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A little while ago, a Rhymes With Orange with a play on LMAO (vs. MAO). Now today’s Bizarro, with another initialism play:

That’s ATM (automated / automatic teller machine) vs. TM (Transcendental Meditation). Other pairs: MIT vs. IT, DVD vs. VD, ETA vs. TA, IBM vs. BM, ISO vs. SO,… (most of them not lending themselves easily to depiction in a cartoon).

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