AKICIF

-- Dr Gafia's Fan Terms

Acronym for All Knowledge Is Contained In Fanzines. The phrase, introduced by Charles Burbee, is tongue-in-cheek. At present, to make it a little more egalitarian, it is sometimes rendered as All Knowledge Is Contained In Fandom.

-- Leah Zeldes Smith

As initials, the tag first appeared and is used mainly in rasff, where it generally indicates that a poster is asking a question that has nothing to do with SF or fandom. (The initials are clearly post-1950s; the original phrase may have been an aphorism of Charles Burbee’s.)