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* The eccentric UK pop-science magazine ''New Scientist'' had a laugh at the expense of the Thin Layer Unimorph Driver and Sensor, which is very tenuously acronymised as '''THUNDER'''.
* The underwater pipeline that supplied the Mulberry harbours with fuel for the D-Day landings had one of the simplest and most elegant acronyms ever: P.L.U.T.O. ('''P'''ipe '''L'''ines '''U'''nder '''T'''he '''O'''cean.) (Although strictly speaking the English Channel is not an ocean. That's okay, Pluto isn't, strictly speaking, a planet.).
* It's probably coincidental, but there's a town in ''[[The Elder Scrolls
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