fresh off the boat

[Dan Goncharoff]

In the NYC subway, they had to change signs at one station that indicated
the FML lines stopped there.
DanG

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:12 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > "FTW"
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> Is everyone else also familiar with _FML_? Defined in the UD, where it
> dates from '05, as
>
> "an acronym for Fuck My Life, but also the name of a popular website,
> where people post their embarrassing stories"
>
> AFAIK, every college in the country has an FML site. I've browsed
> among a number of such sites, but, sadly - though I once worked there,
> I have no other affiliation with the WGU - IMO, HarvardFML is the
> best.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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> Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity,
> or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
> trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
> that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
> idiotic or unworthy.
> –Kathryn Schulz
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