The Economist Style Guide recommends avoiding abbreviations, particularly abbreviations that aren't immediately understandable. 

Plus, when I used to refer to them as my "N.E.S." and my "Super."
soilent brad is PEOPLE!
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = EM2C <-- Define it!
"Uh...we don't support the Hannah Montana empire."
- My 6 year old niece
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = EM2C <-- Define it!
"Uh...we don't support the Hannah Montana empire."
- My 6 year old niece
When I was little, I had a checker board with two missing pieces
- 26/06/2010 08:13:25 PM
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What is an NES and SNES? *NM*
- 26/06/2010 08:27:40 PM
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Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System *NM*
- 26/06/2010 08:31:15 PM
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It was too hard to just write "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo"?
- 26/06/2010 08:47:01 PM
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Yes, it was
- 26/06/2010 08:52:33 PM
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Re: It was too hard to just write "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo"?
- 26/06/2010 10:49:18 PM
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That says more about the people you know than about the consoles themselves...
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- 26/06/2010 10:55:32 PM
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- 26/06/2010 10:55:32 PM
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Since you people are the people I know and he was talking to all of you...
- 26/06/2010 11:00:03 PM
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In that case, you may overestimate how many of the "people you know" know those abbreviations.
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- 26/06/2010 11:22:18 PM
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- 26/06/2010 11:22:18 PM
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Probably because checkers can effectively be played with mismatched pieces.
- 26/06/2010 09:40:14 PM
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We used to do that
- 26/06/2010 09:58:30 PM
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I think teacup pigs are definitely a yes. *NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:00:32 PM
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I didn't even know about teacup pigs until I saw that episode *NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:24:26 PM
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~clears throat~
- 26/06/2010 09:53:00 PM
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Oh. My. God.
- 26/06/2010 10:01:51 PM
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If you use that pussy shit I will reach through this computer and bitch slap you. Seriously. Jesus!
- 27/06/2010 03:44:55 AM
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Oh, you're so manly and cool.
- 27/06/2010 04:24:11 AM
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I didn't want to be the first to say it
- 27/06/2010 04:39:08 AM
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The slapping you part was joking, the cute text being a pussy move is not. *NM*
- 27/06/2010 05:35:31 AM
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It isn't rhetoric, it's the truth. A cute text message is pussy bullshit.
- 27/06/2010 05:34:32 AM
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Well.
- 27/06/2010 05:49:59 AM
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Re: If you use that pussy shit I will reach through this computer and bitch slap you. Seriously.
- 27/06/2010 09:39:35 AM
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Re: When I was little, I had a checker board with two missing pieces
- 26/06/2010 11:01:40 PM
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A cute text? What, are you ten years old?
- 27/06/2010 03:48:23 AM
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