My start with acronames was on April 19, 2007 at a Robert G. Allen Inner Wealth Retreat. Before a lunch break, he introduced the idea of consciously choosing what our names stood for and meant to us - and then stated that he would pay $20 to the person who could create the best "acroname" for themselves by the time we came back from lunch.
Most people came up with unrelated adjectives for each letter of their first name. I decided to try to come up with something that made sense - using my full name. By popular vote (and in front of all attending), Bob paid me $20 for my very FIRST personalized acroname attempt: OREN PARDES = Ongoing Reminder Enthusiastically Nurturing Purposeful Action Demonstrating Extreme Success. This gave new possibilities and meaning(s) for both my name and my creating more acronames. OREN PARDES = Only Rich Experiences Now; Playful Activities Really Do Express Satisfaction. Although it's only a casual hobby, I noticed that I not only enjoy creating acronames, but apparently seem to do so more easily and quickly than many other people. I also seem to be the only person I know who tried to create sentences or phrases. People seem to really appreciate the personalized acronames I create for them. My blog post about "Tactile Yell" was originally a longer blog posted on MySpace on April 1st, 2009. Many of the name examples found on this site came from acronames I created for people who commented on that blog. Just after deciding to start this site I read a post on Facebook by Johnny Fernandez requesting that his "friends" post their favorite acronyms. I submitted acronames - using his full name and a few options for his and his wife's first names. His reply prompted me to add a "donation request" to this site. I'm not sure what an acroname is worth (in financial terms), but I'm open to finding out. I'm not the only person who creates acronames - for myself or for others, but I have yet to find a website similar to this one. If you find value in what I post on this site, I hope you will help support my efforts in some way. Please let me know what you like (or don't) and how I can make this site better. Your thoughts, comments, and donations are much appreciated. I recently "met" a woman online with what I thought was an interesting and unusual user name: Tactile Yell. I wrote to ask her if that meant if I touched her, she would scream. She replied that the name was an anagram.
Since she said her name was “Kelly Marie”, I don't think “Tactile Yell” was a very good anagram – because it didn’t even use all the letters in her name. It even substituted some that weren’t there. I wrote back asking if “Kelly Marie” was an anagram for “Mark E. Reilly”. If it was, her pics sure had me fooled. But, unlike me, not everyone looks like the photo(s) they like to post on the internet…. I figured that if Kelly wanted to yell (“like a lyme”?) and actually use the letters in her name, then “a krime yell” would be more fitting than the less “anagramatic” tactile yell that she create - even though she claimed my anagram suggestion didn't really make sense. What I found curious was Kelly not saying anything about “Mark E. Reilly”. Maybe she just didn't want to go there. I sure don't. I'm more of a “what you see is what you get” kind of a guy. Well, maybe not. I usually offer and/or give more than people expect. What would you like to see (me offer and/or give) more of on this site? |
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