The Acronym Game

[Flatlander]

SONAR

SOund NAvigation and Ranging

OK, here's one from my job:

CWD

Chronic Wasting Disease

JVC?

 

[OUMoose]

Chronic Wasting Disease

JVC?

Japan Victor Company (from Ask Jeeves)

from computer terms...

PWD?

(this one is tricky).

 

[Chronuss]

pocket word document?

 

[Cryozombie]

PWD = Print Working Directory

VTOL

 

[shesulsa]

VTOL = Vertical Take Off and Landing? As in helicopters?

RSVP

 

[Cryozombie]

VTOL = Vertical Take Off and Landing? As in helicopters?

RSVP

Forgive my spelling, my french is awful...

Respondez Sil Vout Plait


Since we wanna get all Foriegn:

KGB

 

[MA-Caver]

K(omitet) G(osudarstvenno) B(ezopasnosti) or translated as Committee of the State Security.

So how about (since we're still in Communist Russia...
GRU

 

[shesulsa]

Glavnoye Razvedovatel'noye Upravlenie (Isn't this the main Intelligence Administration over there??)

Okay, here's an easy one:

HTML

 

[KenpoTex]

Hyper Text Markup Language


POTUS

 

[Melissa426]

President of the United States

NASCAR

 

[Cryozombie]

Nascar = National Associaton fo Speeding Cars, and Rednecks.

Hehe.

National ***. of Stock Car Auto Racing

NIN (Music, not Ninjas)

 

[shesulsa]

Nine Inch Nails?

 

[Cryozombie]

Yep

 

[shesulsa]

okay - keeping with music

ELO

 

[MA-Caver]

Glavnoye Razvedovatel'noye Upravlenie (Isn't this the main Intelligence Administration over there??)

Okay, here's an easy one:

HTML

They are the military intelligence agency which was not as well known as the KGB (thanks to Hollywood and James Bond) but no less feared by those who DID know them. If I'm not mistaken, Communist Russia (aka Soviet Union) was run by three seperate entities. The Politburo <sic> and KGB and GRU. Who had seniority over the other I don't know. Doesn't matter... on wif da game.

ELO = Electric Light Orchestra

BMX

 

[Posiview]

BMX = Bicycle Motocross

CRAP =

 

[KenpoTex]

CRAP...how about Consumer Research And Planning?



STOL

 

[OUMoose]

STOL = Short Take off and Landing.

PCP?

 

[edhead2000]

woo hoo! drugs!! oh wait......this drug actually takes away from my livelihood! boo!

PCP = Phenyl Cyclohexyl Piperidine or commonly shortened to Phencyclidine

or was it the Communist Party of Peru you were looking for?


All right, since we're on drugs how about APAP

 

[Posiview]

APAP = Association of Polish American Professionals :lol: :lol: :lol:

PIMP =