acronym

AOL Anti On-Line

APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

ARMY Ain't a Real Marine Yet

BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control

BMW Big Money Waste

BUICK Big Ugly Indestructible Compact Killer

CD-ROM Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

CHEVROLET Cracked Head, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time (thanks to David Stott)

CHEVROLET Can Hear Every Valve Rattle on Long Extended Trips

COBOL Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

COMPUTER Capable Of Making Perfectly Uncomplicated Tasks Extremely Rigorous

DAM Mothers Against Dyslexia

DELTA Doesn't Even Leave The Airport

DELTA Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive

DODGE Drips Oil, Drips Grease Everywhere

DOS Defunct Operating System

DNA National Dyslexic Association

DUMBO Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass

FIAT Fix It Again, Tony

FIAT Funny Italian Attempt at Technology

FORD First On Race Day

FORD Found On Road, Dead

FORD Fix Or Repair Dail

GMC Gotta Mechanic Coming!

HONDA Hold On, Not Done Accelerating!

IBM I Blame Microsoft

IBM I Bought Macintosh

IACOCCA I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation of America

IPOD Ignoring Present Obscene Demand

ISDN It Still Does Nothing

LISP Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses

LOTUS Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

LOVE Loss Of Valuable Energy

MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash, If Not The Operating System Hangs

MARINE Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected (thanks to LCpl Kimberly)

MARINE My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment (thanks to Wayne Cox)

MCSE Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert

MCSE Must Consult Someone Experienced

MCSE Making Computers Slow Everyday

MICROSOFT Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

MIPS Mistakes Incurred Per Second

MIPS Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

MIPS Meaningless Information Purveyed by Salesmen (thanks to Joe Dubner)

MOPAR Mostly Old Parts and Rusted (thanks to Bruce Weston)

NASCAR Numerous Autos Simultaneously Circling Around Rednecks (thanks to Bruce Weston)

NASCAR Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks

NASCAR Not All Southerners Care About Racing (thanks to Jonathan Strickland)

NAVY Never Again Volunteer Yourself (thanks to Everett Lindsey)

NTSC Never The Same Color

OS/2 Obsolete Soon Too

PASCAL Pedantry And Strictness Created A Language

PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard [user failure / user error]

PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics

PMS Pack My Suitcase (thanks to Dutch)

PMS Please Make it Stop! (thanks to Kiara Steele)

PMS Pass My Shotgun (thanks to Kat Simmons)

PMS Potential Murder Suspect (thanks to Travis)

PMS Psychotic Mood Shift (thanks to Kat Simmons)

PMS Punish Men Severly (thanks to Jon Chen)

PMS Purchase More Shoes (thanks to Jodi and Lorie)

PONTIAC Poor Old Nutjob Thinks It's A Cadillac (thanks to AntBriWes)

POTS Plain Old Telephone System

RENAULT Repair Ever Needed, Always Useless, Lotsa Trouble (thanks to Curtis)

RISC Reduced Into Silly Code

SCSI System Can't See It

SCSI-2 System Can't See It Again

SNMP Security Not My Problem

SOS Save Our Sausages (thanks to Lee Hoyle)

SUBARU Still Usable, But All Rusty Underneath

TLA Three Letter Acronym

TOYOTA The One You Ought To Avoid

TOYOTA Too Often Yankee Overpriced, This Auto (thanks to Jonathan Strickland)

US ARMY Uncle Same Ain't Released Me Yet (thanks to Everett Lindsey)

USMC Uncle Sam's Misguided Children (thanks to Everett Lindsey)

WIIFM What's In It For Me? (thanks to Rick Morgan)

WINDOWS Wonderful Interface No Dos User Would Sanction

WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

WYBMABIITY Will You Buy Me A Beer If I Tell You [when people ask what that acronym stands for]

YAMAHA Your ass, my ass, haul ass! (thanks to Justin Jarrett)

© 2010 compiled from many sources by Howard Daughters

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