Comments on: Sure happy it’s Thursday

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:38 +0000

Them’s fightin’ words, McGehee…

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:02 +0000

A Coming Acronym Shortage in the United States could contribute to Backronym Ennui and Lots of Little Idiocies.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:34:04 +0000

What I lack in originality, I make up for in predictability.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:13:14 +0000

How did I know that was going to be a Futurama link?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:06:40 +0000

Down Route 66 a tad is Southern Nazarene University, which is almost universally referred to as SNU, pronounced "snoo." No relation to this.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:29:58 +0000

OH! I just remembered another one.

One of my friends in high school was planning on going to Southern Methodist. She used to wear an SMU sweatshirt a lot. One night, we were having study group in the library, and one of our other friends was asking her about it – she wasn’t familiar with SMU.

“Where is it?” she asked.

“It’s in Texas, near Dallas.”

“Well, if it’s in Texas, why doesn’t it use a T in its acronym? You know, S…M…U… *nevermind*”

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:13:10 +0000

One of the great letdowns of my young life was finding out that the college in Huntsville, Texas was never actually called the Sam Houston Institute of Technology.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:55:50 +0000

In my high school intro bio class, we had what the teacher entitled Scavenger Hunt In Taxonomy. Almost no one got it, it was pretty beautiful to let people in on the joke and see understanding dawn on their faces.

However, it was an inappropriate acronym, as it was actually one of the more fun and interesting assignments in the class.