Reblogged from paralysedbeaver
thisisevenharderthannamingablog:
But he’s not wrong! S.H.I.E.L.D. has had two different meanings before this one, so they likely had to work to come up with something that would work.
Someone really wanted their initials to spell out S.H.I.E.L.D.
Did it have a second meaning in the MCU? If it did then I stand corrected. I get that it could just be an intentionally meta line, but it feels a bit clunky to me regardless.
No other (what’s the opposite of acronym?) in the MCU, but since that’s pretty much what I thought when I first heard it spelled out, I can’t really knock ‘em for the line.
This is the country that came up with the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, after all.
I thought this line was very astute. My company has won multi-million dollar contracts for (what we think is) having a better name/acronym then other teams. We are supposed to spend up to 3 hours thinking up a good name/backronym (we call it backronyming, when you start with a word you want, i.e. SHIELD, and then work backwards to words that make sense as part of the acronym) on a proposal. Which, considering we only have 30 hours allotted for each proposal we write, is a significant chunk of change.
I’m not even going to discuss the acronym for the project I did my PhD in, but yes, this.
I believe this is something every comics fan has thought at one point or another, IDK about movie fans. The original acronym in the comics was “Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division” which CLEARLY existed to spell out SHIELD because it makes very little sense otherwise.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS.
The MCU version is the third version of the word combination and is actually the most rational of the three. The MCU also has the most logical implicit backstory, which is that SHIELD was founded by people who wanted to carry on Captain America’s legacy.
I will bet dollars to wingnuts that Howard Stark is the one who came up with the name.
Howard Stark was also, of course, the founder of HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
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Some days you just have to stop and wonder; Am I as elusive as Robert Denby?
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I did it again, Big.
Original design; nice, clean cross-stitch. Virtually baby spider-free! Get “Deeep Hurting” through my Etsy shop!
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I actually like the scientists from Giant Spider Invasion: two snarky, unattractive middle-aged physicists who don’t waste time on a romance and save the world with science. I wish they had a better movie to star in.
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Pretty much all you need to know about these characters.
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Please tell me there’s at least one other Tumblr MSTie who’s Team Joel.
I feel so alone.
Joel is the best, better than all the rest <3
Actually, I feel like, when he left, it started a slow migration of the writers that replaced ones who were more cheerful and relaxed with ones who were more cynical and whose humor style tended toward late-90s-edgy.
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Back when I used to be a temp, I always hoped that my bosses wouldn’t like me and would shoot me into space to watch bad movies with sassy robots.
Unfortunately, only one of those things actually happened.
