Acronyms

[emmie]

Any you know that are funny, real ones, made up, none too rude please.
A bit of light relief on a truly appalling day, weather wise.

[emmie]

oh how funny.... thank heavens they changed it.
some just don't realise i am sure.

[MichaelZZ]

Back in the 1960s there were a number of mobile crane hire companies. Two of these, Clyde Crane and Taylor's Crane decided to amalgamate and settled on the not very snappy name of TC Crane Co. A few years later, they were joined by Napier Crane Corp and adopted the title of TCN Crane. When, four years later, they combined with Union Crane, someone imaginatively thought how to arrange the initials and the company was henceforth known as







The British Crane Company

[emmie]

IBM

It's being mended..

[MASS1961]

During the Falklands conflict in 1982, I worked for BAe and we did a tremendous amount of work coverting aircraft into tankers, almost overnight. Some Guys were working dayshift, going home for a bite and shower, coming back in and working a nightshift too.
Our Works Manager at the time was awarded the O.B.E...........Other Bu99ers Efforts!

[TheWinner]

MFI most fittings included

[puternut]

Not really an an acronym but TheWinner remided me that MFI (Made for effing idiots) used to called 'suppository furniture' by a friend

Why??

Cos you stick it up yourself

[zebo]

Rumour had it that a new University in the North East was going to be called something like the Collegiate University of North Tyneside, luckily it changed!
Manchester Metropolitan University was Mickey Mouse University, the CIA is always Caught In the Act.

[zebo]

Anyone posed to SHAPE in Antwerp was assured of a Super Holiday At Public Expense.
22 SAS was known as 22 Saturdays And Sundays.

[d9f1c7]

IBM has tradionally stood for Ive Been Mugged!

[d9f1c7]

I used to work in an It department called MSD, mainframe system development but the users alway said it stood for Maybe Some Day!

Laterly I worked on a system called COSMIC, where virtually no one knew what it really stood for and preferred the term "Crappy Old System Made In China"!

[boomster]

S.H.I.E.L.D

Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-Enforcement Division (Marvel comics)
*** SHIELD Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (fictional)
** SHIELD Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (Iron Man film)
** SHIELD Silicon Hybrids with Infrared Extrinsic Long-wavelength Detectors
* SHIELD Secret Headquarters of Intelligence Espionage and Law Division definitions for SHIELD in our Acronym Attic

[methyl]

ICL (the defunct UK equivalent to IBM) - It's Coming Later !

After lengthy debate in the letters page of Computer Talk about what SPOOL stood for, the final response was: Contrived Retrospective Acronym Perhaps?