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Hee, back when I could afford to go to the movies I'd always (inside)

Posted by: DTravel on Aug 14, 12:28 in response to not2fast's post Hang around long enough and you will too. Like many of...

try to think of some really short way of describing the movie when ordering tickets. For Godzilla it would be something like "One to watch the big lizard stomp all over San Francisco". Some ticket sellers would immediatly get it and smile, some would hesitate for a moment then go "ah" and there were some I could just watch the gears trying to turn in their heads to figure out what I was talking about for 30 seconds or so until I told them the name of the movie.

I'm not trying to be difficult... Juiced Aug 14, 08:37

Because it's sometimes easier for me to remember a 5-letter ticker than the name of a movie I haven't seen. {nm} RogerMore Aug 14, 08:52

'LUCY' Powers. RotoHockeyYTD2014 Aug 14, 08:53

why do you have to remember the ticket symbol? You can still search using the movie's name {nm} lapuckfan Aug 14, 08:54

they are talking about posts like this on the board RazorHawk Aug 14, 08:58

(Oh, that's another good reason - ticker symbols make it easier to fit the message into the header) {nm} RogerMore Aug 14, 09:00

for me, the skill came from spending so much (too much?) time here :D {nm} tealfan Aug 14, 09:08

oops...meant for the OP {nm} tealfan Aug 14, 09:08

He's talking about reading ticker symbols on the boards. It's like starting in a new field where people usea lot of indecipherable acronyms {nm} RogerMore Aug 14, 08:59

IRYS {nm} charlie Aug 14, 10:31

GLTC {nm} RogerMore Aug 14, 12:42

Haha. That's what I do. Just being kinda lazy and wondering some of the reasons behind it. Juiced Aug 14, 09:30