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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:18 PM

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95. Very good!

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I guess I have to say this again: I am to the point where I just refuse to stop and Google some [View all]	Atticus	Jan 14	OP
Oh, SCAJRWYW...	brooklynite	Jan 14	#1
Supreme court arrests JR with young woman	mercuryblues	Jan 14	#2
I don't want to know----- nt (no text)	Atticus	Jan 14	#4
South Carolina Activist Judge Rules While Yelling Wildly	KS Toronado	Jan 14	#47
Atticus, I'm with you. Maybe it's my age, lol.	secondwind	Jan 14	#3
Me too. Seriously, Atti, what is PTB?	NCjack	Jan 14	#59
PTB Powers That Be	csziggy	Jan 14	#79
I still often search acronyms	Yonnie3	Jan 14	#5
Or	Jerry2144	Jan 14	#19
lighten up! nt	USALiberal	Jan 14	#6
I share your peeve.	lagomorph777	Jan 14	#7
I have this peeve. I know that Biden is a D DEM and Trump is a R GOP.	NCjack	Jan 14	#61
Yes, that too!	lagomorph777	Jan 14	#80
I share that one and a whole bunch more	hvn_nbr_2	Jan 14	#90
That's a fantastic list. Add: Blind links to Twit, and subject line "This!"	lagomorph777	Jan 14	#91
May I add the "asking for a friend" nonsense?	SharonClark	Jan 14	#93
or one more reference to some GD anime or Game of Thrones shit.	CurtEastPoint	Jan 14	#8
Lol, ok! Nt	USALiberal	Jan 14	#15
This message was self-deleted by its author	CurtEastPoint	Jan 14	#9
I don't either	SheltieLover	Jan 14	#10
Absolutely infuriates me. There should a "thumbs down" just for this ...	marble falls	Jan 14	#20
which illustrates a communication principle	NJCher	Jan 14	#51
You summed it up perfectly	PatSeg	Jan 14	#76
It's almost as annoying as reading an incomplete report. nt	oasis	Jan 14	#11
YES!	snowybirdie	Jan 14	#12
I welcome any opportunity to learn new things. I'm a researcher by trade. Doesn't bother me.	ARPad95	Jan 14	#13
I know in medicine we LOVE our TLA's.. three letter acronyms.. Like "the pt has S.F.B" watch out...	mitch96	Jan 14	#14
It's the same in IT	geardaddy	Jan 14	#33
"same in IT" I did a little bit of IT in hospitals.. Those guys were a hoot.. I liked the term	mitch96	Jan 14	#38
LOL	geardaddy	Jan 14	#45
My first night solo as a hospital clerk	Glorfindel	Jan 14	#63
I absolutely agree.	Lonestarblue	Jan 14	#16
The Valdosta White Citizens League is concerned by your interest ...	marble falls	Jan 14	#17
There are people who are watching cable news	PatSeg	Jan 14	#55
Drives me crazy.	marble falls	Jan 14	#56
Thank you! There have been more and more of these empty posts lately.	Totally Tunsie	Jan 14	#69
I call them 'non sequitir' posts.	marble falls	Jan 14	#86
We need a BOA to look for TLAs	Xipe Totec	Jan 14	#18
Urban dictionary?	irisblue	Jan 14	#26
UD is a Two Letter Acronym nt	Xipe Totec	Jan 14	#97
This Limits DU to Newcomers	McKim	Jan 14	#21
Recoommend	msfiddlestix	Jan 14	#22
Since when did WQL become MTG?	TheBlackAdder	Jan 14	#23
Agree. Acronyms are for important figures, MLK and FDR,	Hortensis	Jan 14	#54
Atticus, I understand your frustration. I just use the trash thread button.	littlemissmartypants	Jan 14	#24
It is pretty annoying, but there is always Google.	ananda	Jan 14	#25
Why should people have to go to Google	PatSeg	Jan 14	#52
