Apronyms
Apronyms => Apronym Creation => Topic started by: Angela on March 09, 2004, 01:38:40 PM
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Hi,
I was thinking about starting a thread where people could post apronyms beginning with the lexically disadvantaged letters such as Q, when I came up with a more fun idea. I vaguely recall playing a game when I was a child where somebody would come up with a topic, and we'd go through the alphabet with each person coming up with a word suiting the topic starting with the next letter of the alphabet. A common one was animals, where the first person might say aardvark, the next bat, the next cat, etc.
Why don't we start one of those here, but each word would be apronymised? I'll pick a topic to start with, and each post has to include an apronym on that topic beginning with the next letter or the alphabet, and, optionally, an apronym starting with A on a new topic (which the next people would have to continue, so that each post thereafter has to contain several apronyms.)
If I had a dictionary nearby I'd flip it to a random page and choose the first word I saw as the topic, but I'm at work right now. Instead, I typed some random letters into dictionary.com and chose one of the suggested correct spellings, which was 'cookfire'. Therefore, I have decided that the topic will be food. I'll start with a food beginning with A, resisting the temptation to do Apple:
ANISEED: Always Nice In Sweets, Enjoy Every Dose
So, the next poster has to come up with a food beginning with B, preferrably one which hasn't been apronymised yet.
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BROTH
Boiled Richness Offered To Hospitalised
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CANOLA
Cooking Aid. Nice Omega-3 Abundency.
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Jeff, I wasn't aware that 3 started with L. That would confuse Romans.
DANISH: Definitely A Nourishment I Should Have
Hey, this could be played like the card game 'Last Card' in which you can change suit by putting down several of the same number. Thus if the next poster 'puts down' a second DANISH but with a different meaning, s/he could switch the 'suit' from foods to nationalities. I could put down a second danish myself but I'm greedy. Perhaps rather than completely changing the suit the game would split into two threads so each person has to put down both a nationality and a food.
I'm not quite sure how the other rules of Last Card would apply, but if you can apply a Last Card rule convincingly/amusingly enough to this game I might let you get away with it. I'd say we should pretend there are only four of each 'number' in the pack, so you can't apronymise more than four different kinds of danish before going onto an E of whichever suit we end up in
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ECLAIR
Every Chomp's Luscious; An Irresistible Recipe!
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Continuing...
FLAN
Funny-Looking, Aromatic Nourishment
GRAPE
Generally Round And Plump Eats
HAM
Holiday-Appearing Meat
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ICECREAM
In Cones... Everyone Can't Resist Eating Another Mouthful.
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I wasn't happy about that 'Everyone' so I'll change it to:
In-Cone Extravagance... Can't Resist Eating Another Mouthful.
and, to go with that:
JELLY: Juice, Except Less Liquid. Yum!
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I guess it helps that I like to cook, so I can think of all these foods...
KEBAB
Kreative Eats, Beef And Barbecue
LEEK
Let's Eat Everything, 'Kay?
MELON
Must Eat Lots Of Nourishment
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NONI: Nitwits Opened New Industry
As I understand it, the noni was just a weed until somebody decided to convince health nuts that it must be good for you because it tastes bad.
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I was having trouble coming up with one for N, but...
ORANGE
Ordinary Refreshment; Alton Notes, "Good Eats!"
(Alton Brown is the host of my favorite cooking show right now, "Good Eats")
PEANUT
Peckish Eaters Are Nibbling Unopened Treats
(peanuts always seem to taste better when you have to get them out of their shells first)
QUICHE
Quite Unflattering International Chow of Hard Eggs
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Okay, I know this is premature, but...
ZITI
Zesty Italian Tasty Ingredients
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It's nice of you to do a difficult letter for us, but what if somebody were to change the 'suit' now (as outlined in my earlier post) and make your ZITI unnecessary? :) Also, I think whoever does the Z word gets to choose the topic for our next alphabet traversal. Since you've done the Z prematurely, that means the next topic will have to begin in your next post and run concurrently with this one. To make things interesting, try to choose something we don't already have a category for.
Yes, I am making up the rules as I go along. Try it... it's fun.
