During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.

Typically, the concert consists of four shows: a Thursday dress rehearsal, Friday and Saturday show and a Sunday abbreviated concert after the morning Music and the Spoken Word program.

The Old Grey Whistle Test ( usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT ) is an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987.

That was going to be a fairly long journey in the following season, all of which got abbreviated tremendously when WB decided to cancel the show.

Pardon the Interruption ( abbreviated PTI ) is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, ESPN America, XM, and Sirius satellite radio services, and as a downloadable podcast.

Good Morning America ( abbreviated GMA ) is an American morning television show on the ABC television network.

Pneumoencephalography ( sometimes abbreviated PEG ) was a medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid is drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray image.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast ( often abbreviated SGC2C ) is an American animated parody talk show hosted by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

The show initially attracted high ratings for the first few episodes, but the ratings plummeted in Season 2 with a move to Thursday nights, and the series only lasted for two seasons ( both abbreviated ) before the characters were rolled back into Happy Days for that program's final season.

Space: Above and Beyond ( abbreviated as S: AAB ) is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong.

Soap Opera Digest coined the term and popularized the use of " soap speak ," in which show names are abbreviated as acronyms to save space.

An abbreviated version of the show was broadcast by the Hallmark Hall of Fame on October 18, 1964.

An abbreviated and annotated outline follows to show the structure of this lamrim.

Fan fiction ( commonly abbreviated to " fanfic ") is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other dramatic or literary work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters.

This caused the show to have a short abbreviated first season and thus it was not a success.

As a result, the show had an abbreviated first season.

Saturday Night Live ( abbreviated as SNL ) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

The Canadian Hit 30 Countdown, often abbreviated CH30, is a Canadian radio countdown show.

Published in 1995, SES ( as it is sometimes abbreviated ) is the work in which Wilber grapples with modern philosophical naturalism, attempting to show its insufficiency as an explanation of being, evolution, and the meaning of life.

The Neo-Futurists began with the show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes, often abbreviated as TMLMTBGB ( though many refer to it simply as TML ).

After the first four episodes in an abbreviated first season were aired, the show was renewed for two more seasons, eventually ending after 47 episodes on May 4, 1990.

" Gitu " is an abbreviated form of the Indonesian word " begitu " meaning " like that / such as " while " loh " ( also spelt lho ) is simply a particle of expression commonly used in slang or conversational Indonesian to show surprise or instigate a warning.

November to Remember ( normally abbreviated to N2R ) was an annual Eastern Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling professional wrestling show held during the month of November between 1993 and 2000.

In 1960, the Sony Corporation of America ( SONAM, currently abbreviated as SCA ) was established in the United States.

He was also familiar with the ' abbreviated construction ' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.

The abbreviators found it to their own convenience and interest to use the abbreviated form, and especially was this the case at Rome.

On the other hand, in the eighties, Barcelona's name was often abbreviated as ' Barna ', but currently no one uses this abbreviation anymore.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (, Tsentralniy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoi Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza – TsK KPSS ), abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, " Tse-ka ", was de jure the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) between Party Congresses.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

Cash registers include a key labeled " NS ", which is abbreviated for " No Sale ", and opens the drawer, printing a receipt stating " No Sale " and recording it in the register log that the register was opened.

In 1977, the game was split into two versions: the relatively rules-light game system of Dungeons & Dragons and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as AD & D or ADnD ).

This project was followed in 2004 with designs for Dilbert ’ s Ultimate House ( abbreviated as DUH ).

The WIC was organized similarly to the Dutch East India Company (, abbreviated as VOC ).

It was first introduced in his dissertation ( and later appeared in abbreviated, more legible form in a journal ).

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The official name was Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic ), usually abbreviated as DDR.

The name Sowjetische Besatzungszone ( Soviet Occupation Zone, often abbreviated to SBZ ) was used by those who wanted to indicate that East Germany lacked sovereignty, whereas others used Ostzone or der Osten ( Eastern Zone or the East ) to avoid the actual name of the state.

The League of Nations ( abbreviated as LON in English, and SDN in its other official languages ), was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

However, this tomb was not completed until 1545 and represents a much abbreviated version of the planned original, which was initially intended for the new St Peter's Basilica.

The phrase is traditionally placed in its abbreviated form at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument when what was specified in the enunciation — and in the setting-out — has been exactly restated as the conclusion of the demonstration.