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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks title, I definitely wouldn't have figured it out after getting to the word "acronym".

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

humans naturally gravitate towards phallic jokes

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I've dwelt among the humans. Their entire culture is built around their penises. It's funny to say they are small. It's funny to say they are big. I've been at parties where humans held bottles, pencils, thermoses in front of themselves and called out, 'Hey, look at me. I'm Mr. So-and-So Dick. I've got such-as-such for a penis.' I never saw it fail to get a laugh."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I recognized the name, but couldn't place it until I heard the voice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I know what you mean he he ;) ;) ;)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

No males do.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta love a good backronym.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think in this case its an actual acronym. They came up with and named the process, so its not after the fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also, we'd have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Amazingly ahead of their time. They were spinning right-round before it was even in a song.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of Post-Exertional Neuro-Immune syndrome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

very amusing grads, improper naming action.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Dude I fucking love science

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, because those initials work out so much better than the other one...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Especially considering what the context already was

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/G5hViHTGC8w

Not quite the clip I was hoping for, but it’ll do :-)