Late-afternoon Nomi Brain Weirdness

[gnomi]

Quick question - what is the first thing you associate with the initials GDR?

Just wondering.

Comments

[sethg]

German Democratic Republic, aka East Germany.

[saxikath]

Grin, duck, and run, especially if it's got asterisks around it.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

[bluepapercup]

God Damn Rodents!

[ckd]

Grin, duck, & run; this is followed closely by German Democratic Republic (except that I usually think of that as DDR, not to be confused with Dance Dance Revolution).

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

German Democratic Republic came first.

I'd think grin duck and run if it were in small letters, though.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

Me too, although it does take me a minute to map anything at all. It's DDR and BRD for me.

[swashbucklr]

Gnomi Dance Revolution?

WE

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

Germany?

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Gross National Product!

Oh wait. That's way off.

Um.

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

FDR's younger brother.

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

Oops. Older brother was JDR, not GDR. Close.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

God Damn Right?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Grin, duck, and run, although I expected commas.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

German Democratic Republic.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Grin Duck Run

[eal.livejournal.com]

Ahem.

God damned Republicans.

Yeah, I spent WAY too much time in Auburn (GDI -- God Damned independents).

M

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

Deutsche Demokratik Republik, althought it took a moment to figure out why I associated words whose initials are DDR with the TLA GDR.

that was close to mine...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

except for some reason I came up with "God Damn Revolutionaries"

[sdavido.livejournal.com]

Gondorian Democratic Republic . . . rather than Germany, but I just finished some LoTR study . . .

[jencallisto]

*grin* that was the only thing i could come up with, too... glad to see i wasn't the only one.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

German Democratic Republic... if it stands for something else too, I don't know what it is.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Uh. Germany.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

I thought his brother was TDR, or was he his cousin?

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I have a funny one. The new measure of the economy by the Bush administration since the GDP shows the country going bankrupt. The GDR is the Gross Domestic Raping of the economy, which measures the economy in terms of the ratio of salaries of CEOs to workers. You know. I think this is going to be a headline.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Ok. Here's how it came out.

* The Bush administration announced today that the economy would no longer be measured in terms of GDP (gross domestic profit) because that doesn't highlight the administration's successes enough. The new measure of the economy, since the GDP shows the country going bankrupt, will be the GDR. The Gross Domestic Raping of the economy measures the economy in terms of the ratio of salaries of CEOs to workers, tracks the number of jobs that have been outsourced to other nations, tracks how mean salaries have been dropping, tracks the ratio of the tax burden on the wealthy to the middle class and poor, and, finally, the shares of Halliburton. According to the GDR George Bush is the greatest president since Herbert Hoover.

[seborn.livejournal.com]

German Democratic Republic, although then I had to sit down and think hard whether that mapped to DDR or BRD or FRG. I can only expand one acronym at a time!