I found the following on an ESPN baseball chat (conducted by Rob Neyer, who is a very good baseball writer):
Rob Neyer: I just want to throw something in here . . . for a while (and maybe still today) Bill James was playing around with this toy, where you take the first letters of a player's last name and turn them into something else. For example, Left Outfielder, Not Good (Terence Long) and Brings Extensive Losing Log (Buddy Bell). A friend and I came up with Grew In Artificial Manner By Injection (Jason Giambi) and Works At Notching Groundouts (Chien-Ming Wang). Anyway, in this same vein, James Bulger just suggested that we change Clearly Identifiable Defensie Mistake (another Bill James invention) to Plain Error Not Acknowledged . . . or "PENA", in honor of Wily Mo Pena. (Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming...)
The one for Giambi is hilarious!
I want to come up with one for PORTER, but my mind isn't coming up with anything good and I should get back to work (after I finish reading the espn column, of course...).
7 hours ago
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Poster Of Random Trivial Esoteric References
Political Observer Reporting Trends, Exciting Results!
Player Of Raging Tribesman Exacting Revenge
OK, I'm out. The "P* Of" construction is taking hold too strongly... The Sawtooth one works pretty well, I think.
The Sawtooth one definitely works really well!
Hmmm... in a slight modification of your first one, what about Purveyor Of Repetitious (but) Tractable Esoteric Results
We should come up with stuff for the rest of you as well. Does anybody care to volunteer some surnacroynms?
At this moment, I'm
Honked Off Working Extractions (in a) Ludicrous Language
stupid IDL code... >:(
Happy Owner With Exuberant Licker, Loki
and the close variant
Happy Over Wedding Excellent Loving Lesleigh.
Hydrocarbon Overanalysis: Widely Excited Lines (in) LIRGs
(OK, lame, acronyms in acronyms are a bit silly)
Exhuberant licking seems to be a bit of a carry-over from a recent post...
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