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[magid]

ASA Angle-Side-Angle Congruence Theorem
BSA Boy Scouts of America
CSA Community Supported Agriculture
ESA European Space Agency
FSA Flexible Savings Accont
GSA General Services Administration (which really, really, really should be a name from 1984 or something)
NSA National Security Agency
PSA Public Service Announcement
SSA Social Security Administration
USA (as if I need to spell this one out)
ZSA half a Gabor

Comments

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, you got NSA wrong.

There is No Such Agency.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Does that mean security is really good, or really bad?
;-)

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. And that would be no good at all.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Small upside: I wouldn't have to clean for Pesach ;-)

[queue.livejournal.com]

ISA The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

And I would bet that something exists for every letter, "____ Society of America"

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's something for every letter, but not necessarily ones that many people know.

I should've remembered ISA, though.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

CSA was also once the Confederate States of America.

[queue.livejournal.com]

Also RSA, an encryption algorithm invented by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman.

[queue.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how could you forget the TSA?

[gingicat]

Very cute, especially the last one. :) Here's a few more:

HSA - Health Savings Accounts
ISA - International Society of Arboriculture
JSA - Justice Society of America
KSA - Knowledge, Skill & Ability supplemental application (for Federal US jobs)
LSA - Linguistic Society of America
MSA - Muslim Students' Associations

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

A few off the top of my head (I'm sure I'm missing others)...

DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
KSA: Kutsher's Sports Academy (I went to camp there)
OSA: Open Systems Architecture
RSA: Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (A public key cipher named for the three who invented it)
TSA: Transportation Security Administration

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

The ridiculous thing is I work in IT Security, know what RSA is, but never really thought about what RSA stood for...

ZSA

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

ARGH! *giggle*