ROAST PORK: Rotated On A Spit, The Pig Overtly Ruins Kosher
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Okay then... B-)
SUGAR
Sweetener Unfairly Groused by Atkins Regimentarians
Now for the fork in the thread: Law
ATTORNEY
Anoter Trialist Teaching Of Righteousness to Near Every Youth
(disclaimer: my father is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County in California; yeah, this isn't the best, but it's the first thing that popped into my mind).
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I was hoping one of the others would rejoin the conversation, but here goes:
TURNIP: This Unremarkable Root Never Inspires Passion
Now for the fork in the thread: Law
The obvious one was barrister but I don't know enough about them. So... laws are made to B...
BROKEN: By Rebelling, Outlaws Keep Everyone Noticing
(They're really just doing it because they want attention. Sentence potential criminals to preventative attention and everything will be fine.)
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Ooh, I get another hard one! B-) There aren't too many foods starting with U, but...
UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
Unually Produced Snack Is Dessert. Edible Dish Of What-Not Cooked And Konsumed Enthusiastically.
And on the legal front...
COUNSELOR
Courtroom Officer Usually Negates Someone Else's Legal Opinion Resolutely
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VINDALOO
Volcanic Indian Norm Daunts A Lot Of Others
And on the legal front...
DEFENSE
Detective's Evidence-Finding Etiquette Not Strictly Endorsed
(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.)
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WHITE CHOCOLATE
What Holidaymaker Intends To Eat Candy Hearts Or Chocolate? One's Lunch is Accentuated Tastefully, Elegantly
EVIDENCE
Evidence Vindicates Indictment. Defenders Explain Nothing 'Cept Embarrassment.
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Oh boy... this has to be harder than Z. I'll do two of them just for the sake of masochism.
XYLITOL
Xpect You'll Lose Inches Through Overpriced Lollies?
short for XYLOSE SORBITOL, used as a sweetener in dental products and low-calorie foods.
Xylitol... You'll Love Our Substitute. Everyday Sugar Often Rots But Its Taste's Okay.
FOREMAN OF THE JURY
Finished Off Reviewing Evidence, My Announcement Notes Our Findings.Trial Has Ended, Judge Usually Rules Years.
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Oops, I missed a letter on this one:
Xylitol... You'll Love Our Substitute. Everyday Sugar Often Rots But Its Taste Obviates Lesions.
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Well, YAM (Yet Another Meal) is the obvious Y food, but that's too easy. Hmmm.... The foods I cook are offen YUMMY (You're Usually Made to Mention "Yum")... and I bake with YEAST (Yes, Edibles Are Sitting for Time)... Nope, can't think of anything.
As for courtroom antics, how about...
GAVEL
Give A Vital End to Lawsuit
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I don't have to follow that with a Z food, since you've already done one, but I will anyway and start a new thread so that we can have two going... it's more fun that way.
ZUCCHINI
Zucca Uses Cognomen 'Courgette' Here In Non-Italy
So with that I'll start a new thread, on the topic of dinosaurs.
ARCHAEOPTERYX
Although Rather Controversial, Hailed As Earliest Ornithoid. Precursor To Everyday Robins, Yet Xtinct.
And on the law front:
HEARSAY
Her Evidential Account's Really Secondhand (According to Yvette)
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Dinos, eh? Well the only thing left of them is typically...
BONES
Big Osseous Neoliths Explained by Scientists
INDICT
Ignorance is No Defense In Court Today
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Dinosaurs died out at the end of the CRETACEOUS
Collossal Reptiles Endured 'Til A Catastrophic Event Ousted Umpteen Species.
Cosmic Rock Ended This Age, Causing Extinction On Unprecedented Scale
Chalky Rock's Evidence Tells About Creatures Experts Only Understand Slightly
J is an easy one for law:
JUDGE
Jury Unanimously Decided Guilt; Enter Sentence.
But we already have one for JUDGE, so here's a conversation-style apronym:
JURY
Judge: Unanimous? Representative: Yes.
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>>> On 22 April 2004 15:12:59 UTC, Sean Lamb wrote:
Dinos, eh? Well the only thing left of them is typically...
BONES
Big Osseous Neoliths Explained by Scientists
Are you sure you mean Neoliths? My Chambers dictionary defines neolith as a Neolithic artefact, where Neolithic refers to the late Stone Age (which was, according to http://collections.ic.gc.ca/gardens/Horticulture/Time%20Line.htm, hundreds of millions of years after the dinosaurs died out) and an artefact is a thing made by human workmanship.
