Acronyms Can Really Obnoxiously Negate Your Motive
Chris French enters his apartment and is startled to find his friends Albert Dutch, Beth English and David Dijibouti waiting for him.
Albert: Chris, we need to talk.
Beth: This is an intervention.
David: It’s about your store’s name.
Chris: Chris French Cleaners? What’s wrong with that?
Albert: Don’t you see?
Chris
French
Cleaners
CFC!
Beth: That stands for chlorofluorocarbons.
David: Chloroflurocarbons created the hole in our ozone layer.
Albert: You’ve named your dry cleaning store after a dangerous pollutant!
Beth: It’s too ironic! It will ruin your business.
Chris: Relax, it’s been that way since 1959. I’ll be fine.
Albert: That’s what I thought about my failed condom business.
Albert’s
Infectious
Defense
System.
AIDS!
Beth: Yes, and my now-defunct infant furniture store.
Beth’s
Antique
Bassinets.
Yellowing
Merchandise
Unwaveringly
Reliable
Despite
Evident
Repairs.
BABY MURDER!
David: And my out-of-print peaceful New Age philosophy book!
David’s
Altruistic
Theology
Encompassing
Religion
And
Practical
Ethics.
Developed
Reverently
Unto
God’s
Service.
DATE RAPE DRUGS!
Chris: But you guys worked so hard creating ironic acronyms that you were clearly more interested in being clever than being successful.
Anthony: Oh, good point.
Beth: Yeah, I never even cared about babies.
David: Now I regret changing my name from Hank.
Tags: acronym, AIDS, anagram, BABY MURDER, CFC, DATE RAPE DRUGS, featured, word play
Dialogues, Pictures, Writing | Adam | 
March 18, 2010 12:20 am | 
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