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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #620 on: July 28, 2009, 01:36:34 AM »
People who start fights in the middle of my sermon.
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #621 on: July 28, 2009, 08:50:29 AM »
acronyms

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #622 on: July 28, 2009, 10:50:04 AM »

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #625 on: July 28, 2009, 11:53:45 AM »
True or False: It's only an acronym if the abbreviation is pronounced as a word (laser, scuba, NASA); otherwise, it's just an abbreviation (KFC, RSVP, POV).

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #626 on: July 28, 2009, 11:55:45 AM »
pfft, I can totally pronounce RSVP...

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #627 on: July 28, 2009, 12:10:51 PM »
meeting someone you would like to meet again... if only they didn't live on a different continent
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #628 on: July 28, 2009, 02:35:39 PM »
True or False: It's only an acronym if the abbreviation is pronounced as a word (laser, scuba, NASA); otherwise, it's just an abbreviation (KFC, RSVP, POV).

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #629 on: July 30, 2009, 11:43:20 AM »
People that say "In Your Eyes" was "that song from the movie Say Anything".  The album was out and the song was #1 on Billboard a full three years before the movie was released. 

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