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▌ [Acronyms.Lst Version 2.00 5/6/2005 [Compiled by p_elphick@cix.co.uk aka cotal@cotal.co.uk] [This file is copyright and may not be re-distributed outside the CIX conferencing system without permission] [topic info] ameol serious fun chatter ▌ [common] 1VHB One Very Happy Bunny 3WC Three Way Call 4WD Four Wheel Drive 9TOO10 Nine Times Out Of Ten A1 Ameol 1 A2 Ameol 2 AA Alcoholics Anonymous/Automobile Association/Always Allowed/Acceptable Acronym AAA Amateur Athletic Association/Any Advice Appreciated/As An Aside AAATIIASOAIIA Aiding And Abetting The Introduction Into A Sentence Of An Illegal Immigrant Apostrophe AABIAR As A Bug In A Rug AAC Assistant Area Commissioner AAF Arse About Face AAIDK Another Acronym I Didn't Know AAIR Anyway, As I Recall AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact AAMOI As A Matter Of Interest AAWBRA Any Assistance Would Be Really Appreciated AAWMV And Always Wear My Vest AB After/Absolute Bollocks ABC Acceptable Behaviour Contracts ABSL Assistant Beaver Scout Leader AC Alternating Current/Area Commissioner ACB Any Colour Butà ACBB Any Colour But Black/Blue ACBG Any Colour But Green/Grey ACBO Any Colour But Orange ACBR Any Colour But Red ACBW Any Colour But White ACBY Any Colour But Yellow ACC Assistant County Commissioner ACL Access Control List ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers ACR Anonymous Call Rejection ACRONYM A Clever manneR Of Notifying Your Meaning ACSL Assistant Cub Scout Leader ACT Australian Capital Territory ACW American Civil War AD Anno Domini ADC Analogue-to-Digital Converter/Assistant District Commissioner ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC ADministrative COMmand, SUBORDinate COMmand, AmPHIBiouS Forces, PACific Fleet ADD Attention Deficit Disorder ADF Adapter Definition File (see MCA) ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADM Annual Divisional Meeting ADN Any Day Now ADPCM Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation (an audio compression technique based on PCM) ADR American Depository Receipt ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AESL Assistant Explorer Scout Leader AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware AFAIAC As Far As I Am Concerned AFAIC As Far As I Care AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall AFAICS As Far As I Can See AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell AFAICWO As Far As I Can Work Out AFAIK As Far As I Know AFAIR As Far As I Recall AFAIU As Far As I Understand AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It AFATAC As Far As They Are Concerned AFAWCT As Far As We Can Tell AFK Away From Keyboard AFN American Forces Network AFOAL A F**k Of A Lot AFP Ameol File Protocol AFT Apart From Then/That AFTLOTM Apologies For The Length Of This Message AFTLOTMAW Apologies For The Length Of This Message As Well AG Appreciative Groan AGAN As Good As New AGC Automatic Gain Control AGCHTMEG A Girl Can't Have Too Many E-Groats AGM Annual General Meeting AGP Accelerated Graphics Port AGSL Assistant Group Scout Leader AGTN Altes Global Communications Network AH Alternate History AHWBA Any Help Will Be Appreciated AI Artificial Intelligence AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIBO Am I Better Off AICM And I Claim My .... AICMú5 And I Claim My ú5 AICM5P And I Claim My 5 Pounds AIDK Acronym I Didn't Know AIH As It Happens AILAL As I Live And Learn AIM AOL Instant Messenger AINW All Is Not Well AIR As I Recall AIRI As I Recall It AISB As I Said Before AISTR As I Seem To Recall AIUBTUBA And If yoU Believe That yoU'll Believe Anything AIUI As I Understand It AIW And I Wish/As I Would/As It Were AIYBTYBA And If You Believe That You'll Believe Anything AKA Also Known As AKC Associate of King's College (London) AL Acronym List/Alabama ALA Abandoned Long Ago/Aliter Lex Ait (Latin: the law says something different, epigraphy) ALARM Advanced Lightweight Anti-Radar Missile/Air Launched Anti-Radar ALOTA A Lot Of Them About ALOTBSOL Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life! AM Amplitude Modulation/Assembly Member/Ante Meridiem AMD Advanced Micro Devices AMEOL 'A Most Excellent Off Line' reader AMIGA A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction AMOW All My Own Work AMR Audio Modem Riser AMS Acute Mountain Sickness AMSPCEDA AnkhMorpork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Extra-Discal Animals ANC Absolutely No Comment AND Architecture Neutral Distribution ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition ANPRS Automatic Number Plate Recognition System ANSI American National Standards Institute AOK All OK AOL America On Line/Away On Leave/Me Too AOLOSQ Asker Of Lots Of Stupid Questions AOM Arthur Or Mather AOS Any Other Suggestionsà AOT Any Other Time APFSDS Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding-Sabot APFU As Per F***ing Usual API Application Programming Interface APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing APITEWASS A Poke In The Eye With A Sharp Stick APOTS All Part Of The Service APU Auxiliary Power Unit/As Per Usual AR ARKANSAS ARA Amateur Rowing Association ARE Acronym-Rich Environment ARRL American Radio Relay League *@arrl.org ARTFMF Always Read The F**king Manual First ARV Armed Response Vehicle/Vicar AS Alaska/American Samoa AS Auto Sport ASA Advertising Standards Authority/American Statistical Association/Another Stupid Acronym/Amateur Swimming Association ASAIC As Soon As I Can ASAP As Soon As Possible ASAR alt.sexual.abuse.recovery ASBO Anti-Social Behaviour Order ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIO Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation ASL Age,sex,location?/Advanced Stop Line/Assistant Scout Leader ASNA A Sorely-Needed Acronym/Area Scout Network Administrator (Also ASNetA) ASNC Area Scout Network Commissioner (Also ASNetC) ASNL Area Scout Network Leader (Also ASNetL) ASO Address Supporting Organisation ASOASF And So On And So Forth ASOSHTMGD A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go Down ASP Application Service Provider ASPI Advanced/Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface ASSOL Anti Synthetic Smell Organisation Limited AST Assured Shorthold Tenancy/Atlantic Standard Time ASTMS Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs ASVI Ah, So Very Interesting ATA Ask The Audience/AT Attachment ATAEGL Are There Any E-Groats Left? ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface ATASTTB As The Actress Said To The Bishop ATATVC As Tough As The Vampire's Cooking ATAVABBF A Thought As Valuable As Belly Button Fluff ATB All The Best/Anti Terrorist Branch ATBSTTA As The Bishop Said To The Actress ATCF As The Crow Flies ATCMB As The Case May Be ATEOTD At The End Of The Day ATEOTU At The End Of The Universe ATKOL Administers The Kiss Of Life ATL Alternate TimeLine/ActiveX Template Library ATM At The Moment/Adobe Type Manager/Automated Teller Machine/Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Another Technical Miracle/Mistake ATMA Amateur Telescope Makers Association ATMIT At This Moment In Time ATRAC Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (the digital audio compression system used on MDs) ATROTT All The Rest Of The Time ATROTTOC All The Rest Of The Time Of Course ATT All The Time ATTOC All The Time Of Course ATVM At This Very Moment AU Astronomical Unit AUGUR A Universal Generic User Repository AUI Attachment Unit Interface AUP Acceptable Usage Policy AV Anti Virus AVGPTS A Very Good Place To Start AVHBI A Very Happy Bunny Indeed! AVSL Assistant Venture Scout Leader AWBA Any Way But Always AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? AWITNR And When Is The Next Release? AWL Advanced Wizarding Level AWLS Advanced Wizarding LevelS AWOL Absent WithOut Leave AWT Abstract Window Toolkit AYAMOTC And You A Man Of The Cloth AYK As You Know AYS Are You Sure AYYB Ac Yn Y Blaen (lit. and in the front) AZ ARIZONA B2B Business To Business/Back To Back B4N Bye For Now BA Bachelor of Arts/British Academy/Brilliantly Acronymmed BAA British Airports Authority BAALT Been Around A Long Time BAC By Any Chance BACS Bankers' Automated Clearing System BAK Back At Keys BAO Both At Once BASC British Association of Shooting and Conservation BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code/Bill's Attempt To Seize Industry Control BATST Both At The Same Time BB Bum Bandit/Big Bang theory BBATST But Both At The Same Time BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BBDC Big Boys Don't Cry BBFC British Board of Film Classification BBFN Bye Bye For Now BBIAB Be Back In A Bit BBL Be Back Later BBS Bulletin Board System BBT Big Bang Theory BC Before Christ/Boozy Clergy/Barmy Castille BCAPF Barnard Castle Association for the Prosecution of Felons BCC Blind Carbon Copy BCE Before Common Era BCFH Bastard Client From Hell BCNU Be Seeing You BCP Book of Common Prayer BCS British Computer Society BCU British Canoeing Union BDC Backup Domain Controller BDDIA But Don't Do It Again BDSM Bondage Domination Sado Masochism BE British Empire/Brilliantly Expanded BEG Big Evil Grin/Bonus E-Groat/Billion E-Groats BEM Bug-Eyed Monster/British Empire Medal BFAI Brute Force And Ignorance BFD Big F***ing Deal BFI Brute Force and Ignorance/British Film Institute BFN Bye For Now BFO Big F**k Off BFW Big F***ing Whoopee BG Big Grin BGA British Go Association (FTTT discussed in cix:go_players) BGB Bloody Good Bloke BGI Bloody Good Idea BGL Bloody Good Lad BGP Border Gateway Protocol BGWM Be Gentle With Me BH Business Highway/Bloody Hell/Black Horse BHD Bad Hair Day BHLCS Bless His/Her Little Cotton Socks BHO Browser Host Object BHOW Bangs Head On Wall BHSS Because He Said So BHWAY Bwrw Hen Wragedd Ac Ysgubellau = (lit.) raining old women and besoms BIBLE Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth BIBTB Before I Break The Bank BICBW But I Could Be Wrong BIF Behave In Future BIIK Buggered If I Know BIK Benefit In Kind BIL Brother In Law BIN Buy It Now BION Believe It Or Not BIOS Basic Input Output System BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your Input Output Port BISS Because I Said So BITPA? Been In The Pub Again? BIWDIA But I Won't Do It Again BIWL But I Wasn't Listening BIWSTWI But I Would Say That Wouldn't I BIX Byte Information eXchange BJ Big Jobs BK Because BL Belly Laughing/British Library/Blessed Loei BLA Been Led Astray BLTN Better Late Than Never BM Bloody Marvellous BMC British Mountaineering Council BMD Births, Marriages and Deaths BMFA British Model Flying Association BMI Body Mass Index BMP BitMaP file BMS Bright Mild Steel/Bless My Soul BMSN Bloody MicroSoft Network messenger BMT Before My Time BMW Bavarian Motor Works BMWM Big Mean Windows Machine BNBATST But Not Both At The Same Time BNC Bayone-Neill-Concelman (connector) BNIM But Not In Mine BNF Backus Naur Form BNP British National Party BO Best Offer/Body Odour BOAT Bordering On A Tart/Byway Open to All Traffic BOBTG Bog Off Back To Greenland BOD Bonding On Demand BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell BOGOF Buy One Get One Free BOK Breakfast On Keyboard/Beyond Our Ken/Bollocks On Keyboard BOL Book Of Lies BONSH But Oh No She Hasn't BOOOGL By Order Of Our Great Leader BOOOGL By Order Of Our Great Leader BOR Bringer Of Rain BOTEC Back Of The Envelope Calculation BOWTH But Oh What The Heck BOYD Bring Out Your Dead BP Blood Pressure/British Petroleum/Baden-Powell BPI British Phonographic Industry BPS Bits Per Second BPSA Baden-Powell Scout Association BRAD British Rate And Data BRB Be Right Back BRI Basic Rate Interface BRIZE Be Ready In Zealous Anticipation BRS Big Red Switch BS BullShit/Bachelor Surgery BSA Birmingham Small Arms/Bloody Stupid Acronym/Bill Shankly Applies BSC Bachelor of Science BSF But Seriously, Folks BSL Beaver Scout Leader BSOD Blue Screen Of Death BSSS Because She Said So BST British Summer Time/But Seriously Though BSV Boot Sector Virus BSWIS Bruce Says What I Say BT British Telecom/Blues and Twos BTA But Then Again/But Thanks Anyway/By That Account BTCC British Touring Car Championship BTCV British Trust for Conservation Volunteers BTDT Been There Done That BTDTBTTS Been There Done That Bought The T-Shirt BTDTDTRI Been There Done That Done The Re-Install BTDTDWTTS Been There Done That Don't Wear The T-Shirt BTDTGTTS Been There Done That Got The T-Shirt BTDTKWYM Been There Done That Know What You Mean BTDTSTVBTTS Been There Done That Seen The Video Bought The T Shirt BTDTSTVGTTS Been There Done That Seen The Video Got The T Shirt BTGTTS Been There, Got The T Shirt BTH Burn The Heretic BTHS Burn The Heretic Scum BTHTDTMHTTATTS Been There, Had That Done To Me, Had To Throw Away The Tee-Shirt BTL Buy To Let BTO BT Openworld/Openwound/British Trust for Ornithology BTOW BT Open World/Wound BTSOOM Beats The Stuffing Out Of Me BTVN By The Very Nature BTW By The Way BTWMIDTR But That Would Make It Difficult To Read BTYG But There You Go BUPA British United Provident Association BURMA Be Undressed Ready My Angel BURP Be Undressed Ready Pet BUTGC Banned Under The Geneva Convention BV Boozy Vicars BVM Blessed Virgin Manda BWB British Waterways Board BWK Brian W. Kernighan (co-author of Awk & the C book) BWSF British Water Ski Federation BWTF But What The F**k BWTHDIK But What The Heck Do I Know BWTMIDTR But Would That Make It Difficult To Read? BYCB But You Can't Be/Bruce BYJD But You Just Did BYKT But You Knew That BYKTA But You Knew That Already BYKWIM But You Know What I Mean BYMMV But Your Mileage May Vary BYO Buy/Bring Your Own BYOB Bring Your Own Booze BYP Beg Your Pardon BYU Bob's Your Uncle CA Constant Acquisitions/Conference Archivist/California/Colony Assistant/Court of Appeal/County Commissioner CAB Cymru Am Byth!(Wales for ever/Citizens Advice Bureau CAD Computer Aided Design/Ctrl-Alt-Delete CADS Can A Duck Swim? CAL Computer Assisted Learning CAM Conditional Access Module CAMRA CAMpaign for Real Ale CANE Conference Agony Niece Extraordinaire CANX Cancelled CAPSTAN Can A Prick Stand Twice A Night CARP CAmpaign for Real Pedantry CAS Column Address Strobe CASBA Clean Air Smoke Break Agreement CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering CAT Computer Assisted Learning/Something my dog likes chasing/Computerised Axial Tomography CAV Constant Angular Velocity CB CitizenÆs Band radio CBA Can't Be Arsed CBDTPA Consumer Broadband and Digital TV Promotion Act CBGYBMABILYAEFAM Cor Blimey Guvn'r You're Breakin' Me Arm But I'll Let You 'Ave 'Em For A Monkey CBL Computer Based Learning CBMS Central Bank Money Stock CBS Cix Barbie Survivor CBT Computer Based Training/Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CC Closed Conference/Conference Curmudgeon/County Court /Conference Chaplain CCC Clever Chaps Club/Closed Confidential Conference CCCP CIX Conferencing Complaint Process CCDL Clean Current Driving Licence CCIR International Radiotelephony Consultative Committee CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony & Telegraphy CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate/ Certification of Nurse Anaesthetists CCO CIX Conferencing Only (account) CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision CCUG Church Computers User Group CCY CanÆt Can You CD Compact Disc CDA Communications Decency Act (a 1996 US legal amendment criminalising indecent language on the internet) CDDA Compact Disc Digital Audio CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interchange CDDMWUR Conference Decolyte and Director of Music To cix:WUR CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CDO Collaboration Data Objects CDONTS Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server CDROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory/Consumer Device Rendered Obsolete In Months CDTTB Come Down To The Basement CE Conference Exists/Common Era/Covers Ears CECB Cewch E-clec Bonws CEDR Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution CEG Cewch e-groat (have an e-groat = HAEG) CEGH Cewch e-groat hwn (have this e-groat = HTEG) CEGY Cewch e-groat ychwanegol (have a bonus e-groat = HABEG) CEO Chief Executive Officer CESB Cewch E-Swllt Bonws CESFC Currently Ex-Stock From Components maker CESFD Claims of Ex-Stock Fictitious Deceitful/Currently Ex-Stock From Distributor CESFI Currently Ex-Stock From Inventor CESFM Currently Ex-Stock From Manufacturer CESFN Currently Ex-Stock From Nowhere CESFS Chance of Ex-Stock Fairly Slim CESFS Currently Ex-Stock From Supplier CESFV Chance of Ex-Stock Frankly Vapourware/Currently Ex-Stock From Vendor CESY Cewch e-swllt ychwanegol = have a bonus e-shilling = HABES CF Compact Flash/Conference Fool CFC ChloroFluoroCarbon CFDD Christmas Falling Down Do CFPT Cix Fish Pun Thread CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CG Conference Grammarian CGA Colour Graphics Adapter CGI Common Gateway Interface CGMS Copy Generation Management System CGT Capital Gains Tax CH Colony Helper/Conference Heresiarch/Conference Hound CHN Community of the Holy Name CHWOTBAKOTG Conference Hound, Watchdog Of The Boastery And Keeper Of The Gatepost CI$ CompuServe/CompuSpend CIA Central Intelligence Agency/Curse of the Inscrutable Acronyms CIATA Can I Ask The Audience CIAWT Cix Is A Wonderful Thing CIDCWIISALAIGIWINI Currently I Don't Care Where It Is Stock As Long As I Get It When I Need It CIDKJGMTM Currently I Don't Know, Just Give Me The Money CIFAF Can I Fone A Friend CIGFF Can I Go Fifty-Fifty CIHAEG Can I Have An E-Groat CIHAEGP Can I Have An E-Groat Please CIHBM2 Could I Have BinMail Too CIHBM2P Could I Have BinMail Too Please CIHBMTP Can I Have BinMail Too Please CIHM2 Could I Have Mail Too CIHM2P Could I Have Mail Too Please CIHMT Could I Have Mail Too CIHMTP Could I Have Mail Too Please CIM Compuserve Information Manager CIPAF Can I Phone A Friend CIR Committed Information Rate CIS CompuServe/CompuSpend/Currently In Stock/Continuous Inking System/Co-operative Insurance Society CISAD Currently In Stock At Distributor CISAS Currently In Stock At Supplier CISAV Currently In Stock At Vendor CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer/Chip CIT Contradiction In Terms CITA Case Is Towed Away CITAAC Case Is Towed Away And Crushed CITAAO Case Is Towed Away And Opened CITAATO Case Is Towed Away And Then Opened CITAORTC Case Is Towed Away Opened, Raided and Then Crushed CITAOTC Case Is Towed Away Opened, Then Crushed CITO Case Is Thrown Out CIX Compulink Information eXchange CIXIP Compulink Information eXchange Internet Provision CIXOL Cix Online CLI Command Line Interface/Called Line Identification CLIP Calling Line Identity Presentation CLIT Centrally Located Input Tool CLV C'est La Vie/Constant Linear Velocity CMA Computer Marked Assignment/Computer Misuse Act/Country Music Awards CMCA Confusing May Cause Anxiety CMDM County Media Development Manager CME Core Managed Environment CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong CML Computer Managed Learning CMO Cash/Money Order CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOT Cut Me Own Throat CMOTD Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler CMS Content Management System CMT Contingent Management Team CMTS Cable Modem Termination Shelf/System CNE Certified Novell Engineer CNN Cable News Network CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen CNP Cardholder Not Present CO COmpany/Care Of/Colorado COA Certificate Of Authenticity COBOL Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language COBUILD Collins Birmingham University International Language Database CoC Committee of the Council COD Cash On Delivery/Concise Oxford Dictionary COG Centre Of Gravity COHYACUANGAA Congratulations On Having Yet Another Completely Unusable And Non-General Acronym Accepted... COIDS Cix Oracle In Denial Syndrome (a pathological inability of some people to simply say, "Dunno, guv, that's a weirdie) COK Coffee On Keyboard COLP Connected Line Presentation COLT City Of London Telecommunications COM Communication Port i.e. COMMS 1/Component Object Model COND CONDemned CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORWO Other Way Round Of Course (The other way round) COSTWUR Collector Of the Salt Tax cix:WUR CoSy COnferencing SYstem/COllaboration System/COoperative SYnergy COTAL Custodian Of The Acronym List/p_elphick@cix aka cotal@cotal.co.uk COTC Court Of The Cotal COTY Creep Of The Year COYU Congratulations On Your Unanimity CP Communist Party/Corporal Punishment/Crime Prevention/Capital Punishment CPAP Constant Positive Airway Pressure CPGNWDRTOHC Chrome Plated Grease Nipples With Double Reverse Twin-OverHead Camshafts CPGNWDRTOHDH Chrome Plated Grease Nipples With Double Reverse Twin-OverHead Door Handles CPGNWDRTOHF Chrome Plated Grease Nipples With Double Reverse Twin-OverHead Foxtails CPI Consumer Price Index CPP Calling Party Pays CPRM Content Protection for Recordable Media CPS Characters Per Second/Crown Prosecution Service CPSA Clay Pigeon Shooting Association CPU Central Processing Unit CPW Car Phone Warehouse CPWP Can't Pay, Won't Pay CRAFT Can't Remember A Flipping Thing CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CREN Corporation for Research and Education CRIMM Continuity Rambus Inline Memory Module CRLF Carriage Return Line Feed CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope CROW Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 CRS Compagnie EΘpublicaine de SΘcuritΘ CRT Cathode Ray Tube CRUMBS Conference (Really Unbelievably Most Beneficial) Snack for cix:wur CS Computer Science CSA Context Sensitive Acronym/Child Support Agency CSD Corrective Service Disk/Circuit-Switched Data/Catastrophic Self Disassembly CSDC Contextualised Self-Defining Colloquialism CSL Cub Scout Leader CSLIP Corrective Serial Line Interface Protocol CSM Customer Service Manager CSNA County Scout Network Administrator (Also CSNetA) CSNC County Scout Network Commissioner (Also CSNetC) CSNL County Scout Network Leader (Also CSNetL) CSOS Composite Signals Organisation Station CSR Cab Secure Radio CSS Cascading Style Sheet/Content Scrambling System CSSD Central Sterile Services Department CST Contingent Support Team CSWS Can't Say, Won't Say CT Conjuring Trick/Canon Treasurer/ Connecticut CTF Cix Toll Free (now extinct) CTFPT Cix Travelling Fish Pun Thread CTM County Training Manager CTO Cut That Out CTOAGAATM Can't Think Of A Good Acronym At The Moment CTS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome/Clear To Send CTWB Conjuring Trick With Bones CUA Common User Access/Commonly Used Acronym CUL See You Later CUL8ER See You Later CUL8R See You Later CUM CIX User Manual CURL Curls Up Really Laughing CV Conference Vexillologist CW Continuous Wave (Morse Code) CWU Communication Workers Union CYA Cover Your A** (ASCII ?) CYL See You Later CYO See You Online DAC Digital-to-Analogue Converter DACS Digital Access Concentrator System DAO Data Access Object DARFC Ducks And Runs For Cover DAYATFO Do As You Are Told For Once DAYEG Diolch Am Yr E-Grot (Thanks for the e-groat) DB DeciBel = 10Log (P2/P1)/DogsÆ Bollocks DBA DataBase Administrator/Doing Business As DBAG Don't Blow A Gasket DBCM Deleted By Conference Moderator DBL Dros Ben Llestri (Over The Dishes (OTT) (Welsh)) DBP Ducks Behind Parapet DBS Don't Be Silly DBSITW Do Bears Sh*t In The Woods DBSL District Beaver Scout Leader DBSM Deleted By System Manager DBSSIF Don't Be So Silly In Future DBYL Dros Ben Y Llestri (lit. over the dishes) = OTT DC Direct Current/Detective Constable/District of Colombia (Washington, DC)/District Commissioner/Da Capo DCC Deputy County Commissioner DCE Data Communications Equipment/Distributed Computing Environment DCMS Don't Call Me Shirley DCOL Doesn't Count On Location DCOM Distributed Component Object Model DCOT Doesn't Count On Tour DCSL District Cub Scout Leader DCX Delta Clipper eXperimental DD Direct Debit/Doesn't Decode DDC Direct Dial Connection DDCA Direct Dial Conferencing Account DDE Dynamic Data Exchange DDIA Don't Do It Again DDIAOE Don't Do It Again Or Else DDR Double Data Rate/Deutsche Demokratishe Republik (German Democratic Republic) DDRAM Double Data-rate Random Access Memory DDT DichloroDiphenylTrichloethylene/Didn't/DonÆt Do That DDTB Don't Disturb The Baby DDTOE Don't Do That Or Else DDTP Day, Date, Time, Place DE Delaware DEBE Does Everything But Eat DEC Digital Equipment Corporation/Do Expect Cuts DEK Donald E. Knuth (author of TeX & The Art Of Computer Programming) DES Data Encryption Standard DESA District Explorer Scout Administrator DESC District Explorer Scout Commissioner DESL District Explorer Scout Leader DETR Department of Environment, Transport, and the Regions DFC Distinguished Flying Cross DFLA Disenhanced Four Letter Acronym (that is, a TLA) DFRH Differ From Real History DG Director General/Data General/Dead Granny DGAF Don't Give A F**k DGAFF Don't Give A Flying F**k DGUTDJ Don't Give Up The Day Job DHAFC Don't Have A F***king Clue DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHS Die, Heretic Scum! DHTML Dynamic HyperText Markup Language DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath DI Detective Inspector DICOAPWLA Drunk In Charge Of A Poor Wee Lad Again? DIIK Damned If I Know DIKU Do I Know You DIL Days In Lieu DILLIGAFF Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Filament DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module DIOLCH Thanks(Welsh) DIP Dual In-line Package DIRA Disclaimer In Resume Applies DITYID Did I Tell You I'm Distressed DIWWNW4 Does It Work With NetWare 4? DIY Do It Yourself DJ Disc Jockey/Dinner Jacket/Diploma in Journalism/District Judge/Divorce Judge/Doctor Juris (Doctor of Laws)/Dow Jones/Dust Jacket DKUATB Do Keep Up At The Back DKWYM Don't Know What You Mean DLAC Driving Like A C*** DLG Devilish Little Grin DLIGTYH Don't Let It Go To Your Head DLL Dynamic Link Library DLT Digital Linear Tape DLTBGYD Don't Let The Buggers Grind You Down DM Doesn't Matter/Dungeon Master DMA Direct Memory Access DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act (US legislation banning circumvention of copy prevention mechanisms) DMDM District Media Development Manager DMI Don't Mention It DMIBDDIA Don't Mention It But Don't Do It Again DMIBDDIAOYVGTJFAVVVLT Don't Mention It But Don't Do It Again Or You Will Go To Jail For A Very Very Very Long Time DMIID Don't Mind If I Do DMR Dennis M. Ritchie (C creator, Unix co-creator) DMS Dead Man's Switch DMTW Don't Mention The War DMW Dead Man Walking DMZ DeMilitarized Zone DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid/Douglas Noel Adams (late Cixen, author of HHGTTG)/Donkey Not Ass DNAA District Nights Away Advisor DNC Definitely No Comment DNE Does Not Exist DNPM Damn Near P***ed Myself DNQ Do Not Quote DNR Domain Name Registration DNRWWA Domain Name Registration With Web Aliasing DNS Domain Name System/Server DNSO Domain Name Supporting Organisation of ICANN DNT Did Not Too DOA Dead On Arrival DOB Date Of Birth/Daft Old Bat/Bastard/Bitch DOD Department Of Defence DOE Department Of Energy DOE Duke Of Edinburgh DOEG Dispenser Of E-Groats DOM Dirty Old Man DOS Dozy Old Sod/Disk Operating System/Defective Operating System/Denial Of Service DOT Department Of Transportation DPA Data Protection Act/Dover Port Authority DPR Data Protection Registrar DPS Double Page Spread DQM Don't Quote Me DQMOT Don't Quote Me On That/This DRCOG Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology DRL Daytime Running Lights DRM Digital Rights Management/Digital Radio Mondial DROFL Double Roll On Floor Laughing DRYHTH Don't Raise Your Hopes Too High DS Detective Sergeant DS9 Deep Space Nine DSCOTCGIWUR Dominatrix Supreme and Commandante Of The Chain Gang In cix:WUR DSIF Deep Space Instrumentation Facility DSL Digital Subscriber Line DSL District Scout Leader DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer DSN Deep Space Net/Don't Stop Now DSP Digital Signal Processor DSR Data Set Ready DSSCTM Don't Stand So Close To Me DTB Downloading This Blink DTD Drop To DOS DTE Data Terminal Equipment DTGTTS Done That, Got The T Shirt DTI Department of Trade & Industry/ Desperate Times Indeed DTLOI Due To Lack Of Interest DTP DeskTop Publishing DTR Data Terminal Ready DTT Digital Terrestrial Television DTTBOWTBW Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bath Water DTW Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells DTTYNB Don't Tell Them Your Name Bruce DTTYNP Don't Tell Them Your Name Pike DUN Dial Up Networking DUYBOC Don't Understand Your Banter Old Chap DV DESQview DVD Digital Versatile Disc DVDR Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) Recorder(able) DVI Digital Video Interface DVLA Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency DVLC Driver & Vehicle Licensing Centre (now DVLA) DVSL District Venture Scout Leader DW Doctor Who/DiskWorld/Dream Weaver DWAI Don't Worry About It DWIM Do What I Mean DWIS Do What I Say DWYATOE Do What You Are Told Or Else DYFAYEG Diolch Yn Fawr Am Y E-Grot! (Thanks very much for the e-groat) DYFAYES Diolch Yn Fawr Am Y E-swllt (Thanks very much for the e-shilling) DYFCS Diolch Yn Fawr Caredig Syr DYFI Diolch Yn Fawr Iawn (Thank you very much (welsh)) DYHASFI Do You Have A Software Firewall Installed DYM Do You Mean DYMIGMC Don't You Mean I'll Get My Coat DYSWIM Do You See What I Mean EAR Everything's All Right EARN European Academic Research Network EB Encyclopaedia Britannica EBA English Basketball Association EBBB Engage Brain Before Blinking EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code EBS Errant Brain Syndrome ECC E-Contact Centre (in Nextran)/E Contact Center (in Merkin)/Error Checking & Correction (in English) ECHR European Court of Human Rights ECJ European Court of Justice ECM Electronic Counter Measure ECML East Coast Main Line ECP Enhanced Capability Port ECT Edge Crush Test ED Eating Disorder EDGE Enhanced Datarates for Global Evolution EDM Early Day Motion (Parliamentary procedure much used in campaigning but rarely leading to legislation) EDO Enhanced Data Out EDS Electronic Data Systems EER Effective Exchange Rate EEROM Electrically Erasable Read Only Memory EFCC Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation EFS Errant Finger Syndrome EG Evil Grin EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter EGDTTPB E-Groat Diverted To The Poor Box EGSIIE E-Groat Supply Is In-Exhaustible EGWMT Extremely Generous With My Time EHT Extra High Tension EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EITNR Expected In The Next Release ELCB Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker ELP Euro Linguistic Programming EMB Expressed Breast Milk EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In EMFJI Excuse Me For Jumping In EMI European Monetary Institute/Electrical and Mechanical Industries EMM Expanded Memory Manager EMP Electro Magnetic Pulse EMS Expanded Memory Specification/Expanded Memory System /European Monetary System EMU European Monetary Union EOD End Of Discussion EOL End Of Lecture EOM End Of Message EOR End Of Rant/Report EOT End Of Thread/Tape/Transmission EOTBT End Of The Bloody Thread EOTIAMAE End Of The Internet Announced Movie At Eight EOTNAMAE End Of The Net Announced Movie At Eight EOTWAWKI End Of The World As We Know It EP Eye Piece EPA Enduring Power of Attorney EPG Electronic Programme Guide EPP Enhanced Printer Port EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory ERM Exchange Rate Mechanism ES Evil Smirk/Explorer Scout ESA European Space Agency ESAA English Schools' Athletic Association ESAD Eat Shit And Die ESAL Eats, Shoots And Leaves ESCD Extended System Configuration Data ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface ESFD Ex-Stock From Distributor ESFM Ex-Stock From Manufacturer ESFS Ex-Stock From Supplier ESFV Ex-Stock From Vendor ESL Explorer Scout Leader ESM Extended Senior Moment ESOSL Endless Snorts Of Stupid Laughter ESP Enhanced Serial Port/Extra-Sensory Perception ESR Eric S. Raymond (Open Source luminary) ESS Ex-Stock Supplier EST Eastern Standard Time ESU Explorer Scout Unit ET Extra Terrestrial/Euro Tunnel ETA Estimated Time of Arrival/Apocalypse ETD Expected Time of Delivery ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym ETOD Expected Time Of Delivery ETTO Each To Their Own EU European Union EULA End User Licence Agreement EWCB England and Wales Cricket Board EWD Edsger W. Dijkstra (CS luminary) EWIT Exactly What I Thought EWK Enters Without Knocking/Especially Wicked Knock EWTB Ex Wife To Be F2F Face to Face FA Football Association FAA Very little/F**k All Available FAC Feminists Against Censorship/Foreign Affairs Committee FACTOR Facile Acronyms Create Totally Obscure "Reminders" FAEG Forfeit An E-Groat FAF Fone A Friend FAIB Free As In Beer FAQ Frequently Asked Question FAR Frequently Asked Request FASC Foreign Affairs Select Committee FAST Federation Against Software Theft FAT File Allocation Table FATMAEP Fools And Their Money Are Easily Parted FAW Football Association of Wales/Frequently Asked Wish FB Fine Business FBIFM Far Be It For Me FBTT Far Busier Than Thou FC Flying Carpet/Football Club FCC Federal Communications Commission FCCOEG Fines Conference Chaplain One E-Groat FCOL For Crying Out Loud FCS For Christ's Sake FD First Direct/Finance Director/Floppy Disk/Flying Donkey FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interchange FDO Field Development Officer FDROTFL Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing FE First Edition/Further Education FEAEA For Ever And Ever Amen FECUR Font Explorer for cix:WUR FED Field Effect Display FEI For Everyone's Information FEIYD ForEver In Your Debt FET Field Effect Transistor FF Fifty-Fifty/Font Fluid FFC F**king Fast Comms FFE Final Front Ear FFO Finger Food Only FFR Fitness For Role FFS For F**ksÆ Sake/Full Frame Sensor FFTB Feel Free To Butt FFWF Fight Fire With Fire FGKAC For God, King And Country FGQAC For God, Queen And Country FGS For God's/Goodness Sake FH Floating Head FI For Instance FIC Father In Charge FIEC Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches FIFO First In First Out FIIK F**ked If I Know FIL Father In Law FILO First In Last Out FIQ Fast Interrupt reQuest FISH First In Still Here FITB Fill In The Blankà FITMR Fixed In The Maintenance Release (honest, guv...) FITNMR Fixed In The Next Maintenance Release FITNR Fixed In The Next Release FITNV Fixed In The Next Version FL Florida FLA Four/Five Letter Acronym FLTA Fermat's Last Theorem Applies FM Font Monster/Frequency Modulation/File Mangler/Facing Material/Federated States Of Micronesia/F**cking Manual FMB F**k Me Backwards/Forgive My Bluntness FMS False Memory Syndrome FMTYEWTK Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know FNFTIBYGT