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