Nearly disastrous acronym

[venator]

This organisation's acronym is WATCH - they should have called themselves Women In The CHurch

http://www.womenandthechurch.org/

[mrs_overall]

Good evening your Reverence.

Some years ago the Police (briefly) initiated a Fast Action Response Team

[Psybbo]

Mrs-o, brilliant, did that really happen?

[mrs_overall]

Yes, One of my brothers is a policeman and it was his force

[mike11111]

Back in the 70s when I was a student at Durham the organisation agitating for women priests was known as the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW). It was originally to be called the Campaign for the Ordination of Women until someone spotted the potential acronym.

[Psybbo]

In NI, the RUC was nearly named Northern Ireland Police Service, caught in time and became PSNI

[excelsior-1]

back in the seventies, raymond baxter tried to put together scenes from tomorrows world that missed the final edits.

he wanted to call it Tomorrows World's Additional Takes

[DTCwordfan]

so what about the Jehovahs, i.e. goodlife and his mob, spouting verbatim and no acknowledgement from the "WatchTower"

[mike11111]

^?

[Wharton]

Glasgow City Council
Land Services Department
Woodside & North Kelvin Sector

[ChuckFickens]

the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CCRAP) only lasted a short time, until they realised people were calling them "see crap"

[DTCwordfan]

Bikers Offering Options To Bikers = .....

[excelsior-1]

chuckfickens.

a spoonerism if ever i saw one (lol)

[ChuckFickens]

OH, and I really want to work for the Ontario Mega Finance Group!

[ChuckFickens]

What...., OMFG.... I'd never realised that!

[Jonathan-Joe]

Sunday Night at the Church House - it really exists http://www.capitalchu...uk/familyworship.html

[jno]

so what kind of people join this outfit?

http://en.wikipedia.o...amic_liberation_front

[MarkRae]

I used to work with a guy who, in the late 60s, worked for the Hayling Island Photographic Company. They called themselves HipCo - far out, man! :-)

[argorstran]

Did the USA/USSR ever sign an agreement on Procedures for Inspecting Strategic Submarines ?
You can just imagine the press spokesmen at the news conference : " The President and the General Secretary have been talking ---- "

[marval]

P.I.S.S.
The Phoenix Islands Resettlement Scheme.