A mailing today about the March-April 2019 issue of G&LR (The Gay & Lesbian Review):
The proposal is LGBT+. Just LGBT+.
Archive for the ‘Initialisms’ Category
Revisiting 26: LGBT etc. etc.
February 14, 2019One more January 20th penguin
January 20, 2019For Penguin Awareness Day, one more spheniscid moment, this time from Canada, where the creatures infest the banking industry.
(#1) Percy the Penguin, mascot of CIBC (formerly Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; CIBC is now an orphan initialism), in a 2015 ad
World UFO Day
July 3, 2018
slide in(to) (y)our DM’s
May 10, 2018(Guys in sexy underwear, yes, but no more than that. Plus a recent slang idiom.)
Daily Jocks yesterday:
(#1) SLIDE IN OUR DM’S!
We are looking for hot new influencers to promote DailyJocks products, follow us & like our most recent post for the chance to become a DailyJocks influencer.
We will be sending out products for you to take pictures in & share with the world!
Lots of smiling — I’m big on smiles — in these amateur underwear photos, as compared to the sturdy studly pro shots.
The slang initialism DM (for direct message) I already knew, but the larger idiom slide in(to) (y)our DMs was new to me (but I’m so far from plugged into new things that I should be treated as permanently unplugged).
A war of initialism
April 23, 2018Today’s Zippy takes us to 449 S. Winchester Blvd. in San Jose CA (more or less next door to the Winchester Mystery House and across the street from Santana Row):
(#1) The title is an allusion to McDonald’s Happy Meal for kids
Two things: the location; and the goofy dispute over the meaning of the initialism B.L.T.
New frontiers in POPs
April 14, 2018Today’s Bizarro/Wayno collaboration:
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
The Psychiatrist meme, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau), all in letter names: E I E I O (conventionalized onomatopoeia from the nursery song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”) + the initialism O.C.D. (obsessive-compulsive disorder) — with Old MacDonald unable to resist the compulsion to catalog farm animals and the noises they (conventionally) make.
Annals of p.r. pitches
March 2, 2017In the tradition of my 2/4 posting “Demented p.r. pitches, absurd ad copy”, I begin with an annoying initial p.r. pitch (on January 6th) for “optimizing ad space”, from a representative (JP) of a company I’ll call King Holdings to a blogger (KW):
I’ve been trying to get in touch with somebody in regards to learning about your site’s advertising strategy – specifically how you’re set up monetizing your site.
My name is [JP] and I work for [King Holdings], which is a premium ad exchange …
I’d love to talk about how you’re currently optimizing your ad space and what [King] can provide to scale it. Who is the correct person to contact regarding this opportunity?
Rather than just deleting the feeler, or replying that he was a blogger and not in need of advertising, KW chose to take the bait and throw it back with a big hook in it (a response to Nigerian Scam letters that people occasionally adopt, even understanding that they might be embarking on a major project). (more…)
Coordinate initialisms
August 6, 2015It started with an ADS-L posting by Benjamin Barrett about the initialism T&A, which (he learned) abbreviates tits and ass but can also denote (from a Wiktionary entry) “scantily-clad women, or entertainment featuring scantily clad women” (that is, a display of tits and ass).
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[The T & A Team is a classic porn film from 1984, with the slogan “Using Their T & A to Make the World a Better Place!”. It’s a take-off on the tv series The A-Team (1983-87).]
Language cartoon Wednesday
August 5, 2015That would be today, with three language-related cartoons in my inbox: a Rhymes With Orange, a Mother Goose and Grimm, and a Bizarro:
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Initialisms, raunchy and not
July 2, 2015An image posted by actor/director Chris Pratt on his Facebook page:
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The initialistic abbreviation BJ stands for Beijing here, but of course blowjob will come first to many people’s minds — even though then the t-shirt should go
I ♥︎
BJs
And there are more possibilities; it’s in the nature of abbreviations to be multiply ambiguoua.