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Subject: 
Re: Swearing! (was something else)
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:03:37 GMT
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Ryan Dennett wrote in message ...

figure out what an acronym really means. PITA is not as bad IMHO as WTF(I • think
we've seen more than enough of that one lately) and SOB(which I can't say • I've
seen), but I think that it is more the principle of using acronyms than the
actual acronyms themselves.

For what it's worth, over in rec.roller-coaster, we've been seeing a lot of
SoB (^:

(For the unenlightned, Paramount Kings Island is building the world's
largest wooden coaster, and it's got a vertical loop about halfway through
the circuit. It's name? Yup, "Son of Beast" (^: )

    Iain
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  Re: Swearing! (was something else)
 
IMHO, acronyms DO fall in the same catagory because it is just a way to "push it to the limit" so to speak and all your doing is abbreviating the profanity that otherwise wouldn't be permitted and it really isn't that hard for a kid to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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