# Is this a real PAC or a joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359 "2015-01-30T18:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/1 "2015-01-30T18:37:55Z")
I’m talking about the Chris Christie PAC, [leadershipmattersforamerica.org](http://leadershipmattersforamerica.org). Notice that the acronym would be LMFAO. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/2 "2015-01-30T18:55:12Z")
Yes it’s real. [http://news.yahoo.com/jerseys-christie-launches-political-action-committee-054618123--election.html](http://news.yahoo.com/jerseys-christie-launches-political-action-committee-054618123--election.html) ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/3 "2015-01-30T18:58:13Z")
Why can’t it be both? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/4 "2015-01-30T19:13:24Z")
Yes, it can. > **[Twitter mocks Christie's unintentionally profane PAC acronym: The Auditor](https://www.nj.com/politics/2015/01/twitter_mocks_chrisites_unintentionally_profane_pa.html)** > > When the PAC's name is combined with its website's domain suffix (.org), its acronym is LMFAO. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/5 "2015-01-30T20:10:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Yes, it can. > > [Twitter mocks Christie's unintentionally profane PAC acronym: The Auditor - nj.com](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/twitter_mocks_chrisites_unintentionally_profane_pa.html) WTF? > [@](#): > > For The Auditor’s readers over 40, that’s internet parlance for “laughing my (you know what) ass off.” Over 40 doesn’t mean stupid or out of touch. I’m over 40 and I got it immediately. And get off my damn lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/6 "2015-01-30T20:50:14Z")
Does anyone else think it’s too much of a stretch to include the O for the _dot org_? Has that convention been used for any other acronym? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/7 "2015-01-30T21:33:42Z")
Yeah, I noticed that. It’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s still funny. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/8 "2015-02-07T04:02:24Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > WTF?Over 40 doesn’t mean stupid or out of touch. I’m over 40 and I got it immediately. And get off my damn lawn! Right. Someone who’s 40 today was born in 1975, and so was 20 when the Internet took off. They’re operating on the old idea that “middle aged” means “didn’t grow up with anything more advanced than an eight-track”, which is about as old-fashioned now as thinking “old man” means “hitches ol’ Dobbin up to the wagon to go to town on Sunday” (from a common trope in the 1930s or so to have old people be rural yokels who are utterly slack-jawed at how fast them new Fords go nowadays). And, of course, it’s possible for people to keep up with technology well into their post-retirement years. It just isn’t the stereotype, which seems to be that people stop learning new things at around 35 because their job and, therefore, their life remains absolutely static for decades on end and I hope you can see the sarcasm in this sentence. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/9 "2015-02-09T10:30:45Z")
Nixon had the **C** ommittee for the **RE** - **E** lection of the **P** resident. Honestly, if you use LMFAO regularly, it makes me think that you are an over-40 using what you think is current youth slang even though it’s like 10 years old. Or you’re a fan of terrible music. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/10 "2015-02-09T21:41:25Z")
Ah, CREEP, the most accurate acronym ever! Seriously, if there was an Oscar of acronyms, it should have won a lifetime achievement award. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/11 "2015-02-09T22:00:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ah, CREEP, the most accurate acronym ever! Seriously, if there was an Oscar of acronyms, it should have won a lifetime achievement award. Also, the closest thing to “honesty in advertising” I’ve ever seen in political marketing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/12 "2015-02-09T23:32:55Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Yeah, I noticed that. It’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s still funny. I actually think Love My Fat Ass is a better acronym or Lick My Fat Ass or Laugh at My Fat Ass ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/13 "2015-02-10T00:27:38Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > WTF?Over 40 doesn’t mean stupid or out of touch. I’m over 40 and I got it immediately. And get off my damn lawn! “Over 40”? If you’re just over 40, then _ **YOU** _ get off my damn lawn, kid, or I’m gonna call your mother! And wipe that snot off your nose! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-real-pac-or-a-joke/711359/14 "2015-02-10T00:31:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ah, CREEP, the most accurate acronym ever! Seriously, if there was an Oscar of acronyms, it should have won a lifetime achievement award. IIRC, according to John Dean they came to really like that acronym and regularly used that themselves. I’m reminded more off all the Tea Partiers who used the phrased “tea bagging” and even called themselves the “teabaggers” until someone finally told them what that was a slang term for and by then it was too late and they were tagged with it.