Endorsement of a new acronym

After much thought, consultation and research, a small gathering of Friends of the English Metaphor have decide that the titles SCAM (the Society for the Care of Ancient Metaphors) and SPAM (the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Metaphors) are both, for obvious reasons, not suitable in this era of acronymity. These have therefore been officially discarded*, and the F of EM wish now to be known by the name of SCREAM (the Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of Elderly and Ailing Metaphors); having given it, as they would like everyone to know, the stamp of their approval**.

* A metaphor directly derived from the card table, that entered our language in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

** Compare metaphorical 'hall-marks' and 'rubber-stamping'; and, indeed 'brand' names (from Old English brinnan = to burn; Early English brende = burnt), referring to the practice of making an identity mark with a red-hot iron.

Endorsement of a new acronym