after MANTRA
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
100% MANAGEMENTMaking A Nuisance And Getting Everybody Muddled Eventually Nauseates Them Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
Commerce
100% MANAGERMake A Name At Getting Everyone Roused Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
100% MANDARINMany Admit Nibbling Duck And Roasting Is Nice Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink
Science:Biology:Animals
100% MANDARIN (2)Many A Nice Duck Appears Rooted In Nostalgia Patricia Rix (we had Mandarin ducks on the farm when I was a kid)
Science:Biology:Animals
90% MANGANESEMarine-Acquired Nodules - Generally A Not Expensive Source (of) Electricity. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% MANGEREMaori Aborigines Not Generally Energetic - Rarely Employed Angela Brett (apart from being a suburb which is supposedly full of the kind of people described in the expansion, mangere means 'lazy' in Maori.)
Science:Linguistics:Maori Words
Places:Towns & Cities:New Zealand
100% MANIFOLDMuch About Nature Is Full Of Living Diversity Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science
Assorted Adjectives
100% MANILAMany Ardent Natives Invite Love Affairs Rico Leffanta
Places:Towns & Cities
100% MANITOBAMŽtis And Natives Investigated This Outstandingly Beautiful Area Patricia Rix (MŽtis is anyone of mixed French and Indian heritage, specifically in the Province of Manitoba. This is not a pejorative: the MŽtis have always considered themselves a nation within the nation, as the First Nations do.)
Places:States & Regions
100% MANKEYMuck Abounds, Nearly Kneedeep - Everything's Yucky Tony McCoy O'Grady. Mankey is a slang word for dirty. A long time ago a group of boyscouts set to cleaning out a river-fed swimming pool. There was a lot of knee-high silt/mud/decaying-vegatation at the bottom of the pool which was nicknamed 'mank'. The scouts thought that they had coined a new word, but there was probably some subconscious reference to 'mankey'
Assorted Adjectives
Sports & Recreation:Scouts
100% MAN OF GODMaybe Advocating Nice Old-Fashioned Goodwill, Or Deprivation. Angela Brett
Religion:Religious Occupations
100% MANSIONMillionaires Are Needlessly Squandering Income On Nonessentials. Angela Brett
Places:Buildings
100% MANTISMake A Note That It's Screwy Angela Brett (Mantis is a program for keeping track of bugs in software.)
Computers:Programming
100% MANTIS (2)Money's A Nod To Its Statistics? Angela Brett (MANTIS can show statistics on how many bugs each person has reported or fixed. I wonder if the people with the best statistics in Mantis get paid more.)
Computers:Programming
100% MANTIS (3)Mailed As New Testing Indicates Success Angela Brett (MANTIS can send an email to the developer who fixed a bug when a tester confirms that the bug has been fixed.)
Computers:Programming
100% MANTRAMutter Ad Nauseum 'Til Revelation's Apparent Angela Brett
Religion
100% MANUALSMeals Are Not Usually A Literary Stew Tony McCoy O'Grady
Computers:Do Not Eat
100% MAN. UTDMastered Arsenal's New Unprolonged Title Dominance Jide Alakija, Man Utd. Will Always Dominate the title.
Sports & Recreation
100% MANY THANKSMarking A-Nother Year, Tony Happily Acknowledges Newzealaner's Kind Sentiments Ol' Man River, in response to TONY'S BIRTHDAY (AGAIN!)
Time:Special Occasions
100% MAORIMeandering Aborigines Originating Round Islands Mary Carr, referring to the aboriginal people of New Zealand
People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races
100% MAPMake A Plan Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Navigation Aids
100% MAP (2)Monuments Are Plotted Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Navigation Aids
100% MAP (3)May Advise Position Eric Bridgstock
Places:Navigation Aids
100% MAP (4)Men Absolutely Poohpooh. Roger Williams
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
Places:Navigation Aids
100% MAP (5)Masks All Potholes. Roger Williams
Places:Navigation Aids
100% MAPLE SYRUPMuch Appreciated Product Leaves Everyone Sighing - Yo! Rustle Up Pancakes! Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink:Condiments
100% MAPLE SYRUP (2)Makes A Pancake Look Exquisite. Some Youths Relish Uncountable Pancakes Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink:Condiments
100% MAPLE SYRUP (3)Many A Person Likes Eating Sticky, Yummy Repast - Undoubtedly Pancakes! Patricia Rix
Food & Drink:Condiments
100% MAP REFERENCEMaths Assists Preparing Readable (Expressed Flatly) Earthly References. Explorers Need Charts Evidently Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Positions & Directions
100% MARATHONMany Asthmatic Runners Are Treated - Hospitals Offer Nebulisers. Angela Brett
Sports & Recreation
100% MARCELMime Artist Rather Cleverly Exchews Language Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Marcel Marceau - a renowned French mime.
