Anyone ever play Acrophobia? It was a game run by the same people that did You Dont Know Jack online. It involved getting a 3-8 random letter sequence, and a topic, then having to come up with an acronym. Once the round ended, people voted on their favorite, and thats how points were awarded.

Any search for it on Google ends in endless "clan" pages and links to long dead dot coms that seemed to pass the game around.

(I was reminded of this with the acronym guesses going on recently on the BBS)

Well let's do it here. Here's the first one:

M.A.A.O.O.T
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I'll go first.....

Make An Acronymn Out Of This

That was easy. Who's next?

The game was on http://www.won.net. I think they took it down (along with all the other online games) when they merged with http://www.flipside.com.

Best pseudo-acronymic example I ever saw was this:

PCMCIA..... People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms



tanstaafl.

yup, that's one of my all-time favorites.

Along with:

SCSI... System Can't See It.

What is a pseudo-acronymn?

SCAM = SCSI Configured Auto Magicially

And thats what is actually is too, adding to the humor of it .

my favorite:

TLA: Three Letter Acronym

Some of my favorites are the car bashing ones:

AUDI - Automobile Unsafe Designs, Inc.
BUICK - Big, Ugly, Import Car Killer
CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips
DODGE - Drips Oil, Drips Gas Everywhere
FIAT - Fix It Again Tony
FORD - Found On Road Dead
FORD - Fix Or Repair Daily
FORD LTD - Found on road dying, Left to die.
GEO - Good Engineering Overlooked
JEEP - Junk Engineered Executed Poorly
OLDS - Old Ladies Driving Slowly
PONTIAC - Pours Out Noxious Toxins In American Cities
PORSCHE - Proof Only Rich Suckers Can Have Everything
SAAB - Sad Attempt At Beauty
SAAB - Sorry Auto, Always Broken
SUBARU - Screwed up beyond all repair usually

my favorite mock of a car name:

SUBARU = U R A Bus (backwards)

All this reminds me of all the 'Prince of Darkness' jokes.....

Assuming you also remember Joe Lucas of course

'Prince of Darkness' jokes.....

Q: Why do the English drink warm beer?

A: Lucas refrigerators.

tanstaafl.