Every Vocal Story I Have Published Is Generated By AI
Some Truths About My Writing, Acronyms and Mnemonics

Introduction
The title is pure clickbait and may put people off reading but it is meant to raise a chuckle because if fully expanded it would read:
"Every Vocal Story I Have Published Is Generated By ACTUAL Intelligence"
That is, I am intelligent, although many would disagree with me on this point.
Previous points on the thing that calls itself AI is that it is artificial and it is not intelligent. Computers and machines can do repetitive things very fast, but they can only do what they have been told to do via programs or other instructions.
This is meant to be a light-hearted piece. I do use programs to generate my artwork for these stories and sometimes if I can't find music for a story, to me it is just another tool to help me.
AI (Actual Intelligence) Is The Life Of Me
AI is just another acronym and they are often the bane of my life although I often use them myself, after all, it is a lot more laconic and economical to say "AI" than "Artificial Intelligence".
Then you start thinking of some slightly naughty one, I was slightly shocked to see this when I was in Prison (working of course):
And this shirt did make me smirk, I don't know if it's photoshopped or what, and loved that so many people could not see what was wrong:

Apparently, In the 70's U.K., there was a television morality campaigner called Mary Whitehouse initially called her pressure group "Clean Up National TV" Think about it. Then there is always the sound acronym "See You Next Tuesday"
I also believe there was an organisation called the Scottish Highland & Islands Trust. They didn't think about that acronym.
There was a band called SNAFU (Situation Normal: All F*cked Up.), though the album below is called "All FuNked Up".
This is the Google Dictionary definition:
informal•North American
noun
a confused or chaotic state; a mess.
"an enormous amount of my time was devoted to untangling snafus"
adjective
in utter confusion or chaos.
"our refrigeration plant is snafu"
verb
throw (a situation) into chaos.
"you ignored his orders and snafued everything"
The Wikipedia entry is more detailed:
FUBAR is similar, US military in origin, and sometimes containing that explicit naughty word, though this description uses "Fouled" instead.
There are many acronyms that seem to have morphed into their own words:
- SONAR – Sound Navigation and Ranging.
- LASER – Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
- SCUBA – Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
- RADAR – Radio Detection and Ranging
- CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
While these are not as funny, I can never remember their absolute meaning so now I have this Vocal Story to remind me if I should ever need to know.
Sometimes actual words are tuned into Acronyms for whatever reason.
I am sure that we could think of one for VOCAL
- VOCAL - Variety Of Creators And Literati
I would love to hear some suggestions in the comments.
Mnemonics are strategies or techniques for effective memorization. They are used to improve memory and are often taught in school. I have a few that have stayed with me such as "Eggs Are Useful" to remember how to spell Beautiful. They are sort of the opposite of acronyms, and, oddly, remembering a long sequence can be used to remember a short sequence.
This is a link to a PDF at Bradford Council that has a lot of mnemonics, I like the Big Elephants one.
Thank you for reading and hope you have found things to make you laugh and maybe help you in your writing.
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