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Before reading the other posts, all I could come up with was humming hmm hmm N G O hmm hmm N G O... Now I find the song is about "business-oriented international non-governmental organizations". No wonder they gave the poor dog an acronym.


As usually happens, after saying I've never heard of it, I heard a BBC announcer use it while translating for a Czech woman on National Public Radio.
I decided to do a search on my local newspaper site (Dallas Morning News). I found 5 uses of NGO in the last month - 1 apropos, 1 about a Russian law relating to oil pipelines, 2 different Vietnamese names and one I couldn't actually find in the text - might have been in the name of an image file or something. In that same time period, there are 1,770 references to FBI and 709 references to CIA. (I didn't check them all to see if any were to the Culinary Institute of America.)