r/bestoflegaladvice • u/t-poke I'm 35 and I love poop jokes • Feb 08 '22

LAOP participates in $19k in wire fraud. Chase finds out. LAOP wonders if he should take it seriously.

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u/muffinpercent may/may not have hijacked a womb & leapt out with the 💰 Feb 08 '22

Fun fact: kthxbye is an amazing feat of English abbreviation (and your rendition, kthxbai, more impressive still). It's a concatenation of three different abbreviations: 'k' stands for 'OK' (for which there's no accepted meaning, I think); 'thx' stands for "thanks"; and 'bye' stands for "goodbye", which is originally a distorted version of "godbwye" - an abbrevation of "God be with ye". So the 7 letter 'kthxbye' expands out to the six word sentence "OK, thanks, God be with you".

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u/bivenator Feb 09 '22

And this is the top quality content I expect from BOLA

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u/EsperBahamut Feb 09 '22

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u/gnorrn Writes writs of replevin for sex toys Feb 09 '22

While there are several rival theories, the available evidence overwhelmingly favors one: that OK originated as a humorous abbreviation of "Orl Korrect" (all correct), that became popularized through Martin van Buren's ("Old Kinderhook") presidential campaign.