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From long ago...WMTSU means 'we're making this stuff up'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Are you sure the "S" stands for "stuff"? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Two spring readily to mind...
OWNER: Old W*nker Needs Early Retirement.
And a favourite from my photographic days, working in retouch labs:
PHOTOGRAPHER: Pig Headed Old Tosser Only Gets Respect After Proving He's Enormously Rich!
Danny
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MIL-T-FD41
Make It Like The Flippin' Drawing For Once
(From the days of pre-computer-ubiquity.)
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DILLIGAF
Do I Look Like I Give A F...inished this sentence yet?
LOMBARD
Lots Of Money But A Real D...head.
I have, in the past, referred to certain co-workers as "Errol Flynn" ... basically they f...k everything they touch.
www.CADbloke.com
The Broadcast Systems Documentation SYSTEM
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"
-Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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I am the DSJB: Departmental Sh!t-Job(*) Boy.
(*) Source control wizard (Visual SourceSafe, no less), build server admin, build process author, ...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not tech related, but I did find it giggle worthy when the doctor told us that my wife needed T&A.
He meant "tonsils and adenoids removal", but I'm very immature 
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Haaaaa. A few years ago, I was travelling with some coworkers every other week for "knowledge transfer" (aka "you're on OUR turf now! do this grunt work you persnickety perfectionist group of code monkeys who have made our lives ") at our vendor's HQ. At their location, temp offices for remote managers who had come in to work were named after colors. "Joe is in the magenta office this week", etc. Conference rooms were named after gemstones: "2 PM code review in Sapphire room". And the nine project work areas were named after the planets.
We discovered we were *way* too juvenile to work in a place where every time we had to get up for coffee, lunch breaks, restroom, etc., we had to walk past Uranus. The jokes were plentiful, frequent, and totally immature.
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When people are wetting their panties over some perceived problem
"Who's going to die? Yeah, that's what I thought."
Which usually gets people to stop panicking and start thinking how we're going to solve this problem. Of course, it doesn't work for every application.
"They're either going to get over it, or die still pissed off."
More when dealing with idiots, and you have to give them a rebuke. When you're right, stand up for yourself.
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TLA - three letter acronym
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If it has more than three letters, it is an ETBA - Extended Three Letter Acronym.
(Or 'Abbreviation', if you prefer than.)
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CRM - Constantly Requires Maintenance
ISM (a wonderfully crappy tool from IBM that you have hopefully never had to use) - I S*&t Myself - because it s%&ts itself all the time.
Lotus Notes = Blotus Notes
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Did you work at Storage Dimensions?
Da Bomb
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No, I work for a contractor at a utility company.
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I am sure every heard of the "ID ten T" error?
Spelled out: ID10T
Not acronyms, but the two funniest error messages in my carrier, are based on the confusion they caused.
On the old PDP/11: "Maybe you no run on right system?"
and many years later, there was a SPOT the code should NEVER get to. We don't like silent errors, so this one bubbled up:
"Houston, We have a Problem!"
Unfortunately, it popped up during an install in Texas. And the COMPETITOR had a big office in Houston. Panic set in, before we could explain...
Fun!
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From the car world:
FORD: Fix Or Repair Daily.
LOTUS: Loads Of Trouble, Usually Serious.
ALFA: Aging Latin F*ckwit's Ambulance.
BMW: Break My Windows.
FIAT: Fix It Again, Tony.
JEEP: Just Empty Every Pocket.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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FORD - Found On Road, Dead.
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From Central Virginia --
FORD -- Found on the Richmond Dump
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F'd over rebuilt Dodge - don't forget that one
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One I use alongside TODO and HACK:
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I used these two just this morning. I was donating platelets at the Red Cross.
After the first bad stick, "In for a penny, in for a pound".
When the phlebotomist moved to the second arm, "Measure twice and pierce once". They seemed amused at the time.
Others:
When in doubt, spell it out. (Yes. I programmed with COBOL)
RTFM - Read The F@#king Manual. (When manuals were thin enough to read).
Doesn't anyone use SNAFU anymore? Or is this meant to be a more esoteric list?
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I use SNAFU and FUBAR both. Still.
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The 7Ps would have saved a bunch of work throughout the years: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Oh! 7 Ps. We only used 6...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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