— anti-social behavior order — beating Lionel's previous record by a week.
Thomas began to research the Anti-Social Behavior Order, a controversial penalty in the U.K. which amounts to a restraining order.
Lionel has changed his last name, we learn, to Asbo, which stands for Anti-Social Behavior Order.
The girl can safely experiment with away-from-home behavior, ordering "just what I like" in the dining car and slyly slipping five sugar cubes from the sugar bowl into her coin purse without retribution from the kindly waiter.
The readers' suggestions included "Dipso, Fatso, Bingo, Asbo, Tesco" (Asbo stands for "anti-social behavior order," a law-enforcement tool, while Tesco is a ubiquitous supermarket chain); "Once Mighty Empire, Slightly Used"; "At Least We're Not French"; and "We Apologize for the Inconvenience".
In the U.K. when a person engages in antisocial behavior the courts can issue an order, known as the Antisocial Behavior Order (ASBO), which tells the person not to do it again.
In non-theoretical real life, he's currently one month into two-and-a-half years for disobeying an ASBO [an anti-social behavior order] that forbade him from-no surprises here-walking around naked.
Slate: "The title character of Martin Amis' latest novel, Lionel Asbo, gets his name from an acronym used in the British criminal justice system that stands for "anti-social behavior order".
The alpha values of the included subscales: Involvement, Practical Orientation, Personal Problem Orientation, Angry and Aggressive Behavior, Order and Organization, and Program Clarity, ranged between 0.53 and 0.69.
In 1998, Tony Blair ushered into being ASBOs, antisocial-behavior orders.
