Acronyms

[Organic Shadows]

Acronyms are cool, and I wanted to possibly start a list of them. I ask that as well as commonly used ones (such as... well, I can't think of any /common/ commonly used ones, but things like "MADD," Mothers Against Drunk Driving), you put not-very-known ones, like the examples I will type out below.

Example:

THE ACRONYM: words it stands for; meaning; history/origin if known.


THE LIST IS HERE.

POSH: Port Out, Starboard Home; fashionable; "the story goes that the more well-to-do passengers travelling to and from India used to have POSH written against their bookings, standing for 'Port Out, Starboard Home' (indicating the more desirable cabins, on the shady side of the ship)." ((From AskOxford.com))

TIP: To Insure Promptness, or TIPS: To Insure Prompt Service; the extra money given for quality service; pub owners in England would place a jar on the counter with a sign that said, "To Insure Promptness."

COOL: Constipated, overrated, out of date loser; I've no idea where this originated.

SNAFU: Situation Normal All *Fouled* Up; Used when a smoothly-running something or other gets ruined.

ASA
It's a club at my school.
It means:
Asian Students Association.

SCUBA is an acronym for 'self contained underwater breathing aparatus'.

A.K.A: Also known as.

Just post 'em up and I'll add them. Thanks for the contributions!  

[BlueBlythe]

ASA
It's a club at my school.
It means:
Asian Students Association.

But I like saying:
Awesome
Sexy
Asians.  

[s0prano42_x3]

BlueBlythe

ASA
It's a club at my school.
It means:
Asian Students Association.

But I like saying:
Awesome
Sexy
Asians.

Hahaha... Well, that makes me think of the club at my school, but I really can't think of any others.

PRISM:
People
Respecting
Individuality,
Sexuality, and
Minorities.  

[chrystalclear]

Ooh, ooh! Did you got those first two (POSH and TIP) from The View from Saturday? whee

COOL: Constipated, overrated, out of date loser; I've no idea where this originated, but students at my school used it a lot on each other when I was in sixth grade. sweatdrop

SNAFU: Situation Normal All *Fouled* Up; Used when a smoothly-running something or other gets ruined.
I'll go look in my list later...  

[zingebar]

SCUBA is an acronym for 'self contained underwater breathing aparatus'.  

[-l- Eli -l-]

A.K.A.: also known as  

[Organic Shadows]

Heh, yes, I did get it from The View From Saturday, I'm kind of obsessed.  

[JessiDlux93]

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Dreamt. *cough*