Acronyms

From: Jeffrey S. Sharp <jss_at_subatomix.com>
Date: Tue Oct 30 01:50:50 2001

Here's my stab at a few of yours:

> FA - For Auction
> FAE - For All Ears
> TMK - To My Knowledge

And my own (obvious) additions:

> AFK - Away From Keyboard
> BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death
> FPS - First-Person Shooter
> FYIFV - F*** You I'm Fully Vested
> FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Reason
> FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
> LOL - Laughing Out Loud
> N1 - Nice one (from FPSes)
> NS - Nice Shot (from FPSes)
> MOTD - Message Of The Day
> POD - Priest Of Discord (from Everquest)
> STFU - Shut The F*** Up
> TMTOWTDI - There's More Than One Way To Do It
> WYSIAYG - What You See Is All You Get

And stimulating my passive vocabulary with Jargon File 4.3.1:

> 1TBS - one True Brace Style
> BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell
> DED - Dark-Emitting Diode
> FOAF - Friend Of A Friend
> GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out
> HTH - Hope This Helps
> IWBNI - It Would Be Nice IF
> IYFEG - Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group
> LER - Light-Emitting Resistor
> MOTxS - Member Of The <Xxxxx> Sex
> OTOH - On The Other Hand
> PHB - Pointy-Haired Boss
> RSN - Real Soon Now
> SIG - Special Interest Group
> SO - Significant Other
> UCE - Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
> WIMP - Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device
> WIBNI - Wouldn't It Be Nice If
> YHBT - You Have Been Trolled
> YKYBHTLW - You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When

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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 01:50:50 GMT

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