CNN's naughty acronym

[Joel S. Berson]

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


>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
> >
> > --
> > "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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