Oolite Bulletins

Nice to know that we have one.

Link to the official site here and to a story on the Independent website here.

Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!

Uncle Reno wrote:

Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!

And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...

It's sort of cool though.. is this how the federation of planets starts?

Darkbee wrote:

And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...

I thought the best one though was the acronym for the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" which they managed to make into..... "UN-SPIDER"!

Uncle Reno wrote:

Darkbee wrote:

And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...

I thought the best one though was the acronym for the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" which they managed to make into..... "UN-SPIDER"!

Happens all the time - in the MOD there's a facility at RAF Benson called "Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility" - which is NOT pronounced M-SHAT-F (as I did the first time I saw it written down ) but M-SHAFT...

lol, how in Hell do you get "spider" out of that! acronymns aren't supposed to be anagrams are they?!

Killer Wolf wrote:

lol, how in Hell do you get "spider" out of that! acronymns aren't supposed to be anagrams are they?!

Another "miltary" one is TENA (pronounced TEE-NAH) - Test and Training Enabling Architecture. I suspect it stood for something else originally and they just kept the name!

Mmmm, that's unfortunate, isn't it?

Thargoid wrote:

And a more scientific one from the semiconductor industry (where I pretend to work and they pretend to pay me).

An older technology is Carbon Nanotubes, usually abbreviated to CNT. Unfortunately they've now developed this and can make them from metal - specifically Copper (chemical symbol Cu).

I'll leave the acronym that everyone avoids to your imagination...

My sister-in-law's Polytechnic when it was becoming a University got as far a the first run of letterheads for approval before somebody noticed that "City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" - would probably not be a good idea!

DaddyHoggy wrote:

♦My sister-in-law's Polytechnic when it was becoming a University got as far a the first run of letterheads for approval before somebody noticed that "City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" - would probably not be a good idea!

I bet those original letter heads would fetch a handsome price eBay!

Apparently, Mary Whitehouse (a now-deceased UK campaigner for "decency" on TV – i.e. casual racism OK, human sexuality not OK) was going to call her campaign "Clean Up National Television" ... sadly someone noticed before they made up the banners and the badges.

I heard a story that the local ambulance service in my area was going to be rebranded the Fife Area Rescue Team until someone noticed the acronym and poo-pooed the idea.

I don't know how true it is.

Wait, you're a Fifer? Whereabouts from? I ask because I grew up near Cupar ... that experience leads me to doubt the story. Not the acronym bit, the noticing bit.

Yarr, born and brought up in Kirkcaldy, so watch your disparaging remarks about the mental well-being of the Fife health service!!