What are some funny or unusual sounding acronyms you have seen?

On a related note, my favorite is SHAT, Services Historiques de l’Armée de Terre (The French Army Historical Service). I have trouble keeping a straight face whenever I read that one.

How about ASS=accountant service specialist.

F airfield A rea R apid T ransit
Just silly.

By the way, these don’t need to be related to bodily function, they can be anything.

BOB battery operated boyfriend. lol

EBIDA (Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation And Amortization)

When one of the senior VPs gave a speech during a holiday luncheon, he kept referring to EBIDA. I suspect that the vast majority of the audience had no idea what he was talking about. Based upon the whispered conversations giggles from the table near ours, I suspect that if alcohol had been served, they would have turned it into a drinking game…take a sip every time he said EBIDA.

I always thought SNAFU was pretty funny (both versions).

If we wanna go military on it there are all kinds of crude acronymns. Some of the safer ones are:

- B end O ver H ere I t C omes A gain.

- F udged U p B eyond A ll R ecognition

- F ͏͏͏ ͏ ͏
I t L ets T ake A B reak.
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– And as @YARNLADY mentioned;
S ituation N ormal A ll F udged U p (That’s the version I hear most often)

The most unusual acronym I’ve seen in common usage (unfortunately not the least bit risque) is WYSIWYG, pronounced “whizzy-wig.” It stands for, “What you see is what you get” and relates to computer print graphics. I first heard the term around 1980.

FUBARBUNDYREMF:
”F” ed u p b eyond a ll r ecognition b ut u nfortunatly n ot d ead y et, r ear
e chelon m other ”f” er.

“Come to Homer’s BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB.”

“What’s that extra B for?”
“That’s a typo.”

KISS. Keep it simple, stupid.

PMS = Pantone Matching System

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Whenever I discuss this in my graphic design classes, I mention to my students that it’s an unfortunate acronym.

@cprevite PMS for Pantone Matching System predated PMS as an ailment of any sort by many years