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kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 13 22:25:48 CDT 2009


Some other meanings for FFO:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FFO

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>

>
>Bekah wrote
>
>>
>> Jade on the Sunset Strip:   "You know FFO up on Sunset?":
>>
>
>also, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFO
>shows it was an early incarnation (1937) of the German space program
>(and the German postal abbreviation for Frankfurt)
>

>
>there's a very slight chance this is relevant to the story,
>(you could link up the rocketeers in 1937 Munich and the fate of their program,
>with the rockers in 60s LA and America's drift toward Reaganism, if
>like David Bowie
>you were willing to yell "This ain't rock'n'roll - this is genocide!",
>I personally think that's a bit of a stretch tho)
>but they were interesting in their own right
>
>also, even less likely to be an intended reference I would think,
>is FFO as the initials of a Norweigan organization for disabled persons:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFO




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