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*Design-Induced Error (DIE) | *Design-Induced Error (DIE) | ||
*Perl Object-Oriented Persistence (POOP) | *Perl Object-Oriented Persistence (POOP) | ||
Revision as of 20:17, 3 April 2010
The act of creating an organization less for actual merit than for the sake of creating a hilarious pun.
Real world examples include:
- Biomedical Library Acquisitions Bulletin (BLAB)
- Farmers Against Ridiculous Taxes (FART)
- Pipe Organ Owners and Players (POOP)
- Collection, Receiving and Pickups (CRAP)
- First Action In Learning (FAIL)
- Design-Induced Error (DIE)
- Perl Object-Oriented Persistence (POOP)
I am sure this goes on a different page, but one must not forget totally unintentional acronym humor such as the following"
- OGPU - Ob'edinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie which was mocked in Pogo's "Okeefenokee Glee n Perloo Union"