Note to all: please avoid using acronyms that are not universally understood. Sure, it is

[Atticus]

unnecessary to type out "Federal Bureau of Investigation", but don't expect to be understood if you type a string of letters in place of the name of some obscure agency or policy or pet expression.

JS---( Just Sayin' ).

[Generic Brad]

1. TSLAIFSIR

This seems like an invitation for some interesting responses.

[justhanginon]

2. LOL

[BootinUp]

7. Rofl.

[Atticus]

3. NS! No Text

[SCVDem]

45. NS! ?

I give up.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. NSNo Shit! n/t

[SCVDem]

50. TYVM!

Obvious once you get it.

[Demovictory9]

59. lol

[DFW]

4. This hits home, as I am FBI

As in: Frequently Being Impertinent

(what, were you thinking of something else?)

[monmouth4]

8. HA! At first look I thought you were Dallas Fort Worth..My bad. nt

[DFW]

14. That's just my home airport

Well, actually Love Field (DAL) is closer to the house, but intercontinental flights only go out of DFW. For that matter, these days DUS is my home airport more than DFW.

[monmouth4]

18. Thank you, I'll digest that...LOL. n/t

[DFW]

20. No nonstops from DUS to DFW, unfortunately

Best we have is DUS (Düsseldorf) to Atlanta on Delta, then you have to change. You learn to live with it.

It's said that in the South, if you die and go to heaven, you STILL have to change in Atlanta.

[Lefta Dissenter]

30. On the other hand,

On my next trip from MSN to NRT, I have to go through DFW! WTF? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[DFW]

39. No better connection than that?

Seems a bit out of the way. Wouldn't it have been easier to connect through Seattle or Anchorage?

[Lefta Dissenter]

41. That would make sense, wouldn't it?

My daughter and her husband are going through MSP on their trip to Tokyo this spring, but I could find a flight through MN only with a 35 minute connection! LOL, I wouldn’t even take that risk for a domestic flight, let alone international. I do stick to the cheap seats, though, since we’re trying to go to Japan twice/year to see family. I’m sure we’d have more options if we’d be willing to spend more $$.

[DFW]

42. I understand

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My brother's wife is from Japan, but living in Northern Virginia, she had an easier time of it going back to see her family.

She was only really close to her mom anyway, and her mom got bad Alzheimer's and had to be institutionalized, and passed away a while ago. My sis-in-law, as a woman in Japan, was doomed (back in 1981, when she left for Washington) to rise no higher than bank teller when she left. Within 5 years of moving to Washington, she was vice-director for the World Bank, and was in charge of the Asia desk. The then-director, James Wolfensohn, later started having some kind of little affair with someone, and wanted to replace my sis-in-law with her, and so they offered her an outrageous severance package, which she took instead of being unceremoniously fired. It included business class travel back to Japan twice a year from Washington for ten years or longer (I forget). There were already nonstops from Dulles to Narita, but she was allowed to choose routes that included stopovers in Hawai'i if she wanted. The World Bank REALLY wanted to keep her happy, and she made sure they did.

[Lefta Dissenter]

69. Wow!

Do you think she’d like to adopt me? 🤷‍♀️

[DFW]

70. They already had two sons, both of whom are now grown

I think their combined IQ could wipe out the national debt. In the meantime, my brother has one of those "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" jobs, so it's just as well he and his wife are now mostly by themselves in their place in northern Virginia. Besides, the World Bank severance package has run its course, and she doesn't get the freebie trips any more.

Check with me in your next incarnation!

[Poiuyt]

22. I'm in the FBI too

[DFW]

26. Does it get you in as much trouble as it gets me? n/t

[SCVDem]

46. In High School, a long time ago,

With apologies,

female body inspectors.

[mfcorey1]

61. The urban dictionary has all the abbreviatons!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IJS

[Hugin]

5. CYPPSEA

Could You Please Provide Some Examples, Atticus? :hee:

[Atticus]

12. OCOSYKWITA!

(OH, COME ON SURELY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!)

[Hugin]

13. YMCA?

(You Maybe Cite Again?)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. YIKADCMS

Yes, I know. And don't call me Shirley.

[Sugar Smack]

34. HA!!

[SCVDem]

47. Made me laugh too!

Thanks!

[5X]

6. Ok. (This post is devoid of any further textual entries.)

[sl8]

63. LOL. (This post is also devoid of any further textual entries.)

[Doc_Technical]

9. Good Morning Vietnam when Richard Nixon was in town

"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP."

[SCVDem]

48. I actually understood that!

tRump would not.

Semper Fi!

[braddy]

10. Good advice.

[Stuart G]

11. acronyms, acronyms, acronyms, acronyms, and more acronyms???!!!!! My pet peeve too.

So many, so many different ones, made up ones, new ones, old ones, ......time after time, after time.....

I have used Google Search to find the meaning of...............an acronym. I hate that fucking word....

acronym....acronyms...acronimous, ACRONOMYS..!!!!...so many, and so many unknown ones....

.......right here at DU....(Democratic Underground)....used and abused,,,,,OVER, AND OVER AND OVER AND

OVER, AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER....????

....yes, at least 3 pukes for this great post by Atticus...kick and recommend this post..

(note I did not use the infamous K and R in the previous sentence)

[Hugin]

15. TTYMFBN

(There, There... You Must Feel Better Now)

[hvn_nbr_2]

16. Tip for posters: If you want me to read your post, write something understandable. nt

[Polly Hennessey]

17. TGTIAASG!

Thank god there is an acronym support group. 😅 Did I spell my acronym right?

