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What was it? I arrived too late.
by etrevino 3y ago
What was it? I arrived too late.
- fenomas 3y agoSorry, HN previously had TFA's actual title - "Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies".
- etrevino 3y agolol, that's pretty good, I agree with you.
- djsavvy 3y agoLooks like it's been changed back! What was the "bland" title in the middle?
- Intralexical 3y ago"Google Ngram Viewer n-grams are wrong".
- brookst 3y agoOuch. Glad they reverted. Dec 7, 1941: “200,000 tons of steel relocated to sea floor”
- scubbo 3y agoI, uhhhh.....I would like to know what TFA is meant to stand for, because I assume it is not "the ſucking article", but that was my first thought. Maybe "featured"? Google is only giving me "Teach For America" or "Trade Facilitation Agreement".
- idrios 3y agoThis is the kind of question that doesnt need to be answered with certainty. "The fucking article" is definitely the most fun interpretation of "TFA".
- iudqnolq 3y agoit is the fucking article. or "featured" if you're feeling classy.
- mjochim 3y agoI like to read it as The Fine Article.
- klyrs 3y agoDoes "fornicating" sound more polite to you?
- scubbo 3y agoIt does - but note that I made no mention of disapproving of impoliteness!
- terr-dav 3y agoIf TFA is derived from RTFA (itself I assume derived from RTFM), then "the fucking article" seems the most correct, official, and proper.
- xp84 3y agoI feel that the presence of this term here means that HN is the successor to the venerable Slashdot. Kind of comforting that there’s a straight line from the site that I spent so much time on 20 years ago, to this one.
- dredmorbius 3y ago"The (Fine|Fucking) Article". As others have noted, derived from RTFA (read TFA), which comes from RTFM (read the fine manual). I don't know if RTFA/TFA originated at Slashdot, but both were certainly heavily used there, as noted in ... this fine Wikipedia article: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot>
- teachrdan 3y agoDo we ever find out who came up with this line originally? I'd like to be able to quote it (with attribution) in the future. It sounds like an old timey quote, but a cursory Google search turns up nothing. I can't even see who wrote the article!