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100% | PHOTON | Particle Helps One Talk Over Networks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who sincerely hopes that photons operate in fiber-optics Science:Physics:Particles |
100% | PLUME (2) | Pen Lacking Usual Metallic Element |
Patricia Rix |
100% | POSTAL SERVICE | People Offering Service Transmitting All Letters Swiftly, Ensuring Registered Valuable Item's Carried Efficiently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
89% | POSTCARD | Picture Of Somewhere Tourists Can Attach Romantic Description (to) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
88% | POSTMAN | Person Offering to Send The Mail Across Nations |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
100% | POSTMAN (2) | Parcel Operative - Scrunches The Mail Ad Nauseam |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, describing his POSTMAN as being somewhat different from Angela's. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
100% | POST OFFICE | Purchase One's Stamps There, Or Forward 'Freight' In Cardboared Envelopes |
TMcCO'G Places:Buildings |
100% | PRESS | Publications Reporting Everyday Stories Sensationally |
Rico Leffanta |
100% | PROPOSAL | Paper Relating One's Purpose, Or Strategy, At Length |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | PROPOSALS | People Readily Offer Personal Opinions Solving A Locked Situation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
71% | QUERY | Question to Understand Enigmatic Response of Yours |
Angela Brett |
0% | QUERY (2) | Question is Urgent - (I) Expect Reply Yesterday |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | QUOTE | Quotation Used On Thy Email |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | QY | Questioning You |
Jan Morgan (QY usually means 'query') Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
100% | RADIO | Ranting About Deity Is Omnipresent |
Angela Brett, while on a long car trip when her brother pointed out that the only radio station you can rely on getting just about everywhere in the country is a religious station. Religion Entertainment |
100% | RADIO (2) | Relayed Across Distances - It's Omnipresent. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | RADIO (3) | Receives And Decodes Inaudible Oscillations |
Edwin Hermann |
83% | RADIO (4) | Remote Audio Distribution Is Old-fashioned |
Tony |
100% | RADIO NEWS | Regular Audio Dispatches Interrupt Other Noisy Entertainment With Stories. |
Angela Brett |
100% | RAMBLING | Ranting About Marginally Bearable Little Insights - Nothing Great. |
Angela Brett, who is an expert on rambling. |
100% | RANSOM NOTE | Really Awful Notice. Statement Of Malice. Not Often Tackled Easily. |
Eric Bridgstock People & Relationships:Law & Order |
100% | RANTS | Read As Notes To Self |
Angela Brett, as many rants are more like outlets for the ranters feelings with little thought of the person being ranted at. |
100% | RECAP | Repeated Explanation Clarifies A Point. |
Angela Brett |
78% | RECEIPT | Registered and Entitled Conductor of Electronic Intercourse, Preferential Treatment. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to the TICKET. |
100% | RECORDS (2) | Remarkable Events Contained On Registered Data System |
Tony McCoy O'Grady History |
86% | REPEAT | Rendered Exactly Pluralised; Edit with Added Thoughtfulness |
Gavin Lambert, when an apronym in THE APRONYM TIMES was repeated. |
100% | REPORTS | Regular Evaluation Procedure Often Reveals Torporific Staff |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce |
100% | REPORTS (2) | Records Exhibiting Progress Of Regulars Towards "Satisfactory" |
Patricia Rix |
100% | REPORTS (3) | Regular Evening Profiles On Regional Television Service |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:TV shows |
100% | RSVP | Reply Soon Via Phone/Post |
Angela Brett (RSVP usually stands for Respondez S'il Vous Plait) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
100% | RSVP (2) | Replying Seems Very Polite |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see RSVP) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
100% | RUBBISH | Repeatedly Uttering 'Blah Blah' Is So Humdrum. |
Angela Brett |
100% | SAID | Smart Arses Inferiority Disorder |
John Richard Jones This is for those who can only say negative things against you but have no grounds for it. If it can only be said, then it has to be SAID. People & Relationships:Abuse |
100% | SARCASTIC | Sometimes Ambiguous Reverse Comments Aren't Sensed, Triggering Incorrect Conclusion. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
100% | SARCASTIC (2) | Should Always Remain Calm - Anything Said's Tongue-In-Cheek. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
100% | SARCASTIC (3) | Saying A Rude, Cutting And Silly Thing, In 'Comedy' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives |
100% | SASS | Sibling's Argument; Snippy Speech |
Roger Williams |
100% | SEARCH | Seek Every Available Resource Checking Hits |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Internet |
90% | SIGNATURE | Sufficient Identification? Greatly Needing A Totally Unforgeable Replacement or Extension. |
Angela Brett |
100% | SILENCE | Somehow It's Like Expensive, Nicely-Coloured Element. |
Angela Brett |
100% | SOAP (2) | Stand On A Platform |
Angela Brett, thinking of a soapbox but too lazy to think of an x word. |
100% | SQUABBLE | Some Quarrel Usually About Boys Being Loved Elsewhere |
Rico Leffanta |
100% | STAMP | Send This Air-Mail Please. |
Angela Brett |