Names:Famous people
100% MARCHMay & April Rounding Corner Hastily. Angela Brett
Time:Months
83% MARCH (2)Main Activity - Rampant Chlorophyll (in) Hedgerows. Tony McCoy O'Grady, who lives in the northern hemisphere.
Time:Months
100% MARCH (3)Most Armies Rhythmically Continue Hiking. Angela Brett
Military
100% MARCH (4)Mild And Rather Clement, Hopefully Tony McCoy O'Grady
Time:Months
100% MARCOMade A Route - Chinawards - Overland Tony McCoy O'Grady
Names:Famous people
History
100% MARCUS ANTONIUSMuch Admired Roman Citizen, Using Strong And Noted Tactics Overcomes Nasty Insubordinate, Usurping Schemers Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Antony and Cleopatra
100% MARGARETMarries A Royal, Gets Ambassador Romantically Entangled Too Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry VI
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry VI
100% MARGARET PAGEMarried And Responsible. Greatest Ambition Remains Efforts To Permit Anne Get Engaged Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Merry Wives of Windsor
100% MARGEMother - A Really Good Epitome Angela Brett
Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons
100% MARGIEMakes A Reasonable Guess, It's Exceptional Jan Morgan
Names:First names:Female
100% MARIANAMakes Angelo (Reluctantly Interested) Announce Nuptial Arrangements Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Measure for Measure
100% MARIANNEMisguided Adult Really Is Antagonistic, Needs Navigation Ethics Jan Morgan - someone I know
Names:First names:Female
100% MARIEMakes Any Romance Intimate, Eventually! Rico Leffanta
Names:First names:Female
100% MARIE (2)Music Arts Really Is Entertaining Jan Morgan
Names:First names:Female
100% MARIJUANAMind-Altering Recreational Inhalant - Joints Usually Are Not Approved Steve Keate and Angela Brett
Drugs:Cannabis
100% MARIJUANA (2)Medicinally Applied... Really, It's Just Used As Numbing Agent. Angela Brett
Drugs:Cannabis
100% MARIJUANA (3)My A*se! Regular Inhalers Joyously Unailing, Aren't Needing Anaesthesia Angela Brett, as a response to MARIJUANA (2)
Drugs:Cannabis
100% MARIJUANA (4)Medicinally Applied? Really?! I Judge Users Are Not Ailing. Angela Brett
Drugs:Cannabis
100% MARILYN MONROEMen Always Rave, 'I Love You Naked!' Morning Or Night, Romance Overshadows Everything! Rico Leffanta
Names:Famous people
100% MARINAMorality's Apogee - Really Innocent Nature Abides Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Pericles
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Pericles
100% MARINEMuscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential The US Navy and the US Marines have a log tradition of dumping on each other. Here's one example from a US Navy Vet.
Military
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
100% MARINE (2)My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment More US Marines-Versus-US Navy bashing, as brought home by one of my Navy friends, Col Myers.
Military
100% MARINESMen Armed, Ready If National Emergency Strikes Tony McCoy O'Grady
Military
100% MARION MORRISONMan Always Rides In On Nag; Maid Often Rides Roughly In Saddle Or Noisily Rico Leffanta (Marion Morrison is better known as John Wayne)
Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses:Little known real names
100% MARITAL BLISSMakes A Romance Into That 'Always' Love Bad Lyrics Indicate Should Survive. Angela Brett-Hilton-Wilding-Todd-Fisher-Burton-Warner-Fortensky
People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce
100% MARJORIEMakes A Reasonable Judgment, Offering Reconciliation Is Extinguished Jan Morgan
Names:First names:Female

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