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> Are you sure you mean Neoliths?
When I was looking through the thesaurus, this had the closest meaning to artifact that started with N.
Now, to continue...
First, on the legal front...
Duhaime's only lists one legal term beginning with K, so here are a few for it...
KIN
Kan't Inherit from Neighbors
Kid's Into Naughtiness
Kinship Is Necessary
Now, dinosaurs always tend to be popular with the kids, so this one is pretty plain...
DINO
Down Is Not Out
But, I'm sure we're looking for something a little more complex (or at least more lengthy)...
DIPLODOCUS
Diplodocus Is Plainly Large. One Dinosaur's Outrageous Corpulence Upsets Scientists.
Another fork? Since I'm in Green Bay (WI) this weekend for a model railroad show, how about: Trains and Railroading (including models)
AMTRAK
Another Metro Train Rolls Along Keenly
(Amtrak is the national passenger carrier of the US)
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>>> On 25 April 2004 03:32:56 UTC, Sean Lamb wrote:
> Are you sure you mean Neoliths?
When I was looking through the thesaurus, this had the closest meaning to artifact that started with N.
Sorry for being picky, but according to my dictionary, bones aren't artifacts! (They can be made into them, but I would guess that Neolithic people were no more likely to come across dinosaur bones than we are.)
KIN
Kan't Inherit from Neighbors
And while I'm being picky, I don't know about this one... two cheats (Kan't and the extra word) in one three-letter apronym. It's not up to your usual standard.
Now for my L word... believe it or not we don't even have an apronym for LAW yet.
Levelled Against Wrongdoing
LAWFUL CONDUCT
Love And War: Fair Until Lawyers Come, Openly Nicking Dollars Using Clever Tricks
Now for my dinosaur... it could do with improvement, but here's my ELASMOSAURUS:
Extreme Length And Size Made One Swimmer An Unusual Reptile Under Sea
Railroads? Oh, that's not fair, I know you have a collection of ready-made railroad apronyms! But this is an opportunity for the rest of us to learn more about them. Here's a company I hadn't heard about until about ten minutes ago:
BALFOUR BEATTY RAIL LIMITED
Big And Lucrative Frontrunner Of UK Rail Business. Electrification And Trackwork That You'd Readily Accept. It Looks Like Intensive 'Training' Exercises Delivered.
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>>> On 26 April 2004 10:44:07 UTC, Angela wrote:
> Sorry for being picky [snip]
Oh all right [hangs head in shame]. It is your site after all. B-) Public flogging with a wet noodle duly accepted. Let's see if we can get some without cheats....
Now then, a legal term starting with M ...
MISTRIAL
Maybe It's Supposed To Result In A Liquidation
> Railroads? Oh, that's not fair, I know you have
> a collection of ready-made railroad apronyms!
Actually, only three that I can ever remember that I can't claim credit for:
C&NW (Chicago & North Western railroad, known for reusing anything that they could get their hands on)
Cheap & Nothing Wasted
O&W (Ontario & Western railroad; they've been around for so long they're...)
Old & Weary
SPSF (the failed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger of the late 1980s; many pieces of rolling stock were painted for the merger before they had ICC approval to merge [which was eventually denied])
Shouldn't Paint So Fast
Now for mine, one starting with C...
CAMELBACK (a camelback locomotive is a steam engine where the control cab is wrapped around the middle of the boiler rather than at the rear end of it; smaller locomotives were also sometimes called "tea kettles")
Cab's About Middle. Engineer Looks Back And Controls Kettle.
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Okay, two days later and two more apronyms...
NOTARY
Not One To Assign Rights Yet.
DEADMAN'S BUTTON
Device Employed As Defensive Mechanism Against Napping Staff By Using The Tension Of Normality
The Deadman's Button is a device installed in lomotives that must remain depressed by the engineer (usually under his/her foot) to prevent the brakes from being applied; the theory is that if the engineer had a lapse of consciousness (falling asleep, heart attack, whatever), his foot would come off the button, thus applying the brakes.
Care to add another fork?
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>>> On 28 April 2004 18:29:58 UTC, Sean Lamb wrote:
Care to add another fork?
We already have one, but you've forgotten about it! You didn't post an F'ing dinosaur (or a G'ing one.)
I would have pointed that out earlier but I haven't had time to finish the apronyms which I ought to be posting along with this reminder. I'll post two of each once you've caught up on your dinosaurs.
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>You didn't post an F'ing dinosaur (or a G'ing one.)
Doh! Too wrapped up in getting other stuff done. Here are a few make-ups (all found on http://www.dinodictionary.com)
FABROSAURUS
Fast, Agile Beast Relies On Skillful Adaptation Under Relatively Unfriendly Situations
(Fabrosaurus was a small, bipedal herbivore discovered in Africa that had five fingers on its hands)
FRENGUELLISAURUS
Few Reproductions Exist. Now Generally Unknown, Extremely Large Lizard Is Seen As Unusual Relative. Unknown Size
(Frenguellisaurus is judged to weigh about 770 pounds, based on fossils found so far. However, its exact size isn't very well known, and it's not a name that rolls off the tongue of most schoolchildren)
GRAVITHOLUS
Generally Reported Alberta Vertebrate Is This Herbivore. Owns Large, Unusual Skull
(Gravitholus, discovered in Alberta, had a skull that was wider and thicker than others of the same age)
GENYODECTES
Greatly Erratic Noggin Yet Only Disconnected Evidence of Carnivore That Existed Southward
(Genyodectes was discovered in Argentina, but is only known from fragmentary skull remains)
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Here's another dino-related one, although on a much smaller scale and revisiting an earlier letter...
AMBER
Ancient Miniscule Bug's Encased Reliably
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Okay a few more days gone, maybe I can remember all of the topics and current letters this time?
OFFICER
One Fine Fellow Is Courtroom Employed Representative
(I haven't met a member of law enforcement that I didn't get along with yet)
ERIE
Erie Railroad Is Extinct
(the Erie Railroad, chartered in 1832, ran between New York City and Buffalo (on Lake Erie) until it was merged into the Erie Lackawanna in the 1950s and later Conrail, which has now been split between CSX and Norfolk Southern)
HAPLOCANTHOSAURUS
Huge Animal Probably Lived Off Cuttings And Not Tenderlons. Historically Often Seen Around Utah Region, United States
(Haplocanthosaurus was an herbivore; remains of this species have been found in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah)
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PLEA-BARGAINS
Protagonist's Lawyer Expects A Bad Answer, Reasons Guilty Announcement Induces Nicer Sentence
FAST TRACK
For A Shorter Transport Time, Railways Are Car Killers!
(Well, in some circumstances it's quicker to use a train.)
Dinodictionary.com is great... previously I'd been searching on Google for "A to Z" and the subject.
ISCHISAURUS
It Should Call Herrerasaurus Its Sister, Although Uncertain Relationship's Under Speculation
There is speculation that Ischisaurus may actually be the same genus as Herrerasaurus.
I owe one more of each since I posted without adding to the alphabet, but it will have to wait until I have more time.
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Goody! Another Q word!
QUORUM
Qualified Unit Of Roughly United Minds
GRADE
Generally Railroads Aren't Deliberately Elevated
(The easiest tracks on which to control trains are perfectly level [with a 0% grade] and perfectly straight)
JAXARTOSAURUS
Just Another Xenomorph, A Reptile That Once Saw Action Under Roughly Ukranian Skies
(My dictionary defines xenomorph as a space alien, and some have theorized that dinos were originally aliens, so.... Jaxartosaurus was first discovered in Kazakhstan; it may not be the Ukraine, but it's a lot closer to there than Utah)
I like Quorum best out of these.
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RIGHTS
Regardless of Innocence/ Guilt, Humane Treatment's Sure.
HOT BOX
Help/Halt! Our Train's Becoming Overly Xerantic!
According to the glossary on http://trackbed.com, hot box refers to excessive heating of a plain bearing axlebox due often to a loss of adequate lubrication and which required the locomotive to be stopped before severe damage and possible derailment occurred.
KRITOSAURUS
Known Remains Indicate That Old Saurian Ate Undergrowth/Umbrage Rising Up Sunward
I'm not sure whether a kritosaurus would be more able to eat undergrowth or umbrage, but as a herbivore it's sure to eat one or the other.
