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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soundwave106" data-source="post: 204725" data-attributes="member: 3746">It's because some pinball names are very long. It's not uncommon for people to abbreviate long titles, especially anything longer than two words or so, when typing. Music is a great example -- think Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Electric Light Orchestra or Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark etc. People even do that in other things -- movies (something like "Back to the Future" will commonly be BTTF on forums) or television (most television network names are acronyms for a start). I run into abbreviations a lot in software and electronics as well. Short pinball names of course don't need to be abbreviated (and usually aren't. If you call Firepower "F", no one will know what you are talking about.) I actually think there is a danger even with something as short as Monster Bash (get the context wrong, and people could think you are talking about "multiball") or Scared Stiff (well, what would you call Surfin Safari then?) But it's not like you don't run into this anywhere else.</blockquote>

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