I always preferred FUBAR

I'm partial to BLOMI

I remember reading years ago about some government agency forming a service to be called Coastal Recovery and patrol... until someone realized what the acronym would be........

Then there's the South Lake Union Trollery

There was a locked thread close to the beginning. I don't remember the details but I remember some overzealous moderator jumping the gun and the thread being reopened after some mild general outcry.

There are currently 27 locked threads. 18 of which were purely adminstrative threads that had served their purpose. 2 were locked for humor-related reasons. 1 was spam (not sure why we didn't just delete it). 1 is the original random political thoughts thread, ironically closed by iSm because he was annoyed that topics weren't getting their own threads.

That leaves 5 threads closed due to "personality conflicts" or similar unpleasantness.

Have fun searching, Kevy and Moonliner!

Here's the first one (administrative and temporally):
http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?t=2

I like STFU - it should be pronounced STUFF-YOU - which gets the point across nicely I think.

The acronym, initialism, abbreviation debate takes me back to a bad place. A place in time where a very large web site (no, not MousePlanet) made the decision to be completely screen reader compliant and therefore we had to appropriately tag every one on our site so a screen reader would know to say I R S and not urz. Or to say nafta instead of N A F T A.

Whole meetings spend on edge cases (yes, the myth of the hyper-efficient megacorporation is just that) where something started out as an initialism but was moving into acronym land (IRA). Or has it moved so far from its roots that the average person no longer even knows it was an acronym (such as laser) and is now just a word.

And much wailing and gnashing of teeth over TIAA-CREF, JPEG, SFMOMA, and (the first half of each are initialisms, the second acronyms).

Eventually we just took the easy way out and killed all the lawyers making us do the useless exercise (since most screen readers, even when being told to read SQL as an acronym still didn't know how to pronounce it).

How could I forget my favorite intialism: SYFFITF