A Pertinent Re-interpretation Of Normality Yielding More Sense
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| ACATAMATHESIA | Afflicted Can't Apprehend That Anything Means Anything, Though Has Every Sense - It's Absurd! |
Angela Brett |
| ACHE | Anybody Can Hurt Everywhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ACNE | Adolescents Can Not Escape |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| ANTHRAX (2) | And Now The Human Race ... Aaaaaarrrrggghh... Xpires |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ANTHRAX (3) | And Not Two Heads Rolled - All Xaggeration! |
Angela Brett, when only one person had died of anthrax in the USA but the whole world was paranoid about it. Military:War & Terrorism |
| AZOTURIA | Animal's Zone Of Trouble, Urine Really Is Abnormal |
Dustan Dowsing |
| BARF | Blasting Away Regurgitated Food |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BARF (2) | Begetting A Rainbow Fountain |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BEEF | BSE Endangered English Farms |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| BELLYACHE | By Eating Loads & Loads, You Ache Catastrophically, Heavy Emissions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BLIND | Blighted Lifetime In Neverending Darkness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BLOCKAGE (2) | Bottom's Lack Of Clearance Keeps All Garbage Enclosed? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BOTH BRAINCELLS KILLED | Bump On The Head Brings Really Awful Injuries, Now Can't Even Lift Legs. Some Knowledge Is Lost - Longterm Effect's Death. |
Angela Brett |
| BREAST CANCER | Bad Results, Endanger Adventures, Seizes Tomorrows. Cells Attacked, Never Ceasing, Enters Radiation. |
Jan Morgan - Lost a friend to it |
| BURN OUT | Become Useless; Requires No Official, Unusual Training |
Patricia Rix |
| CANCER (2) | Cell Apoptosis? Never! Choke Every Rival. |
Angela Brett |
| CANCER (3) | Cells Attacked, Never Ceasing, Enters Radiation |
Jan Morgan |
| CANCER (5) | Cancer Avoidance Needs Clever/Comprehensive Educational Resources |
Tony |
| CAN'T SEE | Cannot Actually Notice Things, Sadly 'Empty' Eyes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CAVITY | Causes A Variation In Troubles, Yuck |
Jan Morgan |
| CELL SITE | Children Exhibit Lack-Lustre Scores In Their Exams |
Steve Keate, thinking about the effect of cell sites being near schools. Communication |
| CHUNDER | Could Have Used Normal Digestive Enzymes, Really. |
Steve Keate |
| CLINICAL INFORMATION | Complete List (Including Nurses' Input) Chronicling A Lifetime's Illnesses, Notated For One's Resourceful Medical Ailment Team, Is Obviously Necessary |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CONSTIPATED | Can One Not Shift This Impacted Pile And Take Energising Dump? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CORN | Chiropodist's Obviously Really Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CORN (3) | Callous Often Requires Nursing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CRIPPLE | Corporeally Restricted Individual's Parts' Performance Lack Evenness |
TMcCO'G |
| CYST | Cavity - Yet Sore & Tender |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DIABETES | Disease Is Awful. Body Excretes (Tragically) Excess Sugar |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DIARRHOEA | Dashing In And Running Repeatedly, Hogging Outhouse, Evacuating Again. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DISABILITY | Doesn't Imply Stupidity... Affected Brain Isn't Limited In Thought, Y'know. |
Angela Brett |
| DISEASE | Damn I'm Sick! Excruciating Aches & Soreness Everywhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DISEASE (2) | Direly Incapacitated Situation - Each Ache Seems Endless! |
Patricia Rix |
| DYSLEXIA | Do You See Letters Extremely Xenotime In Appearance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DYSLEXIA (2) | Don't You Switch Language Even Xeroxed Interchanging Abilities |
Jan Morgan -- Transposes things in Reading, Spelling and Numbers like a mirror numbers and letters are switched or interchanged |
| DYSPEPSIA | Did Your Special Potluck Explode Perchance Soaking In Acid? |
Rico Leffanta |
| DYSPHASIA | Disturbs Your Speech Patterns - Has A Significant Impact, Apparently. |
Angela Brett |
| DYSTOCIA | Delivering Your Sprog Takes Obstetric Care In Abundance |
Angela Brett |
