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| 100% | AGES | Aeons, Generations, Epochs & Such? |
Angela Brett, after Edwin mentioned on the forums that he hadn't submitted an acronym for AGES and should be punished. I figured I'd better submit an acronym for AGES before anyone punished me! |
| 100% | AGES (2) | Approaching Geriatricity Every Second! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | AGES (3) | A Geriatric's Emailing Session! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after returning from a trip and finding that the backlog of emails took ages to download. |
| 100% | ANY TIME NOW | "And Next....", You Think, "... In Moments...". (Ensuring No Overlong Waiting) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ASAP (2) | Absolute Speeds _Are_ Possible! |
TMcCO'G - the query comes after a search for "SOONEST", so I presume it was a search for A S A P - As Soon As Possible. Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | AS SOON AS POSSIBLE | A Speedy Start, Only One Nanosecond As Strict Preference... Only Should Slow If Beloved's Life Ends. |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | A SUMMER DAY | A Shady Unspoilt Meadow Maybe? Everyone's Relaxed, Don't Activate Yourself |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | AT LAST | Acronym Times Letter Arrives Slightly Tardily |
Angela Brett, after The Acronym Times was very late due to her Mac being lost. |
| 100% | AT LAST (2) | Acronym Times (Long Awaited) Sent Today |
Angela Brett, after not updating the website and sending out THE ACRONYM TIMES for ages because of exams and assignments due. |
| 100% | BEN | Boings Evoke Newstime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Big Ben's chimes are used for the introduction to a UK TV news bulletin) Communication Places:Landmarks |
| 100% | BIT | Brief, Insignificant Time |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | CALENDAR | Complete Annual List, Entaililing Numerous Divisions And Rectangles |
Matthew Oram |
| 100% | CALENDAR (2) | Creation Actually Lists Every "Next Day". Annually Replaced. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | CLOCK | Circular Locomotion Offers Calendrical Key |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | CONTINUUM | Can One Not Think It's Never-beginning, Unending, Universal Miracle |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | CRETACEOUS | Colossal Reptiles Endured 'Til A Catastrophic Event Ousted Umpteen Species. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | CRETACEOUS (2) | Cosmic Rock Ended This Age, Causing Extinction On Unprecedented Scale |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | CRETACEOUS (3) | Chalky Rock's Evidence Tells About Creatures Experts Only Understand Slightly |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | CURFEW | Can't Understand Reason For Evening Wrecker |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DATE (2) | Designated As Temporal Event |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DAY | Dawn Arrives, Yes! |
Roger Williams |
| 95% | DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME | Dawn Arrives Yesterday, Like It Generally Has These Several Aeons. Very Irritating and Needless Gaffe Since There Isn't More Eveningtime. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DAYS | Daze At Year Start! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Hope these Rough DAYS do not lead to a Rough Year! Glad: not a drink over half my 58 year sojourn. No New Year Party for this Organic Vegan. |
| 100% | DUSK | Dawn's Undoing, Symmetry Kin. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ERAS | Events Rise And Shine |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | ETERNAL | Everlasting Truth, Eternally Right, Nuptials Always Lasting |
Jan Morgan People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | FORECAST | Focus On Real Events - Can't Accurately See Tomorrow |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GANT | Guess About Nebulous Timescales |
Jonathan Staniford (see GANTT) |
| 100% | GANTT | Graph Allocating Necessary Tasks & Timescales |
Angela Brett, after a workmate mistakenly referred to a Gantt chart as a 'GANT'. The Gantt chart is named after Charles Gantt, and is not an acronym. |
| 100% | GANTT (2) | Generally Always Need Triple Time |
Angela Brett (see GANTT) |
| 100% | GANTT (3) | Guesstimates Almost Never The Truth |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GANTT (4) | Generate Arbitrary Net Total Time |
Jonathan Staniford |
| 100% | GANTT (5) | Generous Approximations, No Tiny Target |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GANTT (6) | Generating Appropriate Notation Takes Time |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GOOD DAY | Generosity Of Others Definitely Does Affect You |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases People & Relationships |