Fear Not, For Today I Bring You Glad Tidings FNFTIBYGTOGJ Fear Not, For Today I Bring You Glad Tidings Of Great Joy FNICHAMAW Fear Not It Can Have Another Meaning As Well FNS Front Near Side FOAD F*ck Off And Die FOAF Friend Of A Friend FOC Free Of Charge FOCBMTPAT Falls Off Chair But Minds The Poor Almost Toddler FOCBMTPB Falls Off Chair But Minds The Poor Baby FOCBMTPT Falls Off Chair But Minds The Poor Toddler FOCBMTPFYL Falls Off Chair But Minds The Poor Fine Young Lady FOCBMTPFYLFO Falls Off Chair But Minds The Poor Fine Young Lady For Once FOCL Falls Off Chair Laughing FOCLWTSDMF Falls Off Chair Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face FOCWAU Falls Off Chair, World And Universe FOCWAU Falls Off Chair, World And Universe FOEG Fined One E-Groat FOEGFGAIA Forfeit One E-Groat For Grossly Abusing Innocent Acronym FOEGFGAIS Forfeit One E-Groat For Grossly Abusing Innocent Saints FOEGFUAAWKTM Fined One E-Groat For Using An Acronym Without Knowing The Meaning FOES Fined One E-Shilling/E-Smack FOF Friend Of a Friend FOMC Federal Open Market Committee FOMCL Falling Off My Chair Laughing FOOBAH Fouled Up Beyond All Hope FOOBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition FOP Falls Off Pew FORCE Frequently Obvious Restricted Collection Exposed FORD Fix Or Repair Daily FOS Front Off Side FOTCL Falling Off The Chair Laughing FOTP Fresh Off The Press FOTPA Fallen Off The Planet Again FOTR Fellowship Of The Ring FOTS For Old TimesÆ Sake FOV Field of View FP (Microsoft) FrontPage/Free Parking FPS For Pete's/Pity's Sake FPTP First Past The Post FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name FRA File Read All FRC Family Record Centre FRIACO Flat-Rate Internet Access Call Origination FRO F**k Right Off FSB Front Side Bus FSD Fools Seldom Differ FSDT Four Sprung Duck Technique FSF Free Software Foundation FSFIS Fellow of the Shit Fan Interface Society FSJ Frequently Said Jokes FSK Frequency Shift Keying FSR For Some Reason FSS First Stage Separation FSVO For Some Value Of FT Financial Times FTA Free To Air FTAGH Free To A Good Home FTAOD For The Avoidance Of Doubt FTB Far Too Busy FTBTS Far Too Busy To Say FTBTTY Far Too Busy To Tease You FTC Federal Trade Commission FTCCOEG Fines The Chaplain One E-Groat FTEG Fined Two E-Groats FTES Fined Two E-Shillings FTFF For The Foreseeable Future FTI Far Too Idle FTIFTT Far Too Innocent For This Topic FTL Far Too Lazy/Late/Faster Than Light FTLTR Far Too Lazy To Reply FTM For That Matter FTOYWDK For Those Of You Who Don't Know FTP File Transfer Protocol FTPBI Failed To Put Brain In FTPO For The Price Of FTR For The Record FTSME Financial Times Smoke & Mirrors Exchange FTTB For The Time Being FTTF Falls Through The Floor FTTT From Time To Time FTV Free To View FTWQ F**k That Was Quick FU Fouled Up FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition FUBB F*ed-Up Beyond Belief FUBBIN Finger Up Bum, Brain In Neutral FUBISO F* You, Buddy, I'm Shipping Out FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt FUGAZI Fouled Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In FUMTU F*ed-Up More Than Usual FWAG Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group FWD Four/Front Wheel Drive FWGYN Flattery Will Get You Nowhere FWICR From What I Can Recall FWIR From What I Recall FWIW For What It's Worth FWOT F**king Waste Of Time FWTBT For Whom The Bell Tolls FWTQ F**k Was That Quick FX Effects (Stage directions!) FY Faithfully Yours FYAP Fallen Youth And Ardent Punster FYEO For Your Eyes Only FYI For Your Information G7 Group of Seven (Can. Fr. Ger. It. Jap. UK USA) G8 (more recent version of G7) GA Go Ahead/Georgia GAF Give A F**k GAFU God Almighty F*ck Up GAL Get A Life GAMSACT Great And Mighty Self Appointed Conference Theologian GAPP Global Awareness Partnership Project GB Great Britain/GigaByte/Guantßnamo Bay/Gordon Bennett GBH Grievous Bodily Harm GBOR Guinness Book Of Records GBP Great British Pounds (sterling)/Geese Behind Parapet/Great British Public GBR Guinness Book of Records GBS Get Better Soon GC Group Chairman GCA Gratuitous Cruelty to an Apostrophe GCHQ Government Communications HeadQuarters GCTFPRK Great cix:gourmet Travelling Fish Pun Resource Kit GCTFPT Great CIX Travelling Fish Pun Thread GD&R Grin/ning, Duck/ing & Run/ning GDP Gross Domestic Product GDR Grins, Ducks, Runs GDV Global Development Village GEB G÷del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (a book by Douglas R. Hofstadter) GEC Group Executive Committee (usually referred to as Group Exec) GEM Graphical Environment Manager (a Mac-like GUI used on the Atari ST range, and also unsuccessfully on IBM PCs) GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit GEP Grieve-Elphick Punfest GEPF Grieve-Elphick PunFest GF Gluten Free GFAS Going For A Song GFF Go Fifty-Fifty GFI Go For It GGUK Girl Guiding UK GIAWUR Grandmother In Absentia to cix:WUR GIF Graphics Interchange Format GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out GIIO Got It In One GIMME Gringotts Interbank Muggle Middle Exchange rate GIS Geographical Information System GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd Said That GL Good Lad! GLASS Green Lanes ASSociation GLF Go Like F**k GLG Goofy Little Grin GLS Guy L. Steele, Jr (CS luminary) GLW Good Little Woman/Good lady Wife GM George Medal/GunMetal/Genetically Modified/General Midi GMAC Give Me A Chance GMS Grant-Maintained School GMT Greenwich Mean Time (also called UTC as a sop to the French) GMTA Great Minds Think Alike/Gillian Margaret Tennant Again GMTABFSD Great Minds Think Alike, But Fools Seldom Differ. GNAS Grand National Archery Society GNDN Goes Nowhere Does Nothing GNER Great North Eastern Railway GNP Gross National Product GNU Gnu's Not Unix (mammoth Open Source project) GOC God's Own Country (Yorkshire) GOK God Only Knows GOL Giggling Out Loud GOM Grumpy Old Man GOT Go On Then GOTFIA Groaning On The Floor In Agony GP General Practitioner/Girl Power/Grand Prix/General Principle GPF General Protection Fault GPL General Public Licence GPRS General Packet Radio Services GPS Global Positioning System GR&D Grinning, Running & Ducking GS Government Service GSL Group Scout Leader GSM Global System for Mobile (communication) GSM Group Scouters' Meeting GST Geoff Standard Tenner GT Group Treasurer/Gill Tennant/Good Thinking/Go There/Gin & Tonic/Gowan Then/Gran Tourismo GTA Golden Toggle Award GTBAOTIOTO Got The Butter All Over The Inside Of The Oven GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service GTBOSAAT Glad To Be Of Service And Any Time GTFA Get The F**king Address GTFI Get The F**king Idea GTHI Glad To Hear It GTJ Go To Jail GTJGDTJDNPGDNCTHP Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two Hundred Pounds GTRM Going To Read Mail GTRM Going To Read Mail GTSYOTB Glad To See You're On The Ball GTTB Go To The Boastery/Basement GTTBOTC Go To The Back Of The Class GTTBOTQ Go To The Back Of The Queue GTTBRA Go To The Boastery Right Away GTTC Go To The Confessional GTTCRA Go To The Confessional Right Away GTWUBB Go To Wicked Uncle Bruce's Basement GTWURB Go To Wicked Uncle Richard's Basement GTYB Go To Your Basket GTYB Go To Your Bed GTYC Go To Your Cell GTYD Go To Your Dungeon GTYR Go To Your Room GTYRTFN Go To Your Room Till Further Notice GU Guam GUDDWAS Galloping Up Diarrhoea Drive Without A Saddle GUI Graphical User interface GURP Great Uncle Robert Powell GUT Going Underground Tomorrow GWP Gilwell Park GWS Get Well Soon GXN GX Networks, the current owners of CiX (as of 22 July 2003) GYLI Glad You Liked It GYSACOPGPARTFM Get YourSelf A Copy Of PGP And Read The F**king Manual GYSACOPGPARTM Get YourSelf A Copy Of PGP And Read The Manual HABEF Have A Bonus E-Florin HABEG Have A Bonus E-Groat HABES Have A Bonus E-Shilling (3 e-groats to the shilling)/E-Smack HABT Have A Bonus Thwack! HACOC Have A Cup Of Chocolate/Coffee HACOT Have A Cup Of Tea HAEF Have An E-Florin HAEG Have An E-Groat HAES Have An E-Shilling (3 e-groats to the shilling)/E-Smack HAF Habitually Attired Female HAFPV Have A Funeral Pre-payment Voucher HAGOD Have A Glass Of Demonade HAGS Have A GobStopper HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer HAM (H)AMateur radio enthusiast HAMF Have A MouthFiller (aka GobStopper) HAND Have A Nice Day HAOC Have An Of Course HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer HB Honeyball/Honey Bee HC Holy Communion/Highway Code/Home Contact HCA Hans Christian Andersen HCATSOTD Html Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil HCB Hot Cross Bun HCL Hardware Compatibility List HD Hard Disk HDD Hard Disk Drive HDL High-Density Lipoprotein ('good' cholesterol) HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface HDRA Henry Doubleday Research Association HDU High Dependency Unit HEAT High Explosive Anti Tank HESH High Explosive Squashed Head HEX Hexadecimal Number/Spell HEY HElp Yourself HF High Frequency HF&D Hell Fire & Damnation HFD Hell Fire & Damnation HFTB He's Far Too Busy HG Mercury HGAC Haven't Got A Clue HGAFC Haven't Got A F**king Clue HGC Hercules Graphics Card HH Home Highway/Hear Hear/Horn's House/His(Her) Highness/His Holiness/Harry's Happy HHAEG Have Half An E-Groat HHB Hah, Hah Bonk HHCIB How Hard Can/Could It Be HHGTTG Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy HHM He Has Mail HHVFNGABYBIAVHB Ha Ha Very Funny Now Go And Boil Your Bum In A Very Hot Bath HI Her Indoors/Hawaii HIGNFY Have I Got News For You HIH Hope It Helps HJT HiJack This HIMAU Have I Missed An Update? HIT Have I Thinned? HIUI How I Understand It HIWHTCE He In Whose Honour This Conference Exists HIYOW Have It Your Own Way HJPWB Hugh JohnsonsÆ Pocket Wine Book HK Hong Kong HMD Hatches, Matches & Despatches HME Honeyball Machine Equivalent HMEGITW How Many Egroats Is That Worth ? HMG Her/His Majesty's Government HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office HNBWNB Has Never Been, Will Never Be HNG Horny Net Geek HOIME Here's One I Made Earlier HOIPE Here's One I Prepared Earlier HOLLAND Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies HOS Head Of State HOSTYDS HOllow Spike TYre Deflation System HOTOL HOrizontal Take-Off and Landing HOTP Hot Off The Press HP Houses of Parliament/Sauce/Hewlett Packard/Happy Pills/Horse Power HPA High Performance Addressing HPFS High Performance File System HQ Headquarters HR Human Resources (Personnel) HRM Heart Rate Monitor HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy HRYA How Right You Are HSB Horizontal Scroll Bar HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data HSE Health & Safety Executive HSIK How Should I Know HSML HyperSmirk Makeup Language HSP Host Signal Processor HSS High Speed Steel HST High Speed Technology HSWIS He Says What I Say HTAE Here There And Everywhere HTBAAWIBA Have There Been Any Acronyms While I've Been Away? HTBEG Have Two Bonus E-Groats HTEG Have Two E-Groats HTES Have Two E-Shillings (3 e-groats to the shilling) HTF How The F**k HTFWISTKT How The F**k Was I Supposed To Know That HTH Hope This Helps/How The Hell HTLATRYL Have This Liquorice Allsort To Reward Your Loyalty HTM HyperText Mark-up HTML HyperText Mark-up Language HTMLCATSOTD HyperText Markup Language Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil HTT Holier Than Thou HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure HTTTHINA He's Telling The Truth, He Is Not Able HTWFAIP How To Win Friends And Influence People HVJ High Visibility Jacket HVV High Visibility Vest HWBMBB He Whose Books Must Be Bought (aka Terry Pratchett) HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That? HWM Hopeless With Money HWSTWH He Would Say That, Wouldn't He HYSLAAWUR HYperSmirker Leerer & Assistant Acronymist to cix:WUR I/O Input/Output IA I Assume/Iowa IAAL I Am A Lawyer IAAMWE I Am At My Wits End IAB Internet Architecture Board IAC In Any Case IADNLY I Always Do Not Like You IADWA It All Depends Who's Asking IAE In Any Event IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IAF Is A Fact/I'm AFraid/In Actual Fact IAFA In As Far As IAFAIG In As Far As It Goes IAGU It's A Good 'Un IAH In All Honesty IAL In Acronyms List IALF It's All Leslie's Fault IAM Institute of Advanced Motorists/ Institute of Applied Mathematics IANAA I Am Not An Accountant/I Am Not An Acronym IANAD I Am Not A Doctor IANAE I Am Not An Expert IANAEB I Am Not An Expert But IANAEITA I Am Not An Expert In This Area. IANAFA I Am Not A Financial Advisor IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IANAM I Am Not A Mod (but....) IANAV I Am Not A Vet IARU International Amateur Radio Union IAS It's Acronym Syndrome IASB I'm A Stroppy Bastard/Bitch IASBTBDO I Only Said Blow The Bloody Doors Off IAWALSCD It's Amazing What A Little Squirt Can Do IBC Inside Back Cover IBM ItsÆ Being Mended/ItsÆ Better Manually/International Business Machines/I Blame Microsoft IBP Inside Back Page IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) IBTD I Beg To Differ IBTJOT I'll Be The Judge Of That IBTYSK I Bow To Your Superior Knowledge IBWIF I'll Be Wurse/Worse In Future IBY It's Behind You IBYITBOCTTIPTYMBM I Beseech You In The Bowels Of Christ To Think It Possible That You Might Be Mistaken (O Cromwell to the Covenanters) IBYP I Beg Your Pardon IC I See/Integrated Circuit ICA Internet Conferencing Account ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICA-OUT Internet Conferencing Account Occasional User Tarriff ICA-SUT Internet Conferencing Account Standard User Tariff ICBA I Can't Be Arsed/It Could Be Arranged ICBALOTBNT I Can Believe A Lot Of Things But Not That ICBFD Intercontinental Ballistic Flying Donkeys ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile ICBW I Could Be Wrong ICC International Criminal Court ICE In Car Entertainment/In Circuit Emulator ICF Internet Connection Firewall ICIIWT I Can If I Want To ICM5P I Claim My 5 Pounds ICM5UKP I Claim My 5 UK Pounds ICME I Claim My Egroat ICMFP I Claim My Five Pounds ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol ICNAM I Could Not Agree More ICPC I Couldn't Possibly Comment ICQ I Seek You (an Instant Messaging service) ICS Internet Connection Sharing ICSTIS Independent Committee for Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Service ICU Intensive Care Unit ICYB I Call Your Bluff ICYDK In Case You Didn't Know ID Identity/In Dictionary/Idaho IDBI I Don't Believe It IDBY I Don't Believe You IDC In Due Course IDCAYDM I Don't Care And You Don't Matter IDDI I Didn't Do It IDE Integrated Drive Electronics/Integrated Development Environment/IDEntity file (AV software) IDGAFF I Don't Give A Flying F**k IDGATC I Don't Give A Tinker's Curse IDGWIATBLIUM I Didn't Get Where I Am Today By Liking It Up Me IDI I Do Indeed IDIPCATDIPS Iechyd Da I Pob Cymro Ac Tyllau Din I Pob Sais (Good health to every Welshman and arseholes to every Englishman.) IDKT I Didn't Know That IDL Interface Definition Language IDLM I Don't Like Mondays IDLY I Don't Like You IDMB I Don't Mind Bruce/I Do My Best IDMIYD I Don't Mind If You Don't IDNA I Do Not Agree IDNKT I Did Not Know That IDNRTCOTC I Do Not Recognise The Competence Of The Court IDNSWYM I Do/Did Not See What You Mean/Meant IDOAWC I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas IDR Intelligent Disaster Recovery IDS In Deep Sh*t/Ian Duncan Smith IDSWYM I Do/Don't See What You Mean IDTT I Did That Too IDTV Integrated Digital TeleVision IDTYSK I Defer To Your Superior Knowledge IDUTAETIIITAL I Don't Understand That Acronym Even Though It Is In The Acronym List IDVFHOM I Demand Verification From Horse Or Mouth IDWT I Don't Want To IDWY I Didn't Warn You IE Info Evolution/Internet Explorer IEAK Internet Explorer Administration Kit IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IENS Info Evolution's NearSite IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IFAPIFAP In For A Penny In For A Pound IFC Inside Front Cover IFD Inflatable Flying Donkey(s) IFP Inside Front Page IFTB I'm Far Too Busy IFTBTR I'm Far Too Busy To Reply IFTL I'm Far Too Lazy IFTLTR I'm Far Too Lazy To Reply IG Imbibes Graciously IGABW I've Got A Bigger Willy IGI International Genealogical Index (LDS) IGMC I'll Get My Coat IGRTI I Get Round To It IGTHAAS It's Great To Have An Automatic Signature/I'm Glad The Hogfather Annihilated Automatic Says IHA I Hate Acronyms IHAG I'd Hazard A Guess IHG Inclines Head Graciously IHGAC I Haven't Got A Clue IHNFI I Have No F**ng Idea (with implied Allo-Allo pseudo French accent) IHTA I Have To Admit IHTS I Have/Hate To Say IHWYS I Hear/Heard What You Say/Said IHYTFT I Heard You The First Time IIABDFI If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It IIABFIUII If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Until It Is IIDKB If I Didn't Know Better IIJM Is It Just Me IIJMO Is It Just Me, Or... IIMBSB If I May Be So Bold IIML It's In My List IIMSS If I May Say So IIN Is It Not ? IINFN It Is Not For Nothing IIOP Internet Inter-Orb Protocol IIR If I Recall/Remember IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly IIS Internet Information Server/Services IITP It's In The Pot IITYWIMWYBMAP If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Pint IITYWYBAD If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink IITYWYBMAB If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer IIUC If I Understand Correctly IIUHC If I Understand His Comment IIUYC If I Understand You Correctly IIWY