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Redefining 'iPod'
iPods. Small portable media players manufactured by Apple, Inc. Right? Not necessarily. Today, I googled across an entirely new definition, or at least a new acronym, of iPod from the BBC: insecure, pressured, over-taxed and debt-ridden young working people. Have you heard this used in conversation? Even once? Nah, me neither. Besides giving me a bit of a chuckle (which I needed because I'm so hung over from last night's clock-change), it inspired me to try to create a few Apple-inspired acronyms on my own. Which, as you'll shortly see, are really bad.
OS X. Ostriches savoring xylophones
Mac. (Yeah, yeah. I know you're thinking "Media Access Control". Me too.)
Apple. Amazing pendants puzzling light entertainment
So I'm throwing this open to you, our readers. What amusing ApplcronymsMacronyms[1] can you offer?
[1] Thanks Aaron Davies
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lakiolen said 6:48PM on 3-12-2007
The clock change was two nights ago. Did you spend Sunday an hour behind everyone else?
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Rafe H. said 6:58PM on 3-12-2007
"...I'm so hung over from last night's clock-change"
Most changed their clocks two nights ago. Go back to sleep.
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John Severson said 7:00PM on 3-12-2007
IBM - I Buy Macintosh!
IBM - I've Been Misled!
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Erica Sadun said 6:59PM on 3-12-2007
I don't know about you guys, but where I'm from we change the clocks early Sunday morning and Sunday evening is the first night one goes to sleep at a new time.
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JT said 7:14PM on 3-12-2007
The BBC acronym is half-witted at best. If you really apply the word-to-letter rule, then the acronym becomes "iPodywp".
How about "Incredibly Portable Ostentatious Device" or "Instantly Paramount to Outside Distractions"?
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Reg Muffet said 7:19PM on 3-12-2007
MACINTOSH
"Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs"
An oldie but a goodie! Invented circa 1984 as part of the FUD campaign against the new-fangled GUI metaphor which challenged the status quo of computing. (Of course, there was some truth to it!)
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Aaron Davies said 9:19PM on 3-12-2007
Surely that should be "macronym".
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Twist said 8:47PM on 3-12-2007
Vista = Virus Inside Switch To Apple
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TB said 2:52AM on 3-13-2007
iPod = idiot proof operating device
IBM = industrial buying machine (an old one, but quite fitting)
Vista = very inadequate system to 'ave
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Billifer said 4:54AM on 3-13-2007
The iStuff
iWork: It’s worthless. Office rules, ’K?
iLife: It’s lovely, if friggin’ enormous!
iPhone: I positively hate owning Nokia equipment.
iTunes: Imagine that! Unknown new entertainers spotlighted!
iChat: It’s cheesy hearing another typing.
iCal: Interrupting chats, alarm’s loud.
Other Stuff
AirPort: As I recollect, pieces of real tripe.
BootCamp: Bargain option of the competing available Microsoft-enabling products
Safari: Sometimes, Apple, Firefox advances real innovation
Dashboard: Don’t accidentally strike hotkey, bringing open another resource demon
Spotlight: Some people open this llama incessantly; geeks hack @ Terminal.
And with that, I’ll leave it up to the rest of you. ;-)
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Timmay said 10:15AM on 3-13-2007
Jesus H Christ Billifer... way to kill the competition!
Tim
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sjmills said 10:31AM on 3-13-2007
Mac: Microsoft? Ack. *cough*
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Derick said 12:41AM on 3-14-2007
I pay on Delivery
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