| 100% | GOODNIGHT | Goodness Oh Oh Dear Now Its Going Home Time |
Messy Eater, During a conversation Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | GREAT DAY | General Revelry - Everyone's Agreed That Diversions Aren't Yawnful |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GREAT YEAR | Get Ready, Everyone, As Tony's Year Exceeds All Records! |
Angela Brett, on Tony's birthday. |
| 100% | GREGORIAN | Genius Reorganised Everything, Greatly Organising Rearrangements In Annual Notation |
TMcCO'G |
| 88% | GREGORY | God's Roman Envoy Gave us Our Rearranged Year |
TMcCO'G Names:Famous people |
| 100% | HALT (2) | Have A Little Time |
Angela noticed that part of the title of a song by Dido forms an unintentional (I assume) apronym. |
| 100% | LATER | Last Alligator To Exit, Repeats |
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of "see you later, alligator", though why the last alligator would say this to an empty room escapes me) Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| 100% | MEDIEVAL | Many Existed Dreadfully In European Villages - Abject & Low |
TMcCO'G History |
| 100% | MESOZOIC ERA | Magical Era, Something Only Zoologists Or Impetuous Children Ever Really Appreciate |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | MIDNIGHT | My, It's Dark! Now I'm Getting Horribly Tired. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MILLENNIUM | Mixup Is Looking Likely - Each Notational Nitwit Is Ultimately Mistaken! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, insisting that the new millennium - a period of 1000 years - will not begin on New Year's Day 2000, rather will it be on New Year's Day 2001! |
| 100% | MILLENNIUM (2) | My, It's Long! Lavish Empires Newlyformed & Neutralised In Uno Millennium. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MINUTES OF USE | My! I've Now Used This Eighty Seconds - Only Forty Under Suggested Extent. |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR | Nifty, Innovative, and Notoriously Effective Television Event Endorses Nonstandard Engineering of Insanely Great Hardware That You Feel Obliged to Use Recurringly. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, referring to the famous '1984' television commercial introducing the Macintosh. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | NITES | Nites Involving Tossing/Turning Eliminated / Surely! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | NOW | No Obvious Waiting |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NOW (2) | No Onerous Waiting! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NOW (3) | Near Oriented "When" |
Gavin Lambert |
| 100% | ONCE IN A WHILE | Occasionally - Not Consecutively, Erratic In Nature And Without Having Identifiable Lapse Episodes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | PASSING TIME | Pausing As Seconds Slide Into Nothing, Going Toward Inevitable Mind's-End |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | PAST AND PRESENT | Previous And Subsequent Times Are Naturally Distinguished - Previous's Remembering, Experiencing's Subsequent. Extempore, Now's Then. |
Angela Brett, who wishes she could think of a better word than 'Subsequent' |
| 100% | PAUSE | Plainly A Uniquely Short Easement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PAYDAY | Perfect, As Your Debts Arrived Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PHASE | Periodic Happenings Around Some Event |
TMcCO'G |
| 88% | SABBATH | Seventh-days Are Biblically Beheld As Totally Holy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | SCHEDULE | Some Classes Hard, Each Day Undertaking Lessons Earnestly |
Robert Anonymous Education |
| 100% | SEC | Serial Event Constant |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SEC (2) | Short, Extremely/Evidently/Emotionally Convenient/Confining! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SOON! | Shortly Or Otherwise Never! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SOONEST | Speediest Option's Often Needed, Extremely Slow's Tortuous |
TMcCO'G |
| 89% | SPACE AGE | Shuttle Pilotted by Aging Chap - Everybody Admires Great Explorers. |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SPARE TIME | Some Pastimes: Acronymising, Reading, Eating, Tweaking Important MacOS Elements... |
Angela Brett, who rather likes ResEdit ;^) |
| 100% | STARK NIGHT | Sun's Taking A Rest? Know-Nothings Imagine God's Hidden That |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SUNRISE | Sun's Up Now, Resulting In Sleep Ending. |
Roger Williams Science:Astronomy Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | SUNSET | Sun Unseen Now Signifying Evening Time. |
