Age: About 10 days on T-shirts, several years otherwise.
Appearance: Truncated.
Oh, he did used to make me laugh, with his great big ears and great big whizzpops! I think you're thinking of the BFG.
Indeed I was. One of Roald Dahl's finest hours, no? I agree, but we're talking about BFD.
The International Air Transport Association's location code for Bradford regional airport? I'll be honest – I'm delighted, but surprised. No, this is the abbreviation for "big fucking deal" that President Obama used to refer to his healthcare reforms. Joe Biden, as is of course his way, used the unabbreviated description two years ago.
He is a wag, isn't he? A wife or girlfriend of a soccer player?
FFS. No, a japester. Oh, yes. Well, no, he's not exactly that either, but anyway. The campaign is also selling fundraising "Healthcare reform: still a BFD" T-shirts, much to the disgust – feigned, real, who can tell? – of the Republicans.
While over here, David Cameron can't even get away with a simple LOLs on a few personal texts to a newspaper editor. He didn't even get it right.
WTF? He thought it meant "lots of love" not "laugh out loud".
WAT. That's one I just made up. It means "What a tw-" Thank you, I see. OK.
D'you know what? Obama should pull a Nellie Diamond on the Republicans. Eh?
Nell, the daughter of Barclays boss Bob, Twittersponded to her father's critics with an exhortation to "HMD" – "hold my di-" And once again, thank you, I see. Still, it's hardly in Armando Iannucci's league, is it?
What did he do? He replied to Alistair Campbell's attempt to mock him for accepting an OBE – "Three little letters can have more of an impact than you realise" said @campbellclaret – with a simple "WMD"
ROFL! LOLZ!
These modern abbreviations are really rather fun. They are perhaps the ultimate demonstration of the truth of the aphorism "brevity is the soul of wit". What do you think? Ditto
Do say: "WWAD? What would Armando do?"
Don't say: "TTFN. Because it's still bloody annoying."
