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| (...) So, you like it better because there was little thought behind it? Next you'll be saying you voted for Bush. :) (...) Some people spell it out, but even that isn't very euphonic -- unlike the other initialisms you mention, AFOL when spelled (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Ahem, Joe, but they were mocking your hobby choice, not your title! :-) (...) I've always preferred "lush", but "wine taster" isn't much better. (...) Don't be surprised if they still laugh:-) (...) Joe, terms like "AFOL" are "in-house", part (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Holy moley, them's fightin' words! (...) I don't know. I can think of all kinds of abbreviations that don't snuggle into the ear all that pleasantly. The Society for Creative Anachronisms (The SCA, which sounds like ESS-YAY) is one such (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Huh-- I almost never say "fan of Lego" or "AFOL" to people who aren't in the hobby, because it just doesn't give them a good frame of reference. I think I've always said "Lego Hobbyist" because that's what people understand. Usually "fan" is (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Hello! (...) I say "eta" (That's a terror organization in the Spanish Basque region.) or E-T-A (meaning "estimated time of arrival"), R-S-V-P (what the heck is it?) and U-S-A. But I say "afol" and "mock" and "burp" because: (...) Or does anybody say (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi JoJo! (...) Respondez Sil Vous Plait (1) HTH! ++Lar (can we pick one FUT? I think .people but what do I know?) 1 - IIRC(2)... it's French or something for "get back to me whether you are coming to my party or not because I need to know how (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| Hello! (...) Merci beaucoup! (...) I posted to .general because I wrote about something LEGO-related. And to .debate because it was debate-ish. (...) Yeah, thanks, I'm coming to that party! Would you pay for my taxi? (...) How do you pronounce (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Taxi OR beer, whichever's less. I guess... Assuming I have any money left after BF... Apparently some rumor got started that I'm buying rounds at Rocklands??? Gonna be hard to pull off because Nik'll be with me again this year and I don't (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Crap, there's always a catch isn't there? Rob (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) What a strange person! Acros are to save time typing, neh? So, why wouldn't one voice it out "in one's head"? Whenever I read an acro, I unsuffit. Unless a person is too important and their time too valuable to take that extra nanosecond or (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) The voices in my head talk slowly, so that I can understand what they are saying... apparently yours don't, and talk so fast that you're getting garbled messages? That certainly would explain a lot! (...) Yep, that's me all right... (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) Of all the people who *could* have responded to [JOHN], I knew you would be the first (if not the only) to chime in and say that. You're becoming too easy to read. Time to change your modus operandi... Rob (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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