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I come from the Military, there's an entire language we can speak in acronyms and there's an art to creating your own. Oh, and we always raised hell.

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Tech is acronym heaven (hell?) I suspect most industries have their own lingo. My brother in law is an ER doc and OMG

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Lol. It's FUBAR trying to get SA on the CONOP when you PCS to a new TRADOC post to change MOSs. All the Acronyms are different.

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This was good, NGL.

But why would they tell you to "Grill a Funion This Summer?"

I don't get you, SMH.

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Dude, if you ever decide you really do want to Smash Meatball Hoagies, I'm your dude. I made them at the first 2 restaurant jobs I had!

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Roasted Onion Flamed Lizards.

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Writhing Testicles Function, Like Only Lasagna!

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There’s a cringe lifespan to these that’s hard to gauge. I’ve been sternly warned by my kid to never use/or say NGL again. NGL FR

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OMG, LOL. I am probably walking on a rake every single day with my stupid leftovers!

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I only recently discovered an old usable abbreviation: PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick). Which I assume is the Trump administration's motto...

And then there's Michael Jackson's '80s classic from "Thriller": "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"...

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Oh yes. The latter also took on a much more ominous connotation after MJ's passing.

There was another MJ-related abbreviation: BAD (Best At Dancing). I guess we kids weren't really all that great at abbreviations.

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Hell is raised without effort on my part. For most people that means the world is not as they desire it to be…

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Recess sports loom large in my elementary school memories. Teatherball yeah, foursquare yeah. Kickball - baseball gateway drug. Caroms! There was a golf version and I could ace every shot. Oh handball, that was big. But dodgeball was top because you were allowed to hit someone. Dodgeball supersized to the whole gym in middle school.

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I'm going to write about dodgeball pretty soon. It was a big deal for me during this time.

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