Net Abbreviations! Find yourself going,huh ?

[H-Rezz]

I thought i would post some net abbreviations FWIW

AKA Also Known As
BBL Be Back Later
BBIAF Be Back in a Few
BCNU Be Seeing You
BFN Bye For Now
BTSOOM Beats The S*** out of Me
BTW By The Way
CR*P Cooking Related Propaganda
CRS Can't Remember Sh*t
CUL8R See You Later
FWIW For What It's Worth
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
GR&D Grinning, Running and Ducking
HTH Hope This (That) Helps
IAE In Any Event
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
L8R Later
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LTNS Long Time No See
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MOTD Message of The Day
NRN No Reply Necessary
NBIF No Basis In Fact
OIC Oh, I See
OTOH On The Other Hand
PI Politically Incorrect
POV Point of View
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMS Post/Pre Martha Stewart
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
SITD Still In The Dark
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TMTT Too Much To Type
TYVM Thank You Very Much
unPC Un-Politically Correct
VBG Very Big Grin
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WB Welcome Back
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WTG Way To Go
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YAQ Yet Another Question
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
^5 High Five

Hope this covers most , if anybody knows more feel free to add

[Ethan Winer]

IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IIRC If I Recall Correctly

[theblue1]

FUBAR?

FUBAR is a WWII expression, parallel to SNAFU. (Which my dad translated as "Situation nomral: all... uh... uh... fouled up.")



I'd seen IANAL but I hadn't parsed/guessed it... that's a good one...

How about this: IANALBIPOOTV...?

[Oroz]

Thanks, this really helps, specially for people who's primary language isn't english, like me.

[3rdeyeKnight]

IME-In My Experience

This one had me scratching my temple a lot before I
found out what it meant.

[RichT]

Some of my younger clients taught me FTW - For The Win!

Yeh...

I'm still not totally sure what it means.

[threm]

Internet Acronym Server



S.E.X. Stash Enhancing Experience
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIESATDA All I Ever See Are These Darn Acronyms
AISI As I See It
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word Word From Our Sponsor
ASAP As Soon As Possible
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AYR As You Requested
AYRRRS Are you really Really REALLY Sure?
AYWWWS Are you weally Weally WEALLY Sure?
B4N Bye for Now
BAK Back At Keyboard
BCNU Be Seeing You
BFO Blinding Flash of Obvious
BITW Bears in the Woods, a group making the titled quilt from a book
BOB black on black but that could also be beige on beige
BOM Block of the Month
BRB Be Right Back
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTW By the way
CCF Crippled Computer Fingers
CU See you
CUL8R See you later
CMQ Commercially Machine Quilted
COC Cream on Cream Fabric print
CQ Crazy Quilt quilting pattern/technique
CW Cathedral Window pattern
CW Civil War fabrics
DH Dear Husband
DYHSBTD Don't You Have Something Better To Do?
DW Dear Wife
DJ Dear Jane a set of pieced blocks using Civil War fabrics
DWR Double Wedding Ring pattern
EQ Electric Quilt, a software program
EPP English Paper Piecing
EOM End Of Message
FISH First in, still here
FOAF Friend of A Friend
FOBL Fell outta bed laughing
FOCL Fell outta chair laughing
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
F8 fat eighth
FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
FFA Fabric Fondlers Anonymous
FIFI Find It, Finish It
FFUFO Finally finished unfinished object
FPP Foundation Paper Piecing
FQ Fat Quarter 1/4 yd of fabric, cut 18" X 22"
FS For Sale more appropriate in craft marketplace
Full Harriet a quilt that is completely machine quilted at home using free motion and other techniques taught by Harriet Hargrave author of "Heirloom Machine Quilting" and other books
FW Feather Weight model of Singer sewing machine
GFG Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern
GFOADSDNBITG Good Fabric Of Any Decent Size Does Not Belong In The Garbage
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMTA Great minds think alike
GR&D Grinning, Running, and Ducking
HIFOTFAIR Help! I've Fallen On The Floor And I'm Rolling!
HWMBO He Who Must Be Obeyed
HMQ Home Machine Quilted
HST Half Square Triangle
HSY Haven't Started Yet
IAE In Any Event
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IO Insignificant Other
IOW In Other Words
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
L8R Later
LAQ Long Arm Quilter
LQS Local Quilt Store/Shop
LTP Long Term Project
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LOLLOL Little Old Lady Laughing Out loud
LSHISOTS Laughing So Hard I Spit On The Screen
MOATYO Mind Of A 10-Year Old
ME Mary Englebreit
MFP Mini Foundation Pattern
MLB Major League Baseball a yearly fabric swap
MPP Machine Paper Piecing MQ Millennium Quilt
NGFITSSITSWW Never Gonna Finish It So Send It To Someone Who Will!
NQ/NQR NonQuilting / Not Quilting Related
NYC Not Yet Cut
NCATT NO Comment at This Time
NOTE Not Of This Earth
NPN Nine Patch News
NTTRN No Time To Reply Now
OIC Oh, I See
OTOH On The Other Hand
PIGS Projects in Grocery Sacks
PP Paper Piecing
QI Quilt Inspector
QIAD Quilt In A Day TV show and technique by Eleanor Burns
QIP Quilt In Progress
QNM Quilters' Newsletter Magazine by Lehman Publishing
QP Quilt Police
RCTQ Recreational Crafts Textiles and Quilting
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFFNPR Rolling On the Floor For No Particular Reason
RR Round Robin block exchange
RSN Real Soon Now
SA Seam Allowance
SABLE Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy
SESSYHBYNKWYNI Save Every Small Scrap You Have Because You Never Know When You'll Need It
SEX Stash Enhancement eXperience
SIS Sister In Sewing SIS Suckered Into Sewing
SITD Stitch In The Ditch
SM Sewing Machine
SnW Stack 'N Whack
SO Significant Other
SQEX Square Exchange
SSBOF Single Small Bit Of Fabric also called a charm
SSS Secret Sewing Sister
STABLE Stash Totally Above and Beyond Life Expectancy
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
TAFN Thats All For Now
2F4W Too Funny For Words
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
TIA Thanks In Advance
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TANQP There Are Ain't No Quilt Police
TOL Top Of The Line
TOT Tone on Tone
TQS Tricky Quilting Stuff
TTART Toss Today And Regret Tomorrow
UFO UnFinished Object
UFO UnFulfilled Opportunity
USO UnStarted Object
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYS Watch Your Step
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WHIMM Works Hidden In My Mind
WIHTDTY What I Hope To Do This Year
WIP Work In Progress
WOF Width Of Fabric
WOMBAT Waste of Money, Brains, and Time/Talent
WOW White On White
WS Wrong Side of fabric
WTB Want To Buy more appropriate in craft marketplace
YDD Yabba Dabba Do
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
'Net Abbreviations


