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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

Thanks title, I definitely wouldn't have figured it out after getting to the word "acronym".

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

humans naturally gravitate towards phallic jokes

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"I've dwelt among the humans. Their entire culture is built around their penises. It's funny to say they are small. It's funny to say they are big. I've been at parties where humans held bottles, pencils, thermoses in front of themselves and called out, 'Hey, look at me. I'm Mr. So-and-So Dick. I've got such-as-such for a penis.' I never saw it fail to get a laugh."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I recognized the name, but couldn't place it until I heard the voice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I know what you mean he he ;) ;) ;)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

No males do.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta love a good backronym.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think in this case its an actual acronym. They came up with and named the process, so its not after the fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Also, we'd have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Amazingly ahead of their time. They were spinning right-round before it was even in a song.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of Post-Exertional Neuro-Immune syndrome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

very amusing grads, improper naming action.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-polarization

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, because those initials work out so much better than the other one...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Especially considering what the context already was

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dude I fucking love science

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/G5hViHTGC8w

Not quite the clip I was hoping for, but it’ll do :-)