CNN's naughty acronym
George Thompson
george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Thu Mar 29 13:28:15 UTC 2012
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
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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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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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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