👉 Okay, letâs tackle this wonderfully prickly little beast of a word â "âŚthe ludicrous, regrettably redundant acronymâŚ
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â (Okay, maybe I'm already hamming it up here, but stick with me).
What exactly is a âJRCISPWN-RâLAH-A-LALAHâ? (Because that's essentially what we get when you try to actually define "...the ludicrous, regrettably redundant acronymâŚ!")?
Now. Before I proceed and frankly, before I nearly lose my sanity trying to unpack this, let me preface everything by stating that there is absolutely, positively, 100% no documented official meaning for the word, "âŚthe ludicrous, regrettably redundant acronymâŚ!". Seriously! There are no governmental registers, no obscure Finnish forestry committees.
The existence and therefore, the definition of a term like this
only exists within a very specific, intensely awkward, late-night Dungeons & Dragons campaign. 1980, specifically. The campaign was called, somewhat tragically, "Lord Bartholomewâs Lamentations."
Basically. A young, very sleep-deprived, and frankly rather pretentious player named Nigel decided to invent the acronym as a way of describing the utterly baffling bureaucratic procedure for requesting a new, and extremely specific, shade of teal from the Duchy of Gloomsworth's Royal Department of Understated Hues. (It was 198