(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:34, archived)

arf
I'd rather have a mac than windows...

/shit - i've got windows
( Vintage The badgers took my sanity... and my TV, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:35, archived)

seconded
HARD!

shit I too have windows and linux.
( MrA, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)

I'm only jealous, I have XP Media Centre Edition.
Wah.
(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:37, archived)

I've got windows
and it works great for me.
( StickFigureNinja is in a rather unbelievable mess, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:38, archived)

mine has just started to fritz up
IE is having a mental (lucky firefox for me, but company stuff has to be tested on IE) and it's telling me i don't have enough ram to open tattyshop (which is untrue as i have shed loads).

mind you i'm off for a week next week so i'll spend the best part of two days re installing my machine when i get back. top skiving.
( Thor_sonofodin loves Pocari Sweat., Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:39, archived)

Eee, I love a good skive.
Whenever I fancied a sneaky half-hour, I'd boot my computer really hard and shout 'it's doing it again!' whilst people crowded round to watch it spaz. Did it one too many times though. Bye bye PC.
(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:41, archived)

you may wanna compo that
tis most most woo!
( The Great Architect "Yakabakakas"!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:35, archived)

I don't know what you're talking about.

(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)

^this

( Vintage The badgers took my sanity... and my TV, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)

This is going to be a million entry compo ...
not many moans about it either....


woo ^^ yay ^^
( Munky Boy today I am back., Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:37, archived)

significantly better than hoff
or that dire davidson thing.
( mr horrible Salsa Cookies! Windmill Cookies!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:38, archived)

i'm not sure
if "Macintosh" was a acronym in the first place.
It's like
Forced
Unlawful
Carnal
Knowledge

or

Fornicate
Under
Consent of the
King
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)

Eh?
What?
(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)

A "Backronymn"!
Where someone takes a real word and makes it into an acronym.
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:38, archived)

i'm sure
that phrase was made up by americans who didn't know what the proper word for it was

dictionary.reference.com/search?q=acrostic
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:41, archived)

Maybe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym

However the backronym is the word itself and not the phrase or poem that makes it.

The phrase itself is acrostic.
But what of it's plaintext output?

/EDIT: dictionary.reference.com/search?q=backronym
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:53, archived)

you see
you've made "Macintosh" into an acronym, when it wasn't an acroynm. That's something else. Acrostic i think.
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:39, archived)

Shhhhh
Don't blind people with my genius!
(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)

sorry
it's a clever use of words there.
woo.
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:47, archived)

yeah, but most of the entries
are abbreviations not acronyms anyway.


( Wasp Box, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)

An acronym
is the intital letters or parts of words which make another word.

Like LASER, RADAR or WASP.

An acrostic is a poem, the first letter of each line makes words(s).

ATM, NSFW etc. are not technically acronyms as they do not make pronounceable words. But I can't remember what that's called, possibly just an abbreviation.
( Afinkawan doesn't have enough space in his sig to write wha, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:43, archived)

An acronym
doesn't have to make another word.

That is just lies and superstition.
( Mystery_Bob, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:50, archived)

and the dictionary definition
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=acronym
( Wasp Box, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:52, archived)

but dictionary.com can be made to argue against itself
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tla
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:57, archived)

FUCK
wasn't an acronym.


But lots of stupid people think it was.
( Afinkawan doesn't have enough space in his sig to write wha, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:40, archived)

That's my point
Macintosh wasn't an acronym. (is happy to be proved wrong)
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)

No, it wasn't
A McIntosh is a kind of apple, hence the name.
(Derek Acorah's Spirit Guide Sam, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:43, archived)

They (Apple) have a horribly depressing company logo.
Kinda loses the impact when they stick it on computers designed to look like Baby's First PC, though. :-P
(benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:37, archived)

depressing?

( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:41, archived)

haha




( Wasp Box, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:40, archived)

aargh!
"differently"
(ru, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:43, archived)

Yes
I fucking know, but if I'm going to parody their logo I have to stick to their stupid fucking grammar, don't I!


apologies for over-reacting.



( Wasp Box, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:47, archived)

Hahah!
You missed the 'N' out! ahahah!
( Laughing Boy, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 18:33, archived)

er
If Not


the N is in Not

sorry
(chris90uk chris, 1990, united kingdom, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 22:44, archived)