Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:27:39 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Netiquette
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 04/12/02 05:30PM
>>lee gilliland wrote:
>
>> Wsfa list netiquette
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> GAFIA - getting away from it all
>
>This of course is a fannish acronym, coined in the '40s.   There is also =
FAFIA
>(forced away from it all -- once used by those who had just been =
drafted).  But
>in each case they have become words -- as in "gafia, gafiate, gafiated," =
etc.
>
>Two other fannish acronyms:
>
>FIJAGH (Fandom Is Just A Ghoddamned Hobby)
>
>FIAWOL (Fandom Is A Way Of Life).

Seen at an LA Worldcon: FIJASOI (Fandom Is Just A Source Of Income)

mjw

>
>--Ted White
>