BS: Fav Abbrv's

Subject: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 10:52 AM

Abbrv's abound. I got--and still use-- a number of them when I used to be a telephone-answering-service operator. That era and that part of strokebrain must be coming back online, because I see them spontaneously creeping into my posts and emails. Along with a number of other abbrv's I used as a proofreader. I keep having to go back and write them out in the posts, but lately I just don't have as much time to do that.

I also see a lot of abbrv's in "today's" emails, which I have learned come from txt-msg-savvy yoot posting from their SmartyPants phones. :~) I thought they just couldn't spell, or properly use Caps/lc. They just ain't at a puder, duh!

So I wondered, what abbrv's do YOU often use, and where didja get 'em?

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PWO = Pants-Wetting Opportunity

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Your turn!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:05 AM

You may or may not like this.

I was reliably informed that when the UK Polytechnics were promoted to new Universities in 1992 (thus telling us what we already knew - that we were 2nd best !_) the former Newcastle Poly intended calling itself the Collegiate University of Newcastle on Tyne.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:12 AM

[snerkLOL]

I DO like it! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:45 AM

Fav abbrv? Ne.thg usbl 2 sv spc n txt msgg! LoL.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:57 AM

RTFM r u r FUBAR.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:59 AM

Snafu, Snshn.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 12:05 PM

FA and I mean it...

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:17 PM

Fav Abbrv- Sanskrit?

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:24 PM

Yeh guys, how abt a transl?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Amos
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:32 PM

IF u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd job. If u wrt lik ths u r a frst clss moron.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:36 PM

Yeh, Amos, we've HAD a lotta THOSE threads. This is a NEW game.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Amos
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:44 PM

Oh, doody. I wuv games...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:49 PM

BTW is probably the one I use most.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:53 PM

IMHO, I try to KISS, but it often sounds like GIGO.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 02:18 PM

...and I am so tired of news programs thinking they MUST name an abbrv for every phrase that describes something..

"Joe & Sam are scouring the country, looking for the best barbecue recipe...or BBR."

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:20 PM

In the UK, many cathedral organists are Fellows of the Royal College of Organists.

Amongst the cinema organ fraternity, the common meaning of FRCO is -

F***ing Rotten Cinema Organist

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:27 PM

artbrooks, I too I try to KISS, but it I suspect it often sounds like GIGO.... and what is GIGO? Pls BRB to tell me! :~)

[various wordpictures of actions] are also finding their way into my 'graphs of late. I must be dancing on the inside.

Welcome to the game, BG. BTW I recall once you used BBW, and it totally confused me, as it has multiple "standard" meanings. I think you do use that one a lot.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:36 PM

GIGO... garbage in, garbage out.... computer programming stuff, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:38 PM

RFN... right f***ing now.

I coined AYEC. At your earliest convenience. ASAP sounded too rude to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Genie
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:48 PM

The SF Bay Area Rapid Transit has been such a smashing success that other California regions like the Fairfield and Fresno areas are considering getting their own.
Trouble is, their acronyms wouldn't sound as cool as "BART."

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Genie
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:50 PM

People who think taxes stink would probably consider my state's revenue department aptly named:
Oregon Department Of Revenue

(Of course, that gets acronym-ized just as the IRS does.)

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:50 PM

OMG !

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM

FRAT wouldn't be cool?

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:58 PM

FRAT as in Freakin' Rapid Aresholes Truckin'?

I don;t think I GIGO (I do recall that one now), but I am not sure... Oh yeah-- I WYSIWYG.... but I forgot to work in the part about teleporting, so sum peeps don't allus kow I'se moving purdy fast and snapshots will be blurry.

Then there's knicknames. Abbrvs for whole perigraphs yew poke up outta the fog: Like "somebuddy" and "anybuddy" and "nobiddy."

Somedamnwhar.

SomedamTIME.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:20 AM

FTLOT = Fuck the lot of them

FTLOY + Fuck the lot of you

JFDI + Just Fucking Do It

OO + OOO by George Bernard Shaw. (Man and Superman).

(I'll get me Barbour . . . )

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:33 AM

DILLIGAF is one of my faves -

I also like a lovely acronym coined by the IT department. When attending a poorly computer on call-out, they would sometimes phone back to the office to say that the job had been cleared. In answer to the question "What was wrong with it?" they'd sometimes say "Not much...It was a PICNIC" = Problem in Chair Not In Computer....
D

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:15 AM

DILLIGAF = Does It Look Like I Give A F*ck

Bryn, pls do not get your Barbour, stick around! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 09:10 AM

rfrsh

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 09:55 AM

WTF?

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:30 AM

I am reminded of Up The Down Staricase where the administrative assistant was Adm Ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:35 AM

NORWICH

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:27 PM

Acronym, Definition. NORWICH, Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home. NORWICH, Name One Reason Why I Came Here.

Oddly, both apply!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Slag
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:39 PM

NPR, no possible redo

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:45 PM

Missed Rap's:

fubar - fouled up beyond all recognition
fubb - fouled up beyond belief ......
rtfm - read the fouled manual
rtfmfm - read the fouled manual fouled moron

...fouled = that other F word

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 01:00 AM

WTF and OMG certainly get the most use in my circle of texters. And YMMV (Your mileage may vary).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Slag
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 03:43 AM

I liked PICNIC!

Problem in chair not in computer

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: gnu
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 06:02 AM

~S~... FART = Frisco Area Rapid Transit

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 06:05 AM

Adding to QED ( Quod es Demonstrandum ?) - As is shown , I Like NAD - Near as Dammit !

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 06:29 AM

Do you remember Bliar banging on about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) and The War Against Terrorism, endlessly? The latter was quickly changed to The War On Terrorism when someone in the New's Quiz pointed out the initial abbreviation. There's probably a whole Whitehall department appointed to listen to that programme.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM

I liked one Pip came up with the other day when talking medical things with a nurse. Not really sure what they mean but a PID could be pelvic inflammatory disease or prolapse intervertabral disc. Guess abbrevs can be confusing.

She also tells me of a ward round when someone to the consultant said what he needs is an RTS (which to me in a former lift, I might have thought Return To Supplier). The consultant was unsure what an RTS was but was told it is a raised toilet seat.

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 10:56 AM

snerk! Hate to get the wrong RTS in a time of need!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 02:56 PM

fubar - fouled up beyond all recognition
fubb - fouled up beyond belief ......
rtfm - read the fouled manual
rtfmfm - read the fouled manual fouled moron

...fouled = that other F word
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
from Wysiwig yesterday. In defence of my 'legendary pedantry' as rubricated by a correspondent on another MessageBoards site I frequent], must point out that #3 should surely be "read the fouling manual"?

LoL ~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 05:35 PM

I wondered who would catch that. Cut and paste is so easy to use.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Fav Abbrv's
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 12:02 PM

Leadfingers, a little correction:

QED or q.e.d. is "quod erat demonstrandum", which translates as "Which was to be shown" (or proved or demonstrated).

Dave Oesterreich