Author Topic: Rewriting acronyms (Read 1034 times)

RetiredAt63 · « **on:** February 25, 2025, 02:46:00 PM »

Fun topic, I hope. We need some black humour these days, eh?

Take an acronym and rename it to something that refutes the original. They don't have to be political, although that might be the easiest, and most fun. Like limericks, the best will have some bite.

I'll start - these are not mine, but I do appreciate them:

PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals. From People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (note this is a very suspect organization)

MAGA - Make America Go Away. From, I'm sure almost all of us know this, Make America Great Again.

Edit - some of the acronyms people are starting from are more obscure, so let's put the original (or most common) after our version. I've edited mine.

BTW, I am impressed with how creative people are being!

hooplady · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2025, 03:25:10 PM »

DOGE - Delighting Older Government Employees

RetiredAt63 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2025, 03:40:20 PM »

Quote from: hooplady on February 25, 2025, 03:25:10 PM

DOGE - Delighting Older Government Employees

Good one!

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2025, 05:29:39 PM »

ERA: Eliminating Rights Amendment

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2025, 05:33:40 PM »

USA: Useless Separate Areas

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2025, 05:35:18 PM »

IRA: Increasing Revenuer's Assets

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2025, 06:02:26 PM »

FIRE: Fiscally Irresponsible Repeated Expenditures

reeshau · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2025, 07:11:14 PM »

DOGE: Doing Outsized Government Evisceration

MustacheAndaHalf · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2025, 04:48:10 AM »

Not Actually Treaty Organization

sonofsven · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2025, 05:08:17 AM »

I like these old car jokes, like Ford (found on road, dead) or Fiat (fix it again, Tony).
My girlfriend and I like to play this game where we take a saying and reduce it to an acronym and the other tries to figure it out. We stopped at a new taco truck and found the burritos not up to the standard of our favorite spot and I blurted out "MAGBA" (Make American Burritos Great Again!).

reeshau · « **Reply #10 on:** February 26, 2025, 06:09:09 AM »

Quote from: sonofsven on February 26, 2025, 05:08:17 AM

I like these old car jokes, like Ford (found on road, dead) or Fiat (fix it again, Tony).
My girlfriend and I like to play this game where we take a saying and reduce it to an acronym and the other tries to figure it out. We stopped at a new taco truck and found the burritos not up to the standard of our favorite spot and I blurted out "MAGBA" (Make American Burritos Great Again!).

Fix Or Repair Daily

Greystache · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2025, 07:40:06 AM »

MAGA Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.
Here is a list of the Trump legal team that has plead guilty to various crimes (so far):
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/trump-lawyers-charged-georgia-case/44820149

reeshau · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2025, 07:48:37 AM »

Make Average Guys Abnormal

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2025, 06:11:29 PM »

CODIS: Criminals Overtly Deceiving Investigative Searches

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 01, 2025, 06:15:35 PM »

Quote from: RetiredAt63 on February 25, 2025, 02:46:00 PM

Like limericks, the best will have some bite.

NAACP: Never Allow Africans Customary Professions

RetiredAt63 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2025, 07:36:29 PM »

Hmm, some of these I don't know the originals, I'm probably not the only one - maybe we should post the standard one and then our version?

I'll go back and edit my original starter post.

RetiredAt63 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 03, 2025, 02:29:16 PM »

I saw a new one in the wild:

MAGA - Moscow Assets Grifting America. This is very good. I wish I could take credit but I can't.

RetiredAt63 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 07, 2025, 05:20:17 PM »

Two more, not mine:

MAGA - Making Americans Grow Afraid

MAGA - Moscow Agent Governing America - this one, yikes!

Dicey · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2025, 10:34:56 PM »

I learned this from @NinetyFour and quite like it:

AFGO - Another Fucking Growth Opportunity. The clean version, should you be forced to keep it clean, is Another Fun Growth Opportunity.

RetiredAt63 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 12, 2025, 01:07:59 PM »

USA - U Stand Alone (again, not mine, I wish it were)

ATtiny85 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2025, 07:27:13 AM »

NRA (National Rifle Association): Necessary Regulations on Arms

(it's a direct opposite since deep inside the NRA written on the conference room walls is something like "no gun control is the only accepted result")

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