| EARACHE | Expensive Affair Requiring A Consultation - How Exasperating! |
Angela Brett, when she had to go to a doctor to get a prescription for her recurring ear infection. |
| EPSOM SALT (3) | Everyone Please Stay Off My Salted, Aching, Little Toe |
Charlie Drugs |
| FAINT | Feel(s) As If Not There |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| FROG IN THROAT | False Ribbits One Gets If Needing The Health Resources Otorhinolaryngologists Assent To |
Angela Brett |
| FUZZY | Felt Unduly Zig-Zaggy Yesterday |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FUZZY (2) | Food Undergoing Zippy Zymurgy Yesterday |
Rico Leffanta |
| GIMP | Gait Isn't Mighty Pretty |
Tony McCoy O'Hyphen |
| GLASS (3) | Get Lacerated As Some Shatters |
Angela Brett |
| HANGOVER | How Agonizing! Not Good! Oh, Vengeful Elixir Residue! |
Roger Williams Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| HEARTBURN | Having Eaten Amazingly Rapidly, Then Begrudgingly Undergo Restless Night |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HELP ME GO PEE | Have Especially Large Prostate? Maybe Envisioning Gently Oscillating Pond'll Ease Embarrassment. |
Angela Brett, after somebody searched for that phrase on the website. Other unsuccessful searches are now listed at http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches |
| HERNIA | Hurts Excruciatingly! Really Needs Immediate Attention |
Angela Brett |
| HERNIA (2) | Hurtful Erruptions Requiring Nursing, In Abdomen |
Bern Dell |
| HOSPITAL | House Of Sick Patients Itching Their Amputated Limbs |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| HURT | Have Undiagnised Repugnant Troubles |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HURTS TO BE A CARRIER | However Unafflicted, Relaying This Sickness To Others Becomes Equally A Curse... Always Remembering Risk, I'm Etiologic Recluse. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. |
| ILL | Invalid Lies Lethargically |
Angela Brett |
| ILL (2) | Is Laid Low |
Roger Williams |
| IMPOSSIBLE (2) | Insomniac Mrs. Pleads, "Oh, Stop Snoring!" Instead Bringing Louder Explosions. |
Angela Brett (some people won't stop snoring no matter what you do!) Assorted Adjectives |
| IMPOTENT | I Mightn't Perform On Time Every Night, Temptress! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| INDIGESTION | Ignore Nutty Diets. If Good Eating Suggestions Taken, It's Obviated Normally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| INSOMNIA | I Need Sleep! Obviously My Nocturnal Inability's Annoying. |
Angela Brett |
| INSOMNIA (2) | I Never Slept One Minute - Now I'm Awake! |
Melanie Merswolke and Patricia Rix |
| ITCH | Irritation That Craves Hurt |
Angela Brett, since we get rid of an itching sensation by scratching and making it hurt instead. |
| ITCH (2) | Incredibly Troubling Cutaneous Hypersensitivity |
Word Nerd |
| LARYNGITIS | Lacking A Roundy Yoke Necessitates Gaps In Transmission - I'm Silenced. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after a teasing gap in a message. |
| LIMP | Lost Insert Member Prostrate |
Rico Leffanta |
| LIMP (2) | Leg In Much Pain. |
Roger Williams |
| MAMMOGRAM | Manipulate And Mash Melons - Oncologists Gather 'Round And Murmur. |
Angela Brett |
| MIGRAINE | My Insides Grumble Repeatedly And It Never Ends! |
Rico Leffanta |
| NAUSEA | Not Another Uneasy Seatrip, Evacuate Abdomen |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NAUSEA (2) | Nursing An Unhappy Stomach... Eaten Aasleagh. |
Angela Brett (see AASLEAGH) |
| OBESE | Oversized Bodies Exercising Seldom Enough |
Edwin Hermann |
| OOS | Out Of Service |
Angela Brett (OOS usually stands for Occupational Overuse Syndrome) |
| OSMIDROSIS | One Shower Monthly Isn't Decent... Remember, Our Sweat Is Smelly! |
Angela Brett |
| PACKRATITIS | Person Accumulating Crap; Keeps Really Ancient Things Indefinitely, Taking Infinite Storage. |
Gavin Lambert, explaining why he has so many old computers. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| PAIN | Prescribe Anaesthetic, It'll Numb. |
Angela Brett |
| PAIN (3) | Palpitations Ache In Neglect |
Jan Morgan |
| PAP SMEAR | Precaution Against Papilloma - Some Must Endure A Retest. |
Angela Brett, after reading http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992601 |
| PENGUIN | Pending Extinction - Not Going Up In Numbers |
Angela Brett, thinking of the Yellow-Eyed Penguin, although I don't know whether the numbers are going up or not. Science:Biology:Animals:Birds |
