Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for December 04, 2015

Ta Ta For Now?

Thank you Jaxxxon. I didn’t know what that meant either.

I’ve ’TTFN’ed for better than 30 years and I’m 62.

I don’t know about hipsters but most teens would use TTYL (talk to you later) instead of TTFN.

You guys have all taught me something. I’m young and stupid enough to believe that was a new expression (or acronym, or whatever.) Always listen to your elders, I guess … Not to mention that the gap between generations is a lot narrower than most people treat it to be …

I first heard TTFN in the mid-60’s when I went to work in the UK for a couple of years. It was heard on the “telly” a lot, and in the pubs, but most of my technical colleagues never used it.

When my daughter looked and me and said — you’re embarrassing me, I just smiled and said “I can do EVEN BETTER!”

She didn’t say that more than a couple of times…

You guys talking about people saying “TTFN” 30 years ago – did they actually say that??? Or did they say “Ta ta for now”?

I never said TTFN. It was always TA TA as in Thurston Howell’s voice…