Posted February 03, 2015
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The Backronym Mania! (Giveaway)
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SECOND ROUND: Please jump to <span class="bold">this post</span> if you already have submitted a backronym.
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Get ready to put your creativity to the test in this unique giveaway!
We all know what an acronym is, it's a word derived from the initial letters of a phrase or an expression. For example, GOG was once an acronym for "Good Old Games".
Here are 20 well known acronyms:
▪ Scuba: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
▪ Radar: RAdio Detection And Ranging
▪ Laser: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
▪ PIN: Personal Identification Number
▪ UFO: Unidentified Flying Object
▪ HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
▪ CPU: Central Processing Unit
▪ LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
▪ CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
▪ Flops: FLoating-point Operations Per Second
▪ HTML: HyperText Markup Language
▪ FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
▪ OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
▪ NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
▪ FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
▪ CIA: Central Intelligence Agency
▪ SWAT: Special Weapons And Tactics
▪ NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
▪ USA: United States of America
▪ Benelux: BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXembourg
When an acronym is created to fit an existing word or name, it's called a "<span class="bold">backronym</span>". For example, the name "Ford" (named after Henry Ford) has received the backronym "First On Race Day", but also "Fix Or Repair Daily".
Here are 10 official backronyms:
▪ :</span> <i><span class="podkreslenie">B</span>ox <span class="podkreslenie">O</span>f <span class="podkreslenie">O</span>rganized <span class="podkreslenie">K</span>nowledge</i> ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess]Anthony Burgess)
▪ Sad: Seasonal Affective Disorder
▪ Kiss: Keep It Simple, Stupid
▪ Basic: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
▪ TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name
▪ Veronica: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives
▪ Jughead: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
▪ Spectre: SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion
▪ Adidas: All Day I Dream About Sports
▪ Wine: Wine Is Not an Emulator
And some funny ones:
▪ Acronym: Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory
▪ MacIntosh: Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs
▪ Windows: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
▪ Amiga: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
▪ Bing: Because It’s Not Google
▪ Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
▪ Golf: Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
Now, here's your challenge:
With your "own" user name, create a "coherant" backronym of your choice. If your name includes punctuation characters, ignore them. If it contains numbers, treat them as common words (e.g. "One" instead of 1, "Five" instead of 5).
For example, let's pretend that your user name is "User". With these five letters, you could end up with something like "USeless Example of Reality".
To help you in your brainstorming, here are three online backronym generators:
▪ <span class="bold">JogLab's Word Finder</span>
▪ <span class="bold">NameAcronym.net</span>
▪ <span class="bold">Arthur Dick's Backronym Generator</span>
And two websites for your inspiration:
▪ <span class="bold">TV Tropes: Fun with Acronyms</span>
▪ <span class="bold">All Acronyms: 118 Funny acronyms and abbreviations</span>
Here are my own backronyms:
▪ Slaugh: Slaugh is Launching Another Unusual Giveaway! Hurray! (recursive backronym)
▪ Slaugh: Secret League Against Uncontrollable Gaming Habits
The Rules:
1) Try your best to find the perfect backronym for your user name. You must submit a different backronym for each round.
2) A minimum rep of 30 is required to enter.
3) Choose up to 5 games from the following list and put them in order of preference. You can only win one game per round.
4) These games are for your personal use only. Trading and regifting are not allowed.
5) You can enter for someone else who has previously share his/her backronym.
6) You can edit your post or update your list at any time.
7) After a few days, I'll choose a bunch of winners with the help of Random.org, and another round will start with the remaining games.
8) Ladies only: Post any forum link that proves that you're a woman and receive an extra chance of winning. This is my gift for the Valentine's Day!
Additional challenges:
► There is currently no challenge, but the giveaway is still alive!
Previous challenge: (won by DProject)
Here's the fun part! I'm the proud owner of a cat! The first one who gives me her name instantly wins all the games from his/her list (up to 5), and is still eligible for normal draws.
To qualify, you must post your backronym first. Please submit only one guess a day. Every day, I'll give you a clue until the right name is finally found...
First clue: It's a 12 years old female <span class="bold">Korat</span>, and I've put her photo as an attachment.
...
