Acronyms that seem filthy but aren't: #1: CUNY

[Richardo]

Saw an ad on HuffPost for the City University of New York and it reminded me that I always thought that its initials were a little dirty.

[PVnRT]

1. TIT or TNA

You know, the Tau Iota Tau and Tau Nu Alpha fraternities.

[Orrex]

2. At Penn State, Comparative Literature used to have a four-letter abbreviation

Three of the letters ere LIT.

More recently they've changed it to CMLIT...

[harmonicon]

19. You think that's something? Wait for this:

Not an acronym, but an abbreviation. When I went to college, a required course in the Drama department (I wasn't in it, but it was a large department, and I knew a lot of people who were in it) was Analysis and Performance. I swear to god, the abbreviation was "anal-perf". People would just walk around and say it, like nothing was wrong with it - ANAL PERF?!?!?! I guess one could be generous and think it stood for "anal performance", but it always made me think "anal perforation", which scared the shit out of me.

[Silver Swan]

3. When I started my first job,

I noticed the notation "FU" on many cases. After I realized it stood for "follow up," I decided some things were best not abbreviated.

[Richardo]

4. Oscar Madison: "I can't take it anymore, Felix, I'm cracking up."

"...Everything you do irritates me. And when you're not here, the things I know you're gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on my pillow. "We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar! "


:rofl:

[underpants]

5. SOL

Virginia's standardized testing in schools is called the Standards Of Learning

SOL's

[XemaSab]

6. LUST

Leaking Underground Storage Tank, such as a gas station tank. :P

[dawgmom]

7. Not acronyms, but here are some words & phrases...

http://siteinsights.com/2008/04/18/eleven-words-that-sound-dirty-but-really-arent/

My personal favorite is "kumquat."

Also, for some reason, "uvula" has always sounded dirty to me.

[BOSSHOG]

8. FUC

Fleet Unit Commendation (Actually I made that up but) the navy is eat up with acronyms, so much so that they had to invent the DICNAVAB (Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations.) Never go to a staff meeting without your DICNAVAB (or DIC for short.) Oh that reminds of the real navy acronym - DIC (dependency indemnity compensation) which spouses whose spouses are killed in the military will receive. So if your husband dies the Navy will provide you with DIC.

I had fun with FUC, stating that one might receive a Fleet Unit Commendation with cluster or cluster FUC for short.

[Richardo]

10. You are killing me, BOSSHOG

That's the funniest thing I've read in awhile :rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

14. And I didn't make anything up

except the FUC!

[nadine_mn]

9. KUMM - radio station at college

I went to school at Univ Minn Morris... call letters KUMM... slogan? No shit - "Let us put a little KUMM in your ear"

[Richardo]

11. !!

Only at college.... :rofl:

[Roon]

13. Don't touch that dial

It's got Kumm on it.

[BurtWorm]

20. Wesleyan University's crew team probably still wears shirts that say WESCREW

[foxfeet]

12. In Seattle we had for a few glorious months the SLUT

or South Lake Union Transit. Eventually people started selling t-shirts with the slogan "Ride the SLUT." The city finally couldn't take it any more and changed the official name to South Lake Union Streetcar. Killjoys.

[skygazer]

15. At my job, T & A

Time and Attendance. :rofl:

[nadine_mn]

16. I forgot SCOTUS

watching all the coverage about Palin's inability to name another supreme court decision has that SCOTUS all over and it looks like scrotum

[Franzia]

17. I live in Houston, and in the early 90s, it was suggested the University of Houston at Clear Lake

be renamed the Clear Lake Institute of Technology.

Unfortunately, it never came to pass. :7

[pokerfan]

18. SLUT

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332081_slut18.html

[Initech]

21. SHIT

Sam Houston Institute Of Technology

[Solon]

22. SCAT: St. Charles Area Transit...

Its a local, but very limited bus service in St. Charles City, Missouri.