[Ads-l] AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH

[Ben Zimmer]

Also: "cabbage-patch" as a verb here refers to the dance move ("putting the
hands together in the form of fists and moving them in a horizontal,
circular motion").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_patch_dance

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 3:01 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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