Short Hand Comments

Hi bbuzz
Google is always a good source
LOL = Laughing out loud
SWMBO = she who must be obeyed
ROTFLOL = rolling on the floor laughing out loud
etc... not sure where to find a list sorry
Cheers
Crazie

Here you go!

Internet Lingo

/scrubba

bbuzz
G"day mate.

LOL....................laugh out loud
SWMBO..............She who must be obeyed
IMHO..................in my honest opinion

Regards
japmel

There is ,,, or at least was a list on this very site a few months ago!! Probably still here somewhere.

Thanks. Great start. Lots of clever and funny people out there are using some that aren't listed though.

bbuzz,

I found this on post 8380. Search that post and it presents better than my copying.

FUN ACRONYMS TECHNICAL ACRONYMS



EMAIL / CHAT ACRONYMS
ACRONYM MEANING

ADN Any Day Now
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From the Keyboard
ASAFP As Soon As Friggin Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Stuff Again
B4N Bye For Now
BBL Be Back Later
BBS Bulletin-Board System
BFD Big Friggin Deal
BG Big Grin
BRB Be Right Back
BT Byte This!
BTA But Then Again...
BTW By the Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
CMF Count My Fingers!
CUL See You Later
DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
DH Darned/Dear Husband
DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Darn
DQYDJ Don't Quit Your Day Job
DQMOT Don't Quote Me On This
EG Evil Grin
EMFBI Excuse me for butting in
EOM End of message
EOT End Of Thread
F2F Face to Face
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FF Filter Factory (Plugins)
FISH First in, Still Here
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTP File Transfer Protocol (Used to post files on the Web)
FU Fouled Up
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
FUBB Fouled Up Beyond Belief
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
FYM For Your Misinformation
G Grin
GDR Grinning, Ducking & Running
GIWIST Gee, I wish I'd said that
GMTA Great minds think alike
GOL Giggling out loud
GTRM Going to read mail
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HIOOC Help! I'm Out Of Coffee!
HTH Hope That Helps
HTH Happy to Help
IAE In any event
IANAL I am not a lawyer
IC I See
ICQ "I Seek You" Program that allows paging, chats and PC-to-PC calls
IIRC If I Recall/Remember/Recollect Correctly
IFABCTE I Found A Bug, Call The Exterminator
IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink
IIWM If It Was Me
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture
ILSHIBMS I Laughed So Hard I Broke My Stitches
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMTITNPW I mean that in the nicest possible way
IOW In Other Words
IRC Internet Relay Chat ~ IRC Tutorial
IRL In Real Life
ISP Internet Service Provider
JIC Just in case
JK Just kidding
JOOTT Just One Of Those Things
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KOTC Kiss on the cheek
KWIM? Know what I mean?
L8R Later
LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again
LMAO Laughing My Arse Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
NBFD No Big Friggin Deal
NFM No Further Message
NFW No Way
NM No Message
NN Netscape Navigator
NRN No Reply/Response Necessary
NS Netscape
NYCFS New York City Finger Salute
OIC Oh, I See
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No Not This Again
OT Off Topic
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTOOH On The Other Other Hand
OTSH On The Same Hand
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
PEBCAK Problem exists between chair and keyboard
PIBKAC Problem is between keyboard and chair
PITA Pain In The Arse
PMF Pull My Finger
::POOF:: Goodbye (leaving the room)
PS PhotoShop
PSP Paint Shop Pro
PSPIZ Paint Shop Pro Interactive Zone
RL Real Life
ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RSN Real Soon Now (which may be a long time coming)
RTFM Read The *#@%$*(Fine) Manual
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random-access Memory
SH Stuff Happens
SITD Still in the Dark
SOI Sit On It
STW Search The Web
SWAG Stupid Wild-A** Guess
TAFL Take A Flying Leap
TAFN That's All For Now
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three Letter Acronym (such as this)
TM Trust Me
TMI Too Much Information
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
TTFN Ta-Ta For Now
TTT Thought That, Too
TTT That's The Ticket
TTYL Talk To Ya Later
TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit
TU Thank you
UW You're Welcome
URL Universal Resource Locator (Web site address)
VBG Very Big Grin
VD Villate Drunk
VEBG Very Evil Big Grin
VI Village Idiot
WB Welcome Back
WDALYIC Who died and left you in charge?
WDIPME Where Did I Put My Excedrin
WFM Works for me
WIBNI Wouldn't it be nice if
WRT With Respect To
WT? What/who the ?
WTG Way To Go!
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIUWYW What You See Isn't Usually What You Want
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YGBFK You Gotta Be Friggin Kiddin'
YMMV Your mileage may vary.


