Quotes / Acronym and Abbreviation Overload

Music

"Before the BQE^* Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and FDR^* Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, HP^* Howard Philips Lovecraft on the MTA^* Metropolitan Transportation Authority!
Wanted with his whole pink heart to honor and befriend BK^* Brooklyn!"

— Aesop Rock, "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" (A remix appearance by the Mountain Goats)

Video Games

"FYI^* For your information, ETA^* estimated time of arrival is ASAP^* as soon as possible."

— One of many audio clips that can play after respawning in ONRUSH

Tell your BF,^* boyfriend GF,^* girlfriend BFF,^* best friend forever your OBGYN^* obstetrician and gynecologist
Your XXL^* extra extra large MD^* medical doctor or SO,^* significant other AM^* ante meridiem, morning or PM^* post meridiem, afternoon
Tell AJ, BJ, CJ, DJ, PJ and TJ^* all common name abbreviations
Because the CIA,^* Central Intelligence Agency the TSA^* Transportation Security Administration and NRA^* National Rifle Association
The USA,^* United States of America USSR,^* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics UAE^* United Arab Emirates and UK^* United Kingdom
Your HOA,^* Home Owners Association BBA,^* Boston Bar Association NFL^* National Football League and NBA^* National Basketball Association
GOP,^* Grand Old Party, nickname used for the Republican Party DNC,^* Democratic National Committee LGBT^* lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities
All agree that ELE's^* Electrical Lead Engineer GOAT,^* greatest of all time so QED!^* quod erat demonstrandum, thus it has been demonstrated

— Tadpole Treble Encore, "Aisle Isle"

Web Animation

"Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri. You know... because we have to abbreve everything."

— Strong Bad, Homestar Runner

Webcomics

Gavotte: The client's name is GODOT. Apparently, a "Genetic Organism Designed Only for Thought".

Sweetheart: Cute.

Gavotte: Quite. GODOT is a SIGINT DoD AI, formerly of the DLIS.

Tip: An ex-military AI? What was its job?

Gavotte: Thinking up acronyms, mostly.

— Skin Horse

Gavotte: One nanosecond after its birth in an MIT lab, GODOT named itself. It went on to coin the acronym "IHTFP", still the MIT student motto. It was shortly claimed by the military. At its peak, it could generate over 5,000 new acronyms per second.

Tip: Output like that could eliminate our dependence on foreign acronyms.

Gavotte: It helped make America great.

— Skin Horse

Web Video

Rafael: Unlike you, Pharaoh, I don't intend to use the Seal of Orichalcos to sacrifice my montsers. I intend to keep all of my monsters outside the graveyard for this entire duel.
Yugi: The GY.
Rafael: What?
Yugi: It's called the GY, now.
Rafael: Why did they do that?
Yugi: It saves space for text on the cards.
Rafael: I didn't know these things have text.
Yugi: Yes, soon they'll be abbreviating all the commonly used Dueling terms. Imagine how ridiculous that would be: now I S^* sacrifice my KBs^* Kuriboh Bandits and send them to the GY^* graveyard in order to TS^* tribute summon Kuribandit to my side of the F^* field!
Kuribandit: Do-da-arr-arr-arr-arr!
Yugi: And with that I'm fairly certain that we've exhausted every variation on that joke.

— Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, "Roof Raph"

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