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Vanity: be careful using initials....

Posted on 11/02/2011 6:51:00 AM PDT by fred4prez

Maybe I'm the only one with this pet peeve, but when you abbreviate a couple of the candidates' names, it can be confusing.

HC: Herman Cain or Hillary Clinton? RP: Ron Paul or Rick Perry?


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To: Deaf Smith

How soon we forget.


21 posted on 11/02/2011 7:09:31 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: fred4prez

how ‘bout FUBAR?


22 posted on 11/02/2011 7:11:48 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
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To: fred4prez

KMA, GD MF AH, FOAD GDI


23 posted on 11/02/2011 7:11:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: fred4prez
MR DUCKS.
MR NOT.
OSMR. CM WANGS?
LIB! MR DUCKS!
24 posted on 11/02/2011 7:12:22 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: fred4prez

JK LMAO WYSIWYG ROFL


25 posted on 11/02/2011 7:12:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: OB1kNOb

MR MICE
NODEYAINT
CMIDBDFEET
MR MICE


26 posted on 11/02/2011 7:14:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: fred4prez
It's TEOTWAWKI.
It's TEOTWAWKI.
AIFF.
27 posted on 11/02/2011 7:14:16 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: JRios1968

AEIOU?Y


28 posted on 11/02/2011 7:14:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: fred4prez

WWW

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29 posted on 11/02/2011 7:16:09 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
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To: OB1kNOb
It's TEOTWAWKI. <----- FBI, DHS, SWAT, SS.
30 posted on 11/02/2011 7:16:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: Rightly Biased

R U OK


31 posted on 11/02/2011 7:16:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: fred4prez

O rly?


32 posted on 11/02/2011 7:17:13 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America First)
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To: fred4prez
I hate initials like that.

I'm a doctor. I always write out the name of the disease: arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease not ASCVD. It doesn't take much more time, and clarity is of utmost importance.

Also--ever notice how in the past people wrote initials in place of proper names, even in such things as family Bibles? Sometimes it's impossible to know that the person's name was. All you have is J. M. Zunk or some such, and nobody knows what J. M. stood for.

If I'm going to use initials, I give thim parenthetically first: arteriosclerocic cardiovascular diseasd (ASCVD) or Jezebel Modine Zunk (J. M. Zunk).

33 posted on 11/02/2011 7:17:17 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A backwoods southern lawyer is a safer trustee for your soul than a Washington politician.)
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To: Lazamataz

BRB BOB


34 posted on 11/02/2011 7:18:19 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
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To: fred4prez

And while we’re at it, if the newspaper’s from Podunk, tell somewhere in the text where the paper is from.


35 posted on 11/02/2011 7:18:58 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A backwoods southern lawyer is a safer trustee for your soul than a Washington politician.)
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To: fred4prez

Sorry. Didn’t mean to disparage AYPFP.


36 posted on 11/02/2011 7:19:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A backwoods southern lawyer is a safer trustee for your soul than a Washington politician.)
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To: Rightly Biased
...ɟ əɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ
37 posted on 11/02/2011 7:22:03 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
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To: Lazamataz

You forgot IRS....oh, and don’t forget to BYOB. ;-)


38 posted on 11/02/2011 7:22:27 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: SES1066
When I see PA it requires further reading to see if it was Pennsylvania or Palestinian Authority.

Good to know I ain't the only one! For awhile there I had just about swore off ever going to Pennsylvania, going by the headlines alone.

;^)

39 posted on 11/02/2011 7:23:43 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Tagline typed on a closed keyboard. Do not attempt. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: OB1kNOb

CSFBNC

I use that one a lot around here.


40 posted on 11/02/2011 7:23:56 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
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