Ironic Acronym of the day
Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 30 16:41:07 UTC 2010
I randomly came up on this page while doing a search on acronyms.
http://standanddeliver.blogs.com/dombo/2009/12/ironic-acronym.html
Ironic Acronym
Hey boys and girls, this week’s ironic acronym is ‘MILF’. It doesn’t
stand for ‘Muslim I’d Like to Friend’.
...
No, according to news reports of a recent Philippine jailbreak, it
stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an Islamist military group
from the southern Philippines initially accused of and subsequently
denying any involvement.
So just be careful which curvaceous burqa-clad form you declare a
‘MILF’. Or ‘da bomb’, for that matter.
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The linked news article is here http://bit.ly/9iCPTE
There is also a Wiki article
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