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   Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:50:59 JST Rabbit Cohen

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   "FLOTUS" is a portmanteau of "POTUS" and "flirt", because in the early US, the president was only allowed to flirt with his wife.

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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:50:59 JST Rabbit Cohen

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     The reason you see the modern word "POTUS" written in all caps is that Latin didn't have lowercase letters.

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     Ashley (she/they) (ashcarnelian@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:50:59 JST Ashley (she/they)

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     @BathysphereHat Famously the romans had not invented talking without shouting. That's why they had those big squares for people to gather and speak in

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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:51:00 JST Rabbit Cohen

     Enough bacronyms. Start claiming acronyms are just words. "Potus" comes from Latin.

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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 05:51:00 JST Rabbit Cohen

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     "POTUS" comes from the Latin "potus", meaning "the act of drinking alcohol", believed to have originated from the heroic amounts of alcohol consumed by the US founders after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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