Fun with Acronyms/Web Original

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Examples of Fun with Acronyms in Web Original works include:

  • The British Army has an unofficial website and forum called the ARmy Rumour SErvice.
  • Fairly Aimless RPG Talk Show.
  • This gay rights blog, Good As You.
  • Michael Swaim does this regularly when he writes for Cracked. His column is titled Slander Without Any Inherent Meaning, and every video he makes a new meaning for his name. Presumably it started because he repeatedly refers to himself as a "host-droid".
  • This part of the RA3 Paradox Mod Wiki
  • The League of Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparitional Management ("Serving All Your Supernatural Elimination Needs Since 1884")
  • The titular operation in Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors-KIMIA is Kalium (potassium) Iodide Missing In Action. Doubles as Bilingual Bonus.
  • This is how Tammy sells the Wii Fit to The Nostalgia Chick and Nella. She says that the Fit stands for Food Is Tasty.
  • Averted in The Dangers of Ecstasy episode of The Fantastic Favio Bros. MaCavio states that the "Horribly Illegal Drug Smuggling Operation" is addressed as Hidso, which means absolutely nothing.
  • Double Whammy for the ChildCare Action Project, an inappropriately smug Christian movie-rating site. First we have the name itself, and then there's the scoring system the guy uses: each movie is judged based on the six categories of sin, Wanton Violence/Crime, Impudence/Hate, Sexual Immorality, Drugs/Alcohol, Offense To God, and Murder/Suicide. Just for added awkwardness, he coined his own rating, "R(estricted)-13" for movies that get an MPAA rating of "PG-13" but score like an "R" on his arbitrary system.
  • Mark Gottlieb parodies this in one of his Magic: The Gathering.Combos articles with the League of Villainy & Evil and Heroes Against Tyranny & Evil.
  • The League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions shortened to LICC & their evil counterparts were the King's Interstellar Lethal Legionnaires or KILL.
  • Probably unintentional, but TV Tropes (and ourselves) itself has the "Truth in Television" page...
    • An example on this very wiki: Now that the trope originally called Takahashi Couple has finally settled on the name "Belligerent Sexual Tension", try combining it with the more-established "Unresolved Sexual Tension" to create a single phrase.
    • Another example is how Fame And Reputation Tropes is F.A.R.T.
    • Don't forget SPOON, FORKS, KNIVES, and PLATTER.
  • On a livejournal post in the metaquotes community,someone attempting to avoid words such as "LOL" or "ROLFMAO" uses the acronym "THIS POST HAS ME HOLDING MY SIDES TOGETHER WITH MY HANDS WHILE ROCKING IN A BACK AND FORTH MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND HOWLING WITH DUBIOUS AMOUNTS OF LAUGHTER. SO MUCH SO, THAT I AM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR AT THIS MOMENT WHILE MY ASS SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN OFF ON ITS OWN. COULD YOU GET THAT FOR ME?" which means "Truly, Honestly, I Say, Presentation Of Such Terrifically Humorous And Stupendously Merry Electronic Hilarity On Line Does Incite Notably Great Mirth, You See; I Dare Even Say The Overwhelming Giggling Energy This Has Elicited Really Will Imminently Topple Headfirst Me, Your Humble Author, Nearly Down Stairs Whooping Heartily In Laughter, Erstwhile Roused Off Chair Kneeslapping In Nickering Glee, I Need Add, But Actually Collapsing Kinetically Atop Nearby Dirty Floor Or Rug To Hold My Oscillating Tummy; Indeed, Outrageous Noises Of Nasal Tittering Here Exude From Lips Of One Reader As Nobody Dares Hear -- O What Laughter Is Nigh, Gods, What In The Hell Does Unearthly Be In Our Universe So As Makes Our Unworthy Names The Students Of Funny Literature As Uttered Gaily Here To Enlighten Readers. Some Others May, Unmoved, Claim Humor Seems Omitted; Those Half Addled Twits I'd Argue Madmen, Rubes, Or Lousy Liars -- I'm Not Guilty Of Naysaying This Hilarity, Extremely Funny, Like One Old Rabbi And Twenty Tall Hirsute Ichthyologists Slapping Ministers Of Military Espionage Nine Times With Haddock In Lichtenstein Every Monday, Yes, Always Slapping, Slapping, Slapping Early Every Monday, So Thoroughly, Oh Ho, And Verily Equally Funny As Loopy Llamas Emitting Nitrous Oxide, Funny, Funny, Oh Nuts, I'm Talking Scads Of Wacky Nonsense. Comedy Overwhelms Us; Laugh, Damn Ye, Or Undertake, Gentility Entreats Thee, To Have All The Fairness Of Reattaching My End?"
  • Interestingly enough, BUMP, which is to bring up a post to the front page from the 2nd or so forth page, on the forums, it actually stands for BRING UP MY POST.
  • Starship has the Galactic League of Extraterrestrial Exploration. this leads to a Take That in act two. This is made even funnier if you know that the composer of the show's music is on Glee

Up: Damn that G.L.E.E. They make twisted abominations out of everything!