AKA Also Known As
BBL Be Back Later
BBIAF Be Back in a Few
BCNU Be Seeing You
BFN Bye For Now
BTSOOM Beats The S*** out of Me
BTW By The Way
CR*P Cooking Related Propaganda
CRS Can't Remember Sh*t
CUL8R See You Later
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
GR&D Grinning, Running and Ducking
HTH Hope This (That) Helps
IAE In Any Event
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
L8R Later
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LTNS Long Time No See
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MOTD Message of The Day
NRN No Reply Necessary
NBIF No Basis In Fact
OIC Oh, I See
OTOH On The Other Hand
PI Politically Incorrect
POV Point of View
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMS Post/Pre Martha Stewart
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
SITD Still In The Dark
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TMTT Too Much To Type
TYVM Thank You Very Much
unPC Un-Politically Correct
VBG Very Big Grin
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WB Welcome Back
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WTG Way To Go
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YAQ Yet Another Question
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
^5 High Five
'Net Abbreviations



In a couple of years we'll all post like this

" AWGTHTGTTA !! Are all of you SITD??
This thread is really a WOMBAT.

My POV makes me ROFFNPR and is not a WAG as you may think.
Sorry but I have NTBBIAFTRN.


IAE but I'll BBIAF days."

[robd]

I've always found that when I don't know what one means, googling it gets the answer really quick.

[H-Rezz]

Originally Posted by robd

I've always found that when I don't know what one means, googling it gets the answer really quick.

Precisely why i thought i would post a list , nobody likes to say they don't know a certain a abbreviation , people like to think of themselves as net savy ! Maybe Jules can make a sticky out of the abbreviations and instead of googling people can just have a quick look at the sticky

[midnightsun]

SWAG = Scientific Wild Ass Guess
PPP = Piss Poor Protoplasm

[midnightsun]

SOL = S**t Out of Luck

[Matt Hepworth]

Three here:

BOHICA - Bend Over Here It Comes Again

YAFWI (pronounced Yah-fwee) - You Already F'd With It
We invented that one at my day job.

S'sA - Sucks @ss

There are also some really sweet vulgar ones, but I won't post them because I don't like to talk like that anymore

[FFTT]

It took a while in the early days to understand ROTFLMAO

ICHS I can't hear Sh*t
ICTFS I can't type fer Sh*t
WMD War Machine Dollars
SO Significant Other
BF Boy Friend
GF Girl Friend
MOM My Old Man
MOL My Old Lady
ILYVVM I Love You Very Very Much
TB Thanks Bunches
SSDD Same Sh*t Different Day
ADAD Another Day Another Dollar (or Dilemma)

[Jackie Treehorn]

WPSIBFTM = What pre should I buy for this microphone?

[Harvey Gerst]

You all forgot the ever popular "WTF?".

[moley]

Originally Posted by threm

GFOADSDNBITG Good Fabric Of Any Decent Size Does Not Belong In The Garbage

WTF..???

: )

[R3k]

WTF FTW

[Jules]

RTFM - read the f***ing Manual
GAS - Gear acquisition syndrome

[Zwinter]

Originally Posted by theblue1

FUBAR?

FUBAR is a WWII expression, parallel to SNAFU. (Which my dad translated as "Situation nomral: all... uh... uh... fouled up.")



I'd seen IANAL but I hadn't parsed/guessed it... that's a good one...

How about this: IANALBIPOOTV...?

Wow, I haven't heard the term FUBAR since my college years. I used to throw a party called FUBAR: F&*ked Up Beyond All Recognition. Ah...good times, which are probably not web safe. Let's just say that women would often leave with less on than they showed up with. So I have to admit that I it brought up a lot of old memories.

[Dave Peck]

My personal favorite :

TLA

(three-letter acronym).

DP

[Chrisc_o]

Originally Posted by theblue1

How about this: IANALBIPOOTV...?

I am not a lawyer but I play one on television?

What do I win?!?