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 ~~Applcronyms~~Macronyms^[1] can you offer?

[1] Thanks Aaron Davies

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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6435311.stm

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Derick Brown

I pay on Delivery

March 14 2007 at 12:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sjmills

Mac: Microsoft? Ack. *cough*

March 13 2007 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Timmay

Jesus H Christ Billifer... way to kill the competition!

Tim

March 13 2007 at 10:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Billifer

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. ;-)

March 13 2007 at 4:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iPod = idiot proof operating device
IBM = industrial buying machine (an old one, but quite fitting)
Vista = very inadequate system to 'ave

March 13 2007 at 2:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Twist

Vista = Virus Inside Switch To Apple

March 12 2007 at 8:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aaron Davies

Surely that should be "macronym".

March 12 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R Muffet

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!)

March 12 2007 at 7:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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"?

March 12 2007 at 7:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erica Sadun

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.

March 12 2007 at 6:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply