Archive-name: Miscell/acronyms.txt Archive-author: Archive-title: ACRONYMS The purpose of this list is to provide you with explanations for many of those strange acronyms you see in ILink so you don't have to write a lot of "What does that mean?" messages. AA Alcoholics Anonymous AAA Travel club AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics ADN Any Day Now AFAIK As Far As I Know AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? B4N Bye for Now BAMF Bad Assed Mother F- BBS Bulletin Board System BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port BRB Be Right Back BRS Big Red Switch BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW) BTW By The Way CU See you CUL See you Later CUL8R See you Later DIIK Damned If I Know DILLIGAF? Does It Look Like I Give A F-? DL or D/L Download, transmit to you DTRT Do The Right Thing EOT End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message) ES&D Eat S- and Die FISH First In, Still Here FITB Fill In The Blank_________ FUBAR F-ed Up Beyond All Repair FWIW For What It's Worth FYDITM F- You Directly In The Mouth FY&TSYRIO F- You And The Sysop You Rode In On FYI For Your Information G Grin (as in ) GAFIA Get Away From It All (as in drop out of ILink for a bit) GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running GH Getting Hard (see GW) GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting GW Getting Wet (see GH) IC I See IDTT I'll Drink To That! IITYWIMIWHTKY If I tell you what it means, I will have to kill you IITYWIMWYBMAD If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink? ILTNMMAMOTC. HYCFAPMSFTJ I'd like to nominate Mike Meyer as moderator of that conference. Honestly you couldn't find a person more suited for the job. ILY I Love You IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion. INPO In No Particular Order IOW In Other Words IWBNI It Would Be Nice If IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic KMYF Kiss Me You Fool L8R Later LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die. LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause LMAO Laughing My Ass Off LOL Laughing Out Loud MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex MOTSS Member of the Same Sex NFW No Friggin Way OIC Oh, I See OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment OTOH On The Other Hand PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left PITA Pain In The Ass PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters POV Point Of View RE Regarding ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing ROTFLAHMS Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Side RSN Real Soon Now RTFM Read The F- Manual SMO Serious Mode On SMOff Serious Mode Off SNAFU Situation Normal: All F- Up SO Significant Other SOB Do you really need *me* to explain this one? SPAM SPiced hAM. Hormel's canned meat. ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed SYSOP SYStem OPerator TAFN That's All For Now TANJ There Ain't No Justice TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TGIF Thank God Its Friday TIA Thanks In Advance TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living God TLA Three Letter Acronym TLG The Living God TPTB The Powers That Be TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge TTFN Ta-Ta For Now TTUL Talk (or Type) To You Later UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS WFM Works For Me WOFTAM Waste Of Flaming Time and Money WRT With Regard To WTF What the F- WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get YMMV Your Mileage May Vary. Emoticons :) :-) :> Smiling, happy faces; don't take me too seriously ;) ;-) ;> Winking happy faces (something said tongue-in-cheek) B-) Above, but from a person wearing glasses 8-) Same as previous; also used to denote wide-eyed look :-( Sad or angry face :-P Tongue stuck out :D :-D Wider happy face (or mouth open too much) :-o "Oh, nooooooo!" (a la Mr. Bill) :-# Message concerning something that shouldn't have been said... :-$ Message indicating person is ill... :-& Message indicating person is angry... :-* Kiss... :-(=) Message from a person with big teeth. <:-) Dumb questions |-( Late night messages :^) From a person with a large nose :-{#} From a person with braces &:-) From a person with curly hair @:-) From a person with wavy hair #:-) From a person with matted hair :-|K- Formal message. ...---... S.O.S. @%&$%& You know what that means... 2B|^2B Message about Shakespeare (O--< A fishy message... ( } User is Alfred Hitchcock. @>--->---- A rose. (.)(.) Ms. Dos ()x() Ms. Dos with "Cross Your Heart" Bra