This may in fact be the most disjointed post you've ever read.

[wickedflea]

I turn 34 on Oct. 1 and I'm not happy about it and I have a wish list and I am a wh0r3.

I keep hearing about people getting shot and mugged and stuff in New Haven. Like, you know, more than usual. This is why I'm afraid of getting shanked. What's going on up in this piece?!?

Do I know a Sharyn Allen? She just sent me a PDF of Biloxi pictures and mentioned that she's going to the MSU game this weekend, but I've not the foggiest idea who she is. Damn this addled brain of mines.

I want waffles.

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Werd of the day:

backronym (BAK-ro-nim) noun

A word re-interpreted as an acronym.

[Compound of back + acronym.]

In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. An example is the PERL programming language whose name is now explained as an acronym of Practical Extraction and Report Language.

When naming, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct
Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism?

Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics. For example, see Apgar Score: http://wordsmith.org/words/apgar_score.html

"Some people think chad is an acronym standing for Card Hole Aggregate Debris. But Kevin told me about the cyberlegend that chad is a backronym."
Marsha Mercer; Chad Finds New Meaning in Post-election Verbiage; Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia); Nov 19, 2000.

Egad. I had no idea that USA Patriot Act is an acronym. It reads like something I would have made up in debate class.

The hurricane bitches can taste my johnson. Fuckin' butterflies.

Comments

Sharyn

[wistfulunicorn.livejournal.com]

that's me. when I hit send I thought - rats I should have signed it wistfulunicorn so you'd know who I am. Hope you could see the pix! I just haven't figured out how to post pix on LJ.

Re: Sharyn

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Aha! Mystery solved. :) Yep, they came through just fine, and thanks for sending. It's positively chilling to see them, but somehow it helps me grasp everything. Mind-boggling.

I wish I could go to Starkville this weekend too--I'm jealous! Go to Sonny's and have some BBQ for me. And Oby's for an oyster po-boy. And Brewski's for some crawfish. *sigh*

Re: Sharyn

[wistfulunicorn.livejournal.com]

Yummm sounds good! Really looking forward to a FUN weekend!

BTW with me luck. My entire family lives on the Texas coast (Houston, Beaumont, Pt Arthur).

Re: Sharyn

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness--fingers are definitely crossed. I have someone very special in Corpus Christi, so I'm watching and worrying along with you. I also have an aunt in Groves (near Port Arthur). Enough of this hurricane nonsense already!!!