unfortunate acronyms

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I work at a hospital trust and I just learnt that there's a thing called "Acute Renal Failure" which is ARF for short.

I don't don't what acute renal failure is but i'm sure "arf" wouldn't be my first reaction if i have it.

― ken c, Friday, 28 November 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not an acronym, but the URL for PowerGen's Italian subsidiary is pretty cool

http://www.powergenitalia.com

― Jonathan Z., Friday, 28 November 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

F.U.K.D. & B.O.M.B.D.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, you have to say what the acronym/whatever stands for too.

― ken c, Friday, 28 November 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Committee to
RE
Elect the
President (a.k.a. Nixon's election committee, 1972) seems to be the winner here

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Free the United Kingdom from Drugs & British Opposition to Metabolically Bisturbile Drugs.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

We're having a Complete Review of Administrative Procedures here at the moment.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

FARC - I know it's some revolutionary army in Colombia, I can't remember what it stands for, is all.

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bristol's second university is the University of Woe.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The social security fund for TV/radio employees in France is know as the Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia

― Jonathan Z., Friday, 28 November 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The war against terrorism?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As said earlier, Kit Kat Kubes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 November 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

British bank/building society ~~Abbey National~~ The Abbey, or whatever they're called now once had an American subsidiary - Abbey National U. S.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

FCUK

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the fine folks from the band Mclusky there used to be a shop in Cardiff called K K Kitchens. They were quite insistent that it was genuine but they can be quite [insert word that means that they take pleasure in telling little white lies and that their lies are generally so good that you believe them even if you suspect or even know that they are untrue]

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Too many evens, sorry. Too much coffee today.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Operation Iraqi Liberation (changed at last minute to Freedom)
Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lite-FM radio station in the Los Angeles metro area that has the call sign KLIT. They call themselves K-Lite, but WE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE REALLY SELLING!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 November 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it cat food?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I gues you could call it that.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Acute renal failure" = Dude, your kidneys just stopped working. Sorry bro, gotta go on dialysis for the rest of your life. Unless you've already passed on, in which case our condolences and I suppose you won't have to go to dialysis anymore.

FARC - I know it's some revolutionary army in Colombia, I can't remember what it stands for, is all.

(a.) It's an international terrorist organization that has murdered foreigners and native Colombians (more the latter than the former).
(b.) FARC = whatever the Spanish for "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" is. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia, perhaps? Just a wild guess.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Years ago, I attended a technical NATO conference on computer representation and simulation of military forces. One of the papers that were presented was by a French group of researchers -- and as you may know, French acronyms often read like scrambled or even backward versions of the English ones, due to the different syntax of the language (OTAN=NATO, NU=UN, SIDA=AIDS etc).

Anyway, the paper describing their software system was to be delivered in English, and thus bore the unfortunate title

"Synthetic Hierarchical Interactive Tactical Environment (ETIHS)"

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 30 November 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Kendal Neutralists Opposed to Blanket Hierarchical European Assimilation Dogma.

― Kepler Oldgrippa (MichaelJ), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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