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SLANDER
Spoken Libel And Now Defamation Endanger Rights
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
It's Like Long In New Orleans Is Sighing. Canadian Equipment, New Trains Running Around Louisiana
(Huey Long was governor of Louisiana earlier in the 20th century, and the Illinois Central, now owned by Canadian National, was well-known for the passenger train "The City of New Orleans" [remember the song made famous by Arlo Guthrie?])
LESOTHOSAURUS
Light, Extra Small One That Had Open Skeleton And Usually Ran Under Shrubs
(DinoDictionary says that this small dino "was probably an agile, two-legged runner based on slender, hollow, thin walled bones, a light skull with many openings, a short neck and forelimbs and the absence of armor.")
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It's about time I continued the game...
TRIAL
Tricky Reasoning Is Almost Laughable
Two Rival Ideas About Law
To Rally/Reconcile Interpretations And Loopholes
JUNCTION
Jumbled Underground Network Comes Together Into One Nexus
All dinosaurs lived in the MESOZOIC ERA:
Magical Era, Something Only Zoologists Or Impetuous Children Ever Really Appreciate
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And I was just stopping by to see if anyone had posted more so I could continue... B-)
UIFSA
Ultimatum Insures Families Secure Alimony
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").
KETTLE
Keeping Engineers Tooting Their Little Engines
A kettle (an abbreviation of tea-kettle) refers to any very small steam locomotive, usually one without a tender.
NOASAURUS
North Of Argentina, Scientists Amazingly Uncovered Remains Uniquely Saurian
The Noasaurus was discovered in the northern region of Argentina; it's claws featured a unique lifting tendon.
I had originally thought of using "Some Archaeologist" for the SA portion, but an archaeologist studies past human life, and not generally animal life.
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VERDICT
Voices Eleven's Reasoned Decision In Criminal Trial
(This is assuming that an 11 to 1 majority decision is accepted, as I understand it is in some countries. I was considering 'Eventually Reached...' but I like this one better.)
LOCOMOTIVE
Lone Operating Carriage, Others Move Only Through/Trailing Its Vigorous Engine
ORNITHISCHIA
Old Reptiles Noteworthy In That Hips Imitate Surviving Creatures' In Air
I'm not too happy with that one yet.
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For the legal entry, we always see cartoon characters writing them...
WILL
What Is Last Left
Writer Is LifeLess
Yeah, the second is pushing it, but it seemed to fit.
For trains, here are a few for different steam locomotive types:
MALLET
Massive Articulated Locomotive, Large Engineering Triumph
(The mallet type refers to any articulated steam locomotive; two sets of drive wheels under one boiler, with the front set on a pivot to get around turns easier; the design was first implemented by Anatole Mallet [ref: http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/sub/malletinfo.htm]
MOGUL
Mindful Of Gyrating, Uneven Lines
(the Mogul was one of the first wheel arrangements to include an unpowered axle before the drive axles; the unpowered axle helped guide the drive axles into a curve)
MASTODON
Massive And Stable-Treaded, One Design Over None
(The mastodon type, with two unpowered lead axles and four drive axles, was billed as the perfect answer to really heavy-duty hauling in the 1880s)
MOUNTAIN
Mastodon's Outdone Using New Trailing Axle, Improving Numbers
(the mountain type was a one-up of the mastodon by including a single unpowered trailing axle to support a larger firebox, giving the type even greater pulling power)
MIKADO
Made It, Kept Another Delivery Option
(The first locomotive of this type was built for export to Japan, to be delivered to the Mikado; however, WWII negated the delivery and all of the deliveries were redirected to US customers)
Finally, for dinos, how about...
PROTOCERATOPS
Prehistoric Relative Of Triceratops, One Chinese Excavation Reveals Another Treasure Of Prehistoric Science
(the protoceratops, considered to be a precursor of other horned dinos, was discovered in China and Mongolia; it is one of only a handful of creatures where scientists have found evidence from eggs through adulthood)
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Ooh, a couple hard ones again. Let's see...
(law)
XENOPHOBE
Xenophobes Enjoy Noting Other People Holding Old Biases Everlasting.
(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.)
(trains)
NARROW GAUGE
Non-Average Rail Ratio, One Working Grade And Unusual Gauge Examples
("Gauge" refers to the distance between the rails. Standard Gauge in North America is 4' 8.5", Narrow Gauge is anythin less than that, most commonly 3'; narrow gauge railroads often contain tighter curves and steeper grades than their standard gauge counterparts).
