> Here's a great story to raise the ire of all you grammar nazis. FLAME ON!
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> -- Dave

It's not entirely new, Dave. Many decades ago, we used to use 4FRNFR in place of "For ever and ever." OICURMT meant "Oh, I see you are empty." That was the punch line to what did the old lady say when she opened her purse, or what did Mother Hubbard say when she went to the cupboard to get her dog a bone?

And there was this one:
ABCD goldfish?
LMNO goldfish!
SMR goldfish.

And there were the old standard XXX's at the end of a letter.

The thing that drive me bonkers is the over use of acronyms. As a freshman journalism student, I was taught that a reporter never uses an acronym that hasn't been explained in the article. Usually, it had to be explained the first time you used it. But just yesterday, I was watching one of those confounded crawlers on a television news channel and it mentioned the word "act" several times. But the sentences were nothing about show biz, so I had trouble understanding what it was all about. Then I realized that they were talking about A.C.T. scores. Everything in the crawler was in caps and there was a minimum of punctuation.

I once had a girl friend who used the term DDT a lot. I figured out that she wasn't talking about insecticides, but never knew for sure if she meant "Don't do that," or "Drop dead twice."

I still don't know if NEA is the National Education Association or the National Endoument for the Arts. There was a time when NBC was the National Bisquit Company, but they became Nabisco and NBC was a radio and TV network.

ABC is a network, but it can also mean Alcoholic Beverage Commission, or a chain of convenience stores in Hawaii. It's getting to the point that I don't know an ATM from a ATV, or AT&T from the FBI.
Howard