[csziggy]

19. Time to trot out this classic!

[DFW]

21. That was THE original acronym song!

Nothing came close to it for decades.

[csziggy]

23. Yes - and it is one of my favorite Alan Sherman songs of all time!

Growing up in Central Florida, it is surprising that I ever heard of Alan Sherman. But Mom's best friend was a Jewish woman from New York who had married a merchant marine from that little Florida town just after WWII, just as Mom had married a submariner from the town about the same time. They both felt excluded by the other women of the town and gravitated to each other despite their differences. (Mom was a registered nurse from a tiny Alabama town.)

Verna introduced Mom and our family to Alan Sherman, Jewish customs, and Jewish foods - even though she had converted to a Presbyterian to satisfy her in-laws. She added a lot of variety to our lives in a tight little mostly Christian community.

[DFW]

25. That and "Won't You Come Home Disraeili?"

And "You Went The Wrong Way Old King Louie" And of course, "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"

[Turbineguy]

31. Good advice

I met a man named Otis who invented a room
And his heart was filled with pride.
I said to Mister Otis, what does your room do?
He said, it moves from side to side.

Whenever I meet an elevator repair technician, I always get a laugh with that one.

Alan Sherman was a goldmine of humor.

[happybird]

52. This one immediately came to mind:

[csziggy]

55. That one is great, too

But Harvey and Sheila predates it.

[Midnight Writer]

56. Thanks. I'd forgot this song. I enjoyed hearing it again.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. WTF?

[gopiscrap]

29. this is the universal acronym

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. I'm with you.

All too often people here use some acronym that makes zero sense, and sometimes even a google search doesn't find it.

Also, it's just not that hard to type out you, are, and other short words instead of just the one letter.

[yonder]

32. LSMFT. OK?

[wryter2000]

33. IARWTSF

I actually remember what that stands for

[DFW]

40. I remember that one

As kids, my siblings and I used to shout at the TV, "no, it doesn't either!"

[SCVDem]

51. Okay!

Just show me your Lark pack!

Damn we are old!

[trof]

72. They're just a silly millimeter longer.

[panader0]

35. Who made you the MMFIC?

[SCVDem]

53. I remember HMFIC.

What's MM?

[Demovictory9]

60. MMFIC M M******* F***** in charge. not sure what the first "M" stands for

[panader0]

64. Main

[Hekate]

36. OK. KnR.

TTFN

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

37. IDUWN!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Iggo]

38. Thanks.

[sakabatou]

43. Close enough. It's "Just Saiyan"

[littlemissmartypants]

44. Good luck with that, Atticus.

Mysterious acronyms are part of the integral beauty of the Democratic Underground. I learned that my first week of membership. During which time I also learned that collective change here is equal to the act of a sudden change of course from a cruise ship. Just like stall occurs when a plane is under too great an angle of attack, collectively, we are too intelligent to justify the risk. It's part of the beauty of DU. Relax and enjoy the ride.



❤

[SCVDem]

54. Thanks to Rachel Maddow,

IOKIYAR

It's okay if you're a republican.

True!

[NBachers]

57. May I attach my standard, enduring plea to beat down non-context, non-info thread posting?

GO TURN ON RACHEL RIGHT NOW!!1!1

I GUESS THAT SHOWED 'EM!

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT??1?

and, no, just posting some link without putting in some minimal effort to elucidate people what you're posting about, doesn't count.

[lunatica]

58. LMAO!

[sl8]

62. There's nothing that I wouldn't do, if you would be my POSSLQ ...

Seems a bit dated now.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSLQ

POSSLQ

POSSLQ (/ˈpɒsəlkjuː/ POSS-əl-KYOO, plural POSSLQs)[1][2] is an abbreviation (or acronym) for "person of opposite sex sharing living quarters",[3] a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.[citation needed]

After the 1980 Census, the term gained currency in the wider culture for a time.[4] CBS commentator Charles Osgood composed a verse which includes

There's nothing that I wouldn't do
If you would be my POSSLQ
You live with me and I with you,
And you will be my POSSLQ.
I'll be your friend and so much more;
That's what a POSSLQ is for.[5]
[...]

[...]

After demographers observed the increasing frequency of cohabitation over the 1980s, the Census Bureau began directly asking respondents to their major surveys whether they were "unmarried partners", thus making obsolete the old method of counting cohabitors, which involved a series of assumptions about "Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters". The category "unmarried partner" first appeared in the 1990 Census, and was incorporated into the monthly Current Population Survey starting in 1995. By the late 1990s, the term had fallen out of general usage, and returned to being a specialized term for demographers.[6]

In a fifth-season episode of the television show Cheers, Frasier Crane and Lilith Sternin describe themselves as POSSLQs.[7]

[HipChick]

65. That is what Google is for..

[Atticus]

66. There are also free language translators available on line. If we are going to

have to use the net to "interpret" a post, why not just post in, say, Aramaic?

[HipChick]

68. Understood..

but I hate the helpless mentality attitude it generates...

I watch kids downloading apps on phone, no manual no nothing..they just know how to use it..

[Recursion]

67. Back in the Old DU we had a stickied "glossary" thread

Does that still exist? It might be useful.

[Initech]

71. IDK!