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The REAL Meaning of those Acronyms
We have all seen them from CIA, FBI, NASA, MI5, MI6, CSA, through to CPU and RAM. Now the REAL meaning of those Acronyms or
what you really think they should mean.
There have been many such 'real' meanings to airlines and other industries over the years. See what you think of these -
| Acronym |
Meaning (or common meaning) |
| WWW |
Willy Waving Wars
(old and common saying about website designers) |
| UPS |
Unified Parcel Shredding |
| BT |
Bloody Thieves
Bloody Tortuous
(when trying to get hold of the RIGHT call center) |
| DFS |
Does not Finish Sale
(mainly UK furniture warehouse with never ending sales TV adverts) |
WAGN
(a UK railway company) |
We Are Going Nowhere
(as reported in many places) |
| CSA |
Complete Screwup Authority |
| XP |
eXtra Price
eXtra Pretentious
eXtra Problems
(note changing the first word to 'HIGH' could be true for HP) |
| VISTA |
Very Insensitive Sexual Training of Aardvarks |
| RAM |
Really Awful Mess |
Windows 7 |
Not really acronyms but close, mainly customer comments
Seven time as long to start up.
Seven more pop up windows to open documents.
Seven times as many annoying wizards.
Seven more nags to do anything. |
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