David Jacobs collection with Matt.

[mariana44]

I suppose I should know what Harry and Lena's FNIMN is- but it escapes me at the moment--as does IINSAS.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

After our full recent days out Marian, and catching up with things we have also been experienced a Senior moment Hmm...sorry.. few hours but we have fell in now. I I N S A S is ...we hope "If I Never Sing Another Song" and " Friday Night Is Music Night"
Have you noticed though how we have become initial mad for some irritating reason. When we first heard that someone had received an A.S.B.O we'll keep it to ourselves what we thought it was

[mark porter]

hi guys,
i heard this show on sunday, i must admit i knew nothing about the don black evening in london, that one escaped me!!!, its always a treat to hear matt on the radio david jacobs never misses an opportunity to play his tracks.

[paul jh]

Sorry for the initialisms! We do that often in the chart forums I frequent. It's just easier than writing the full title.

Back to David Jacobs's programme: what a lovely instrumental of All The Things You Are he played. I have to hear that again.

[ROBERT M.]

TTFN or maybe BBFN.........................until later...................if the websites still up and running then

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Wel, we didn't thinK you'd know about T.T.F.N. Robert. That was one of the sayings on Tommy Handley's weekly radio show from the Forties, generally from the cleaner Mrs Mopp of .. CAN I DO YOU NOW SIR. fame

[keithgood838]

Hi Lena & Harry
From its early days as an abbreviation in capitals,
Asbo has become a word in its own right. It will
probably lose its initial capital letter eventually
and find a home in the OED. It goes to show that
language is a living, developing entity. (I think
we can guess what you first thought it meant.)
Keith

[Lena & Harry Smith]

We were going to run a competition as to who could guess correctly. Like Mae West Keith we used to be Snow White, but we drifted.

[ROBERT M.]

I think Jimmy Young used TTFN at the end of his radio shows

[Marian]

I think that TTFN went back long before the Jimmy Young Show days
Wasn't it used in ITMA?? Another set of initials - It's That Man Again, with Tommy Handley.
TTFN..
Marian

[Marian]

Just noticed Lena and Harry's earlier reference to Tommy Handley....oops!
Another senior moment. Apologies all round.
Marian

[Marian]

We seem to have wandered off subject somewhat again! and I remember talking briefly about abbreviations elsewhere, but has anyone mentioned the one we used to put on the backs of letters to our 'sweethearts..'
S.W.A.L.K.
You'll all know what that one means.
T.T.F.N.
Marian S.W.A.L.K.

[keithgood838]

L & H
An advantage of being in the autumn of life
is that we are allowed to shed a few inhibitions.
However, I fear your risque competition might
end up in the slush pile.
Keith

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Ah.. but that's because we haven't told them what the prizes are .... First prize....a week in Cleethorpes, 2nd prize Two weeks in Cleethorpes . and Third prize ... a bag of horse manure for the garden or allotment.. Not to be sniffed at

[ROBERT M.]

What's wrong with Cleethorpes L&H .........................why not Clacton