change from the bottom up

[James Harbeck]

>Surely it is an IM or text messaging
>initialism like LOL.  Didn't everything start with the internet?

DK.

NFL.

BFD.

James Harbeck.

(The second initialism was one that my brother and I, and I think we
weren't the only ones, used to express an assessment of particular
unlikeliness. ca. 1980. I think the third one is, or was, rather
common, at least in our neck of the woods. Hands up if you know it.)

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