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* The school the antagonist runs in ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenidictSociety'' is called "The '''L'''earning '''I'''nstitute for the '''V'''ery '''E'''nlightened".

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* The school the antagonist runs in ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenidictSociety'' ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' is called "The '''L'''earning '''I'''nstitute for the '''V'''ery '''E'''nlightened".
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* The main antagonists in ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'' are an organization called "'''W'''orld '''I'''n '''C'''atastrophe: '''K'''illzone '''E'''xperiment '''D'''epartment". They claim that WICKED is good.


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* Subverted in ''Literature/{{You}}'': the game engine WAFFLE's name stands for ''something'', but only its creator knew, and he's dead.

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* Subverted in ''Literature/{{You}}'': ''Literature/You2013'': the game engine WAFFLE's name stands for ''something'', but only its creator knew, and he's dead.

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* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', Jerome Squalor compiles the evidence against Count Olaf into a book entitled '''O'''dious '''L'''usting '''A'''fter '''F'''inance. Not to mention the many, ''many'' times phrases are shoehorned into the [[ArcWords Arc Acronym]] V.F.D., which is ''strongly'' implied to stand for [[spoiler:'''V'''olunteer '''F'''ire '''D'''epartment]].

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* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'':
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Jerome Squalor compiles the evidence against Count Olaf into a book entitled '''O'''dious '''L'''usting '''A'''fter '''F'''inance. Not to mention '''F'''inance.
** In Book 5 Olaf makes
the children do '''S'''pecial '''O'''rphan '''R'''unning '''E'''xercises.
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many, ''many'' times phrases are shoehorned into the [[ArcWords Arc Acronym]] acronym V.F.D., which is ''strongly'' implied to stand for [[spoiler:'''V'''olunteer '''F'''ire '''D'''epartment]].
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* In the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novels, the computer system at St Oscar's University is '''S'''t '''O'''scar's '''D'''atabase '''I'''nformation '''T'''erminus, aka "the facility that dare not speak its acronym".

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* In the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'' novels, the computer system at St Oscar's University is '''S'''t '''O'''scar's '''D'''atabase '''I'''nformation '''T'''erminus, aka "the facility that dare not speak its acronym".
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* In ''Literature/TheManyMysteriesOfTheFinkelFamily'', aspiring KidDetective Lara Finkel creates the '''F'''inkel '''I'''nvestigation '''A'''gency '''S'''olving '''C'''onsequential '''C'''rimes '''O'''nly. The idea is that when people have a fiasco, they can go to FIASCCO. She's annoyed that she couldn't come up with an acronym with only one C.
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* ''The Fourth Protocol'' by Creator/FrederickForsyth. The head of the Joint Intelligence Committee is complaining that he doesn't have a catchy acronym, whereupon the CIA liaison officer suggests '''S'''upreme '''H'''ead of '''I'''ntelligence '''T'''argeting. Preferring not to be known as the SHIT of Whitehall, he quickly drops the matter.

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* ''The Fourth Protocol'' ''Literature/TheFourthProtocol'' by Creator/FrederickForsyth. The head of the Joint Intelligence Committee is complaining that he doesn't have a catchy acronym, whereupon the CIA liaison officer suggests '''S'''upreme '''H'''ead of '''I'''ntelligence '''T'''argeting. Preferring not to be known as the SHIT of Whitehall, he quickly drops the matter.
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** PHANG, which stands for... vampire. There ''are'' explanations given regarding what the letters actually stand for, but the explanations are always different.

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** PHANG, which stands for... vampire. There ''are'' explanations given regarding what the letters actually stand for, but the explanations are always different.different, and one person insists that the "G" stands for [[UsefulNotes/TheGestapo Geheime Staatspolizei]].
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* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' has the '''S'''ystem '''I'''ntegration '''M'''anager "SIM", which is secretly actually the Systems I[[spoiler: nfiltration]] Manager. Same acronym.

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* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' has the '''S'''ystem '''I'''ntegration '''M'''anager "SIM", which is secretly actually the Systems I[[spoiler: nfiltration]] I[[spoiler:nfiltration]] Manager. Same acronym.
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** The titular school isthe '''H'''igher '''I'''nstitute of '''V'''illainous '''E'''ducation

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** The titular school isthe is the '''H'''igher '''I'''nstitute of '''V'''illainous '''E'''ducation
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** In the novel ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', the titular young necromancer uses a grimoire of potent evil in an attempt to summon a demon to do his bidding. The book is '''''M'''allificarum '''S'''umpta '''D'''iabolicite '''O'''ccularis '''S'''ingularum''. Which translates as [[spoiler:"evil-making driver of the little one-eyed devil"]].

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** In the novel ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', the titular young necromancer uses a grimoire of potent evil in an attempt to summon a demon to do his bidding. The book is '''''M'''allificarum '''M'''allificarum '''S'''umpta '''D'''iabolicite '''O'''ccularis '''S'''ingularum''. Which translates as [[spoiler:"evil-making driver of the little one-eyed devil"]].
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* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': Angela’s club is called Girls Only, Boys Smell (or GOBS).
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* In ''Literature/HarleyQuinnReckoning'', a college professor with a penchant for inappropriate sexist 'jokes' is put in charge of organizing a neurology conference, and names it '''B'''reaking '''O'''bservations in '''O'''ptogenetics and '''B'''rain '''S'''timulation -- B.O.O.B.S.

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