(dinos)
QUAESITOSAURUS
Quite Unusual Auricle Exemplifies Sauropod;
Idividual Traces Of Skull Are Uncovered, Researchers Use Science
(This dino, known by partial skull fossils, had an structures that indicated unusually sensitive hearing)
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(law)
YOUNG OFFENDER
Years Of Untold Neglect Generated One Fledgling Felon. Especially Needs Direct Effective Rehabilitation
(I only wish I could fit "juvenile" into that expansion)
(trains)
ON THE LAW
One Night They Had Extra Labor And Wages
(A train crew is "on the law" when they have exceeded their allowed work time between rest periods)
(dinos)
REBBACHISAURUS
Really Exceptional Beast Became A Creature Hidden In Sahran Africa Under Rigid Unsandy Sand
(Rebbachisaurus was discovered in the Saharan area of northern Africa; after so many millions of years, sand gets packed down into rigid structures)
Okay, so we're about to hit the end of the law thread, how about another fork? Let's try visual arts and artists (e.g. painting, sculpture, photography, etc.)
ART
A Rendered Thought
ARTIST
After Rendering The Image, Sculpture's Touted
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I haven't had much free time for apronymising lately, I hope you do not have ZERO TOLERANCE
Zap Experimental Rounds Of Thievery, Offender's Liberty Encourages Repeated And Nastier Criminal Exploits.
I'd like to work in Repeat Offender or One-Time Offender somehow.
(trains)
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
People Using Busses Locked In Commuter Traffic Repent, At Next Stop Purchase One Rail Ticket.
(dinosaurs)
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Some Creationists Insist Even Now That Investigating Fossils Is Chicanery/Conspiracy. Ministers Explain The Heresy Of Dinosaurs.
(art)
BONE CARVING
Brush On Nature's Every Canvas, And Recycle Vertebrae Into Neverending Gift
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(trains)
QUICK-ACTING BRAKE
Quickly Used, Its Caboose Kills Acceleration Creating Traction In Need. Good Brakes Really Avoid Killing Engineers.
(http://www.geocities.com/gold27ca/gloss1a.html defines this as "A Modification by George Westinghouse of his automatic air-brake for quicker response at the rear of a train." Many train crews have been killed by runaways when the brakes failed)
(dinosaurs)
TECHNOSAURUS
Texas Excavation Creates Hoopla. New Ornithischian Sauropod Artifacts Uncovered Right Under Sand
(Technosaurus was discovered near Lubbock, Texas, and is classed as an Ornithischian)
(art)
CANVAS
Creative Artists Need Vacant Art Slates
(most paintings that I've seen are on canvas, after all)
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(trains)
RAILROAD
Riding Along In Luxury, Railroads Often Are Delightful
(dinosaurs)
UTAHRAPTOR
Unusually Talented And Harsh Raptor Attacked Predators That Once Roamed
(The Utahraptor had a 15" claw on one toe of each hind foot; it's believed that this creature attacked others much larger than itself using these claws and its razor-sharp teeth as weapons)
(art)
DEPTH OF FIELD
Distinctly Elemental Photographic Technique Helps Offer Fine Focus In Every Little Detail
(beginning photography students learn that a smaller aperture gives a greater depth of field in their photos)
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Ok - apronym virgin here. :-)
Here goes...
(art)
EASEL
Elevates Artists Sketch. Easily Luggable.
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Welcome to apronymania, omnicronos! I would have responded earlier but I've been too busy to come up with the required apronyms.
(trains)
SAND DRAG
Stop And Not Derail Delinquent Railcars... A Godsend!
(according to http://www.glue-it.com/trains/general-information/glossary/glossary_frames.htm a Sand Drag
is a short length of railway track buried in sand, and running from a set of catch points. It is designed to bring runaway vehicles to a halt rather than derailing them.)
(dinosaurs)
VULCANODON
Very Unsophisticated Lizard, Certainly Ate No Other Dinosaurs. Outstretched Neck.
(art)
FORM
Figure Of Representational Medium
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Thanks for the welcome. :-)
Looking at the hall of fame, I think a break after such prolific apronyming is probably forgivable.
You hall-of-famers do realise how intimidating clever wordsmiths are to the rest of us, right?
