Re: Why do people still get married?

On Sat, 17 May 2008 03:44:32 GMT, groo wrote:

>Peter Ward <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT), Snidely wrote:
>> 
>>>On May 13, 5:14 pm, Paul L. Madarasz <madpl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_172.html
>>>>
>>>> Damn!  Forgot to preface the URL with  OTB:IF.
>>>> They're not going to take away my Opus Points (TM), are they?
>>>
>>>They'll just give you mine, instead, since I've never compleatly
>>>figured this idiom out.  I begin by translating the 'O' as
>>>"obligatory", but then I switch in midstream[1] to "off track
>>>betting".
>> 
>> If it helps, I have no idea what it's about at all.  I really don't
>> grok the affection for abbreviations, and these ones are particularly
>> inscrutable.
>> 
>
>Well, I dislike the overuse of abbreviations, but that one is required to

>maintain the humor. Usually they are just annoying, unless they are ones 
>I actually remember.
>
>A common one is RTFM, which of course is Read The ****ing Manual. Here, 
>it has transmogrified into Observe The Book:It Fornicates. It is unique 
>to afca, I believe. It is quasi-semi-sorta obligatory when referencing an

>actual Straight Dope column. 
> 
It hasn't been in common use recently, though, as far as I'm aware.  I
can't remember seeing it before.

Anyway, thanks for clearing that up, (and to Bob).

-- 

Peter

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