[Ads-l] AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH

[Ben Zimmer]

Surely it's "Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?"

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:42 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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.
> >
> >
>

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