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sayings, acronym collections

At 10:35 AM 8/23/99 -0400, Hugh Haskell wrote:

I have no objection to your conclusions, John, but I think that the
"not even wrong" epithet is attributable to Pauli rather than Fermi.

Oops, you're right, how embarrassing.

BTW, I am gathering a list of frequently used acronyms from the
e-mail domain. I can usually figure out what new ones mean from the
context, but ISTM has so far escaped me. Can you enlighten?

ISTM == It Seems To Me.


While we're at the e-mail acronyms bit, I saw one some time back (I
forget where): LOL. Does anyone know what this one is (I know "lots
of love" and "little old lady," but neither of these fit the context
I saw it in)?

LOL == Laughing Out Loud.

... which leads to one of my favorites:
ROTFL == Rolling On The Floor Laughing.

It's easy to find more; just use AltaVista to search for the conjunction
of some that you already know, and you'll get things like
http://www.utopiasw.demon.co.uk/acronyms.htm
and
http://www.bornholm.dk/sveasvej/lbp/acronyms.htm
et cetera.