Funny acronyms

[ayceejay]

UPYRS an elite catering organization specializing in brioche.

 

[TVC]

Has nobody done SNAFU yet?

 

[Archie_tect]

LOTUS: Loads of Trouble, Usually Serious.

 

[vernon]

GTI: Got tossers inside.

 

[Keith Oates]

LEFO - this brings back memories for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Jogger]

Were I work they are in the process of a re-org entitled, Fit for the Future- Stations ( FFS ) how appropriate.

 

[Silver Fox]

FUBMIN. Finger Up Bum Mind In Neutral.

Particularly applicable to some car drivers.

 

[swansonj]

Talking about a TLA acronym is, like a PIN number, an example of RAS syndrome (redundant acronym syndrome).

A few years ago, there was a very serious Government body called the Interdepartmental Liaison Group on Risk Assessment. If you typed ILGRA into Google, you got the Illinois Lesbian and Gay Rodeo Association.

 

[User33236]

YABA Yet Another Bl@@dy Acronym.

 

[asterix]

WTF is TLC?

Have you done this:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/psychopath-night

 

[nappadang]

TAPS . .. Thick as pig sh*t, always sums certain people up perfectly.

 

[Brandane]

Quaint Scottish phrase;- GIRFUY.

 

[Aperitif]

The 'funny' bit was a source of amusement in postal form too. I always knew of the NORWICH and BURMA countries, written on the back of service mail during the Second World War etc...I haven't heard of the others but take a look here.
'BACCHUS' Be a Cycle Chat Hero - Uplift Someone!

 

[Yellow Fang]

Why isn't it?

Because TLA is not pronounced as a word, but as three separate letters. It is an initialism.

 

[ASC1951]

Because TLA is not pronounced as a word, but as three separate letters. It is an initialism.

Ahem - acronym is from two Greek words, acros (akros in Greek) and nym, meaning 'top' and 'name' respectively. An acronym is an initialism, or rather it would be if there was such a word.