Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:06:01 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geezers...[WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Ted White wrote:

>
> > > 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....

    "Thus we can see the contradiction
     In people's names for stf."
        -- Walt Willis