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I love how it apparently stands for "What a terrible failure".

Talk about reverse engineering an acronym :)

Wikipedia calls it a Backronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym

"Backronym"? That's obviously a postmanteau :-)

Portmanteau

I know, see the ":-)" ?

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