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How 'bout folks wot sez "FB of I"?
did you mean to say the feebee's? F B I or even FB of I is so yesterday.. they are the feds, or specifically, the feebees.
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Years ago, I worked on a case with the Auto-Theft Section of the Washington State Patrol. Our case involved the transporation of stolen vehicles across state lines. This meant that the FBI became involved. The state-trooper detectives did not think highly of the FBI agents and referred to them, behind their backs as the "Fan Belt Inspectors."
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I'm sure this must be YART material :) Sure it's a yartichoke®, tsuwm...but, you know, some folks consider yartichoke a delicacy. 
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The state-trooper detectives did not think highly of the FBI agents and referred to them, behind their backs as the "Fan Belt Inspectors."No-one likes anyone invading their turf, Father Steve. It seems to be a "natural reaction" to outsiders, whatever their level of competence. It's a staple of every cop movie including the one now playing with Angelina Jolie in the title role *, an FBI agent who picks up all the clues the local guys keep missing. I'm sure the "Fan Belt Inspectors" just went about their business solving the crime ... just like Angelina Jolie.  *"Taking Lives" Synopsis: When Montreal detectives ask for an outsider's help to get inside the head of a cunning serial killer, top FBI profiler Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) joins the case. http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/takinglives.htmlI think the Montreal cops are being a bit pig-headed myself. I'd love to have Angelina Jolie on my squad, even if she was only a "Fan Belt Inspector". The "Fan Belt Inspection Patrol" would become every inspector's favorite duty. That's what I suspect.
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---and some police officers are wont to call the feds who intrude into their jurisdiction as "The F'nBI."
And some pilots have been heard to call the Federal Aviation Administration "The F'nAA."
Not that I would ever use those phrases!
(running to hide behind a very big rock -e)
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No, not much, Ann ...
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These two could use a thread of thier own, but hey, why tramp all over precious *real estate.
A prescriptivist is just a descriptivist who is describing a limited (and often obsolete) subset of the language.
Or sometimes just an imaginary dialect.
Then one can't be one without the other and we should just call all of us "rescriptivists", which is, Shirley, the intention of both... er... all.
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Remember, your script is only good at the AWAD Company Store.
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Remember, your script is only good at the AWAD Company Store.His script deserves better company ... present company excluded, of course.
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you could say the acronym was "naturalized" into the language.
How about radared, lasered, or better still...pinned?
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