#502 - And an' Acronym Here, and an' Acronym There...

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IcyMidnight

Submitted by IcyMidnight on February 28, 2011 - 1:50am.

Nice!

sindre.sandvik

Submitted by sindre.sandvik on February 28, 2011 - 1:59am.

Very nice, it made my day...

tudza

Submitted by tudza on February 28, 2011 - 2:53am.

Then there's the Welsh version

Old McDonald had a farm

L Y L Y W

Arlo James Barnes

Submitted by Arlo James Barnes on October 30, 2012 - 11:54pm.

Leveraging Yearly Lentil Yield Wastelessly?
Because Wales is famous for it's [possessive] lentil bumper crops.

samuli

Submitted by samuli on February 28, 2011 - 3:05am.

E-I-E-I-O. Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O. (Assembly mnemonic for an operation on PowerPC processors.)

That can't be anything but deliberate either :D

OneUniverse

Submitted by OneUniverse on February 28, 2011 - 5:25am.

Here's to thinking outside the box! Good goin', JAM.

miasaki666

Submitted by miasaki666 on February 28, 2011 - 5:39am.

Oh, JAMMIE. you never fail to impress. XD

pixelpixie

Submitted by pixelpixie on February 28, 2011 - 9:01am.

Haha! This made my morning.

Emanresu

Submitted by Emanresu on February 28, 2011 - 10:03am.

That's amazing if it was spontaneous.

bekah

Submitted by bekah on February 28, 2011 - 11:55am.

This made my day. Thanks Jam <3

SamN

Submitted by SamN on February 28, 2011 - 1:51pm.

I knew that acronyms were created purposfuly so that they were funhy/an actuall word.

BobIsAPerson

Submitted by BobIsAPerson on February 28, 2011 - 5:48pm.

This is why I should never be allowed to name things or approve names of things. Customers would eventually realize I was making fun of them pretty mercilessly. Cleverness would be rewarded. Snarky cleverness doubly so.

Fuseblower

Submitted by Fuseblower on March 1, 2011 - 3:57am.

Yes... reminds me of something we got from Philips years ago when they first started making vidicon picture pickup tubes - the precursor to the CCD devices that are now ubiquitous. These produced rather variable amounts of visible noise, and even on a good one you used to get strange noise artefacts around the edge. When we asked the Philips engineers about this, they cheerily replied "Oh don't worry about that, it's just parc noise".

Not wishing to appear too daft, we just accepted that without too much enquiry of them, and went away to look it up. Needless to say we couldn't find any reference to it at all. So eventually we went back a little sheepishly and asked them what it was. They confessed that honestly they didn't know. So to stop customers asking too many questions, they just gave it a suitable name and reversed it...

Arlo James Barnes

Submitted by Arlo James Barnes on October 30, 2012 - 11:51pm.

Or it could refer in a derogatory way to the XEROX PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), although I never noticed the reverse pattern...bet it has significance. :P

TephaAnne