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laundry_queen

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13. Don't laugh

Reply to abumbyanyothername (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 6, 2012, 08:06 PM

Oct 2012

that particular acronym actually happened in Canada when the Reform party changed their name to the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, which journalists instantly started calling the CRAP party, LOL. It was promptly changed to Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, but most of us have not forgotten that (un)fortunate acronym.

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CREEP - For political junkies and/or those of you old enough to remember [View all] matt819 Oct 2012 OP

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Oops. Already in the OP. n/t charlyvi Oct 2012 #4

They should have called it . . . abumbyanyothername Oct 2012 #2

LOL!!! Tennessee Gal Oct 2012 #3

Don't laugh laundry_queen Oct 2012 #13

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Yes, I was such a Watergate junkie. murielm99 Oct 2012 #7

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I think we all were Glitterati Oct 2012 #11

Good question. I've wondered that myself many times Aldo Leopold Oct 2012 #8

It was an attempt H2O Man Oct 2012 #10

Daniel Schorr, CBS made history on live TV.. Stuart G Oct 2012 #12

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I saw it a few weeks ago on my On Demand. Jennicut Oct 2012 #15

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