TECHNICAL ACRONYMS
ACRONYM MEANING

ACK Acknowledgement Code
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
BBS Bulletin Board Software
CGI Common Gateway Interface
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
DES Data Encryption Standard
DNS Domain Name Service
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNU GNU is Not Unix (recursive)
GUI Graphical Users Interface
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
IRC Internet Relay Chat
ISP Internet Service Provider
IO Input Output; as in "file IO".
LAN Local Area Network
NTP Network Time Protocol
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
MDA Mail Delivery Agent
MIME Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MOSFET Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor
OSF Open Software Foundation
PERL Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language
PHP Personal Home Page Tools; an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PING Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper
PNG Portable Network Graphics
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RFC Request For Comments
RTF Rich Text Format
TCP/IP Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIA The Internet Adaptor
TTY Tele-TYpe
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SWISH Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
WAN Wide Area Networks
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WWW or 3W World Wide Web
URL Uniform Resource Locator
WAREZ A site illegally offering retail programs and their serial numbers for free. Also used for the program/serial number being offered.

Hit the abbrevations button at the buttom of this thread - it is on each and every thread.

It pays to ask questions!! TALG - Thanks a lot guys.

How about these

2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be
411 it means: info
4ever Forever
86 Out Of or Over
A/S/L Age/Sex/Location
AAMOF As a matter of fact
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICT As far as I can tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle
AISI As I See It
AKA or a.k.a. Also Known As
AMBW All My Best Wishes
AND Any day now
ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word Word From Our Web Sponsor
AOAS All Of A Sudden
AOB Abuse Of Bandwidth
AP Apple Pie
ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATST At The Same Time
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Sh** Again
AYK As you know
AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something
AYTMTB And You're Telling Me This Because?
B4 Before
B4N Bye For Now
B4YKI Before you know it
BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BCBS Big Company, Big School
BCNU Be Seein' You
BDC Big Dumb Company or Big Dot Com
BDN Big Damn Number
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
BIF Basis In Fact or Before I Forget
BITD Back In The Day
BM Byte Me
BMOTA Byte Me On The Ass
BNF Big Name Fan
BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BR Bathroom
BRB Be Right Back
BRT Be Right There
BS Big Smile
BT Byte This
BTA But Then Again or Before The Attacks
BTDT Been There Done That
BTSOOM Beats The Sh** Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BWDIK But What Do I Know?
BWO Black, White or Other
C/P Cross Post
CIAO Goodbye (in Italian)
CID Consider It Done
CIS CompuServe Information Service
CMF Count My Fingers
COB Close Of Business
CofS Church of Scientology
CRAFT Can't Remember a F***ing Thing
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAWS Can't Remember Anything Worth A Sh**
CSL Can't Stop Laughing
CTC Choking The Chicken
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later
DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
DD Due Diligence
DDD Direct Distance Dial
DETI Don't Even Think It
DGA Don't Go Anywhere
DGT Don't Go There
DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**
DKDC Don't Know Don't Care
DLTM Don't Lie To Me
DQYDJ Don't Quit Your Day Job
DRIB Don't Read If Busy
DWYM Does What You Mean
DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing
EG Evil Grin
EOD End Of Day
EOM End Of Message
ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator
EULA End-User License Agreement
EWI E-mailing While Intoxicated
F2F
FAB Features Attributes Benefits
FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat
FE Fatal Error
FF&PN Fresh Fields and Pastures New
FO F*** Off
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FRED F*#king Ridiculous Electronic Device
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster Than Light
FTTB For The Time Being
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FUBB F***ed Up Beyond Belief
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
FYIFV F*#k You I'm Fully Vested
FYM For Your Misinformation
GAL Get A Life
GG Good Game (or) Gotta Go
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GL Good Luck
GLYASDI God Loves You And So Do I
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GMTFT Great Minds Think For Themselves
GNBLFY Got Nothing But Love For You
GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking
GR8 Great
GRRRR it means Growling
GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
GTG Got To Go
GTGB Got To Go, Bye
GTGP Got To Go Pee
GTH Go To Hell
GTSY Glad To See Ya
GYPO Get Your Pants Off
HAGO Have A Good One
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HB Hurry Back
HD Hold
HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HIOOC Help! I'm Out of Coffee
HOHA HOllywood HAcker
HTH Hope This (or That) Helps
HUA Heads Up Ace
HUYA Head Up Your A**
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IAITS It's All In The Subject
IANAC I Am Not A Crook
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBT In Between Technology
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC In Character
ID10T Idiot
IDGAF I Don't Give A F***
IDGI I Don't Get It
IDK I Don't Know
IDKY I Don't Know You
IDST I Didn't Say That
IDTS I Don't Think So
IEF It's Esther's Fault
IFAB I Found A Bug
IFU I F***ed Up
IGGP I Gotta Go Pee
IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside
IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me
ILICISCOMK I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke On My Keyboard
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Messaging