100% | STAMP (2) | Shipping Trade Attracts Most Philatelists. |
Angela Brett |
83% | STAMP (3) | Sticker That's Applied to Mail Packages |
Sean Lamb (most US stamps are self-adhesives now...) |
100% | STD | See Telephone Directory |
Angela Brett (STD usually stands for Subscriber Trunk Dialling) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
100% | STIPULATE (2) | Sincerely, That Is Promised; Upholding Literally All Terms Expressed. |
Roger Williams |
100% | SUCCINT | Short / Unadorned / Compact Communication! Informative, Not Talkative/Tedious! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Assorted Adjectives |
100% | SURRENDER | Say Uncle Really Rapidly, Else No Deal's Ever Reached |
Patricia Rix |
100% | TO THE ATTENTION OF | To Open This Heed Exact Address - Then Try Ensuring Next Toucher Is One Named Only - Finished |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who thinks the person who sought this may have been looking for "For the atten..." |
100% | TIPS (3) | This Is Practically Secret |
Patricia Rix (referring to 'tips' one might get at the racetrack, or about the stock market) |
100% | TIPS | They Indicate Potential Savings |
Angela Brett |
100% | TIP (2) | The Insider: "Psssst..." |
Angela Brett Commerce |
100% | TIP | This Information's Pertinent |
Angela Brett |
75% | TICKET | Typed Indication of Connectivity Kinship for Electronic Terminal |
Angela Brett, when Tony asked whether he'd need tickets in order to communicate with Angela's new (and superior to Tony's) Mac. |
100% | THUNDER (5) | Top: Holdup Unwanted New Discoveries! Exit Reason! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
100% | THUNDER (4) | Truth: Hold Uplift New Decisive Elevating Revelation! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
100% | THOUGHTS TO PAPER | To Hand On Unusually Good Headwork To Subordinates Type Out Paragraphs Aptly. Practice Eschewing Repetition |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | THE TITLE | The Handling Element That Intrinsicly, Tersely, Laughlingly Encapsulates. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, during a discussion of the title of this stack. |
100% | THANK YOU! | True, Hearty Appreciation Now! Kindness You Offer: Unexpected! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. THANK YOU! Angela Brett for both of your VERY ENCOURAGING e-mails. THANK YOU! to all of the APRONYMISTS who continually engage my mind in new, unexpected ways. |
100% | TESTIMONY | True Emotional Strong Testimony, In My Own Notions, Yearning |
Jan Morgan - our feelings of what we know and believe to be true in our own eyes and the hope of it Religion |
100% | TELLING LIES | To Every Lying Liar, It's Not Generating Lies, It's Exaggerating Stories |
Sean Lamb |
100% | TELEPHONE (3) | Talk Endlessly, Leisurely, Enjoying Personal Hobnobbing Over Neverending Expanses |
Roger Williams |
90% | TELEPHONE (2) | Taken Everywhere Lately (by) Eager People Having Only Nerdy Existence |
Patricia Rix |
100% | TELEPHONE | Talk Endlessly, Letting Every Private Home On Network Eavesdrop |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, thinking of the 'party line' telephones of days gone by. |
100% | TELEGRAPH | Thin Electric Lines Encircling Globe. Relays And Poles Help. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
89% | TELECOMMUNICATION | This Evidently Lets Everyone Chat Over Many Miles. Unfortunately Now It Can't, And Techie's Inspecting Out-of-order Network. |
Angela Brett, when she was supposed to be having lunch with Steve but ended up in the PABX room of TVNZ while he fixed routers or somesuch. |
100% | TELECASTER | Television's Earliest Linkmen Established "Celebrity" Announcing Sports' Teams Endeavours & Results |
TMcCO'G People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations Sports & Recreation |
100% | TALL STORY | Telling A Little Lie Sometimes To Ornament Rich Yarn |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | VERBOSE | Vocal Exercises Replacing Burning Off Sexual Energy |
Rico Leffanta |
100% | VODAFONE | Voice Or Data Apparently Fry Owners' Neurons Eventually. |
Angela Brett (Vodafone is a cellphone network) Commerce:Companies |
83% | WAVES (2) | Waggles Arms Very Energetically - So-long! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
100% | WHATEVER | We Hear All That's Expressed - Valiantly Eschewing Reasoning |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - many people with a closed mind will say "whatever" to end a discussion they are bored with. |
100% | WRITE | Write Right! Inscribe Talents! Endure! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Art & Literature |
100% | WRITING | Without Reading Instruction, This Is No Good. |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
100% | WRITTEN COMMUNICATION | We Read It Thoroughly, Then Enscribe Notes Commenting On Material. Markers Usually Notice Incoherence... Complete Assignments To Inevitably Obtain Notability. |
Angela Brett Education |
100% | WROTE | Words Relayed Orthographically To Endure |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
100% | YARN | You Are Really Nice! |
Rico Leffanta |
100% | YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER | Yuck... Old, Useless Rubbish... It Doesn't Even Allow Searching. One Needn't Print A Perfect Electronic Record. |
Angela Brett, expressing her ideas on paper in response to an unsuccessful search term. |
100% | ZIP CODE | Zilch If Postal Code Omitted - Dead End! |
Patricia Rix |
100% | TV NEWS | To View Notable Events, Watch Screen. |
Angela Brett |
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