Roger Williams Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SUNSET (2) | Sun's Unseen Now, Since Earth's Turning |
TMcCO'G Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | SWATCH | Swiss Watches Aren't Too Costly Here |
Angela Brett (while most brands of Swiss watch are ridiculously expensive, Swatch makes watches that are more generally affordable, and sometimes even digital! Call me primitive but I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.) Science:Electronics Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | SYNODIC | Shouldn't You Now Omit Day In Calendar? |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | TOO LATE | The Opening's Over - Like All Things Eventually |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TODAYS (2) | Time's Onceness Declares Against Your Structure |
TMcCO'G - I accept that one can have more than one "yesterday" and also more than one "tomorrow", but surely there can be only one 'today", as it is a 'now' thing and therefore a 'once-only offer'. (There used to be a TV programme called "All Our Yesterdays", and Shakespeare wrote "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow".) |
| 100% | TODAYS | "That's" Out-Dated After Yesterday's Sunset |
TMcCO'G |
| 91% | TIMETABLES | They Impede My Education - Trying to Add Blimin' Lectures Exasperates Students. |
Angela Brett, who is annoyed at how difficult it is to take more than two papers at a time without having timetable clashes. Education |
| 100% | TIME SAVERS | These Innovative Machines Enable Someone Avoid Valuable Energy / Resource Squandering |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Electronics |
| 100% | TIMER | Timer Increments Minute Entities Repeatedly |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Electronics |
| 80% | TIME (8) | The Infinite Measure of Existence |
Robert Anonymous |
| 100% | TIME (7) | Ticking In Motion Evolves |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | TIME (6) | Temporal Illusion Measured Exactly |
Bruce Siegel |
| 100% | TIME (5) | Trust In Memory Expansion! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Speaking about my ability as an apronymist. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | TIME (4) | Transitory. Imminent: Measureless Eternity! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | TIME (3) | To Invent More Expansions |
Angela Brett, when she didn't have any Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | TIME (2) | This Is My Entry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela said 'give me time!' and he did. |
| 100% | TIME | This Is My Expertise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who can do ALMOST ANYTHING, given TIME and ENCOURAGEMENT. |
| 100% | TIDE | Then It Does Ebb. |
Roger Williams Science:Astronomy Places:Waterways |
| 100% | TICK TOCK | Time Is Counting Kisses Total Omits Candy Kisses |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | THIRTY = FRIENDS! | Thirty (Halves {Initial = Remotest - Two} Year) = Four (Regeneration Increases!) + Eleven + Nine Down + Six! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Sum 30-Day Month Numbers: 4(April)+6(June)+9(September)+11(November)=10+20=30 (!) One of my original discoveries when I was less than 45. (Halves {Initial = Remotest - Two} Year): First Half of Year ==>(Initial=4) = (Remotest=6) - 2. Last Half of Year ==>(Initial=9) = (Remotest=11) - 2."Four (Regeneration Increases!) Spring starts late in Three (21 March 2003 in N. Hemisphere)." "Nine\Down\ Down!=Fall! in September." Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE | To Honour Eve, Youngsters Expect Annual Revelry Or Feasts That Help Enhance Some New Asp Kissing Escapades |
Rico Leffanta (Tet - the Chinese New Year 'The Year of The Snake' commences when Bush takes office, January 20, 2001) Politics |
| 100% | TENS (2) | Thirty = Eleven + Nineteen. September! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Thirty days in September. 3 TENS! Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| 100% | TEMPUS FUGIT | Time's Ever Moving (Picking Up Speed?) Fill Underused Gaps In Time! |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | T'DAY | The Day After Yesterday |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | WATCH | Wrist-Attached Timer Counting Hours |
Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Science:Electronics Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | WATCH (2) | Wrist Attached Timepiece Chimes Hourly |
Jan Morgan Science:Electronics Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 100% | WEEK? | Weak? Enervated Energy! Kindness! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Rough WEEK? |
| 100% | TWOS | To/Time (Wonderful October) Standard! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. TWOS! set: {Standard Time, Daylight Time} Science:Mathematics:Numbers |