CNN's naughty acronym

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:28 AM, George Thompson wrote:

> JL should give thought to the fact that some things that are obvious to a
> young fellow like himself are mystifying to old codgers like myself.
>
> In other words, WTF does "LMFA" or "LMMFA" signify?
>
> GAT

"laughing my fucking ass" and, I assume, "laughing my mother-fucking ass".  The O provides the "off".

LH
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Remember when Sarah Palin recently made headlines from one end of this list
>> to the other by shouting "WTF?" at a conservative audience?
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>> This morning CNN had a story about the President of the United States  (I
>> didn't catch the details) that was captioned with the words,
>> "LMFAObama."
>>
>> Can "LMMFAObama" be far behind?
>>
>> One hopes so.
>>
>> JL
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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