# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 261
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9685 "2023-06-16T13:10:07Z")
NAVY, lesson learned! Just in case you missed it, it’s Three Letter Acronyms. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9686 "2023-06-16T13:13:46Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > We never had a TLA one > **[Three-letter acronym](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym)** > > A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is an abbreviation consisting of three letters. These are usually the initial letters of the words of the phrase abbreviated, and are written in capital letters (upper case); three-letter abbreviations such as etc. and Mrs. are not three-letter acronyms, but "TLA" itself is a TLA (an example of an autological abbreviation). > Most three-letter abbreviations are not, strictly, acronyms, but rather initialisms: all the letters are pronounce... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9687 "2023-06-16T13:29:59Z")
[Reminds me of that time LBJ took the IRT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR6CnklxONI)… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9688 "2023-06-16T14:42:01Z")
Then there was that time Aretha Franklin dropped R.E.S.P.E.C.T. What the hell does that stand for? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9689 "2023-06-16T14:47:03Z")
Classy! That’s how it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9690 "2023-06-16T14:51:43Z")
Worse, she says “find out what it means to me” and never delivers! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9691 "2023-06-16T14:55:17Z")
> **[Abbott and CoSTELLA – DORK TOWER 09.06.22 – Dork Tower](http://www.dorktower.com/2023/06/09/abbott-and-costella-dork-tower-09-06-22/)** > **[Third Base! – DORK TOWER 12.06.23 – Dork Tower](http://www.dorktower.com/2023/06/12/third-base-dork-tower-12-06-23/)** ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9692 "2023-06-16T15:02:55Z")
Take care. TCB. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9693 "2023-06-16T15:04:25Z")
I hate all of you right now. FML ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9694 "2023-06-16T17:06:54Z")
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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9695 "2023-06-16T18:36:51Z")
How did you do a blank post? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9696 "2023-06-16T18:41:08Z")
\< Leave out the leading space and it turns invisible \> Discourse thinks it is tag instead of text. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Varn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michael_varn/32/14411_2.png) [@Michael\_Varn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Varn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9697 "2023-06-16T18:53:00Z")
But why was the entire thread locked? There were alot of other participants engaged in some really good conversation. Iam sure they wanted to keep posting after the thread was locked. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9698 "2023-06-16T22:10:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Worse, she says “find out what it means to me” and never delivers! Nearly as frustrating as Elton John never actually _telling_ you why it’s called the blues, even though he clearly has something in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9699 "2023-06-16T23:29:16Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > But why was the entire thread locked? Sometimes, when a bear takes a shit in a Walmart, they gotta close down the whole store. The smell is just too bad. It doesn’t just stink up the lawn and garden center. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9700 "2023-06-17T00:23:03Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > But why was the entire thread locked? > > There were alot of other participants engaged in some really good conversation. > > Iam sure they wanted to keep posting after the thread was locked. [Moderating] Complaints about moderation should be made in ATMB, not the Pit. Please drop the issue here. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9701 "2023-06-17T13:12:20Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > @k9bfriender, I want to apologize for that ratcheting up so quick yesterday. Then I’ll apologize both for using an unfamiliar acronym and for reacting with hostility to the admonishment about it. And I’ll give a little essay, for anyone who cares. First of all, I _do_ live in a world of dogs, and between employees, clients, rescues I work with, and most of my acquaintances, if you asked them if they knew what BSL meant, half would say yes, and the other half would give you a lecture on it. Further, there have been a number of pitbull threads on this board, so I did think that it would be a term that was not that unfamiliar to most. So in that aspect, I did misjudge and make a mistake. Now, I struggled for a moment to describe those being trolled in that thread, and my first instinct was “people who do not believe that pitbulls are killing machines, not born but brought forth into the world from the pits of the abyss, spawned from the viles seed of the dark lord himself”, but I thought that “those against stupid BSL laws” would be more understandable, I was wrong on that and should have gone with my first instinct. As a couple follow-ups: Honestly, if someone didn’t know what BSL meant, then the words “Breed specific legislation” wouldn’t have been any more informative. Also, I am one of those who don’t get upset about seeing new terms or acronyms. I love to learn, and in most of my favorite fields, I really cannot learn any more without going back to school or at least committing to extensive study, so when _I_ see the low hanging fruit of being able to learn something new by the simple expedient of copying an unfamiliar term into google, I get quite excited.So, unless a term is so obscure that it exists only “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.””\*, I personally find no problem with it. I acknowledge that I may be unique in that aspect. Couple housekeeping items: > [@DesertDog](#): > > [Quoted For Truth](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quoted%20for%20truth). See how annoying it is when you’re not a part of the in crowd? I really hope you were trying to woosh me here, because otherwise, WOOOOOSH. _Of course_ I know that QFT means Quantum Field Theory. I was just looking for an acronym to make a sarcastic comment about, and I’ve always thought that the phonetic pronunciation of QFT sounded like someone spitting out something disgusting, and I wanted to leave that mental image in people’s heads. > [@Monty](#): > > To be fair, it really was a teaching moment. It’s just that he’s refusing to learn from you. “some people can read “War and Peace” and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.”\*\* > [@BigT](#): > > I don’t really agree. Ah, BigT, your little essay did more to convince me I was in the wrong than anything that anyone else has said. Never change, bud. . Now that the UAH\*\*\* is over, back to the original point that I was making. Jasmine trolled the fuck out of the board with that thread. As I predicted, those who do not believe that pitbulls are killing machines, not born but brought forth into the world from the pits of the abyss, spawned from the vile seed of the dark lord himself (WDNBTPAKMNBBBFITWFTPOTASFTVSOTDLH), all came out to make the thread a pitbull thread, happily greeted by those who _do_ believe in the inherent demonic nature of the breed. If I made a thread telling a story about the time I was attacked by someone with a machine gun, I’d be rightly modded for trolling the gun enthusiasts of the board to come out and “correct” my terminology. Between the fact that that poster has been involved in pitbull hate threads in the past, and the fact that the story as presented has a bunch of holes and contradictions in it, I think that they knew exactly what they were doing. \*courtesy Douglas Adams. \*\* courtesy Lex Luther. \*\*\* Unknown Acronym Hijack. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9702 "2023-06-17T13:26:53Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Then I’ll apologize both for using an unfamiliar acronym and for reacting with hostility to the admonishment about it. I’m glad you both did the grown up thing, here and would have quoted WhatExit? as well except yesterday I had trouble with multiquoting so never mind. anyway, peace and love folks 😍 ETA: does it make anyone else anxious that the ability to edit our posts goes away after a short period of time? who needs that kind of pressure? 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9703 "2023-06-17T14:31:36Z")
I’m getting a strong **cougar58** vibe from **lovetrouble** in that Terrifying Experience thread. Probably just someone who has been drinking from the same cynophobe well. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9704 "2023-06-17T15:42:29Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > ETA: does it make anyone else anxious that the ability to edit our posts goes away after a short period of time? who needs that kind of pressure? 😜 Anxious, pressure? 🤔 Edit time is now at least 10 minutes should be plenty of time to correct a post. Ymmv. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=260) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=262)