| PIMPLE | Please Ignore My Pained & Lumpy Epidermis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| PLAGUE | People Lying About Grotesquely... Uncountable Expiries. |
Angela Brett |
| PLANTARS WART | Painful Lesion Attacks Nascent Terrible Arch Region, Sponsors Worry As Reason, Tension |
Jan Morgan |
| PMS (2) | Pardon My Snippiness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PMS (3) | Pleasantness's Mighty Scarce |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PMS (5) | Pugnaciousness's My Speciality |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| POISON | Potion Once Ingested Surely Occasions Necrosis |
Roger Williams Drugs |
| PUKE | Partially Undigested Kilojoules Ejected |
Angela Brett |
| QUEASY | Quite Uneasy Emotion Assails Stomach, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RASH | Reaction Allergics Sometimes Have |
Angela Brett |
| RETARD | Really Exhausting To Attempt Reading Dictionary. |
Angela Brett |
| ROAD TRIP (2) | Result Of A Desire To Retch In Public? |
Angela Brett, thinking about carsickness Transport |
| SARS | Suddenly Airway's Restricted Somewhat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SARS (3) | Stop Agent's Rapid Spread! |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SARS (4) | Scientists Are Rapidly Strategising |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SICK | Stomach Is Curdled & Kaput |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SMELLY | Something Malodorous Exudes.... Lice'll Love You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SNEEZE | Snotty Nose Effortlessly Energising, Zinging Everywhere. |
Mary Carr |
| SNIFFLES | Stuffy Nose Initiates Feeling Fatigued, Leaking Excess Snot. |
Angela Brett |
| SOLICITING | Seeking Out Lustful Intercourse Can Induce Terrible Infections Near Genitals |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| SORE | Some Organ's Reddened & Excited |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SPASMS | Sharp Pain As Some Muscle Seizes |
Tony |
| SPASTIC | Slightly Palsied Athlete Specially To Intrigue Competitors |
Carl Brett |
| SPASTIC (2) | Slightly Palsied Athlete Specifically To Irritate Carl |
Carl Brett, probably referring to Angela |
| SPASTIC (3) | Such People Are Surely Talented... It's Cerebral! |
Angela Brett, on Cerebral Palsy. |
| SUNBURN | Shoving Unprotected Nude Bodyparts Under Rays. Nasty! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SWEET PEE | Sugary Wees Equals Endocrine Trouble... Pancreas's Effectiveness Ebbing |
Angela Brett, when Tony apologised for mistyping an 'a' instead of an 'e' in his SWEET PEA expansion. |
| THROW UP | Tummy, Having Rejected Offering, Will UpChuck Promptly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| THROMBOSIS | The Heart Rarely Outlives Massive Bloody Objects Stuck In Stream |
Bern Dell |
| THEATRE | The Hospital's Experts Amputate Threatened / Ruined Extremeties |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| VENEREAL DISEASE | Victim Enjoyed Numerous Erotic Relationships Evidently - And Long-Dreaded Itch Sometimes Ensues After Sexual Encounters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| VIRII | Violently Invasive - Readily Initiating Illnesses |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| VOMIT (2) | Viscous Odorous Mess - Ill Tummy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WARTS | Where A Rubbed Toad Shows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Old wives tales talk of catching warts from touching toads) |
| WART VIRUS | Worry Assures Rough Tags, Vicious Indignant Rough Ugly Surface |
Jan Morgan |
| WASP | Will Anaphylactic Shock Prevail? |
Angela Brett, thinking again of people who are allergic to wasp stings. Science:Biology:Insects |
| WASPS (2) | When Allergies Strike, People Suffer |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Insects |
| WASPS (3) | Without Adrenaline, Some People Succumb |
Angela Brett, thinking of people allergic to wasp stings. Science:Biology:Insects |
| WRYNECK | With Robin You Never Ever Come Kissing |
Rico Leffanta |
| YOU ARE SO HOT (2) | You Oughta Use Antibiotics... Reducing Every Symptom Obviously Helps One's Temperature. |
Angela Brett |
| TUBERCULOSIS | The Uneasy Breathing Erodes Resilience, Causing Unhurried Loss Of Strength In Sufferer. |
Angela Brett, when it was thought that Steve might have tuberculosis. |