If I Were You IJST I Just Said That IK I Know IKEWYM I Know Exactly What You Mean IKICCOY I Know/Knew I Can/Could Count On You IKIWAJ I Know It Was A Job IKIWAJAW I Know It Was A Job As Well IKT I Know That IKTF I Know That Feeling IKWYM I Know What You Mean IL Illinois ILTATA I'd Like To Ask The Audience ILTGFF I'd Like To Go Fifty-Fifty ILTPIA I Like To Pretend I Am ILU I Love yoU ILY I Love You ILYOTTBDDIA I'll Let You Off This Time But Don't Do It Again ILYOTTBDDIAOYPAFIEGF I'll Let You Off This Time But Don't Do It Again Or You'll Pay A Fortune In E-Groat Fines IM IntelliMouse/Immediate Messaging IMA I Must Admit IMAP Internet Mail Access Protocol IMBO In My Boastful Opinion IMCDO In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion IMCO In My Considered Opinion IMCWN I Most Certainly Will Not IME In My Estimation/Experience IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identification (ID in a mobile phone) IMF International Monetary Fund IMHA In My Humble Analysis IMHE In My Humble Estimation/Experience IMHO In My Humble Opinion/In My Honest Opinion IMLE In My Limited Experience IMMDNDM If My Memory Does Not Deceive Me IMNHO In My Not so Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMNVHO In My Not Very Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion IMOPV In My Own Personal View IMOT In My Own Time IMR Infant Mortality Rate IMRMPBC I Must Read Messages Properly Before Commenting IMS I Must Say IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identification (ID in the SIM) IMV In My View IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion IN Indiana IND I Never Do/I'm Not Dead/Immigration & Nationality Directorate (Home Office) INDY I'm Not Dead Yet INGTPAATY I'm Not Going To Pay Any Attention To You INHW If Not Here, Where? INMP It's Not My Problem INPKIAM Irritating New Parent Know It All Mode INPO In No Particular Order INSTID I'm Not Sure That I Do INTSAT I'm Not Totally Sure About This IOD Institute Of Directors IOE In Our Experience IOM Isle Of Man IOTTMCO It's Obvious To The Most Casual Observer IOUAB I Owe yoU A Beer IOW In Other Words/Isle Of Wight IOYAB I Owe You A Beer IP Internet Protocol/Intellectual Property IPA India Pale Ale/IsoPropyl Alcohol IPD Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma IPF Windows '95 GPF IPL Initial Program Load/Invisible Panty Line/Interrupt Priority Level IPM Inquisitions(s) Post Mortem/Institute of Personnel Management IPN I'm Posting Naked IPO Initial Public Offering IPOF In Point Of Fact IPOYG I Pee On Your Gate IPR Intellectual Property Rights IPX Internetwork Packet eXchange IR InfraRed/Infernal Revenue/I'm Rich IRA Irish Republican Army/Individual Retirement Account IRBM Intra-Regional Ballistic Missile IRC Internet Relay Chat IRGTHKUDOAFC I'd Rather Go To Hong Kong Upside Down On A Flying Carpet IRGTHKUDUAFC I'd Rather Go To Hong Kong Upside Down Under A Flying Carpet IRL In Real Life IRMC I Rest My Case IRQ Interrupt ReQuest IRS Internal Revenue Service (USA Tax Man) IRTHG I Refer The Honourable Gentleman IRTHGTTAIGHAMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Answer I Gave Him/Her A Moment Ago IRTHGTTAIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Answer I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTHGTTRIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Reply I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTM I Read The Manual/I Remember That Much IS In Stock ISA Industry Standard Architecture ISAD In Stock At Distributor ISAS In Stock At Supplier ISAV In Stock At Vendor ISC I Stand Corrected iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface ISDBI I Still/Simply Don't Believe It ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network/It Still Does Nothing ISDNBY I Still Do Not Believe You ISDNKWYM I Still Do Not Know What You Mean ISFE I Speak From Experience! ISHG I Should Have Guessed ISIHAC I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue ISIHGAC I'm Sorry I Haven't Got A Clue ISIRTA I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again ISITNOTL Irish Stew In The Name Of The Loh ISIWRTA I'm Sorry I Will Read That Again ISLAGIATT It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time ISN Initial Sequence Number/I'll Stop Now ISND I Saw No Dots ISO International Standards Organisation ISOYF I Spit On Your Fine(s) ISP Internet Service Provider/I'm Staying Put ISS Internet Security Systems/International Space Station/I Say So IST International Service Team ISTBC I Stand To Be Corrected ISTM It Seems To Me ISTMIWCR I'll Send The Men In White Coats Round ISTMT It Seems To Me That ISTR I Seem To Recall/Remember ISTST I Should Think So Too ISWBNI It Still Would Be Nice If ISWYM I See What You Mean IT Information Technology ITAAISBM Is That An Acronym I See Before Me? ITABOAF Is This A Bug Or A Feature? ITAC Is That A Challenge? ITADISBM Is That A Dagger I See Before Me? ITALY I Trust And Love You ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations ITBBPT In The Best Blue Peter Tradition ITBOF Is This a Bug Or a Feature? ITC In That Case ITIGTHOTN I Think I'm Getting The Hang Of This Now ITJLAO Isn't That Just Life All Over ITM In The Meantime/In The Money ITMA It's That Man Again ITMT In The MeanTime ITNOTL In The Name Of The Law ITNR In The Next Release ITPAC Is The Pope A Catholic? ITRO In The Region Of ITTDMB I'll Try To Do My Best ITTIBM I Think Therefore IBM ITU-R International Telecommunications Union Radio sector ITU-T International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications sector ITW In The Wild ITYA I Think You Are ITYF I Think You'll Find ITYHMCWSWGAF I Think You Have Me Confused With Someone Who Gives A F**k ITYMST I Thought You Might Say That ITYNT I Told You Not To ITYR I Think You're Right IVR Interactive Voice Response IVSTHT I'm Very Sorry To Hear That IVSTHTOGL I'm Very Sorry To Hear That Oh Great Leader IW I/It Will/Won't IWAP It Was A Pleasure IWAPTBOA It Was A Pleasure To Be Of Assistance IWB It Will/Would Be IWBB It Would Be Better IWBBI It Would Be Better If IWBITNAL It Will Be In The Next Acronyms List IWBN It Would Be Nice IWBNI It Would Be Nice If IWDIA I Won't Do It Again IWET I Would/n't Expect That IWFM It Works For Me IWHAGT I Would Hazard A Guess That IWHGTIAMOS I Wouldn't Have Guessed That In A Month Of Sundays IWHT I Would Hope That/I Would Have Thought IWHTST I Would Have To Say That IWIICBIANA I Would If I Could, But I Am Not Able IWIICBIC I Would If I Could, But I Can't IWIICBICSIW I Would If I Could But I Can't, So I Won't IWK I Wouldn't Know IWM I Wouldn't Mind IWOT I Would Of Thought IWOTT I Would Of Thought That IWPWSUPAUA I Wish People Would Stop Using Pointless And Unnecessary Acronyms IWR I Will Return IWSTM It Would Seem To Me IWW I Wonder Why IYAL It's Your Acronym List IYAM If You Ask Me IYANC If You Are Not Careful IYDM If You Don't Mind IYDMMA If You Don't Mind Me/My Asking IYDSWIM If You Do See What I Mean IYGMD If You Get My Drift IYKWGFY If You Know What's Good For You IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean IYNVHO In Your Not Very Humble Opinion IYO In Your Opinion IYOT In Your Own Time IYSS If You Say So IYSWIM If You See What I Mean IYWBSK If You Would Be So Kind J2EE Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition J2ME Java 2 platform, Micro Edition J2SE Java 2 platform, Standard Edition JAAFU Joint Anglo-American F*-Up JAAMOI Just As A Matter Of Interest JAAS Java Authentication and Authorisation Service JAFEICA Just Another Flaming Expense I Can't Afford... JAIT Just As I Thought JAM Just A Minute... JANET Joint Academic NETwork JANFU Joint Army-Navy F*-Up JAR Java ARchive JAT Just A Tick... JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks JC Jesus Christ JCB Just Come Back/Joseph Charles Bamford (Invented big yellow digging machines) JCBT Just Come Back Today JCE Java Cryptography Extension JCOPC Judicial Committee Of the Privy Council JDBC Java DataBase Connectivity JDDIA Just Don't Do It Again JDK Java Development Kit JFC Java Foundation Classes JFDI Just F**king Do It JFTR Just For The Record JG Jolly Good/starling@cix JGS Jolly Good Show JHC Just Horizontally Challenged JIC Just In Case JIT Just In Time JJE Judge, Jury & Executioner JJECOTC Judge, Jury & Executioner Court Of The COTAL JK Just Kidding JLMMTM Just Like My Mother Taught Me JLSTMT Just Like She Taught Me Too JLT Just Like That JLY Just Like You JMS Java Message Service JNDI Java Naming and Directory Interface JNI Java Native Invocation JOATMON Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None (Say it with a Jamaican accent) JOOI Just Out Of Interest JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JPG JPEG (a graphics file format - see gif conf) JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory JRE Java Runtime Environment JRTCC cix:JRT Conference Chaplain JSRF Jet Set Radio Future JSSE Java Secure Socket Extension JTFM Just The Facts, Ma'am/Man JTS Java Transaction Service JTYWLTKT Just Thought You Would Like To Know That JUNET Japanese Unix NETwork JVM Java Virtual Machine JW Jehovah's Witness KA Kansas/Kings Arms KB KiloByte/KeyBoard/Knowledge Base KBO Keep Buggering On KCBIWIYWI Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It KE Kentucky KIPPERS Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings KISS Keep It Simple Stupid KMI Keep Me Informed KOTC Kiss On The Cheek KUATB Keep Up At The Back KUTA Kick Up The Arse KUTGW Keep Up The Good Work KWIM Know What I Mean KWIMH Know What I Mean Henry KYA Know Your Audience L8R Later LA Los Angeles/Low Alcohol/Lower Ancoats LA Louisiana LAB Lo And Behold LAN Local Area Network LARA Land Access and Recreation Association LART Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation LBD Little Black Dress LBICPHAGAS Leans Back In Chair, Pours Him/Herself Another Glass And Sulks LBS London Bus Syndrome LBT Linus B. Torvalds (Linux creator) LCPK London Communities' Priestess of Kink = Mme Tytania LCR Light Carpet Rules (no staining substances, no shoes) LD Later, Dude/Liberal Democrat LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein ('bad' cholesterol) LDLAS Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics LDR Long Distance Relationship LDS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or Mormons) LEA Local Education Authority LEO Low Earth Orbit/Lyons Electronic Office LETS Local Exchange Trading System LFF London Fetish Fair LFN Long File Name LFNS Long File NameS LFT Life Functions Terminated LGM Little Green Men LH Left Hand LHSF Let's Have Some Fun LIBOR London Inter-Bank Offered Rate LIC Licensed Internal Code LICGAF Like I Could Give A F**k LIFO Last In First Out LILO Last In Last Out LIM Lotus Intel Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification LISP Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses/LISt Processing LJ Little Jobs LLAD Laughs Like A Drain LLAM Laughs Like A Maniac LLAP Live Long And Prosper LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause LLU Local Loop Unbundling LMAO Laughing My A** Off LMB Left Mouse Button LMMWUR Loyal Master Mariner cix:WUR LMTM Like Me (TradeMark) LNB Low Noise Block (downconverter) LOG League Of Gentlemen LOL Lots Of Luck/Laughing Out Loud LOMBARD Load Of Money But A Right/Real Dickhead LOOB Load Of Old Bollocks LOTA Lot Of Them About LOTR Lord Of The Rings LOTSW Last Of The Summer Wine LOTUS Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious LP Labour Party/Low Pressure LPF Lijst Pim Fortuyn LRF Little Rubber Feet LS&B Lock, Stock, & Barrel LSATVB Let's Start At The Very Beginning LSB Lock, Stock, & Barrel LSDL Let Sleeping Dogs Lie LSE London School of Economics LSL Link Support Layer LSU LesliesÆ Surrogate/Second Uncle LT Like That/Language, Timothy LTA Lawn Tennis Association LTBALTY Let That Be A Lesson To You LTBW Let The Buggers Wait LTM Laugh To Myself LTM Local Training Manager LTMSH Laughing 'Til My Sides Hurt LTNS Long Time No See LTO Linear Tape Open LTPWL Like The Poor Wee Lad LTR Long Term Relationship LTS Life's Too Short LU London Underground LUL London Underground Limited LULAB Love yoU Like A Brother LULAS Love yoU Like A Sister LUSHOTHD Leave Undone Something He Ought To Have Done LVD Low Voltage Differential LYC Like Your Cooking/Like You Could LZ Lempel-Zev (compression algorithm) LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch (compression algorithm) M&T Mother and Toddler MA Massachusetts MAA Missed As Always MAABOS Mad As A Bunch Of Spiders MAAF MadAsAFish MACHO MAssive Compact Halo Object MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash If Not The Operating System Hangs MAD Mutually Assured Destruction MAF MadAsaFish MAFL Manual of Air Force Law MAMBA Miles And Miles of Bugger All MARVEL Machine Assisted Realisation of the Virtual Electronic Library MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation MATYCSASA More Acronyms Than You Can Shake A Stick At MAU Media (Medium) Access Unit/Multistation Access Unit MAW Model, Actress, Whatever MB MegaByte/Mercy Buckets (french) MBR Master Boot Record MBT Main Battle Tank MC Measurable Cardinal MCA Micro Channel Architecture/Monetary Compensatory Amounts (the Green Pound) MCPS Mechanical Copyright Protection Society MCSE Minesweeper Competent, Solitaire Expert/Must Contact Someone Experienced/Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer MD Managing Director/Medical Doctor/MiniDisc/Maryland MDA Monochrome Display Adapter MDBTYD My Dad's Bigger Than Your Dad MDF Medium Density Fibreboard MDI Multiple Document Interface MDM Media Development Manager MDN My Dear Nephew ME Maine MEETS Many Expect Existential Transcendental Situations MEGO My Eyes Glaze Over MEMS Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems MEP Member of European Parliament MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes MFI Made For Idiots/Mullard Furnishing Industries MFM Modified Frequency Modulation MFSW Ministry For Silly Walks MGA Madam Guillotine Awaits MH Marshall Islands MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia Experts Group MHOTY My HatÆs Off To You MHS Message Handling System MI Michigan MI5 Military Intelligence 5 (Counter Espionage) MI6 Military Intelligence 6 (Foreign) MIA Missed Irony Alert/Missing In Action MIB Mini In-Basket/Men In Black/Mine, I Believe/Management Information Base/Motor Insurance Bureau MIC Mother In Charge MICROSOFT Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers MICROWAVE Meals In Coffins, Revived Only With All Vitamins Removed MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIHBM May I Have BinMail MIHBMP May I Have BinMail Please MIHBMT May I Have BinMail Too MIHBMTP May I Have BinMail Too Please MIL Mother In Law MILK Made Inside Lime-scaled Kettle MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIN Mind In Neutral MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second/Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed MIRV Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles MIS Management Information Systems MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIYMBNIYH Melt In Your Mouth But Not In Your Hand MJ Marijuana MLAGB Muzzle Loaders' Association of Great Britain MLP Mindless Link Propagation/My Little Pony/Mobile Launch Platform/Mozilla Localisation Project/Memory Level Parallelism/Machine Learning and Perception/Molecular-level Large-area Printing/Multi-Layer Perceptron MLR Minimum Lending Rate MMB Middle Mouse Button MMBTY My Mum's Bigger Than You MMC Multi-Media Card/Microsoft Management Console/MIDI Machine Control MMOB Mind My Own Business MMS My Mother Said MMWUR Master Mariner cix:WUR MN Minnesota MNC Multi-National Corporation MNIAP My Name Is Angus Prune MNIMC My Name Is Michael Caine MNP Microcom Network Protocol MO Missouri MOAB Mother Of All Bombs/Massive Ordnance Air Blast MOAHFD Mother Of All Hell Fire & Damnation MOB Mad Old Bat/Bastard/Bitch MOC Me Old Chum MODEM MOdulator DEModulator MOH Music On Hold MOM Mind Over Matter MOO Matter Of Opinion MOOAMH Mountain Out Of A Mole Hill MORF Male OR Female MOSS Member Of the Same Sex MOTAS Member(s) Of The Appropriate Sex MOTOS Member(s) Of The Opposite Sex MOTSS Member(s) Of The Same Sex MOU Memorandum Of Understanding MOUY Make One Up Yourself MOWA Member Of Welsh Assembly MP Member of Parliament/Military Policeman/Northern Mariana Islands MPFC Monty Python's Flying Circus MPSCSL Metropolitan Police Service, Computer Systems Laboratory MRCGP Member College of GPs MRDA Mandy Rice Davies Applies ("Well He Would, Wouldn't He?") MRGC Maritime Radiocommunications General Certificate MRLP Monster Raving Loony Party (c/o The Dog and Partridge, Yateley, Hants) MROK Moderators Rule, OK MRSA Methicillin Resistant Staphyloccocus Aureus MS Multiple Sclerosis/MickeySoft/MicroSoft/ ManuScript MSA Motor Sports Association MSD MickeySoft/MicroSoft Diagnostics MSDN MicroSoft Developer Network MSF MΘdecins Sans FrontiΦres MSFN Manned Space Flight Net MSG Mono-Sodium Glutamate MSIE MicroSoft Internet Explorer MSIM MicroSoft IntelliMouse MSKB MicroSoft Knowledge Base MSMQ MicroSoft Message Queue MSN Maybe Soon Now/MicroSoft Network/Manned Spaceflight Net MSP Member of Scottish Parliament MSRT Malicious Software Removal Tool MSVC Microsoft Visual C MT EMpTy/Montana MTA Message Transfer Agent MTAACW Many Thanks And Ain't Cix Wonderful MTALL Miracles Take A Little Longer MTB Mind The Baby/Motor Torpedo Boat MTBF Mean Time Between Failures MTC MIDI Time Code MTCO Measure Twice, Cut Once MTFT Many Thanks For That MTIA Many Thanks In Anticipation MTMOI Make The Most Of It MTP More Tea Please MTPB Mind The Poor Baby MTPF Mind The Poor Font MTFYL Mind The Formidable/Fine Young Lady MTFYLFO Mind The Formidable/Fine Young Lady For Once MTPWFYL Mind The Poor Wee Formidable/Fine Young Lady MTPWFYLFO Mind The Poor Wee Formidable/Fine Young Lady For Once MTPWUS Mind The Poor Wee Usual Suspects (TPWT, TPWL & TPWFD) MTS Microsoft Transaction Server MTTR Mean Time To Repair MTU Maximum Transmission Unit MUD Multi User Dungeon MUG Multi User Game MUNG Mash Until No Good MUSM Miss yoU So Much MV Motor Vessel MVC Most Valued Cixen MW Minimum Wage MWTFDTSF Martin, What The Fluff Does That Stand For? MYMU Make Your Mind Up MYOB Mind Your Own Business NA Never Again/Not Applicable/Neither Apply NAA None/Not At All NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People NAAFI Navy Army Air Force Institute (Service canteen & Shop) NABU Non-Adjusting Balls-Up NAC Net Access Conferencing NAFAIAA Not As Far As I Am Aware NAFAIAC Not As Far As I Am Concerned NAFAIC Not As Far As I'm Concerned NAFAICS Not As Far As I Can See NAFAICT Not As Far As I Can Tell NAFAIK Not As Far As I Know NALOPKT Not A Lot Of People Know That NALOPNTKT Not A Lot Of People Need To Know That NALOPSTKT Not A Lot Of People Seem To Know That NAN Nights Away Notification NANEG No Acronym, No E-Groat NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAY Not As Silly As You/Not As Sexy As Yoghurt NAT Network Address Translation NATM New Acronym To Me/Not At The Moment NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NAV Norton Anti Virus NAY Nobody Asked You NBARPWUR Nile Boatman And River Pilot to cix:WUR NBATST Not Both At The Same Time NBC Nuclear, Biological, Chemical NBF No Bloody Fear NBG No Bloody Good (The medicine didn't work) NBL Not Bloody Likely NBTH Nah! Burn The Heretic NBTHS Nah! Burn The Heretic Scum NC No Children/ Nature Calls/No Comment/North Carolina NCA National Caving Association NCSA National Centre for Supercomputing in America/National Computer Security Agency NCT National Childbirth Trust/No Change There ND North Dakota NDA Non Disclosure Agreement NDIB Nobody Does It Better NDN Next Door Neighbour NDNEG No Definition, No E-Groat NDW Norton Desktop for Windows NE Nebraska NEC Not Even Considered NEITBAL Not Even In The Basement Acronym List NES National Elf Service NETPI No-one Expects The Portuguese Inquisition NETSI Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition NETTW Nobody Expects The Traffic Warden(s) NFG No F**king Good NFI No F**king Idea NFoA National Federation of Anglers NFS Network File System/National Fire Service NFSCD Now For Something Completely Different NFW No Flippin' Way NG Nods Graciously NGB National Governing Body NGEAA Normal Granny Eggs Apologies Applies NGM News Group Members NH New Hampshire NHD No He Didn't NHN Nearly Headless Nick NHNW Never Have Never Will NI Not Invited/Northern Ireland/National Insurance NIAL Not In Acronyms List NIAM Now I Am Mad/Never In A Million NIAR Now I Am Rich NIC Network Information Centre/Network Interface Card NICAM Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex NICBDAT Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes NID Not In Dictionary NIDA National Institute of Drug Abuse NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer NIH Not Invented Here NIITLTID Not If It's The Last Thing I Do NIMBY Not In My Back Yard NIMBYIIRTVOMPSICTUNM Not In My Back Yard If It Reduces The Value Of My Property So I Can't Trade Up Next Move NIMCD Not In My Current Dictionary NIMHO Not In My Humble Opinion NIMO Not In My Opinion NIMTO Not In My Term of Office NIMVHO Not In My Very Humble Opinion NIN No It's Not NINJY No It's Not Just You NIOED Not In the Oxford English Dictionary NIP Not In Public NIPD Not In Places Dictionary NITAAL Not In The Ameol Acronyms List NITAL Not In The Acronym List NITD Not In The Dictionary NITRO Not In The Region Of NJ New Jersey NL Not Likely NLACGBOL Never Let A Chance Go By O Lord NLOS Never Leave Out Sasha/Not Lewd Or Suggestive NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming/Northern Line Project NLT Not Like That NLY Not Like You NM New Mexico NMI Non Maskable Interrupt NMR No Moves Received NN Neural Net NNAGT Not Necessarily A Good Thing.... NNCP Nextra Net Connect Professional (formerly SUT). NNCS Nextra Net Connect Starter (formerly OUT). NNNNCCCN New Norwegian Nextra Net CIX Conferencing Consulting Nut NNON Neo-Natal Outreach Nurse NNOS Neo-Natal Outreach Sister NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NNWW Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOCNHSS No, Of Course Not, He Says Sarcastically NOK Next Of Kin NOKO Next Of Kin Officer NORTON kNickers Off Ready To Open kNees NORWICH kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home NOTAR NOTAilRotor NOUN Not Old Uncle Nick NOYN Not On Your Nellie NP New Programme/No Problem NPB Non-paying Bidder NPBT Net Payment Before Tax NPD No Problem, Dude NPFS Named Pipes Filing System NPLU Not People Like Us NPMW New and Prospective Members Welcome NPR National Public Radio NQOS Not Quite Our Sort NRA National Rifle Association NRN No Reply Necessary/National Radio Network NS NetScape/Non Smoking/Not Saying NSA National Security Agency NSD NearSite Dial NSF National Science Foundation NSFAIK Not So Far As I Know NSFNET National Science Foundation NETwork NSFW Not Suitable For Work NSN NearSite Network NSNA Never Say Never Again NSOED New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary NSP Nextra Sensory Perception NSPWB No Sex/Six Please, We're British NSRA National Small Bore Rifle Association NSSTD No Sooner Said Than Done NSW New South Wales NSWBEASAP Norman Service Will Be Exhumed As Soon As Possible NSWBRASAP Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible NSWOHOA No!, She Went Of Her Own Accord NT National Trust/New Technology/National Theatre/ Northern Territory NTFDF Not Too Far Distant Future NTFS NT Filing System NTIAA Not That I Am Aware NTIAAO Not That I Am Aware Of NTIIAO Not That I Is Aware Of NTL National Transportation Library NTM Not That Much NTNOCN Not The Nine O'Clock News NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten NTS NT Server NTTP Network Test & Termination Point NTW NT Workstation NTY No Thank You NU Number Unobtainable/Norton Utilities NUSRE Never Underestimate Sally Rowan Elphick NUTGAUA Not Unless You Get An Unknown Acronym NV Nevada NVR Non-Volatile RAM NWPTSOP Nobody Will Pay That Sort Of Price NWWIHP No Willy Waving In Here Please NY New York NYITAL Not Yet In The Acronyms List OACFJRT Official Acronyms Custodian for cix:JRT OACFWUR Official Acronyms Custodian for cix:WUR OAP Old Age Pensioner OAS On A Stick OB Outside Broadcast OBC On Back Cover OBE Order of the British Empire OBGL Oh Beneficent Great Leader OBH Official Birthday Honours OBIDIA Oh Bugger, I've Done It Again OBL Osama Bin Laden/Ordnance, Breech Loading OBMOOTOT Oh Bugger Missed Out On That One Then OBN Order of the Brown Nose OBO Or Best Offer/On Behalf Of OBP On Back Page OBR OutBasket Recovery OC Of Course OCII Of Course It Is OCR Optical Character Recognition OCS Open Crotch Shot/Official Conference Smirker OD Open Doc (alternative to OLE)/OverDose ODAPI Open DataBase Application Programming Interface ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity ODI Open-link Data Interface ODMPWC One Day My Prince Will Come OE Old English OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OED Oxford English Dictionary OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OEO Organisational Email Option OES Organisational Email Service OEW Or Else What? OFFS Oh For F**ks Sake OFT Office of Fair Trading/Operator Finger Trouble OFTWOAD O For The Wings Of A Dove OGL Oh/Our Great Leader/Open Gaming Licence OGR Optimal Goulomb Ruler OH Over Here/Ohio OHMIGAWD Oh My God OIC Oh! I See OICWYM Oh I See What You Mean OICWYMN Oh I See What You Mean Now OITRO Offers In The Region Of OK OK (Well, what did you expect?)/Oklahoma OKA Off Key Again OKWGYW OK Wise Guy, You Win OLAL One Lives And Learns OLE Object Linking and Embedding OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode OLL OnLine Love OLO Other Licensed Operators OLOS Other Licensed OperatorS OLR Off Line Reader (AMEOL is the best) OM Old Man OMAHD One Man And His Dog OMG Oh My God OMRLP Official Monster Raving Looney Party OMS Over My Shoulder OMW On My Way ONID Oh No I Didn't ONII Oh No It Isn't ONIN Oh No I'm Not ONION Oh No I'm Obviously/Outstandingly/Overwhelmingly Not ONIW Oh No It Wasn't ONO Or Near Offer ONS Office For National Statistics ONSN Oh No She's Not ONYD Oh No You Don't/Didn't ONYN Oh No You're Not OO Object Oriented OODAL Out Of Date Acronyms List OOI Out Of Interest OOK ON Off Keying OOL Out Of Line OOMPR Out Of My Price Range OOO Out Of Order/Ogi Ogi Ogi (don't ask me I don't play rugby!) OOOOOA Out Of One, Out Of All OOS Out Of Stock OOTB Out Of The Box OOTD One Of These Days OOTT One Of Those Things OOTW Out Of The Window/Out Of This World OP Original Poster OPATD One Person And Their Dog OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPM Other People's Money OQF Ordnance, Quick Firing OR Oregon ORB Object Request Broker OS Ordnance Survey/Operating System OS2 Obsolete Soon Too OSA Obstructive Sleep Apnoea OSA Official Secrets Act OSAAT One Step At A Time OSF Open Software Federation OSGR Ordnance Survey Grid Reference OSPF Open Shortest Path First OSR Oem Service Release OSS Open Source Software/Office of Strategic Services OST Obsolete Soon Too OSW On-Site Warranty OT Off Topic OTA Off Topic Again/Over-The-Air OTB Over The Board OTC On The Contrary OTD Off The Day OTF On The Floor OTGH On The Gripping Hand. (one hand, the other hand, the gripping hand) OTL Our TimeLine OTOH On The Other Hand OTOOH On The Other Other hand OTOTT On Top Of The Tree OTR Over The Rainbow OTT Over The Top OTTH On The Third Hand OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head OTYCDWYN One Thing You Can Do With Your Nose OU Open University OUT Occasional User Tariff OVHB One Very Happy Bunny OVP Orange Value Promise OVSN Out Very Soon Now OWAHD One Woman And Her Dog OWIBNI Oh Wouldn't It Be Nice If OWIL Only When I Laugh OWL Object Windows Library/Ordinary Wizarding Level OWLS Ordinary Wizarding LevelS OWP Official Wheesht Photographer/Official Wibble Pessimist OWR Other Way Round OWTTE Or Words To That Effect OWYH Off With Your Head OYIA Oh Yes I Am OYII Oh Yes It Is OYLLT Oh You Little Liar Tommy OYYA Oh Yes You Are OYYD Oh Yes You Did PA Pack Assistant/Pennsylvania PAAF Pissed As A Fart PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange PAF Phone A Friend/Postal Address File/Pigeons Are Faster PAL Phase Alternation Line PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation PANS Pretty Annoying New Stuff PAP Password Authentication Procedure PASU Post-Alcohol Sexual Urge PAT Port Address Translation PAWN Personal Area Wireless Networking (aka Bluetooth) PAYG Pay As You Go PBX Private Branch eXchange PC Personal Computer/Price Check/Politically Correct/Police Constable/Parish Council PCA Police Complaints Authority PCB Printed Circuit Board/Para-diChloro-Benzoate/PolyChlorinated Biphenyl PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PCKBA Pot Calling Kettle Black Alert PCM Pulse Code Modulation PCMCIA People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms/Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCMIIR Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong PCMIIRB Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong But PCP Personal Contract Plan PCTFPT Permanent Cix Travelling Fish Pun Thread PCTKB Pot Calling The Kettle Black PCTW PC Tools for Windows PCW Personal Computer World PDA Personal Digital Assistant/Public Display of Affection/Public Disservice Announcement PDC Primary Domain Controller PDF Portable Document Format PDG Pretty Damned Good PDM POST Display Manager PDQ Pretty Damned Quick PDR Permitted Development Rights PDS Pretty Damn Sure PDT Pay Down Then PDTTTYGTSE Please Don't Try To Teach Your Grandmother To Suck Eggs PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics PEO Personal Email Option PEPC Prospective European Parliamentary Candidate PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PF Political Fund/Personal Firewall PF&HOMW Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall PFE Programmer's File Editor PFMFJI Please Forgive Me For Jumping In PFTC Par For The Course PFY Pimply Faced Youth PG ParkGlobe/Parental Guidance PGA Pure Grain Alcohol/Professional Golfers Association PGP Pretty Good Privacy PGY Post-Graduate Year PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med. PH Pack Helper/Potenz Hydrat PHAP Puts Head Above Parapet PHAPAGISO Puts Head Above Parapet And Gets It Shot Off PHB Pointy Haired Boss PHCTB Pedro Has Ceased To Be PHITC Put Her In The Creche PHP Hypertext Preprocessor PHPBB PHP Bulletin Board (http://www.phpbb.com/) PI Private Investigator/3.1415926535/Prove It PIBKAC Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair PICNIC Problem In Chair Not In Computer PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease PIFOP Punishment Is For Other People PILON Pay In Lieu Of Notice PIM Personal Information Manager PIN Personal ID Number PING Packet INternet Gopher PIPI Producer Input Price Indices PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army PITA Pain In The A**e PITB Pain In The Butt PITN Pain In The Neck PKU PhenylKetonUria PKZIP Phil Katz ZIP (file compression program) PLC Patrol Leaders Council PM Presentation Manager/ Past Master/PostMaster/Post Meridiem/Post Mortem/Prime Minister/ Provost-Marshal/Phase Modulation PMBX Private Manual Branch eXchange. PME Protective Multiple Earthing PMETC Pardon Me Etc. PMFB Pardon Me For Breathing PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In PMFJIB Pardon Me For Jumping In But PMI Pardon My Ignorance/Practice Makes Imperfect PMJI Pardon Me Jumping In PMKA Pot Meet Kettle Alert PML Pissed Myself Laughing PMM POST Memory Manager PMP Practice Makes Perfect PMQ Prime MinisterÆs Questions PMS Pre-Menstrual Syndrome PMYMHMMFSWGAD Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn PNAC Project for the New American Century (neo-Conservative think tank) PNC Positively No Comment/Police National Computer PND Post-Natal Depression PNID Plural Not In Dictionary PO Post Office/P*ss Orf! POC Piece Of Cake POD Point Of Divergence POETS Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday POM Prescription/Pharmacist Only Medicine POP Point Of Presence/Post Office Protocol/Piece Of Piss POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 POR Policy, Organisation & Rules POS Point Of Sale/Piece Of S**t POST Power On Self Test POTS Plain Old Telephony Services POV Point Of View/Protector Of Vampires PP Per Procurationem/Parish Priest/Past President/Present Pupil/Prize Prick PPC Prospective Parliamentary Candidate/Power PC/Pocket PC PPCOE Punning Priest Church Of England PPD Prepaid PPI Producer input Price Indices PPL Pink Panther Land PPM Pulse Position Modulation/Parts Per Million PPP Point to Point Protocol PPTP Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol PQMF Please Quote Me For PR Public Relations/Proportional Representation/Puerto Rico PRAT Please Register Acronym(s) Today (in acronyms/ameol) PRBS Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence PRC People's Republic of China/Post Romam Conditam PRESL Please Read Eats, Shoots and Leaves. PRESLEY Please Read Eats, Shoots and Leaves EventuallY PRI Primary Rate Interface/Programme Review Implementation PRO Public Record Office PROM Programmable Read Only Memory PRoW Public/Private Right of Way PRS Performing Rights Society PS Permanent Secretary/Police Sergeant/Post Script/Public School PSA Public Service Announcement/Prostate Specific Antigen/Property Services Agency PSC Personal Services Company PSITS Penny Sticks In The Slot PSK Phase Shift Keying PSL Private Sector Liquidity PSPC Prospective Scottish Parliamentary Candidate PSTN Public Switched Telecom Network PSU Power Supply Unit PT Public/Private Transport/Physical Training PTA Parent-TeachersÆ Association PTB Pregnant Tea Bringer PTCW Poet To Cix:Wur PTI Physical Training Instructor PTIYPASI Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It PTL Please Try Later PTLO Put That Light Out PTO Patent and Trademark Office (US Govt) PTOO Pull The Other One PTOOIGBO Pull The Other One It's Got Bells On PTTPTB Praise To The Powers That Be :-) PTW Posts This Week PU Priority Unread PUNVIC Punning Vicar PVR Personal Video Recorder PW Palau PWL Poor Wee Lad PWM Pulse Width Modulation PYT Pull Yourself Together PYU Pick Yourself Up Q Que? QA Quality Assurance QAD Quick And Dirty QALOPDKT Quite A Lot Of People Don't Know That QALOPKT Quite A Lot Of People Know That QC Quality Control/Queens Counsel/Sherry QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be shown) QEF Quot Erat Faciendum (which was to be done) [parallels QED] QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge QL Quantum Leap QM Quartermaster QNI Quiet Night In QRK Do You Understand? QRM Interference Man