Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms

[Victor Steinbok]

Did anyone mention the classic No Such Agency? Far less frequent
unpacking was Never Say Anything. Not sure if this is real, mocking or
locally coined, but Wiki == Wish I Knew It.

     VS-)

On 6/15/2010 12:26 AM, Dave Hause wrote:
> A few more:
> MAC (Military Airlift Command) - Maybe Airplane Come
> NAVY - Never Again Volunteer Yourself
> NBC (Nuclear, Biological,&  Chemical [studies/defense]) - No Body Cares
> (went out of vogue in 1990)
> BKA (German FBI-equivalent, Bundes Kriminal Amt) - Beamter Keine Ahnung
> (officials without ideano clue)
> MRE - Meals Rejected by Everyone/Ethiopians
> and my all-time favorite coined acronym is FASEG - Fairy Amplification by
> Stimulated Emission of Godmothers, from the old Journal of Irreproducible
> Results, probably about mid-60s.
> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Waynesville, MO
>

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