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When writers include an overload of acronyms, they usually do so in the hope that you'll end up R.O.T.F.L.O.L.Y.F.A.O. Occasionally they'll thrown in some acronyms that refer to [[Deadly Euphemism]]s along with more benign euphemisms in the hopes that you'll do a mental [[Double Take]] and think [[Big OMG|O.M.F.G.]]!
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== F.L.M. ==
* From ''[[Good Morning Vietnam]]'':
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* A ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip tries to abuse this when the engineers try to deceive the pointy-haired boss by making up lots of acronyms.
== T.B.T.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'': DND tends to suffer from this, because of the number of precise terms; AC, DR, CL (this one's even context-sensitive), DC, etc. etc. Oddly enough, there's no way to abbreviate "Denied your dex bonus to AC" any further.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]'' wiki has many acronyms made up by players. The Dakkadakka Forum even has tooltips for the most commonly used initialisms.
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