Text Messaging TFWW (The Fort Worth Way)

Remember how much you loved to talk on the phone with your BFF* when you were teenager. My BFF and I still talk on the phone a lot, but she travels and sometimes our communication of choice is texting, a required skill when you have your own teens. Coco (CTPTI*) and I love to talk politics, particularly local politics. I think I still have her copy of "All Politics Is Local" by Tip O'Neill. Anyway, living and breathing Fort Worth politics like we do, my BFF and I have come up with our own lingo.

*Best Friends Forever
*Changed to Protect The Innocent

TFWW - The Fort Worth Way

MCC - Mayor and City Council

SB - School Board

BS - Barnett Shale

TAGTIFW - These Are Good Times In Fort Worth (A Mayor Barr favorite)

WWTT - What Were They Thinking

PBS - Political Bull S___ (just in case someone finds that word offensive)

TL - Term Limits

OMG! - Oh My God! (not original, but it works)

CAVE - Citizens Against Virtually Everything (not original, but it works as well)

DUH! - It's just DUH!

The following could work in other political situations.

YWCA - Your Wife Called Again

YMCA - Your Mother Called Again

This is a start and will help when we text and tweet. Please use what you like and click on comments and send me your own political lingo.

Read more about it in the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) Oh, you knew that!http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203674704574328920789548170.html?mod=yhoofront

Longhorn by Johnny Pate