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<p>[QUOTE="Ken Dorney, post: 3116323, member: 76086"]No, there is no reason why you should know. But to explain, the younger crowd is obsessed with acronyms. More than that, it seems even the 'older' crowd is becoming obsessed with them as well. It doesn't mean anyone else knows what they are talking about either, but they do indeed use them. If one takes a few moments (or hours) to think about it, one can puzzle out what they might possibly be talking about. Took me over a year to figure out what "OP" meant, and its still used wrong (or right) 90% of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've been collecting for 40 years and dealing for 30. Never before a couple of years ago had I ever heard of "LRB". Its new. As an ex military guy you would think I would be used to them, but I disliked them then and also now. I mean, when one posts a message containing "JCDf", am I supposed to know what that means when it was created just a few moments ago?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah well. Sometimes I feel like I should be shouting at kids to 'get off my lawn', but I suspect that analogy would also be lost on most.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ken Dorney, post: 3116323, member: 76086"]No, there is no reason why you should know. But to explain, the younger crowd is obsessed with acronyms. More than that, it seems even the 'older' crowd is becoming obsessed with them as well. It doesn't mean anyone else knows what they are talking about either, but they do indeed use them. If one takes a few moments (or hours) to think about it, one can puzzle out what they might possibly be talking about. Took me over a year to figure out what "OP" meant, and its still used wrong (or right) 90% of the time. I've been collecting for 40 years and dealing for 30. Never before a couple of years ago had I ever heard of "LRB". Its new. As an ex military guy you would think I would be used to them, but I disliked them then and also now. I mean, when one posts a message containing "JCDf", am I supposed to know what that means when it was created just a few moments ago? Ah well. Sometimes I feel like I should be shouting at kids to 'get off my lawn', but I suspect that analogy would also be lost on most.[/QUOTE]
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