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Old 10-29-2001, 11:10 PM
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Lately I've noticed a lot of uses of the term UL. What does it mean?
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Old 10-29-2001, 11:19 PM
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Most likely it's short for "urban legend".
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Old 10-30-2001, 04:04 AM
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(USA) 'Urban Legend' [sym]º[/sym] (UK) 'Urban Myth'
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Old 10-30-2001, 10:35 AM
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Thanks, everybody.
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Old 10-30-2001, 10:47 AM
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However, if it's on that new alarm clock you bought, then it means this.

(Don't mind me, just testing hyperlinks without the url, and I wanted to stay away from wolfstu's thread.)
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