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307. Some people think it's "to be fair" -

Thu Nov 7, 2013, 03:28 PM

Nov 2013

because I moderated a couple of other political forums at times.

But that's not it. Years ago I watched American Idol and the very first internet forum I ever joined was a Bo Bice fan forum to read about his background. Typing "TexasBoFan" takes a long time and eventually others shortened it to "TBF".

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