made QRP Very Quietly/Low Power QRT Stopping Communication QRX Wait for a short time QRZ Who Are You QSL I Expect a Reply QSO Chat/Communication QSY Change Frequency/move to another topic QTH Location QUANDO QUick ANd Dirty Operation R/O Receiver Only RA Ramblers' Association RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service RADSL Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line RAF Royal Air Force RAFA Royal Air Force Association RAFARS Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society RAH Royal Albert Hall RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAIT Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes RAM Random Access Memory RAMDAC Random Access Memory/Digital to Analogue Converter RAQ Rarely Asked Question RAS Redundant Acronym Syndrome/Remote Access Service RASMAN Remote Access Service Manager RAT Rem Acu Tetigisti (Latin for "you've hit the nail on the head") RATEOTU Restaurant At The End Of The Universe RAUBM Replies As Usual By Mail RBM Reply By Mail/Right Button Menu RBMO Reply By Mail Only RC Right Conference RCD Residual Current Device RCE Region Coding Enhancement RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System RDF Resource Description Framework REN Ringer Equivalence Number RF Radio Frequency RFC Request For Comments RFI Radio Frequency Interference RFID Radio Frequency IDentification RFU (The) Rugby Football Union RGB Red-Green-Blue RH Right Hand RHA Red Hot Ant (now defunct) RHG Right Honourable Gentleman RHIA Rubs Hands In Anticipation RHIP Rank Has Its Privileges RHP Right Hand Page RHS Rocking Horse Shit/Right Hand Side/Royal Horticultural Society/Rectangular Hollow Section RI Rhode Island RIAA Recording Industry Association of America RIL Res Ipsa Loquitur (Latin which means there is no point in arguing since it's there in plain sight (or "the thing speaks for itself") RIMM Rambus Inline Memory Module RIO Right In One RIP Rest In Peace RIPA Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer/Reduced Into Silly Code RL Real Life/Red Lion RLE Run-Length Encoded RLL Run-Length Limited RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle RM Research Machines RMB Right Mouse Button RMC Right Mouse Click RMI Remote Method Invocation RMS Richard M. Stallman (GNU founder, FSF president) RNA RiboNucleic Acid RNARS Royal Navy Amateur Radio Society RNR Ringing No Reply RNS Rear Near Side RNTUSMAITT Remember Not To Use So Many Acronyms In This Topic ROAR Rotary Operated Airborne Rickshaw (Helicopter)/Radio Operated Automobile Racing/Reservoirs Of Antibiotic Resistance network/Responsible Organization Action Request/Right Of Admission Refused/Reserved ROAST Ram On A STick ROC Republic Of China (aka Taiwan) ROFC Rolls On Floor Crying ROFIFOG Rolls On Floor In Fits Of Giggles ROFL Rolls On Floor Laughing/Remains On Floor Lifeless ROFLAHMSL Rolling On Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides Laughing ROFLASSO Rolling On Floor Laughing And Splitting Sides Open ROFLASTC Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat. ROFLMAO Roll On Floor Laughing My Arse Off ROFLWTROMF Rolling On Floor Laughing With Tears Running Off My Face ROFLWTSDF Rolls On Floor Laughing With Tears Streaming Down Face ROFLWTSDMF Rolls On Floor Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face ROI Return On Investment ROM Read Only Memory ROOP Run Out Of Paper ROP Run Of Paper ROR Raffing Out Roud RORO Roll-On, Roll-Off (ferry) ROS Rear Off Side ROT13 EBG13 ROTBA Reality On The Blink Again ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Arse Off ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Arse Off While Peeing In My Pants ROTFLMBO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off ROTFLMHO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Head Off ROTK Return Of the King ROTLC Raider Of The Lost Case ROTM Right On The Money ROTNR Roll On The Next Release ROUS Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist) ROW Rest Of World ROW Right Of Way ROYGBIV An acronym for the colours of the spectrum RP Received Pronunciation RPB Romanian Phrase Book RPC Remote Procedure Call RPG Role Playing Game RPI Retail Price Index RPITA Royal Pain In The A**e/Real Pain In The Arse RR Return Receipt RROOEG Rapidly Running Out Of E-Groats RRP Recommended Retail Price RS aRSe/RatS**t RSARS Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society RSC Royal Shakespeare Company RSF Right Said Fred RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain RSI Repetitive Strain Injury/Rodent Stroking Injury RSJ Rolled Steel Joist RSN Real Soon Now RSP Recommended Selling Price RSPB Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSS Really Simple Syndication RSTBO Really Suck(s) The Big One RTA Road Traffic Accident/Act RTB Return To Base/Right To Buy RTBI Round Tables of great Britain RTBW Return To Base Warranty RTF Read The F**king/Rich Text Format RTFA Read The F**king Article RTFB Read The F**king Bulletin RTFH Read The F**king Help RTFHF Read The F**king Help Files RTFM Read The F**king Manual RTFRN Read The F**king Release Notes RTM Released To Manufacturing/Read The Manual RTNR Ring Tone, No Reply RTOLH Read The Online Help RTRN Read The Release Notes RTROTT Read The Rest Of The Thread RTS Request To Send RTT Read The Thread RTTC Report To The Confessional RTTEOTM Read To The End Of The Manual/Message RTTEOTT Read To The End Of The Thread RTTY Radio TeleTYpe RUPP Road Used as Public Path RWH Red Wine Headache RX Receive RYA The Royal Yachting Association (Sailing/Yachting) RYO Roll Your Own S/NS Smoking and Non-Smoking S4L Spam For Life SA Scout Association (Sometimes TSA or UKSA)/Smart Alec SAA Systems Application Architecture SAABIAR Snug As A Bug In A Rug SABENA Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again SABU Self-Adjusting Balls-Up SACD Super Audio Compact Disc SACT Self-Appointed Conference Theologian SADBAAA Subtleties And Differences Between Acronyms And Abbreviations SAE Self-Addressed Envelope SAFU Self-Adjusting F*ck Up SAGGA Scout And Guide Graduate Association http://www.sagga.org.uk SAH Sure As Hell SAJB Self-Addressed Jiffy Bag SALT Single Alternate Lane Traffic SAMFU Self-Adjusting Military F*-Up SAPFU Surpassing All Previous F*-Ups SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SAS Special Air Service SASE Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope SASRE Surrogate Aunty to Sally Rowan Elphick SAT Standard Attainment Test SATA Serial ATA SATOAQTZSN Saints A To O And Q to Z Say No SATOAQTZSY Saints A To O And Q to Z Say Yes SAV Sophos Anti Virus SB ScoutBase/Silly Boy SBA Squashed Baby Alert SBC Small Bayonet Cap SBP Sticky Banana Pudding/Backed Plastic SBS Special Boat Service SBT Sad But True SBUK ScoutBase UK SC South Carolina SCA ex RedHotAnt SCAM Scsi Configure AutoMagically SCART Syndicat francais des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radio et Television SCM Software Configuration Management SCP Secure CoPy SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface/System Can't See It SCTBUC Sufficiently Computable To Be Utterly Confusing SD Secure Digital/South Dakota SDI Single Document Interface SDK Software Development Kit SDMI Secure Digital Music Initiative SDQ Stupid Dumb Question SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory SDSL Synchronous Digital Subscriber Line SDY So Do You SE Second Edition SEA Self-Extracting Archive SEATWOTD Shell Extensions Are The Work Of The Devil SED Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display SEG S***-Eating Grin SEO Search Engine Optimiser/Optimization SEP Search Engine Professional SEP Someone Else's Problem SES Small Edison Screw SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence SF Surfer-Friendly/San Francisco/Science Fiction/Fantasy SFA Scottish Football Association/Sweet Fanny Adams/Sweet F**k All SFAIAA So Far As I Am Aware SFAICT So Far As I Can Tell SFAIK So Far As I Know SFAIR So Far As I Recall SFLOC Stony Faced Look Of Contempt SFSG So Far, So Good SFY Speak For Yourself SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language SHARK Society for the Harassment of Anally-Retentive Know-alls SHBM She Has Binary Mail SHBMA She Has Binary Mail Also SHBMAW She Has Binary Mail As Well SHBMT She Has Binary Mail Too SHIN So Have I Now SHM She Has Mail SHP Shock Horror Probe SHQ Scottish HeadQuarters SHY So Have You SI Skills Instructor SIAS Suck It And See SIAT Storm In A Teacup/So I Am Told SIATC Storm In A Tea Cup SIBI Slip It Back In SID So I Do/So It Does SIDM Stepwise Incrementation Design Methodology SIG Spectrum Is Green/Special Interest Group SII So It Is SIIC See If I Care SILOP Sorry I'm Late On Parade SILYMI Say It Like You Mean It SIM Subscriber Identity Module SIMM Single In-line Memory Module SIOB Sharp Intake Of Breath SIP Session Initiation Protocol SIP Single In-line Package SITD Still In The Dark SITRO Something In The Region Of SK Shirley Knot SKIER Spending Kids InhERitance SKP Some Kind Person SKS Some Kind Soul SL Scout Leader SLA Service Level Agreement SLATFATF So Long And Thanks For All The Fish SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile SLCM Submarine Launched Cruise Missile SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol/Something twixt LIP & cup SLOT Singular Lack Of Trains SLT Something Like That SMAKIBBFB Smoke Me A Kipper I'll Be Back For Breakfast SMART Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology SMB System Management Bus SME Small to Medium Enterprise SMIDSY Sorry Mate I Didn't See You SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers SMS Short Message Service SMT Shiver My Timbers SMTH Sorry Must Try Harder SMTP Simple Mail Transmission Protocol SMWS Scotch Malt Whisky Society SN Scout Network SNA Systems Network Architecture SNAFU Situation Normal - All Fouled Up SNAG Sensitive New Age Guy SNID Still/Singular Not In Dictionary SNIDE Singular Not In Dictionary Either SNM Say No More SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SO Significant Other/Second Operator/Smoking Outdoors SOAP Seems Ok At Present/Simple Object Access Protocol SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies SOBOH Slap On Back Of Head SOC Save Our Curate SOCO Scenes Of Crime Officer SOD Save Our Deacon SOED Shorter Oxford English Dictionary SOF Silly Old Fart/Fool SOGA Sale Of Goods Act SOH Sense Of Humour SOHO Small Office Home Office SOL Smiling Out Loud/Sh*t Out of Luck SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea SOLDELET Selective On-Line DELETe SOLRLA Serious Off-Line Reader Lag Alert SOM System Object Model/Sound Of Music SOML Story Of My Life SOMY Sick Of Me Yet SOP Standing/Standard Operational Procedures SOR Sex Offenders' Register SORN Statutory Off Road Notification SOS Save Our Souls/Sound Of Spitting SOTA State Of The Art SOTD Spawn Of The Devil SOTMC Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil SOTMNBA Some Of These May Not Be Acronyms SOTR Somewhere Over The Rainbow SP Starting Price (Information, Gen)/Service Policeman SPAD Signal Passed At Danger SPARC Scaleable Processing ARChitecture SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Acronyms/Animals SPD Serial Presence Detect SPDIF Sony/Phillips Digital InterFace SPEWS Spam Prevention Early Warning System SPF Sender Permitted From SPG Special Patrol Group SPI Stateful Packet Inspection SPIT Spam over IP Telephony SPOF Single Point Of Failure SPT Signal Post Telephone SPX Sequential Packet eXchange SQL Structured Query Language SRA Self-Referential Acronym/Strategic Rail Authority SREWUR Sally Rowan Elphick's Wicked Uncle Richard SS Square Sausage/Silver/Stainless Steel/Saints/[department of] Social Security/SteamShip/Security Service/SchutzStaffel/State Secret SSADM Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method SSAGO Student Scout And Guide Organisation http://www.ssago.org.uk SSAJB Stamped Self-Addressed Jiffy Bag SSDM Same Shit, Different Millennium SSF Sulks, Stamps Foot SSH Secure SHell SSI Server Side Includes SSL Secure Sockets Layer SSS Square Sausage Sandwich SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest SSSSS Sheep Shearing Sharpening Service Shop SST So She Thinks SSWL Splits Sides With Laughter ST Star Trek/So There STAFF Smart Target Activated Fire and Forget STB Simply The Best STBNAL Some Time Between Now And Later/ST Boniface's Nativity At Latest STFAGOS Stuff That For A Game Of Soldiers STFRIACO Single Tandem Fixed Rate Internet Access Call Origination STP Sticky Toffee Pudding STFU Shut The F**k Up STFW Search The F*****g Web STM Seems To Me STN Stop This Nonsense STOD Standard Thread Or Debate. STR8 STRaight STS So To Speak STSPCA Support The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Acronyms STV Single Transvestite Virgin/Single Transferable Vote STW Search The Web STWSTBAS Sorry That Was Supposed To Be A Say STYS Speak To You Soon SUL Stiff Upper Lip SUSFU Situation Unchanged: Still F*ed-Up SUT Standard User Tariff SUTBA Stop Using Those Bloody Acronyms SVDD Speed Violation Detection Deterrent SVG Scalable Vector Graphics SVGA Super Video Graphics Array SVP Senior Vice President SWAG Simple Wild A**e Guess SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss SWIM See What I Mean SWL Short Wave Listener SWMBLT She Who Must Be Listened To SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed SWOT Sheer Weight Of Traffic SWSTWS She Would Say That, Wouldn't She? SWTSMBO She Who Thinks She Must Be Obeyed SWW Shorter Working Week SWYM See What You Mean SYSB So You Should Be SYT Sweet Young Thing T&C Terms And Conditions T&O Tripe & Onions T0 Terrain Zero (for Scouting) T1 Terrain One (for Scouting) T2 Terrain Two (for Scouting) TA Troop Assistant TAAA There's Always Another Acronym TACO Telnet Access, Conferencing Only tariff TAFN That's All For Now TAIAITL That Acronym Is Actually/Already In The List TAIISAT Take An Interest In Sex And Travel TAL Thanks A Lot TAM Television Audience Monitoring TANABEM There's A New Acronym Born Every Minute TANATAH That Acronym Never Applies To Anyone Here TANJ There Ain't No Justice TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TANSTAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Lunch TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface TAQ The African Queen TAQAVM The African Queen And Vampire's Mother TARDIS Time And Relative Dimensions In Space TARFU Things Are Really F**ked/Fouled Up TATT Tired All The Time TB Tuberculosis/The Bat TBA To Be Added/Announced/Advised TBD To Be Done TBH To Be Honest TBIB The Bitch Is Back... TBONTB To Be Or Not To Be TBPC To Be Politically Correct TBQH To Be Quite Honest TBS To Be Serious/Telenor Business Solutions TBT Technology Based Training TBW That Blasted Woman TBWI That Ball Was In TBYB Try Before You Buy TC ThunderClap/Town Crier/Town Crying TCFHTCT The Current Frankie Howerd Travelling CIX Thread TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance TCR Tottenham Court Road TCS Traction Control System TCTCBN The Cooking That Cannot Be Named TCTCBNOC The Cooking That Cannot Be Named Of Course TCTFPT The Cix Travelling Fish Pun Thread TCUTD Town Crier Under The Duvet TDA Trades Descriptions Act TDAEG That Deserves An E-Groat TDB The DogÆs B**locks TDE Total Domestic Expenditure TDLIUT They Don't Like It Up Them TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TDO Total Domestic Output TE Tennessee TEGBIU The E-Groat Bank Is Unbreakable TEI Terminal Equipment Identifier TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It TETTAPP That's Enough To Turn A Panther Pink TFFT Thank F**k For That TFH Thread From Hell TFI Thank F**k It's TFIF Thank F**k It's Friday TFL Transport For London TFM The F**king Manual TFPT The Fish Pun Thread TFT Thanks For That/Thin Film Transistor TFTA Thanks For The Acronym(s) TFTAAM Thanks For The Additional Acronym Meaning TFTAEG Thanks For The Additional E-Groat TFTBEG Thanks For The Bonus E-Groat TFTBM Thanks For The BinMail TFTC Thanks For The Comment/Clarification TFTD Thanks For The Diversion TFTEEG Thanks For The Extra E-Groat TFTEG Thanks For That/The E-Groat TFTFB Thanks For The Feedback TFTI Thanks For The Information TFTP Trivial File Transmission Protocol TFTR Thanks For The Report TFTS Thanks For The Smilies TFTSAA Thanks For The Smiles And Acronyms TFTVOC Thanks For The Vote Of Confidence TFYL The Formidable/Fine Young Lady TG Thank God TGA/GA The Guide Association TGAFP There Goes A Flying Pig TGATG The Great And The Good TGFT Thank God For That TGIF Thank God ItÆs Friday TGSE Teaching Grandma to Suck Eggs TGT That's Great - Terrific TGTP There Goes The Planet TGTSE Teaching Grandma To Suck Eggs TH Troop Helper THAEG Thanks, Have An E-Groat THBAPSA This Has Been A Public Service Announcement THHAEG Thanks, Have Half An E-Groat THX Thanks TIA Thanks In Anticipation/Advance TIAAO That I Am Aware Of TIANCRA This Is A No Case Resting Area TIANRA This Is A No Resting Area TIAPSA This Is A Public Service Announcement TIB Thumb In Bum TIBMIN Thumb In Bum, Mind In Neutral TIC Tongue In Cheek/This Is CaRP TIJLAO That Is Just Life All Over TIL Threaded Interpreted Language/The Iron Lady TINA There Is No Alternative TINALO This Is Not A Legal Opinion TINAPA That Is Not A Proper Answer TINAPR That Is Not A Proper Reply TINAR This Is Not A Recommendation TINSTAMP There Is No Such Thing As Mild Pedantry