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The (Freaking|Fu**ing|Fine|Founding|First) Article. A way of referencing the article that has been submitted and these comments are discussing.

• BossingAround 2y ago
  Probably one of the most useless and pointless TLA I've come across so far. TIHI.
  • baruz 2y ago
    It derives from an expression deep in the history of Usenet or e-mail (hyphenated), when hapless newbies (two syllables) were told by harried sysops to RTFM, read the f* manual.
    • ziml77 2y ago
      And while it is being used now to simply reference the article, RTFA was originally used in the same way as RTFM. A way of expressing frustration to a commenter who should have read the fucking article first.
      • baruz 2y ago
        Indeed. I usually go with “OP” in non-frustrated contexts, myself.