Archive-name: Miscell/acronyms.txt
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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