From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geezers...[WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:24:39 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Geezers...[WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal

> > dicconf at radix.net 3/24/2005 11:14:18 AM >>>
> >
> >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Ted White wrote:
> >
> >> names.   Some of the biggest fans in the history of fandom were
> >"Walt,"
> >> "Bob," "Charles" and "Frank" -- but we know them better as Walt
> >Willis, Bob
> >> Tucker, Charles Burbee and Francis T. Laney.
> >
> >And still better as WAW, Burb, and FTL.
>
> Hey, that's ancient faanish history... next thing you're going to be
> referring to science fiction as stf.

I used it occasionally throughout the ten years I edited AMAZING and
FANTASTIC.   Kept it alive in the '70s....

--Ted White