Because fighting it is useless.	SlogginThroughIt	Jan 14	#77
Oh, I don't think it is useless	PatSeg	Jan 14	#82
I also find that if it looks interesting enough I look it up.	TNNurse	Jan 14	#27
First job out of college worked at the local paper, per my editor if your readers need to look it up	Cozmo	Jan 14	#28
Similarly, not everyone with three part names	Harker	Jan 14	#29
All too often the acronym is unfindable.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jan 14	#30
H & G	FailureToCommunicate	Jan 14	#31
I like when people share something they just saw on tv	IronLionZion	Jan 14	#32
Exactly....................	turbinetree	Jan 14	#34
Acronym mis-use	WestofDenver	Jan 14	#35
Are you sure there's no Valdosta White Citizens League? n/t	MrModerate	Jan 14	#36
No. nt	Atticus	Jan 14	#43
Back when I managed proposals for engineering projects submitted to NASA...	MrModerate	Jan 14	#37
What's PTB?	KPN	Jan 14	#39
I don't know that one either!	Tracer	Jan 14	#42
Forgive me, please. "Powers That Be".	Atticus	Jan 14	#44
Not to worry Atticus. I was just messin' with	KPN	Jan 14	#53
I honestly thought you meant Pre-Trial Bail.	CaptainTruth	Jan 14	#58
Powers That Be.	Crunchy Frog	Jan 14	#49
AMEN!	Wicked Blue	Jan 14	#40
My grandson uses acronyms in his daily speech. I explain over and over that I am hard of hearing,	Tech	Jan 14	#41
Seriously?	PatSeg	Jan 14	#64
That's the whole problem with phones	FakeNoose	Jan 14	#46
YES! DIN!	SlogginThroughIt	Jan 14	#78
Agree, thanks for bringing this up. I am sometimes stumped.	Paper Roses	Jan 14	#48
It doesn't bother me. n/t	demmiblue	Jan 14	#50
Oddly enough, you listed PTB as being commonly used yet I don't know what it means.	CaptainTruth	Jan 14	#57
I'd never heard that one either	PatSeg	Jan 14	#73
Well I learned something on Cuomo last night, IFB, Interruptible feedback, that ear thing he wears	Baclava	Jan 14	#60
I try never to use abbreviations in my blog postings.	Sloumeau	Jan 14	#62
And then come back to the post,	PatSeg	Jan 14	#68
I don't have any trouble Googling acronyms I don't know. I consider it part of my education.	Nitram	Jan 14	#65
Thanks!	lillypaddle	Jan 14	#66
When I was in the midst of seeing whether I could get an Army Commission at age 50	majdrfrtim	Jan 14	#67
That is priceless!	PatSeg	Jan 14	#71
I had written a post much like yours	PatSeg	Jan 14	#70
I refuse to Google what PTB means	Poiuyt	Jan 14	#72
I don't need to Google what Poiuyt means	Fozzledick	Jan 14	#84
Very good!	Poiuyt	Jan 14	#95
I'm not quite there	Blecht	Jan 14	#74
Thanks for the announcement.	SlogginThroughIt	Jan 14	#75
Now even newspaper reporters use acronyms without explanation	csziggy	Jan 14	#81
FTW? Also titles of threads	question everything	Jan 14	#83
Most of the time, as used here, I assume FTW means "For The Win" and is meant to	Atticus	Jan 14	#88
LOL (no need to explain this one)	question everything	Jan 14	#89
Valdosta White Citizens League might be real.	KG	Jan 14	#85
In any realm there will be acronyms to speed up conversation,	radius777	Jan 14	#87
I consider people who post these acronyms as having nothing to offer.	Patterson	Jan 14	#92
ACRONYM	central scrutinizer	Jan 14	#94
We're keeping "tiaihtsdcotywwytdycybidyd" though, right?	Dr. Strange	Jan 14	#96

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