_____________________________________________________________________
SECOND ROUND: Please jump to <span class="bold">this post</span> if you already have submitted a backronym.
_____________________________________________________________________
Get ready to put your creativity to the test in this unique giveaway!
We all know what an acronym is, it's a word derived from the initial letters of a phrase or an expression. For example, GOG was once an acronym for "Good Old Games".
Here are 20 well known acronyms:
▪ Scuba: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
▪ Radar: RAdio Detection And Ranging
▪ Laser: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
▪ PIN: Personal Identification Number
▪ UFO: Unidentified Flying Object
▪ HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
▪ CPU: Central Processing Unit
▪ LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
▪ CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
▪ Flops: FLoating-point Operations Per Second
▪ HTML: HyperText Markup Language
▪ FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
▪ OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
▪ NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
▪ FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
▪ CIA: Central Intelligence Agency
▪ SWAT: Special Weapons And Tactics
▪ NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
▪ USA: United States of America
▪ Benelux: BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXembourg
When an acronym is created to fit an existing word or name, it's called a "<span class="bold">backronym</span>". For example, the name "Ford" (named after Henry Ford) has received the backronym "First On Race Day", but also "Fix Or Repair Daily".
Here are 10 official backronyms:
▪ :</span> <i><span class="podkreslenie">B</span>ox <span class="podkreslenie">O</span>f <span class="podkreslenie">O</span>rganized <span class="podkreslenie">K</span>nowledge</i> ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess]Anthony Burgess)
▪ Sad: Seasonal Affective Disorder
▪ Kiss: Keep It Simple, Stupid
▪ Basic: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
▪ TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name
▪ Veronica: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives
▪ Jughead: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
▪ Spectre: SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion
▪ Adidas: All Day I Dream About Sports
▪ Wine: Wine Is Not an Emulator
And some funny ones:
▪ Acronym: Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory
▪ MacIntosh: Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs
▪ Windows: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
▪ Amiga: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
▪ Bing: Because It’s Not Google
▪ Navy: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
▪ Golf: Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
Now, here's your challenge:
With your "own" user name, create a "coherant" backronym of your choice. If your name includes punctuation characters, ignore them. If it contains numbers, treat them as common words (e.g. "One" instead of 1, "Five" instead of 5).
For example, let's pretend that your user name is "User". With these five letters, you could end up with something like "USeless Example of Reality".
To help you in your brainstorming, here are three online backronym generators:
▪ <span class="bold">JogLab's Word Finder</span>
▪ <span class="bold">NameAcronym.net</span>
▪ <span class="bold">Arthur Dick's Backronym Generator</span>
And two websites for your inspiration:
▪ <span class="bold">TV Tropes: Fun with Acronyms</span>
▪ <span class="bold">All Acronyms: 118 Funny acronyms and abbreviations</span>
Here are my own backronyms:
▪ Slaugh: Slaugh is Launching Another Unusual Giveaway! Hurray! (recursive backronym)
▪ Slaugh: Secret League Against Uncontrollable Gaming Habits
The Rules:
1) Try your best to find the perfect backronym for your user name. You must submit a different backronym for each round.
2) A minimum rep of 30 is required to enter.
3) Choose up to 5 games from the following list and put them in order of preference. You can only win one game per round.
4) These games are for your personal use only. Trading and regifting are not allowed.
5) You can enter for someone else who has previously share his/her backronym.
6) You can edit your post or update your list at any time.
7) After a few days, I'll choose a bunch of winners with the help of Random.org, and another round will start with the remaining games.
8) Ladies only: Post any forum link that proves that you're a woman and receive an extra chance of winning. This is my gift for the Valentine's Day!
Additional challenges:
► There is currently no challenge, but the giveaway is still alive!
Previous challenge: (won by DProject)
Here's the fun part! I'm the proud owner of a cat! The first one who gives me her name instantly wins all the games from his/her list (up to 5), and is still eligible for normal draws.
To qualify, you must post your backronym first. Please submit only one guess a day. Every day, I'll give you a clue until the right name is finally found...
First clue: It's a 12 years old female <span class="bold">Korat</span>, and I've put her photo as an attachment.
...
Post edited February 20, 2015 by _Slaugh_