(dinosaurs)
WALKERIA
Was A Little Killer. Eventually Renamed. Is Alwalkeria.
(according to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexw.shtml, Walkeria was a small bipedal carnivore. And, according to http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4/5ce8942.htm, it changed its name in 1987 - just enough to avoid recursion)
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Getting this easy one in before I miss the opportunity.
(art)
GOUACHE
Generations Old. Useful Artisans Colourant. Hydration Essential.
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I thought I'd have a crack at this one, figuring that I'd rudely ignore the whole alphabetical order idea.
But, fortune has smiled on me... there was a nice gap.
ESCHER
Escher Sketches Cunningly Harness Expressive Recursion
(Note the deliberate recursion :-)
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Okay, I'm back. After a vacation to Seattle where I attended the National Model Railroad Association's national convention, and a rather busy time on my return, it's time to get back to the really important stuff. B-)
(trains)
TRAIN
Transporting Resources And Interconnecting Nations
I wanted to do STEAM (Sometimes The Engines Are Magical), but someone else beat me to the S word.
(dinosaurs)
XIAOSAURUS
Xiaosaurus Is Another Ornithischian Species; All Uncovered Remains Unusually Small
(Xiaosaurus has only been found in fragments; it is estimated that this creature stood only 1.5 feet tall)
(art)
HOLOGRAPHY
Harnessing One's Laser, One Generates Really Artistic, Pleasing Holograms, Yes?
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(trains)
UDE
Ultimate Deceleration Event
Untimely Disruption of Employment
(UDE is a railroad acronym for UnDesired Emergency, as in an event where the brake system on a train is set to the "Emergency" setting, bringing the train to a stop as absolutely soon as possible. Most often a train is set into Emergency when a car is stopped on a railroad crossing or desides to drive around the gates; engineers in this situation are normally granted a psychological leave for a short period.)
(dinosaurs)
YAVERLANDIA
Yet Another Very Extinct Reptile. Little Animal Never Dwelled In Asia
(Yaverlandia, at 2' 3" tall, was discovered in Yaverland Battery on the Isle of Wight)
(art)
ICON
Image Connoting One's Notions
IKEBANA
It's Kado. Eclectic Botany, Artful New Arrangements
(Ikebana, also known as Kado, is the ancient Japanese art of formal floral arrangement)
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My High School transcript query:
TSCMI
What does it stand for?
Hortensia
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Perhaps:
This School Can Mark Incorrectly
They Say C Mark's Insufficient
Try Studying, Could Make Improvemenrt
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> TSCMI
To Succeed, Cram Meaningless Information
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Reporting live from the prestigious second leg of the first ever travelling apronymaniacs' conference...
> TSCMI
This Statement Contains Meaningless Initialism
This Should Confuse Mortal Individuals
This Scholar Could Make It
Transcripts Shouldn't Contain Meaningless Initialisms
Transcript's Shortened 'Cause Margin's Inadequate (Fermat could have invented these!)
To See College, Must Improve
This Student Creates Many Interruptions
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> TSCMI
The Subject Confuses Me Immensely
Teachers Say "Consider My Instruction"
Teachers' Sacrifices Create Median Intelligences
Teaching Science Causes Mental Insanity
(and to think that I'm actually seriously considering pursuing a teaching credential..)
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While sitting in a train next to Tony McCoy O'Grady, I remembered this thread. I should have mentioned it to him so we could brainstorm, but I didn't, so all I came up with was these:
VIEW: Vista In Every Window
WAITING ROOM: We Aren't In Train, I'm Now Getting Restless Over Our (Mis)adventure. (We missed the train we were supposed to be on by about a minute, and had to wait a few hours for the next one.)
WAGON: We Are Getting On Now.
And here are some for letters we've already done:
TRAIN: Two Rails Are Invariantly Near
LUAS: Locals Understand As 'Speed'
According to http://www.lrta.org/luasindex.html:
What does the name LUAS stand for? Luas is the Irish word for speed and so (as it is not an abbreviation) should be written Luas rather than L.U.A.S.
Well, we've proven them wrong!
All the signs on the train (and elsewhere) have English and Irish translations. On one I noticed that the translation of 'warning' was RABHADH, which I expanded to:
Read And Beware, Here Are Dire Hazards
Hopefully all this training will make up for the fact that I haven't continued the other threads. At least we're back on topic.