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old news. bumper stickers all over the place.

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phillipalden.livejournal.com

Or to paraphrase a Don Henley song; "The End Of The [Ignorance.]"

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Hear me roar.

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fleaplus.livejournal.com

nice.

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MSPAINT 4EVA!

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dangerduckie21.livejournal.com

See icon :-D (I don't have any graphics skills either but it was up for grabs in another community)

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welcome-to-1984.livejournal.com

Lacks originality.

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I prefer this one :-)

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TBE

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quit with the lame anagrams already.

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"Quit With The Lame Anagrams" = "A Manatee Warms Thigh Quilt"

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Win!

But srsly, what is TBE? I've seen this twice in two days now (don't recall seeing it before), and all the things I can come up with don't seem to fit...

Ahah! To Be Expected, no?

Ellie: Try this in future, http://www.acronymfinder.com/ although for TBE the first one was Tick-Borne Encephalitis; which perhaps does fit...

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You spend all this time in the tubes spilling your conservative dogma all over our LCDs, but you don't even take the time to learn the prevailing language that's spoken here in the tubes.

You're probably one of those people who insist that immigrants learn English or get out.

Hypocrisy. I guess that's to be expected.

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but you don't even take the time to learn the prevailing language that's spoken here in the tubes.

yeah, cause TBE means ONE THING ONLY. right.

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Just like "set" means one thing in English. (BTW, the word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language, fyi.) So, you have to go by context. Sooooo, given the context, and the fact that I spelled it out in my previous comment, take your pick:

TBE Tick-Borne Encephalitis
TBE Très Bon État (French: very good condition)
TBE Tabbrowser Extensions (Mozilla Firefox extension)
TBE To Be Expected
TBE Teledyne Brown Engineering (an Allegheny Teledyne Company)
TBE Transitional Bilingual Education
TBE Tris-Borate-Edta Buffer
TBE To Be Evaluated
TBE Tenancy by the Entirety
TBE Turbo-Back Exhaust
TBE Temple Beth Emeth (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
TBE Threaded Both Ends
TBE Tabbed Browser Extension
TbE Terabit Ethernet
TBE Time Base Error
TBE The Benchmark Exchange
TBE T-box factor-Binding Element
TBE Technical Bid Evaluation
TBE Toilet Bowl Effect (RC helicopters)
TBE The Bicycle Escape (Frederick, MD)
TBE Total Budget Estimate
TBE Task Breakdown Element
TBE Trade Bill of Exchange
TBE Telecommunications & Broadcast Equipment
TBE Time Based Escalation
TBE Transient Buffer Exposure
TBE Timing Belt End

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Wow. You sure wasted a lot of time and energy on three mere words. You must be a very productive person....

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GDRIP!

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YARPAYTWIC

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See, it's fun to make up bullshit anagrams like that occasionally.

I have a confession to make...I was giving you a hard time. I was just trying to work in the term "to be expected" in a funny way. I, too, dislike those anagrams and can recognize just a handful at this point. In fact, I had to Google "TBE." That's where I got the long list (It took all of 20 seconds to find the list and cut/paste it, btw.) I saw the same one used yesterday in this community and I thought it meant "The Best Ever," but clearly I was wrong.

So, while I agree that anagrams are lazy and a bad way to communicate, I found it does no good to complain. Just look up the ones you don't know and you'll grow your vocabulary in no time.

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i had looked it up and found pretty much the same thing, which is why i still didn't know what it meant.

you're so silly.

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On a side note, for yonks I thought FTW (for the win) was Fuck The What. The patois of the dudeosphere can be confusing, but it's one of the joys of Post-Modernity.

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*coughacronymcough*

To quote: "Quit With The Lame Anagrams" = "A Manatee Warms Thigh Quilt"

Also, I initially thought it was "to be exact".

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