CNN's naughty acronym (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The "O" from Obama should be included in the acronym.

LMFAO = Laughing My F*cking Ass Off

LMmFAO = Laughing My Mother F*cking Ass Off

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> At 3/29/2012 09:28 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?
>
> Me too.  I know what MFA means -- Museum of Fine Arts [Boston] -- but
> I don't get the L and LM prefixes.\
>
> Joel
>
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> >GAT
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> ><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Remember when Sarah Palin recently made headlines from one end of
this
> list
> > > to the other by shouting "WTF?" at a conservative audience?
> > >
> > > 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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