On: The extremely large telescope will transform astro...

[mannykannot]

The 'F' is silent, as I put it when explaining what RTFM meant to an elderly relative.

[positr0n → mannykannot]

FYI it's generally accepted that F stands for Fine if you don’t want to swear :)

Same with TFA. The Fine Article.

[mannykannot → positr0n]

Yeah, though in this case, it fit in well with the fact that my relative had recently heard the "There's no 'F' in broccoli" dad-joke:

  Customer: "I'd like a pound of broccoli, please."
  Grocer: "I'm out of broccoli."
  ... repeat 1 or two times
  Grocer: "How do you spell broccoli?"
  Customer: "B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I."
  Grocer: "You left out the 'F'."
  Customer: "There's no 'F' in broccoli!"
  Grocer: "That's what I'm trying to tell you!"

My apologies for any annoyance this joke has caused.

[ithkuil → mannykannot]

if you liked that, here's a good delivery of a variant of that joke by Harrison Ford: https://youtu.be/TRHWvVBxWCw?t=47

[askonomm → mannykannot]

Haha that's actually really clever!