  • Jesse Cox, which no longer stands for "OMFG + Catacylsm", is now a backronym for "One Moderately Funny Gamer", despite the fact that Jesse frequently collaborates with other people.
  • TGC (The Gungan Council) uses tons of acronyms for things like TPM (The Phantom Menace), TSC (The Sith Council), OMH (Oh my Hawk), PLOTS (Pink Lord of the Sith), and many more.
  • One of Nigahiga's videos involves the Agents of Secret Stuff, enemies of the Society Involving Not-so-good Stuff. The main character is an A.S.S. trying to get his H.O.L.E.
  • Christmas means the arrival of Something Awful Secret Santa exchanges, the only time SASS-ing a moderator isn't bannable. There's also the Pet Island[1] Secret Santa.
    • Someone in the Homestuck thread wanted a book version of Andrew Hussie's robotic rap battle comic And It Don't Stop. Combine that with the running gag of referring to things by their initials and you get "Andrew, please give us AIDS! Wait, that didn't sound right..."
  • In the Whateley Universe, it turns out that Goodkind International once named their 'health snack foods' project M.A.I.R.D. And how do you pronouce the French word for 'shit'?
  • The description of the "AbuseFilter" plug-in for MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia, Wikia, and All The Tropes, describes it as a tool for detecting and controlling unconstructive "Actions By Users, Such as Edits".
  • The League of STEAM (Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparition Management); their clockwork cyborg girl is named R.O.S.E. (Reanimate Optimized Search Engine); their net gun (it fires a net that encircles the target) is called the H.U.G. (Hunting Utility Gun).
  • The french Kingdom Hearts parody Kingdom Paf play this for laugh by having the major Antagonists working together as the "C.I.A", which in this version means "Confération Internationale des Enfoirés" ("International Conferation of Bastards" in french). When Dora points out that "Enfoirés" is supposed to be written with a "E" instead of a "A", his allies merely answer this proves how dumbass the villains are.
  • (The Customer is) Not Always Right has this gem: ‘Push When Ringing’.
  • Snarky UK-based I.T. news site The Register has backformed the British slang term "tits up" (meaning "dead" or "out of commission") into an acronym for "Total Inability To Support Usual Performance", at least when applied to computing service providers.
  • Freedom of Information requests from Delilah Cormorant on whatdotheyknow.com - they caught it only after the tenth. Her concerns were extended to such diverse and strangely worded subjects as:
    1. Coventry University Nine Term Students
    2. Cabinet Office Canteen Kitchen Supplies
    3. West And North Kent
    4. Bath University Government Grants Evaluation Request
    5. Staff Hearing Industrial Tribunals
    6. Falmouth University College Kitchens
    7. Bus Operators' Luggage Limits On Corby-Kettering Services
    8. Thames Water Added Trace Substances
    9. Tabulated Oxfordshire Social Services Early Retirement Statistics
    10. Applications Rejected Seeking Excessive House Of Lords Expenses
  • "Internet of Things" is sometimes expanded by its detractors to "Insecure, Dangerous Internet of Things". Alternatively, one may helpfully point out that the "S" in "IoT" stands for "Security".
  • Crash Override Network (mocked on Gamergate subReddit as a Freudian Slip).
  • Red Cube dubbed PRISM "Proletarian Review of Information in Social Media".
  • The award "Weekly Top Fractal" (from All-Fractal-Art group on Deviant ART) usually is referred by the acronym. It's rather apt for fractal art, indeed (in case you didn't see any yet, half the point of this pastime is a variation of "That Cloud Looks Like..." with more ready input and more degrees of freedom in how it can look).
  • This instalment of the Bastard Operator From Hell reveals that the BOFH is a member of the Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.
  • In the Reincarnation Fantasy Isekai web novel Tori Transmigrated by "Aila Aurie", the title character wins two Imperial-quality carriages from second Prince Gideon of the Empire of Soleil (whom she dislikes), from his loss on a Side Bet. Once they're delivered, she names them "SIG 1" and "SIG 2", but refuses to explain to her friends what the names mean. From her private thoughts the readers learn that "SIG" stands for "Suck It, Gideon".
  1. ↑ the pets and animals section
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