Acronym Driven Decision (ADD)

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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)

Other TLAs and XTLAs of note:

  • 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"

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