Word: bf
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Barney Frank (BF): I lived in Kirkland House as an undergraduate and I lived in Winthrop House [when] I was assistant senior tutor from ’64 to ’67. I’ve spoken in the past in Winthrop, but Eliot invited...
...still possible to divide the news calendar into BF and AF-Before Fox and After Fox. Much of what you see on TV news exists because of Fox, and not just the opinion shows. The graphics, the sound effects, the general tone of news is set by Fox. The zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank...
...billion text messages sent in Australia in 2003-04. For the occasional texter, tapping out a short message can take several minutes and is hardly worth the bother. But nimble-fingered teens churn them out like professional typists, lacing them with abbreviations such as 2moz (tomorrow), bf (boyfriend) and omg (Oh, my God!). At stricter schools, pupils type and send messages during class without removing their phone from their pocket. During the last school holidays, when 16-year-old John was on a phone deal that offered free texting, "I was texting my girlfriend all the time," he says...
...something like, "hi its tank met u @ beach 2day how ru wots up." With luck, the girl will message back and they'll exchange innocent texts for a few days. It then falls to the boy to raise the stakes. Tank's preferred lines are, "when was yr last bf" or "how far have u gone." A girl you've met once for five minutes replies to that? "Sure," says Tank. "They might say 'third ["base]".' Or they might just fang it out there that they've had sex." From the guy's point of view, the further the girl...
Well, this is that same kind of letter, only I’m not going to mention your crush on that special education teacher with the curly hair or how you wanted to stay BF with Erin Waite 4-ever...