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pax
ERISA: Every Ridiculous Idea Since Adam
TEFRA: Taxing Every Fiscally Responsible American

got more?
JanetM
IRS - Infernal Revenue Service
DOL - Doesn't Operate Logically
jsb
WFTRA - When Federal Troglodytes Run Amok
Steve72(b)
HIPAA: Help Increase Payments to American Attorneys.

EGTRRA: Even Great Tax Rules get Ridiculous Acronyms.
JanetM
QMCSO - Quit Making Children So Often
Mary C
I doubt anyone can top QMCSO but here's one that's in the new issue of Employee Benefit News -

HIPAA - Hiding Involving Privacy as Alibi
jevd
RMD-You know that one
MRD - An alternative

Which ones correct?

DRM - Doesn't Really Matter
oriecat
COBRA - Coverage of Blatantly Ridiculous Affordability
stephen
FEMA - Fix Everything My Ass

(Having just returned from a trip to New Orleans where I saw this on a t-shirt)
Don Levit
S.O.S. For the pad that cleans dishes, what do the letters stand for?
Harry S. Truman What does the "S" stand for?
Don Levit
WDIK
QUOTE (Don Levit @ May 30 2006, 12:12 PM) *
Harry S. Truman What does the "S" stand for?



I do not think that it stands for anything, but was given to him as a compromise between the names of his grandfathers.
WDIK
QUOTE (Don Levit @ May 30 2006, 12:12 PM) *
S.O.S. For the pad that cleans dishes, what do the letters stand for?



Save Our Saucepans. (Technically, I think the scouring pad brand name only has two periods because of patent issues.)
Don Levit
WDIK:
Apparently, you know quite a bit, and I have been lowered a bit from my high horse!
While we're at it, I hope I am not being too personal, but, what does WDIK stand for?
Don Levit
WDIK
QUOTE (Don Levit @ May 30 2006, 02:06 PM) *
Apparently, you know quite a bit


The internet can even give the illusion of intelligence to a bozo like me.


QUOTE (Don Levit @ May 30 2006, 02:06 PM) *
what does WDIK stand for?


It's in the signature
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