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INMP It's Not My Problem
INPO In No Particular Order
IOH I'm Outta Here
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I Said So
ITM In The Money
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYO In Your Opinion
IYSS If You Say So
J/C Just Checking
J/K Just Kidding!
J/W Just Wondering
JAFO Just Another F***ing Onlooker
JOOTT Just One Of Those Things
KFY Kiss For You
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMRIA Kiss My Royal Irish Arse
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYPO Keep Your Pants On
L8R Later
LAQ Lame Ass Quote
LD Long Distance
LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again
LIFO Last In First Out
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Luck (or Love)
LOPSOD Long On Promises, Short On Delivery
LRF Little Rubber Feet
LTIC Laughing 'Til I Cry
LTNS Long Time No See
LYL Love Ya Lots
LYLAS Love You Like A Sister
M8 or M8s Mate or Mates
MFD Multi-Function Device
MfG Mit freundlichen Gruessen
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MM Market Maker
MOO Mud, Object-Oriented
MorF Male or Female?
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
N/A Not Applicable -or- Not Affiliated
N/T No Text
NAK Nursing At Keyboard
NAZ Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
NBD No Big Deal
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NCG New College Graduate
NFI No F***ing Idea
NFW No F***ing Way
NG New Game
NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
NIM No Internal Message
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NIMQ Not In My Queue
NM Never Mind
NMP Not My Problem
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NQOCD Not Quite Our Class Dear
NRG Energy
NRN No Reply Necessary
NYCFS New York City Finger Saluet
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OBTW Oh By The Way
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OIC Oh, I see
OMDB Over My Dead Body
OMG Oh My Gosh
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
OOC Out Of Character
OOF Out Of Facility
OOO Out Of Office
OOTB Out Of The Box -or- Out Of The Blue
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OS Operating System
OT Off Topic
OTOH On the Other Hand
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ stands for: Australia
PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff
PDOMA Pulled Directly Out Of My Ass
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLS Please
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PO bleep Off
PONA Person Of No Account
POV Point of View
R&D Research & Development
R&R Rest & Relaxation
RAT Remote(ly) Activated Trojan
RBTL Read Between The Lines
RFR Really F*#king Rich
RFS Really F*#king Soon
RKBA Right to Keep and Bear Arms
RL Real Life
RLF Real Life Friend
RMLB Read My Lips Baby
RMMM Read My Mail Man!
RN Right Now!
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTM Right On The Money
RSN Real Soon Now
RTBS Reason To Be Single
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
RTK Return To Keyboard
RTM or RTFM Read The Manual - or - Read The F*#king Manual
RU Are You?
RYO Roll Your Own
S2R Send To Receive
S4L Spam For Life
SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
SF Surfer Friendly
SH Sh** Happens
SITCOMs Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage
SITD Still In The Dark
SLIRK Smart Little Rich Kid
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SNAG Sensitive New Age Guy
SNERT Snotty Nosed Egotistical Rotten Teenager
SO Significant Other
SOL Sh** Out of Luck
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SorG Straight or Gay?
SRO Standing Room Only
SSDD Same Sh** Different Day
STFU Shut The F*** Up
STM Spank The Monkey
STYS Speak To You Soon
SUYF Shut Up You Fool
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAK Sent (or Sealed) With A Kiss
SWDYT So What Do You Think?
TAH Take A Hike
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really F***ed Up
TBA To Be Advised
TBC To Be Continued
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
TFH Thread From Hell
TFN Thanks For Nothing -or- Til Further Notice
THX or TX or THKS Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAIL Think I Am In Love
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLGO The List Goes On
TM Trust Me
TMI Too Much Information
TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It
TNA Temporarily Not Available
TOM Tomorrow
TPC The Phone Company
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTS Text to Speech
TTT That's The Ticket -or- To The Top
TTYL Talk To You Later
TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit
TY Thank You
TYVM Thank You Very Much
unPC unPolitically Correct
URYY4M You Are Too Wise For Me
VC Venture Capital
VFM Value For Money
VM Voice Mail
VRBS Virtual Reality Bull Sh*t
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WAI What An Idiot
WAMBAM Web Application Meets Brick And Mortar
WB Welcome Back or Write Back
WCA Who Cares Anyway
WDYS What Did You Say?
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WG Wicked Grin
WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***
WIIFM What's In It For Me?
WIT Wordsmith In Training
WITFITS What in the F*** is this Sh**
WOG Wise Old Guy
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WRT With Regard To
WTB Want To Buy
WTF What The F***
WTG Way To Go!
WTSDS Where The Sun Don't Shine
WYP What's Your Problem?
WYRN What's Your Real Name?
WYS Whatever You Say
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYSLPG What You See Looks Pretty Good
WYT Whatever You Think
YA Yet Another
YA yaya Yet Another Ya-Ya (as in yo-yo)
YACC Yet Another Calendar Company
YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
YDKM You Don't Know Me
YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'
YIC Yours In Christ
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YNK You Never Know
YOYO You're On Your Own
YR Yeah Right
YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
YTTT You Telling The Truth?
YYSSW Yeah Yeah Sure Sure Whatever

I had to ask!! What a collection. I'll contribute a post soon using only short hand! Might take a while to read 'em all. Ta

if you looked at the bottom of every post , you will see abbreviations lol