A NIMBY is an acronym, we all know, for a person who while proclaiming to be in favor of progress and change says quite clearly but:
Not In My Back Yard
A BANANA is a bit more adamant he says:
Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody
The really furious RAGE. This one is courtesy of Doug W. a brilliant environmental lawyer in NY. They are the:
Residents Against Goddamn Everything
This submission promoted a flock of posts with new anti development acronyms these from Arnie S. are the only two I could recover:
NOPE: Not On Planet Earth
TEDAO: Tear Everything Down At Once
We definitely need someone to build the Acronym-omatic I invented last year as an I-Phone application.
This is a repost of a repost of a post I wrote in 2010.
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