Fun with Acronyms/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* The '''W'''orld '''H'''ealth '''O'''rganization is a rather high-profile example.

* MILF - '''M'''other '''I''''d '''L'''ike to '''F'''uck.

* The name of the central command of NATO military forces? '''S'''upreme '''H'''eadquarters '''A'''llied '''P'''owers '''E'''urope. Seriously.

* The term "'''S'''pecial '''W'''eapons '''A'''nd '''T'''actics" worked out very well for the public image of SWAT teams. Well enough that they could ignore the fact that, by standard acronym rules, it really ought to have been SWT. SWAT originally stood for '''S'''pecial '''W'''eapons '''A'''ssault '''T'''eam, but this acronym was rejected by higher-ups in the Los Angeles Police Department for sounding too military. Referring to a police squad as an "assault team" was considered to give the wrong impression, even though that's exactly what SWAT teams are.

* Princeton University has an extremely conservative alumni organization called The '''C'''oncerned '''A'''lumni of '''P'''rinceton whose sole purpose seems to be to complain vigorously about any and all changes the University has undergone since approximately 1910 (with co-education, minority enrollment and -- in the 1980s, at least -- the presence of salad bars in the dining halls being among their big bugaboos). In the 1970s, the campus humor magazine started referring to them as the '''C'''oncerned '''R'''eactionary '''A'''lumni of '''P'''rinceton.

* The Scripps institute makes regular use of a '''Fl'''oating '''I'''nstrument '''P'''latform in oceanographic research. The FLIP is a non-powered ship which the Navy tugs out to sea, where it ''flips'' 90 degrees, leaving one end sticking up above the surface and achieving perfect stability in the roughest weather.

** '''S'''tupid '''W'''ork & '''A'''ction '''T'''eam.

** '''S'''orry, '''w'''e '''a'''ren't '''t'''rained.