Help to create an acronym please

[Chris]

Hi

I'm part of a small subgroup of people who provide IT support to our School in the University.  We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.  We're having difficulty coming up with something -can anyone help?
The key words we've being working around are:
University of Nottingham
School of Community Health Sciences
IT
Information technology
Sub-group
Technical
Computers/computing
Development

We came up with things like:
School of Community Health sciences Information Technology Technical Subgroup (SCHITTS)
and
Technical IT Subgroup (TITS)
and almost
Technical Operations Subgroup for the School.. (TOSSers)
but didn't like those! :-)

Any assistance gratefully recieved.
Cheers
Chris

[Tony]

>>> On 19 March 2002 16:21:36 UTC, Chris wrote:

> We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.

> The key words we've being working around are:
> University of Nottingham
> School of Community Health Sciences
> IT
> Information technology
> Sub-group
> Technical
> Computers/computing
> Development

My first thought is plain and not tongue-in-cheek
UNITS
University of Nottingham Information Technology Subgroup

However a quick check on "Un-" words in the dictionary brings up...
UNTEACH
University of Nottingham Technology Experts At/Around/About Community Health
.. which is a little cheeky, and ...
UNTEACHABLE
University of Nottingham Technology Experts At/Around/About Community Health And Biology Learning Experiences

Hope this sets off a string of useful stuff.

[Angela]

Great minds might not think different after all... I came up with UNITS almost immediately only to find it was already on your post. I then tried to think of some more UNs but I haven't come up with anything approaching UNTEACHABLE's standard. I'll think about it some more on the way to work

[Angela]

Okay, I'm at work, and annoyed I didn't bring my Newton to write acronyms on - they're all crowded onto the back of a book of vouchers.

UNSOLICITED: University of Nottingham Subgroup Of Learned Indivituals Coordinating Information Technology Endeavours Daily (or Every Day)

UNETHICAL: University of Nottingham's Effort To Help In Computer Aided Learning

I know you wanted a little one though.

Keeping with the rude theme of TITS and SCHITS, we have

UNDIES: University of Nottingham Development/Department's & Information Engineering Subgroup

or, when faced with an IT pickle (hey, there's one for the Computers:Do Not Eat category!) people could call in the BIG GUNS

Biology/Bitwise Information Gurus Guide University of Nottingham's Scientists

You are, of course, BITWISE - Bringing Information Technology Wisdom Into School Environment.

Now I'd better start working before someone sees what I'm doing. :^D

[Tony]

As we're talking University.....
UNTUTORED
University of Nottingham Technicians - Useful Technologists Offer Resources in Educational Department

.... but with an eye to students and health services....
UNCLEAN
Useful Nobodies, Computer Literate Educationalists Around Nottingham

Pronounce this one how you will.....
URANUS
University Resource At Nottingham - Useful Subgroup

If you're not too posh...
NON-U
Nerds Of Nottingham University

[Tony]

Two more....

UNIVERSITY
University of Nottingham's Incredibly Versatile & Expert Resource, Spreading Information Technology Yourway

A deliberate misspelling...
GENUIS
Geeks Enabling Nottingham University's Information Systems

[Chris]

Thanks with your help so far, I'm very impressed and chuckling to myself here - not a good thing when you work in the Division of Psychiatry.

Can I be extremely cheaky and ask that you drop the University of Nottingham bit and work with School of Community Health Sciences.  We are only a very small group for just for our school and not the University as a whole.

I realise this is quite a rude request after all you hard work but hey, you obviously like a challenge - that's why you're here! :-)

Thank you again.

Chris

[Tony]

Chris wrote:

> Can I be extremely cheaky
Oh! If you must ;-)

and ask that you drop the University of Nottingham bit and work with School of Community Health Sciences.  We are only a very small group for just for our school and not the University as a whole.

How about a misspelling of "schizo"...

SCHITSO
School of Community Health Information Technology Subgroup Operative.

This means you could introduce yourself as "I'm Chris, i'm a SCHITSO", even if the phrase is very non-PC. (I'm very much in favour of anything which is non-PC!)

[Angela]

You could go for a terrible spelling of glitches, and hope that you don't cause any -

GLITSCHS - Group/Geeks Leading Information Technology, School of Community Health Sciences

or you could say you're in stitschs (Subgroup To Information-Technologise the School of Community Health Sciences - yeah I know that's clunky)

or you could be BITSCHS (Bring Information Technology to the School of Community Health Sciences)

[Angela]

Hmm... what should I call the category which these acronyms are put into?

[Tony]

Angela mused:

> Hmm... what should I call the category which these acronyms are put into?

Occupations. Job descriptions.

[Angela]

>>> On 23 March 2002 21:27:33 UTC, Tony wrote:

Occupations. Job descriptions.


Well, I was thinking they'd be in a subcategory of education, but wherever it's put, what should the subcategory be called? These should all be in their own subcategory as they all result from a request to name a particular thing and don't make much sense without reference to that, so they shouldn't be put straight into an existing category. If Chris decides what the subgroup will actually be called, the subcategory could be named after that.

[Rick Morris]

Needing help creating an acronym for a program that I oversee.

words of interest are:

sexually abusive youth
specialized
Individualized
case management
treatment

Ideas??

[Tony]

>>> On 20 November 2005 20:49:12 UTC, Rick Morris wrote:

> Needing help creating an acronym for a program that I oversee.

> words of interest are:

> sexually abusive youth
> specialized
> Individualized
> case management
> treatment

> Ideas??

Hiya Rick,
I've copied your request to a new thread.
We like to try to maintain discrete threading for each request.
Hope you don't mind.
Tony

[NUTCAIS - Nottingham University Technical Computing And Information subgroup]

>>> On 19 March 2002 16:21:36 UTC, Chris wrote:

Hi

I'm part of a small subgroup of people who provide IT support to our School in the University.  We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.  We're having difficulty coming up with something -can anyone help?
The key words we've being working around are:
University of Nottingham
School of Community Health Sciences
IT
Information technology
Sub-group
Technical
Computers/computing
Development

We came up with things like:
School of Community Health sciences Information Technology Technical Subgroup (SCHITTS)
and
Technical IT Subgroup (TITS)
and almost
Technical Operations Subgroup for the School.. (TOSSers)
but didn't like those! :-)

Any assistance gratefully recieved.
Cheers
Chris