What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard?

mmaddox asks: "As a software developer, I've consulted on many projects - projects conceived in the twisted mind of management and marketing and cursed with bizarre, often hysterically funny names. Of course, these names lead to the adoption of the dreaded acronym. Most recently, I've discouraged the name selections of a few clients, in particular, the Private Inline Security System (a silly "personal firewall" - the client didn't even THINK of using an acronym) and Cross-section Heads-Up Digitizer (an engineering bit for roadway construction - anyone remember the movie?). There must be millions of these things out there. What is the worst acronym you've ever had the *ahem* pleasure of dealing with?" And in typical Slashdot fashion, it just wouldn't be the same without taking a dig at Microsoft. If you click here and look at the #2 result (of 44), then you may see one of funniest acronyms I've ever seen come out of the corporate culture. Of course, if you click on that particular link it looks like someone at the Borg have recognized their error and is trying to rewrite history, changing the "tool" into a "utility". God bless the Google cache! If you think you've seen acronyms to beat this one, please share!

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TMTOWTDI

[42forty-two42]

Where I heard it

Re:Canadian Reform Alliance Party

[schon]

Actually, the C stood for Conservative, not Canadian (Reform tried - and failed - to merge with the Federal Conservative party, they figured they might win some Tory supporters if they gave them top billing.) It was part of their "Unite the Right" initiative.

Personally, if they'd gone through with it, I would have voted against them every chance I got, because I hate the Federal Conservative party (because of the asshole Mulroney - I hate the GST.)

I'm not exactly sure what the offcial name is now, but it doesn't have a crap accronym.

The official name is now simply "The Canadian Alliance"

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[CritterNYC]

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