TISP Tongue Is Snip Proof TITA That Is The Answer TITK Those In The Know TITOAYAGTG That Is The Only Answer You Are Going To Get TITQ That Is The Question TIWDAOBMTALL The Impossible We Do At Once But Miracles Take A Little Longer TIWTGLGG This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes TIWUR That Is What yoU aRe TLTTF The Land That Time Forgot TJATAW Truth, Justice, And The American Way TKO Technical Knock-Out TKSVMIA ThanKs So Very Much In Advance TLA Three Letter Acronym/Abbreviation TLC Tender Loving Care TLF Troop Leadership Forum TLK2UL8R Talk To You Later TLOTR The/Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings TLTA Too Long To Abbreviate TLYC Tough, Like Your Cooking TM Transcendental Meditation/Turing Machine/TradeMark TMA Tutor Marked Assignment TMAI Tell Me About It TMDWRAGI Too Many Duplications Will Ruin A Good Idea TMFAQITOW The Most Frequently Asked Question In The Online World TMFAQITW The Most Frequently Asked Question In The World TMFU The Man From Uncle TMI Too Much Information TMK To My Knowledge TMRTB That Man Reads The Beano TNAA That's Not An Acronym TNAAF That's Not At All Fair TNAGD That's Not A Good Design TNC Thread Neill-Concelman/Totally No Comment/Trans-National Corporation (or Company) TNF That's Not Fair TNFAA That's Not Fair At All TNG The Next Generation/That's No Good TNR The Next Release TNT TriNitroToluene TNVN That's Not Very Nice TNVNE That's Not Very Nice Either TOA Thesaurus Of Acronyms TOC Table Of Contents/Train Operating Company TOCRAR This One Could Run And Run TOG Territorial Operations Group TOIL Time Off In Lieu TOL Tower Of London TOM Theory Of Mind TOPCA Till Our Paths Cross Again TOS The Original Series/The Operating System (the OS of the Atari ST range) TOTAL Teddy Out The Air Lock TOTT Top Of The Tree TP Tair Pedol (Three Horseshoe (English translation)) TPH The Phantom Hacker TPHSA The Phantom Hacker Strikes Again TPI Tax and Price Index/That Proves It TPIM The Pleasure Is Mine TPRTCYKTOTDTNS That Pub Round The Corner. You Know, The One That Does Nice Saladsà TPTATB The Powers That Are To Be TPTB The Powers That Be/The People To Blame TPTBVTAH The Powers That Be Version Two At Home TPTBVTAW The Powers That Be Version Two At Work TPTW The Powers That Were TPWL The Poor Wee Lad TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks TRE Target Rich Environment TRIPE True Riposte Is Perfectly Esoterical TS/TG Time Served/Time in Grade TSOTD The Spawn Of The Devil TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TSVMIA Thanks So Very Much In Advance TT There, There/Two Trips/ TeeTotaller/ Tuberculin Tested/ Tourist Trophy TTAEG Thanks, Take An E-Groat TTBA Time To Be Announced TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge TTBOMR To The Best Of My Recollection TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTFS Try This For Size TTFWY To The Font With You TTGL Thank The Good Lord TTGOC The True God's Own Country (Yorkshire) TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic/Time To Live/Through The Lens TTLAISTDMTV That's The Longest Acronym I've Seen That Doesn't Mention The Vampire TTMAR Take The Money And Run TTMS Talk/Type To Me Soon TTN The Teleological Number TTT Thought That Too/The Two Towers TTTT To Tell The Truth TTWTCC That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles TTWTTF That's The Way The Toast Flies TTY TeleTYpe TTYL Talk To You Later TTYLA Talk/Type To You Later Alligator TU Thank yoU TUIFU The Ultimate In F*-Ups TUS The Usual Suspects TV TeleVision/The Vampire TVCR Television Video Cassette Recorder (combined) TVM Ta/Thanks Very Much/The Vampire's Mother TVMFTE Thanks Very Much For The Explanation TVMI Ta/Thanks Very Much Indeed TVMIA Ta Very Much In Advance TVVM Thanks Very Very Much TVVMIA Thanks Very Very Much In Advance TWA Tecwen Whittock Applies TWAIN Technology Without An Interesting/Important Name TWBFITNR This Will Be Fixed In The Next Release TWBN That Would Be Nice TWC Three Way Call TWCBN Those Who Cannot Be Named TWIMC To Whom It May/Might Concern TWINAO The World Is Not An Oeuf TWIT That's What I Thought TWITT That's What I Thought Too TWMTBACT That Was Meant To Be A Comment To... TWS The Wine Society TWSTBACT That Was Supposed To Be A Comment To... TWSTBAS That Was Supposed To Be A Say TWTAS That's What They All Say TX Texas TX Transmit TY Thank You TYG There You Go TYKS Thank You, Kind Sir TYMD Tie Your Mother Down TYOGMM Thank You, Oh Great And Mighty Moderator TYVM Thank You Very Much TYVMI Thank You Very Much Indeed TYW There You Went UA Unusual Abbreviation UAA Unauthorised Acronym Alert UAE Unrecoverable Application Error UAPITA You're A Pain In The Ass UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UATWLG yoU Are The Weakest Link, Goodbye UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email UBR Universal Broadband Router = CMTS coupled with a router. UBYA Unbalanced Yet Again UCE Unsolicited Commercial Email UCR Unclassified County Road UCRE User Configurable Registry Entry UCW Union of Communication Workers UDO Ultra Density Optical UDP User Datagram Protocol UFN Until Further Notice UFO Unidentified Flying Object UGANDA Urgent Geek Alert, Needs Desperate Attention. UH Unit Helper UHAMPDAICM5P yoU Have A Multiple Personality Disorder And I Claim My 5 Pounds UHF Ultra High Frequency UHT Ultra Horrible Taste/Ultra Heat Treated UI User Interface UIAM Unless I Am Mistaken UIAMM Unless I Am Much Mistaken UIAVMM Unless I Am Very Much Mistaken UIO Unutterably Insignificant Other UIVMM Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken UK United Kingdom UKL United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) UKP United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) UKRSA Yahoo uk.rec.scouting Archive group UKS United Kingdom Sterling UKSA UK Scout Association (Sometimes TSA or SA) ULC Unit Labour Cost UM Upper Management UMEAO Unlimited Multiple Email Address Option UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services UN United Nations UNC Universal Naming Convention UOM1K You Owe Me One Keyboard UOMOK You Owe Me One Keyboard UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply/United Parcel Service URL Uniform Resource Locator URNANOSAICM5P yoU aRe NANOS And I Claim My 5 Pounds URS uk.rec.scouting US United States/UnServiceable/Under Services USA United States of America USAF United States Air Force USB Universal Serial Bus USC Up Sh*t Creek USCWAP Up Sh*t Creek Without A Paddle USP Unique Selling Point USR US Robotics UT Universal Time (aka GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time) UT Utah UTB Uploading This Blink UTC Co-ordinated Universal Time (aka UT) UTCCH Until The Cows Come Home UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair UTPSOE Up The Proverbial Stream Of Effluent UTPSOEWNVMOL Up The Proverbial Stream Of Effluent With No Visible Means Of Locomotion UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Protocol UUID Universal Unique IDentifier UV UltraViolet UVF Ulster Volunteer Force UW yoU're Welcome UWTTISBOYFGD Understand What They Thread Is About Before Opening Your Fat Gob Dickhead! UYMF Up Yours, My Friend VA Virginia/Virtual Access VAC Value Added Content VAT Value Added Tax VB Visual Basic VB3 Visual Basic 3 VB4 Visual Basic 4 VBA Visual Basic for Applications VBG Very Big Grin VBSDK Visual Basic Software Development Kit VBSEG Very Big S***-Eating Grin VC Visual C VC++ Visual C++ VCC Virtual Channel Connection VCD Video CD VCI Virtual Channel Identifier VED Vehicle Excise Disc VESA Video Electronics Standards Association VFC Very Fast Class (modem) VFM Value For Money VG Very Good VGA Video Graphics Array VGI Very Good Idea VHF Very High Frequency VHS Vertical Helical Scan VI Virgin Islands VIAGRA Very Interesting Assembly of Galvanic Rising Agents VIWS Vaguely Improved Windows Shite VLB Video Local Bus VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometer VLIW Very Long Instruction Word VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated circuit VMI Very Much Indeed VMT Very Many Thanks VMTIA Very Many Thanks In Anticipation VNA Very Naughty Acronym VNC Virtual Network Computing VOC Vote Of Confidence VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol VOK Vomit On Keyboard VP Visitor Parking/Vice President/Venerable Peewheet VPG Verray Parfit Gentilbat VPI Virtual Path Identifier VPL Visible Panty Line VPN Virtual Private Network VPOP Virtual Point Of Presence VRML Virtual Reality Markup Language VS Venture Scout VSB Vertical Scroll Bars VSL Venture Scout Leader VSOH Very Saucy Original Humour VSQBOP Very Simple Quick Bit Of Programming VSS (Microsoft) Visual Source Safe VSU Venture Scout Unit VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio VT Vermont VTOL Vertical Take-Off and Landing VWD Very Well Divided VWG Very Well Gloated/Groaned VWP Visa Waiver Programme VWW Very Well Wibbled W4W Word For Windows W4WG Windows For WorkGroups WA Washington/Western Australia/Well Alerted WABGI What A Bloody Good Idea WABGIB What A Bloody Good Idea Bruce WABOL What A Bunch Of Losers/With A Bit Of Luck WACD Working As Currently Designed WACRAL World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and Listeners WAD Working As Designed/What A Dork WADBPISNB Working As Designed But Perhaps It Should Not Be WADR With All Due Respect WAE Working As Expected WAFGI What A F**king Good Idea WAFLOL With A F**king Lot Of Luck WAFWOT What A Flipping Waste Of Time WAGGGS World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts WAGI What A Good Idea WAGN West Anglia Great Northern WAH Working At Home WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong? WAIF We're Always In Front WAINS Why Am I Not Surprised WAIS Wide Area Information Server WALBOL With A Little Bit Of Luck WALKIES Walk your dog (well what did you expect?) WALOA What A Lot Of Acronyms WALOB What A Load Of Bollocks WALOOB What A Load Of Old Bollocks WAM Welsh Assembly Member WAMKSAM Why Are My Kids (or Kittens) Staring At Me? WAN Wide Area Network WAND Works As Not Designed WAOOM We Are Of One Mind WAP Wireless Application Protocol/Weak Anthropic Principle WASHITO Wait And See How It Turns Out WATNR Will Add To Next Release WATP We Aim To Please/What A Terrible Pun WATPB What About The Poor Baby WATSOOYK Why Are They So Obvious Once You Know WATSOWYK Why Are They So Obvious When You Know WATTNR Will Add To The Next Release WAWF What A Witty Fellow WBA Withdrawn By Author WBC Well Behaved Children welcome WBKO With Brass Knobs On WBMD Well, Blow Me Down WBMDWAF Well, Blow Me Down With A Feather WBS What Bruce Said WCA Who Cares Anyway? WCC Wiggley, Creepie and the Crawlies WCD Wheel Chair Difficult WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access WCE Wheel Chair Easy WCI Wheel Chair Impossible WCIGT Why Couldn't I Guess That? WCP Wheel Chair Possible consult host WCS Web Conferencing System WCWYLYHSD What Colour Would You Like Your Heretic Swine Dyed? WDALYIC Who Died And Left You In Charge? WDDTLOI WithDrawn Due To Lack Of Interest WDIGFIM What Do I Get For It Mate WDITW What Did I Tell Wur WDLY We Don't Like You WDS What Doc Said WDSS What Drivel She Speaks WDTLOI Withdrawn Due To Lack Of Interest WDTM What Does That Mean? WDTOM What Does That One Mean? WDTTT What Does The Team Think? WDYBOBTG Why Don't You Bog Off Back To Greenland WDYSS Why Didn't You Say So WDYSSB Why Didn't You Say So Before WE Who Else WEA Workers' Educational Association WEC Wicked Evil Cackle WEEE Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive WEEED Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive WEES What Everyone Else Said WEFC Wicked Evil F**king Cackle WEFG Wicked Evil F**king Grin WEFS Wicked Evil F**king Smirk WEFT Web Embedded Font Technology WEG Wicked Evil Grin WELL Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link WES Wicked Evil Smirk WF Well Factorized WFAC Waiting For A Call WFD Wicked/Wild Flying Donkey WFM Works For Me WFMOB Well F**k My Ol' Boots WFW Word For Windows WFWG Windows For WorkGroups WGAF Who Gives A F**k WGR With Good Reason WH White Hart WHIDN What Have I Done Now? WHISH What Have I Started Here? WHISN What Have I Started Now? WHS What He Said/W.H.Smith WHS2 What He Said Too WHST What He Said Too WHTGTDWI What Has That Got To Do With It WHY What Have You WHYD What Have You Done WI What If/Women's Institute/Wisconsin WIAA What's It All About WIBAGI Would It Be A Good Idea WIBAGII Would It Be A Good Idea If WIBAMU Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle WIBLI Wouldn't It Be Lovely If WIBNI Wouldn't It Be Nice If WIBSI Wouldn't It Be Sensible If WICU What I Can't Understand WIFI WIreless FIdelity WIGRTI When I Get Round To It WIHIH What IIn Hell Is Happening WIJS What I Just Said WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer/Pulldowns WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System WINGS Windsor INternational Guide and Scout camp WINGTM What I'm Not Going To Mention WINS Windows Internet Naming Service WIOFY Work It Out For Yourself WIP Work In Progress WIS What I Said WITNR When Is The Next Release WIW Wot's It Worth WIWAB When I Was A Boy WIWAG When I Was A Girl WIWAL When I Were A Lad WIWALWCEA When I Was A Lad We Couldn't Even Afford WLAF World League of American Football WLOF We Lead, Others Follow WMA Whale Meat Again WMAWFLHWEP Wearing My Anorak With Fur-Lined Hood With Exceptional Pride WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction/Weapons of Messy Droppings WMF Windows MetaFile/Well Meaning Friend WNAD Works Not As Designed WOADB Water Off A DuckÆs Back WOB White On Black WOE What/Why On Earth WOFTAM Waste Of F*cking Time And Money WOGLS What Our Great Leader Says WOGS Working On Government Service WOIF Were Often In Front WOL Wake On LAN WOM Word Of Mouth WOMD Weapons Of Mass Destruction WOMM Weapons Of Mass Murder WOOF Working weekend On Organic Farms WOPAMANLACS Waves Order Papers And Makes A Noise Like A Constipated Sheep WOR Wake On Ring WORD Weapon Of Random Destruction WORM Write Once, Read Many/Mostly WOT White On Tint WOW Whining Old Woman WP Word Processor WPB Waste Paper Basket WRJS What Richard Just Said WRL Windows Recursive Labyrinth WRT With Respect To WS Well Spotted/WorkStation/WideScreen WSS What She Said WSS2 What She Said Too WSST What She Said Too WT What/Who The/Wishful Thinking WTAS What They All Say WTBC Won't That Be Confusing WTBHITSTM What The Bloody Hell Is This Supposed To Mean? WTBS What They Both Say WTC World Trade Centre WTF What The F**k WTFDIK What The F**k Do I Know WTFIGO What The F**k Is Going On WTFIPGO What The F**k Is Possibly Going On WTFITSTM What The F**k Is This Supposed To Mean WTFN What The F**k Now WTFO What The F***!, Over! WTG Way To Go WTGARTP Whoops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant WTGP Want To Go Private WTH What The Heck/Hell WTHDTM What The Hell Does That Mean? WTS Watch This Space/What They Said WTSDMF With Tears Streaming Down My Face WTSF Watch The Sparks Fly WTYKS Why Thank You Kind Sir WU What's Up WUASTC Wake Up And Smell The Coffee WUB Wicked Uncle Bruce WUF Where are yoU From WUNL Wakes Up Neighbours Laughing WUR Wicked Uncle Richard WURACT cix:WUR Assistant Canon Treasurer WURB cix:WUR Brat WURCC cix:WUR Conference Chaplain WURFIAWOTT cix:WUR First Incisor And Wielder Of The Toothbrush WURGMT cixWUR Grand-mother (Tired) WURMI cix:WUR Mother Inferior WURMODE cix:WUR Mistress Of Double Entendre WUTB Water Under The Bridge WV West Virginia/WigWam/Wotsit Worth WWAD Would Without A Doubt WWFFC Why Wait For Father Christmas WWS What Wur Says WWTBAM Who Wants To Be A Millionaire WWW World Wide Web/World Wide Wait WWYGRTI When Will You Get Round To It? WY Wyoming WYGIWIGY What You Get Is What I/IBM Give You WYGRTI When You Get Round To It WYMM Will You Marry Me? WYS What You Said WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It WYSINECTWYG What You See Is Not Even Close To What You Get (wisy-neck-widge) WYSINLWYG What You See Is Nothing Like What You Get WYSINWYG What You See Is Not What You Get WYSIQWYG What You See Isn't Quite What You Get WYSIWIS What You See Is What I Send WYSIWOG What You See Is What Others Get WYSIWTTYSG What You See Is What They Think You Should Get WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYMGDOTB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On The Browser WYSIWYMGDOYB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On Your Browser WYSYWIG What You See You Wish I Got WYTYSYDG What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get XBDA eXtended Bios Data Area XHTML eXtended HyperText Markup Language XINU XINU Is Not UNIX XLNT Excellent XML eXtensible Markup Language XMS eXtended Memory Specification XRTBI eX Round Tables of great Britain XSS eX-Stock Supplier XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XXXX Lager (allegedly) From Oz XWTB eX Wife To Be XYL Wife YA You Are YAAA Yet Another Ameol Addon/Acronym YAABOFH You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell YAABOFHAICMFP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five Pounds YAABOFHAICMFUKP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAAL You Are A Lawyer YAC Yet Another Conference YACC Yet Another Cix Conference YAFA Yet Another "Fine" Abbreviation YAITB You Are In This Blink YAJMAICMFUKP You Are John Major And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAOLR Yet Another Off Line Reader YAP Yet Another Ploy YATWLG You Are The Weakest Link, Goodbye YAYIA You And Your Inscrutable Acronyms YCB You Came Bach/Back YCBMTTMT You Couldn't BinMail This To Me Too YCBMTTMTP You Couldn't BinMail This To Me Too Please YCBS You Cannot Be Serious YCCY You CanÆt, Can You? YCFOT You Can F**k Off Twice/You Can't Fly Over Tibet YCHKMDWAF You Could Have Knocked Me Down With A Feather YCNBS You Can Not Be Serious YCRBYCH You Can Run But You Can't Hide YCSTA You Can Say That Again YDA You Didn't Ask YDBM You Don't Believe Me YDCHFTHDY You Don't Come Here For The Hunting, Do You? YDIA You Did It Again YDRS You Dirty Rotten Swine YDRSK You Dirty Rotten Spanker Knicker YDWYWTFO You Did What You Were Told For Once YF Wife YFST Yawns For Some Time YGBJ You've Got to Be Joking YGBSM You Gotta Be S***tin' Me YGIAGAM Your Guess Is As Good As Mine YGTBJ You've Got To Be Joking YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For YHAP You Have A Point YHBM You Have BinMail YHBM2 You Have BinMail Too YHBMA You Have BinMail Also YHBMAW You Have BinMail As Well YHBMT You Have BinMail Today/Too YHBT You Have Been Trolled YHBW You Have Been Warned YHEBM You Have Encrypted BinMail YHEM You Have Encrypted Mail YHGAFC You Haven't Got A F****** Clue YHGAFCHY You Haven't Got A F****** Clue, Have You YHL You Have Lost YHM You Have Mail YHM2 You Have Mail Too YHMS You Have My Support YHS Your Humble Servant YHSM You Have Snail Mail YHVM You Have Voice Mail YIDTYVM Yes I Did, Thank You Very Much YIG Yours In Guiding YIGS Yours In Guiding and Scouting OR Yours In Girl Scouting YII Yes It Is YIS Yours In Scouting YJCGTATD You Just Can't Get The Assassins These Days YJCGTBCTD You Just Can't Get The Brain Cells These days YKIMS You Know It Makes Sense YKWIM You Know What I Mean YKWYD You Know What You're Doing YL Young Lady/Girl friend/fiancΘe/Young Leader YLSNED You Learn Something New Every Day YLU Young Leaders' Unit YMACA Young Men's Anti-Christian Association (from the Discworld books) YMBT You Must Be Telepathic YMCA Young Men's Christian Association YMI You Mentioned It YMMD Your Mileage May Differ YMMV Your Mileage May Vary YMOV Your Mileage Ought to Vary/Your Mileage Often Varies? YMSSBICNPC You May Say So But I Could Not Possibly Comment YMTT You May Think That YMTTBICPC You May Think That But I Couldn't Possibly Comment YMVWTTICPC You Might Very Well Think That; I Couldn't Possibly Comment YMWBTDBTWMAD You May Well Beg To Differ But That Won't Make Any Difference YOCYC Yes Of Course You Can YOGWYPF You Only Get What You Pay For YOHTA You Only Had/Have To Ask YOMOK You Owe Me One Keyboard YP Young Person (Sometimes used for Young People) YPS Youth Proficiency Scheme YPVS Yamaha Power Valve System YPYMATYC You Pays Your Money And Takes Your Choice YSBIB You Should Be In Bed YSHBM You Should Have BinMail YSHEYBBRTB You Should Have Eaten Your Breakfast Before Reading The Blink YSHGM You Should Have Google Mail YSHGUE You Should Have Got Up Earlier YSHHBM You Should Have Had BinMail YSHHM You Should Have Had Mail YSHM You Should Have Mail YSNAYBB You Said Never Again You Bad Boy YTHBM You Too Have BinMail YTTWOOMM You Took The Words Out Of My Mouth YTTWROOMM You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth YUI You Understand It YW You're Welcome YWCA Young Women's Christian Association YWET You Would Expect That YWHBM You Will Have BinMail YWHM You Will Have Mail YWHSM You Will Have Snail Mail YWHSMS You Will Have Snail Mail Soon YWIMC Your Wish Is My Command YWSTWY You Would Say That, Wouldn't You? YYA Yes You Are YYGT Yes, You Get That YYHM Yours, You Have Mail YYRH Yes, Your Royal Highness ZA ZoneAlarm ZIP Compressed File Format !-( Black eye !.'v (profile) Flat top #-) Partied all night #:-) Someone with sort of matted hair #:-o Oh Nooooooo! with matted hair #:o+= Betty Boop $-) Won big at Las Vegas/won the lottery/yuppie %-(I) Laughing out loud %') After drinking a fifth for lunch %-) Cross-eyed/Message about people with broken glasses/After staring at the terminal for 36 hours %*@:-( Hung over %\v Picasso %-| Been working all night %-} Drunk %-~ Picasso %-<I> Drunk with laughter %-6 Braindead &-) Theatre patron (with opera glasses) &.( Crying &:) Elvis &:-) Message from a person with curly hair &-| Tearful ((((:-) I'm a hat salesman (-) Needs a haircut/Sleeping (,'%/ I slept too long on one side (-: Australian/Don Ellis from Tektronix/Left-handed (:-# Said something he shouldn't have (:-$ Ill (:-& Angry (:-( Message indicating person is very sad/Frowning (:(=| Wearing a ghost costume (:-) Big Face/No Hair/Surprised/Messages dealing with bicycle helmets (:)-) Scuba diving (:-* Kiss (:-... Heart-broken (-::-( Two-faced (-::-) Siamese twins (:-\ Very sad (:^( Broken nose (:-{~ Bearded (:-|K- Formal message from someone wearing formal dress (:+) Big nose (:<) Blabber mouth (:=) Two noses (?) (:>-< Thief/Hands up! (:-D Blabber mouth (:-I Egghead (:I Egghead (|-) Robo-Smiley (<:^0 Eeek! (8-) Wears glasses (8-o Mr. Bill (O--< Fishy (V)=| Pacman champion ) Cheshire cat '-) One eyed man/Only has a left eye which is closed/Wink ):-( Unsmiley big-face ):-) Smiley big-face )8-) Scuba smiley big-face *!#*!^*&:-) Schizophrenic *-( Cyclops got poked in the eye *-) Shot dead *:* Fuzzy *:** Fuzzy with a fuzzy moustache *:o) Bozo the Clown *<.'v (profile) Wearing snow cap *<|:-) Santa Claus (Ho Ho Ho) *<|:-)) Santa Claus ,-) User only has one eye...but he's winking, other eyed man ,.'v (profile) Has short hair ,:-) User shaved his left eyebrow off this morning ,-} Wry and winking .'! (profile) Has grin .'" (profile) Pursing lips .-( Can't see what's going on .-) Keeping an eye out/Sammy Davis, Jr/One eye ...---... S.O.S (use carefully) .'\ (profile) Frowning .-] One eye .^v (profile) Pointy nose ._) Suffering from Lorentz contraction (they're coming every ten minutes now) .'J (profile) Smiling .'P (profile) Sticking tongue out .'r (profile) Sticking tongue out .'T (profile) Keeping a straight face .'U (profile) Yawning .'V (profile) Shouting .'v (profile) Talking .'w (profile) Speaking with forked tongue .'Y (profile) Whistling /:-) French /:-| Mr. Spock :- Male :-' Smoker :-! bland face :-" Heavy smoker/Pursing lips :-# Braces/My lips are sealed/Punched in the mouth :###) Jimmy Durante :-#| Bushy moustache/Smiley face with bushy moustache :-$ Mouth wired shut/Put your money where your mouth is :$) Donald Trump :-% Banker/Bearded/Talking out of both sides of mouth :%) Accountant :%)% Has acne :-& Tongue-tied :'-( Crying :-( Frown :'( I'm crying -:-( Punk rocker (real punk rockers don't smile) :-( Sad/Drama/Frowning/Mad :-( Sad/Unhappy :( Sad :-() I stubbed my toe/Bigger and better Wow! :-(*) Sick of net.news articles/About to vomit :-(=) Big teeth :-(0) Yelling :-)-- 98-pound weakling :) Cheshire cat smile/Happy/Midget smiley/Salamander :'-) Crying with happiness :-)' Drooling -:-) Has mohawk/Punk rocker ':-) I accidentally shaved off one eyebrow :--) Jamie Farr (Klinger from M*A*S*H) :) Lazy person/No nose :) Nose out of joint :-) Smile/Amused :-)(()) Pregnant/Beer Gut :-)) Double chin/Happy :-))) I'm overweight (triple chin)/William Conrad :-)))) Bloody happy :-)-{8 Big girl :-)} Has goatee/beard :-)-}8 Big girl :-)~ Drooling :-)+ Female :-)== Arnold Schwarznegger :-)> Beard :-)>- I just washed my goatee :-)-> Male :-)-8 Big girl :-)8 Man with bowtie/Well dressed :-)8= IGABW :-)-O Smiling doctor with Stethoscope :-)X Wearing a bowtie :-* After eating something bitter or sour/Oops! (hand covering mouth) :* Kisses :*) I have a cold/Ed McMahon/Everyman/Drunk :-, Hmmmm/Smirking :,( Crying :-/ Lefty/Undecided smiley/Sceptical :/7) Cyrano de Bergerac :-: Mutant, toothless ::-) Wears glasses/Four eyes :-? I'm smoking a pipe :-? Smoking a pipe :?) Philosopher :-@ I swear/Extremely angry/Screaming/Horrified/Shocked & Sad/Sticking out tongue :@ What? :@) Pig :-[ Biting criticism/Blockhead/Pouting/Sarcastic :[ Real downer :-[] Angry :-\ Popeye/Undecided :-] Biting sarcasm/Blockhead/Sarcastic :] Gleep...a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend :^) Profile/Messages teasing people about their noses/Broken nose/Smiley with pointy nose (righty) :-^) Tongue in other cheek :^, Smirk :^? Licking lips :^[ Dracula :^< Forlorn :^> Alternative smile :^1 Smirk :^B Drooling :^C Just totally unbelieving :^c Real unhappy :^D Said with a smile/Great! I like it! :^I Smoking :^j Smoking and smiling :^l Disgusted :^P Poke your tongue out! :^r Bleahh (sticking tongue out) :^V Shout :^x Kiss kiss :_) User's nose is sliding off of his face :-` Spitting out chewing tobacco/Speaks wiz ze accent :-{ Moustache :{ Oh boy/The headmaster! :-{#} Messages teasing people about their braces :-{) Moustache :-{} Heavy lipstick/Sexy :-{~ Has read too many of the toilet paper articles previous to lunch :-'| Has a cold :-| Have an ordinary day/Grim/No expression/Punchy :-|| Angry :} Rakish/Cavalier :-} Thish wine tashted pretty good/Beard/Lipstick/Pretty lips :} What should we call these? (what?) :-~ Wry Smile :~( Nose put out of joint :-~) Has a cold :~) Nose out of joint/Peter Ubberoth/Needs a nosejob/Pointy nose (righty)/Ugly nose :+( Punched nose/Hurt :+) Carl Friedrich/Gauss :-< Frowning/Moustache/Real sad :< midget unsmiley/What pretences! :<() African tribesman :<) From an Ivy League School :-<) Moustache :<| Attends an Ivy League school :<= Walrus :<> I'm a fish :-=) Adolph Hitler/Older smiley with moustache :=) Has two noses :=| Baboon :=8) Baboon :-> Bearded/Biting sarcastic face/Deformed lips/Happy :> Hmm/Let me think.../Midget smiley :>) Big nose :-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)/Orator/Wow! :-1 Bland face :3-< Dog :-6 After eating something sour :-7 Smokes a pipe/Talking out of side of mouth/Wry face :-8( Condescending stare :8) Pig :-9 Licking its lips :-a lefty smiley touching tongue to nose :-B Drooling :-b Left-pointing tongue :-c Bummed out/Real unhappy :-C Just totally unbelieving/Really bummed out :C What? :D Laughter :-d Lefty smiley razzing you :-D Wider happy face (or mouth open too much)/Said with a smile/User is laughing (at you!)/Big smile/Talking too much :-d~ Smokes heavily :-E Bucktoothed vampire/Has major dental problems :-e Disappointed :-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing :-G- Smoking cigarettes :-I Hmm/Indifferent/Thinking/Semi-smiley :I Hmmm/not funny! :-j Left smiling :-k Beats me/Looks like something/Tho :-l Yet another smiley :-M Speaking no evil :n) Funny-looking right nose :-o I'm bored (yawn)/Oh/Nooooooo!/Uh oh!, Wow!/Shocked/Singing national anthem/Surprise :-O Very Shocked/I'm wearing heavy lipstick/Surprise/Mr. Bill/Birth/Ohh/Big mouth/Mick Jagger/Uh oh :O Yelling :o) Big Nose/Clown :-P Nyahhhh!/Has a secret to tell you/Nyah nyah/Sticking out tongue/Tongue hanging out in anticipation :-p Smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!)/Smokes heavily :-Q I'm smoking :Q Que?/What? :-q Trying to touch tongue to nose :Q) John Q/Public :-Q~ Smoking :-R Has the flu :-r Sticking tongue out :-s After a BIZARRE comment :-S User just made an incoherent statement :-t Cross smiley :-T Keeping a straight face :-▐ Smiley sticking its tongue out. :u) Funny-looking left nose :-V Shouting :-v Speaking :V Woodpecker :v) Left-pointing broken nose/Left-pointing nose :-v) Tongue in cheek :V) Woodpecker :-W Shout with forked tongue :-w Speak with forked tongue :-X A big wet kiss!/Bow tie/My lips are sealed :-x My lips are sealed/Kiss kiss/Not telling any secrets :X) Hearing no evil :-Y A quiet aside :-z Yet another cross smiley ;-( Beaten up/Crying/Getting fresh/Sardonic/Winking ;( Crying ;-) Wink ( take this message with a grain of salt)/Nudge-nudge ;;;- Does not convert ;-\ Popeye beaten up ;^) Tongue in cheek ;^? Punched out ;-| Beaten up but silent ;} Rakish/Cavalier ?-( Has black eye @-) Cyclops @.'v (profile) Has curly hair @:-) Indian (East)/User is wearing a turban/Wavy hair @:I Turban @= User is pro-nuclear war @== Nuclear Mushroom Cloud [[:-) User is wearing a walkman/Listening to walkman [[:-] Square head [[:] User is a robot [[:|] Robot (or other AI project) [[] Hugs \o/first post! (The mental image is that of a person's head and arms, with the latter raised in jubilation) \/\/\/\,8-O Really should fix frayed line cord on terminal \:-) French hat ]:-) The Devil _:^) American Indian __. Properly chastised and/or chagrined/Merely asleep __/~`-'~\_/ Line of thought isn't quite a line __Q~`__ Cat _|\_o_ Grovelling In The Dirt `:-) User shaved his right eyebrow off this morning {(:-) Wearing toupee {:-) Hair parted in the middle/New hair style/Wearing a toupee {:^=( Hitler {:-{)} New hair style/Moustache and beard {{-}}} Refugee from the '60's {} No comment {0-) Cyclops |-( Late night messages |-) Chinese/Asleep (boredom)/Hee hee |) Salamander |:-) Heavy eyebrows |:[' Groucho Marx |:-| Excessively rigid |^o Snoring |-{ Good Grief! (Charlie Brown?) |~( Someone just busted my nose. |-D Ho ho |I Asleep |-I Sleeping |-O Birth/Bored/Yawning/snoring |-P Yuk } Try this then }(:-( Wearing toupee in wind }:-( Bull headed/Toupee in an updraught }:-) Hair parted in the middle in an updraught }:^#}) Mega-smiley/Bushy-moustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin }:~#}) Mega-smiley/Bushy-moustached smiley with a double-chin }:-< Cat '~;E Unspecified 4-legged critter ~~:-( net.flame ~~~\8-O Zapped by frayed cord on terminal ~~~~~8} Snake ~M`'~ Camel ~'v (profile) Has long bangs +-(:-) I'm the Pope +:-) Priest +<.'v (profile) Knight +<:-| Message from a monk/nun +<||-) Knight +O:-) The Pope <&&> Message concerning rubber chickens <:-( Disappointed/dunce/Dumb questions <:-) Vietnamese peasant/Dumb questions <:-)<<| In a space rocket <:>= Turkey <:-I Dunce <:I Dunce <{:-)} In a bottle <|-( Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes <|-(= Chinese and unhappy <|-) Chinese <<<<(:-) Hat salesman <I==I) On four wheels =:-) I'm a punk rocker -=#:-) Wizard =) Variation on a theme... =):-) Uncle Sam =.'v (profile) Has mohawk =:-#} Punk rocker with a moustache =:-( punk rocker (real punk rockers don't smile) =:-) hosehead/punk rocker =:-H Football player =|:-) Abe Lincoln =|:-)= Abe Lincoln ===:[OO']>:=== Has been railroaded =====:} Snake =0== Mexican on a railroad! =t== Mexican run over by train >- Female >-( Displeasure >-) Sly as a fox >:-( Mad/Annoyed/Sick and tired of reading this nonsense >:) A little devil >:*) Bozo the Clown >:^( Headhunter (Amazon style) >:-< Mad >:-> Devilish >:-I net.startrek >;-> Winky and devil combined/A very lewd remark was just made. >-^);> Fish >|-> Chinese >< >< Message about/to someone wearing socks >-< Absolutely livid!! >-> China man >>-O-> General Custer >8^}>x(:())8= AMF >8~( Wide eyed and miffed >8~) Wide eyed and sorted >8~| Wide eyed and indifferent >B-) Punk rocker - wearing raybans/Spikey >-v scowling ú:-) Michael Hesseltine hairstyle 0-) Cyclops/Arc-welder/Scuba diver 2B|^2B Message about Shakespeare 3:*> Rudolph the reindeer 3:[ Mean/Pet smiley 3:-o Cow 3:o[ net.pets 4:-) George Washington 5:-) Elvis Presley 6\/) Elephant 7:-) Fred Flintstone 73 Good Bye and Best Wishes 8-# Death 8(:-) Mousketeer/Walt Disney 8) Frog 8-) Wearing glasses/excited/Sunglasses/Swimmer 8:-) Glasses on forehead/Little girl/Wizard 8:] Gorilla 8:-I net.unix-wizards 8-] Wow 8-| Eyes wide with surprise/Suspense 8=:-) Galloping Gourmet/Chef 8===> Dickhead 88 Love and Kisses 8b Bullfrog in mating season 8-O Omigod!! (done after "rm -rf *" ?)/Took too many nodoz to work on thesis 8P Bullfrog in mating season B-(8 Sir Robin Day (a British BBC TV presenter, famed for his grumpy countenance, and who wears glasses and a bow tie) B-) Batman !!!/Horn-rimmed glasses/Sunglasses/I wear Raybans B) Frog wearing sunglasses B-)-[< Sunglasses and swimming trunks B:-) Sunglasses on head B-| Cheap sunglasses B-D Serves you right, dummy!! C:# Football player C:-) I'm wearing a Walkman/Large brain capacity C|:-= Charlie Chaplin C=:-) Galloping Gourmet/Chef C=}>;*{)) Mega-Smiley/A drunk/Devilish chef with a toupee in an updraught A moustache, and a double chin C=>:*')) I'm a drunk demonic chef with a cold and a double chin. CI:-= I'm Charlie Chaplin d.'v (profile) Wearing hard hat d: -) I'm a baseball player (wearing a baseball hat) d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator E-:-I Net.ham-radio g-) Smiley with pince-nez glasses/Wearing pince-nez glasses i-=<*** CAUTION: has flame thrower i-=<******o-(==< CAUTION: has flame thrower and uses it! K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie L:-) I just graduated M-) Sees no evil M-),:X),:-M Sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil M:-) Saluting O-&-< Doing nothing O-(==< Chastised and/or chagrined/Merely asleep. o-) Cyclops O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)/Cyclops O:-) Acting very innocent (halo)/With halo O>-<|= Messages of interest to women o>8<|= Messages about interesting women O-G-< Pointing to self oo- Puzzled/Confused O-S-< In a hurry O-Z-< In a big hurry P-) Colonel Klink (Hogan's Heroes)/Getting fresh/I have an eyepatch pp# Cow pq`#' Bull Q:-) New graduate R-) Broken glasses X-( User just died/net.suicide [Acronyms.Lst Version 2.00 5/6/2005 [Compiled by p_elphick@cix.co.uk aka cotal@cotal.co.uk] [This file is copyright and may not be re-distributed outside the CIX conferencing system without permission]