Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:30:38 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Netiquette
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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).

--Ted White