[Ads-l] AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH

Andy Bach afbach at GMAIL.COM
Mon Dec 10 19:42:13 UTC 2018


"Get the fug out of here" I got and most of "Are you fugging kidding me?
What the S" though the S isn't clear, aside from merde. And:
" She becomes a confident on-air correspondent, pounds both scotch and a
Scottish freelance photographer (Martin Freeman), and, in what has become a
prerequisite for all Fey vehicles, cabbage-patches to Nineties old-school
jams."

cabbage-patches to ... ?

Dorothy Parker reputedly to Norman Mailer "You're the [young] man who can't
spell 'fuck' "

On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:57 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016 _Village Voice_
>
> https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/03/01/operation-unendurable-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-confirms-that-the-movies-dont-get-tina-fey/
> <
> https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/03/01/operation-unendurable-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-confirms-that-the-movies-dont-get-tina-fey/
> >
>
> The mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film
> call to mind other texting abbreviations — namely, AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH.
>
> JL.
> --
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