Can someone please enlighten an internet jargon virgin as to what these abbrevations mean.

AFAIK
LOL
TOP?
SDB

And please feel free to add any other ones I may come across.

Alan

 

Glad someone else asked - makes me not feel like quite so much of a dunce anymore.

Can I add IIRC to the list?

 

LOL - lots of Laffs
SDB - Simon de Bank?

 

LOL = Laughs out Loud
SDB = Our lord and master
TOP = err, top

 

AFAIK = As Far As I Know
LOL = Laughs Out Loud

 

Have you guys no work to do??

6 minutes for three replys. Wow LOL

WWYBGWABOYB.

Betch don't know what that means.

 

Doesn't everyone have scoobynet open in another window when they are at work??

Anyway here is a full(ish) list of acronyms:

AFAIC As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFGO Another F***ing (or Fabulous) Growth Opportunity
AFK Away From Keyboard
AKA Also Known As
ASAP As Soon As Possible
BAK Back At Keyboard
BBL Be Back Later
B/C Because
BFD Big f'in Deal!
BFN Bye For Now
BFO Blinding Flash of the Obvious
BO Buffer (Brain) Overload
BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
BOKYAG Bend Over and Kiss Your A** Goodbye
BRB Be Right Back
BTSOOM beats the stuffing out of me
BTW By The Way
CU See You
CUL8R See You Later
CYA Cover Your ****
DITYID Did I Tell You I'm Distressed?
EFLA Extended Four Letter Acronym!
FAQ Frequently Asked Question
FC Fingers Crossed
FCFS First Come First Served
FEAR F*** Everything And Run
FIIOH F** (or Forget) It, I'm Outta Here
FMV Full Motion Video
FOAD F*** Off And Die
FUBAR F******-Up Beyond All Recognition
FUCT Failed Under Continuous Testing
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GTRM Going To Read Mail
GR&D Grinning, Running, & Ducking
HSIK How Should I Know
HTH Happy To Help
HTH Hope This Helps
IAE In Any Event
IANA... I am not a ...
IBK Idiot Behind Keyboard
IIRC If I Recall Correctly
IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
ILF I'll Look Forward
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INAL I'm Not A Lawyer
IOW In Other Words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Real Life
IYKWIM If You Know What I mean
JFYI Just For Your Information
J/K Just Kidding
L8R Later
LMAO Laughing My **** Off
LMKOAP Let Me Know Of Any Problems
LOL Laugh(ing) Out Loud
LOEL Laugh(ing) Out Extremely Loud
MIL-TFD-41 Make It Like The F*****g Drawing For Once
MMP More Money, Please
ML Mailing List
NBD No Big Deal
NFW No F****** Way
NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer
NIFOK Naked In Front of the Keyboard
NOYB None Of Your Business
NRN No Reply Necessary
OIC Oh, I See!
OOH Out Of Hand
OOTB Out Of The Box
OTL Out To Lunch
OTOH On The Other Hand
PITA Pain In The ****
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
POV Point Of View
PSX Sony Playstation
PTB Powers That Be
PU That Stinks!
ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLWMP Rolling on the Floor Wetting My Pants
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My **** Off
ROTFLOL Rolled on the Floor Laughing Out Loud
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual (or Message)
RTM Read The Manual (or Message)
SEP Someone Else's Problem
SGI She'd Get it!
SITD Still In The Dark
SLAP Sounds Like A Plan
SNAFU Situation Normal- All F*****-Up
SOL Smiling Out Loud
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TBH To Be Honest
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three-Letter Acronyms
TLTBT Too Ludicrous To Be True!
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
Txs Thanks or Texas
VPL Visible Pantie Line
WGFF? Who Gives A Flying Flood?
WIC Where I'm Concerned
WIMP Washed-up Information Media Phobe
WOA Work Of Art
WOB Waste of Bandwidth
WRT with respect to
WTF What The F***
WTFIGO What The F*** Is Going On?
WTH What The Heck (Hell)
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get
YAM Yet Another Meeting
YCHT You can have them
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

 

MACINTOSH most applications crash if not the operating system hangs
WINDOWS will install needless data on whole system
TSBMASAP thread should be muppetised asap

Apologies if you've heard them already.

 

I wonder if there's one for SUBARU, along the lines of:

FORD = Found On Road, Dead
LOTUS = Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

 

I think you may have just about covered everything Joey. Thanks

 

...What about FIAT...
Fix It Again Ted...

 

Hope I don't see any NIFOC's on this BBS

 

Joey

YSB (you sad ba5tard) - but impressive M8!!

 

FORD Fix Or Repair Daily

FORD First On Rubbish Dump

IBM Industries Biggest Mistake

If I remember any others I will let you know.

Darren.

 

There was a SUBARU one posted in an old thread.

Be careful with LOL, can mean Lots of Love!!!!???

So if SubieGal says LOL, I know which one I take it as

robski

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by carl:
<B>I wonder if there's one for SUBARU, along the lines of:

FORD = Found On Road, Dead
LOTUS = Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious[/quote]

My mate who is a big Vauxhall fan (bless him), came up with

STUNNINGLY
UGLY
BUGGER
ALL
RUSTY
UNDERNEATH

 

Oh, yes and there's many a BOBFOC where I work.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by JoeyDeacon:
<B>MIL-TFD-41 Make It Like The F*****g Drawing For Once
[/quote]

I used to work for a defence company (for those that haven't, military standards are often of the form MIL-STD-XXXX), so we used to have a great laugh ensuring that kit met the MIL-TFD-41C standard.

 

OK, useless info here;

Anyone remember the name of the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey?

It was HAL.

Why did Arthur C Clarke call him HAL?

Because it is IBM "minus 1"..........apparently.........I'll get me coat........

Neil.

[This message has been edited by Neil F (edited 15 December 2000).]

 

And Windows NT (WNT) is VMS 'plus 1'

 

There is one missing from the list and that is:

WTMFSTOYH = Way To Much F**king Spare Time On Your Hands

Which kinda sums things up really

 

Not quite the whole story on HAL.

It was supposed to be IBM, but they withdrew their ok when they heard that the computer tried to kill everyone!

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by carl:
<B>And Windows NT (WNT) is VMS 'plus 1'[/quote]

... and why were the first Digital Alphas called AXP?

Well X in the Greek alphabet is Chi, and P is Rho - which reads (when spoken) Alpha Cairo. Shame they dropped NT on Alpha!!!

mb