2SHY

Virgil Incanto's Internet nickname.

A.D.

Assistant Director.

AFB

Air Force Base.

ANASAZI

ancestors of the Navajo.

APOCRYPHA

"writings or statements of dubious authenticity."

ASU

Aesthetic Surgery Unit [Sanguinarium].

ATXF

alt.tv.x-files.

AVATAR

"1: the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
2 a: an incarnation in human form b: an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
3: a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity."

AXIS POWER

Scientists, given amnesty after WWII, who conducted experiments on the "merchandise" [Anasazi].

BATF

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

BEYOND THE SEA

song by Bobby Darin. Plays at Scully's parents' wedding and William Scully's funeral.

BIOGENESIS

"1: the development of life from preexisting life.
2: a supposed tendency for stages in the evolutionary history of a race to briefly recur during the development and differentiation of an individual of that race."

BLACK CANCER

See Black Oil.

BLACK OIL

Liquid alien organism that looks like oil, and gains complete control over its host by getting literally under their skin (Piper Maru/Apocrypha, Tunguska/Terma, The X-Files [movie]).

BLESSING WAY

ritual performed by Albert Hosteen to heal Mulder.

B.R.M.

Biological Response Modifier[s].

CDC

Centers for Disease Control. [Official name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.]

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency.

CoG

Cult of Gizzie.

CONSORTIUM

See Syndicate.

COPROPHAGOUS

"feeding on dung."

CPR

Cardiopulmunary Resuscitation.

CSM

Cigarette Smoking Man (Cancer Man).

DDEB

David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade.

DIE HAND DIE VERLETZT

the hand that wounds.

DoD

Department of Defense.

DOD KALM

dead calm (Norwegian).

D.P.O.

Darren Peter Oswald.

DREAMLAND

aka Area 51, etc. "Secret" military base in Nevada which supposedly housed and tested alien spaceships.

E.B.E.

Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.

EMS

Emergency Medical Services.

EMT

Emergency Medical Technician.

ELEGY

"1: a poem in elegiac couplets
2 a: a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead b: something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem
3 a: a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy b: a short pensive musical composition."

ERLENMEYER FLASK

"a flat-bottomed conical laboratory flask."

EXCELSIS DEI

Glory of God.

F. EMASCULATA

F. [Faciphaga] Emasculata is the disease-carrying bug mentioned in that episode.

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency. The bad guys in The X-Files [movie].

FMU

FBI's Most Unwanted (hummm... who could that be?).

FOLIE A DEUX

Madness shared by two.

GABAL

Gillian Anderson Born Again Lesbians.

GANTA

The Gillian Anderson NeuroTransmitter Association

GATB

Gillian Anderson Testosterone Brigade.

GETHSEMANE

"1: the garden outside Jerusalem mentioned in Mk 14 as the scene of the agony and arrest of Jesus.
2: a place or occasion of great mental or spiritual suffering"

HERRENVOLK

Master race.

HRT

Hormone Replacement Therapy.

IDDG

Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous (one way to describe Scully).

INS

Immigration and Naturalization Service.

KADDISH

"a Jewish prayer recited in the daily ritual of the synagogue and by mourners at public services after the death of a close relative."

KCN

Potassium Cyanide [The Field Where I Died]

KITSUNEGARI

Fox hunt.

LGM

The Lone GunMan.

MEMENTO MORI

Reminder of death.

MERCHANDISE

Test subjects whose bodies Mulder finds in a boxcar buried in the desert (Anasazi).

MIB

Man in Black. Plural: MIBs.

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MOTW

Monster Of The Week.

MP

Military Police.

MPEB

Mitch Pileggi Estrogen Brigade. Contact: PLMACKEY@delphi.com

MPPB

Mitch Pileggi Pheromone Brigade. Contact: befree@eskimo.com

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

MTA

Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

MUFON

Mutual UFO Network. See Betsy Hagopian, Penny Northern.

MYTHOLOGY

Refers to the alien/cloning/government conspiracy episodes.

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NCCS

N C C S. National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
NASA Center for Computational Sciences

NCIC

National Crime Information Center.

NCMEC

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. [Sein Und Zeit]

NICAP

National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomena.

NISEI

Second generation Japanese-American.

NRC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

NSA

National Security Agency.

NTSB

National Transportation Safety Board.

OBSSE

Order of the Blessed Saint Scully the Enigmatic.

OILIENS

See BLACK OIL.

OPR

Office of Professional Review.

OSU

"to push" [Japanese; Pusher].

OUBLIETTE

"1. a dungeon with an opening only at the top
2. to forget"

PCR

Polymerase Chain Reaction [DNA fragments synthesis].

PET

Positron Emission Tomography.

PIPER MARU

French salvage ship [Piper Maru, Apocrypha].

PFC

1. Plasma Fusion Center [MIT].
2. Primary Flight Control.

POW

Prisoner Of War.

PURITY CONTROL

Name of the cloning/alien hybridazation project in The Erlenmeyer Flask. "Purity" refers to the Black Oil.

QUAGMIRE

"1: soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot
2: a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position: PREDICAMENT"

Quonochontaug

Location in Rhode Island where the Mulders had a summer house.

REDUX

brought back.

SEP

Smallpox Eradication Program.

SKYLAND MOUNTAIN

Place where Scully is "abducted" in Duane Barry. Seen again in Patient X and The Red and the Black. One of the lighthouses where the alien colonization is supposed to begin.

SPERMINATOR

Term coined by lauracap, afaik. "It goes to the question of whether your father the man who raised you or the guy who dipped his pen in your mother ink. As for me, I say Mulder's father is Bill Mulder no matter who the sperminator was."

S.R.

Special Resolution, as in S.R. 819.

SRSG

Special Representative of the Secretary General [United Nations].

SYNDICATE

See Consortium.

SYD

Small Yappy Dog.

SYX

Smart Young X-Philes.

SYZYGY

"the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system."

TALITHA CUMI

"This is Aramaic for 'Little girl, arise!'" --Wendy Williams <wenwill@leba.net>.

TELIKO

Ghostly spirits in Africa (kinda redundant).

TEMPUS FUGIT

Time flies.

UFO

Unidentified Flying Object.

UNREQUITED

"not requited: not reciprocated or returned in kind <unrequited love>."

UNRUHE

trouble, strife; unrest.

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture.

USGS

United States Geological Survey.

UST

Unresolved Sexual Tension.

WAO

Wild Again Organization [Fearful Symmetry].

WMM

Well Manicured Man.

YAXA

Yet Another X-FILES Acronym.

X

The most important letter in the alphabet.

YKYAXPW

You Know You're An X-Phile When...

ZERO SUM

"of, relating to, or being a situation (as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for the other side"

ZEUS FABER

WWII submarine [Piper Maru, Apocrypha].

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