Just got back...

[turkeyham]

I could probably used both at my cart. :D:

[Rob562]

Yup. All names must be acronyms (even "a la carte", though none of us can remember what it is), and it's preferable that they also be the name of a character.

Could have done worse than FLIK. Could have named it POCAHONTAS for
"Perpetual On Call Accounting for Hours ON The Asphalt System"! :shaker:

I'll do you one better... An insanely convoluted acronym where one of the letters refers to yet *another* acronym...

At Harvard, the library catalog is HOLLIS: Harvard On-Line Library Information System. (It also fits that one of the big family names in Harvard's history was Hollis)

Well, periodically throughout the day my office gets batch files sent to us from the catalog.
This batch file process is called FETCHERRS: Facility to Enter Through the Catalog in HOLLIS End-user Retrieval Requests from Storage.
I kid you not.....

-Rob

[DonohoFlnkr]

This batch file process is called FETCHERRS: Facility to Enter Through the Catalog in HOLLIS End-user Retrieval Requests from Storage.
I kid you not.....

-Rob

That's pretty long winded. You did say Harvard though.
Reminds me of a cheer the cheerleaders had at my high school

"We request the opposition to relinquish the possession of the sphere....hey we want that ball!"

[Zazu]

I'll do you one better... An insanely convoluted acronym where one of the letters refers to yet *another* acronym...

Not so unusual, we use embedded acronyms every day.

RADAR = RAdio Detection And Ranging
RADIO = Radiation And Detection by Induced Oscillation

Can anyone name an acronym that's three layers deep?

[Malpass93]

Can anyone name an acronym that's three layers deep?

I have a ficticious one from the fifth Alex Rider book Scorpia. In that, there is a criminal organisation called SCORPIA, and the letters SCORPIA stand for "Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence and Assassination"; these are the organisation's main areas of operation.

[CBeilby]

I have a ficticious one from the fifth Alex Rider book Scorpia. In that, there is a criminal organisation called SCORPIA, and the letters SCORPIA stand for "Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence and Assassination"; these are the organisation's main areas of operation.

Ande of course, there's James Bond's classic enemies, SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion)

[darph nader]

And of course,the ever famous UNCLE. United Network Command for Law Enforement.

[Zazu]

Sorry, seems I wasn't clear in my challenge.

RADAR includes the acronym RADIO, thus producing a 2-level acronym. My question was if anyone know of a 3-level acronym -- one where the first acronym includes a term that's an acronym, which itself includes a third acronym.

But to stick with the theme, what about CONTROL and KAOS?

[CptnSkippy]

CHAOS: Chief Has Arrived On Scene

Sorry, wrong KAOS.

[Lasolimu]

Sorry, seems I wasn't clear in my challenge.

RADAR includes the acronym RADIO, thus producing a 2-level acronym. My question was if anyone know of a 3-level acronym -- one where the first acronym includes a term that's an acronym, which itself includes a third acronym.

But to stick with the theme, what about CONTROL and KAOS?

Here's one that's infinite levels. G.O.D. stands for G.O.D. of djinn. Or is that cheating? :p: