LongArm/Internet Abbreviations

Updated August 01, 2004

Are you a new to the internet or a new subscriber quilting or other nets/lists?   Are you, like I was, wondering what the heck all the abbreviations stood for in the messages?  After receiving several messages containing some of these I finally asked for help.  Mary Ellen Cordes (The Quilters Quilter) graciously provided the start of this list for my enlightenment.  Later, Peter Olson (Treasured Threads) posted a bunch to the Digest and those were added.  Others have been added as I find them.  If you know of others and would like to share so we can all understand and appreciate, please email the information and I'll add it to the list.

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Abbreviation Meaning(s)
0 0T Zero Tolerance
10T1 Ten To One
1 1O1 One On One
2 2F4W Too Funny For Words
3 -
4 4YI For Your Information
5 5G10 Five'll Get you Ten
6 6O1HDOA Six Of One, Half Dozen Of Another
7 -
8 8ML Ate My Lunch
9 9TOO10 9 Times Out Of 10
A AAADD Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
AAMDD Age Activated Memory Deficit Disorder
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIESATDA All I Ever See Are These Darn Acronyms
AISI As I See It
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASAFP As Soon As F***ing Possible
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again?
AYNLIDETMMFUTB Are you nuts lady? I don't even thread my machine for under twenty bucks.
AYR As You Requested
AYRRRS Are You Really Really Really Sure?
AYWWWS Are You Weally Weally Weally Sure?
B B4N Bye for Now
BAG Big A*s Grin
BAK Back At Keyboard
BAS Big A*s Smile
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BBS Be Back Soon
BCNU Be Seeing You
BEG Big Evil Grin
BF Boyfriend / Brain Fart (idea)
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFG Big F***ing Grin
BG Big Grin
BIBO Bourbon In, Bourbon Out -- Beer In, Beer Out
BIL Brother-In-Law
BOT Back On Topic
BNF Big Name Fan
BRB Be Right Back
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTDT Been There, Done That
BTW By The Way
BWL Busting With Laughter
BYH Bless Your Heart
C C&G Chuckle and Grin
CBF Continuous Bain Farts (ideas)
CC Continuous Curve (quilting)
CCF Crippled Computer Fingers
CICO Coke In, Coke Out / Coffee In, Coffee Out
CLD Continuous Line Designs
CM Cookie Monster
CRS Can't Remember S**t
CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin
CU See You
CUL, CUL8R Catch You Later / See you Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
D DD Dear Daughter
DF Dear Father
DH Dear Husband, Dumb Husband
DIC Double Irish Chain
DILLIGAF Do I Look Like I Give A F**k
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A S**t
DM Dear Mother
DYHSBTD Don't You Have Something Better To Do?
DIL Daughter-In-Law
DOM Dirty Old Man
DS Dear Son
DW Dear Wife
DWR Double Wedding Ring
E E2EG Ear-To-Ear Grin
EG Evil Grin
EOM End Of Message
F FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
FIGJAM F*** I'm Great, Just Ask Me
FIL Father-In-Law
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank(s)
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOBL Fell Outta Bed Laughing
FOCL Fell Outta Chair Laughing
FOMA Flat On My A*s -- Fell On My A*s
FOMAL Fell On My A*s Laughing
FOYA Flat On Your A*s
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
G <G> Grin
GAL Get A Life
GF Girlfriend
GFG Grandmother's Flower Garden
GIWIST Gee I Wish I Said That
GL Good Luck
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GR&D Grinning, Running, and Ducking
H HHOK Ha Ha Only Kidding
HHO 1/2 K Ha Ha Only Half Kidding
HIFOTFAIR Help! I've Fallen On The Floor And I'm Rolling!
HSY Haven't Started Yet
HTH Hope This/That Helps
HUA Heads Up A**es
HUYA Head Up Your A**
HWMBO He Who Must Be Obeyed
I IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IANALBPOOT I Am Not A Lawyer, But Play One On TV
IC Irish Chain
IHBTTD I Have Better Things To Do
IHBTTDWMT I Have Better Things To Do With My Time
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOL In My Other Life
IMSBO In My Strongly Biased Opinion
INPO In No Particular Order
IO Insignificant Other
IOW In Other Words
IOWTMI I'm Overloaded With Too Much Information
IRL In Real Life
ISFIO I'm Suffering From Information Overload
ISFTMI I'm Suffering From Too Much Information
ISFTWUF I Suffer From Typing With Uncoordinated Fingers
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
J JMHO Just My Humble Opinion
JMO Just My Opinion
JTLYK Just To Let You Know
K KIT Keep In Touch
L L8R Later
LHO Laughing Head Off
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My A** Off
LMHO Laughing My Head Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LOLLOL Little Old Lady Laughing Out loud
LOTFLMAO Laying On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
LSHIPMP Laughing(ed) So Hard I Peed My Pants
LSHISCOTM Laughing So Hard I Snorted Coffee On The Monitor
LSHISPOTM Laughing So Hard I Snorted Pepsi On The Monitor
LSHISOTS Laughing So Hard I Spit On The Screen
LTIP Laughing Till I Puke
M MIL Mother-In-Law
MMBBE Mouth Moving Before Brain Engaged
MMOB Minding My Own Business / Mind Your Own Business
MOATYO Mind Of A Two Year Old
MTF More To Follow
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
N NADT Not A Darn Thing
NAYY No Affiliation, Yada, Yada.
NCATT No Comment At This Time
NFW No F***ing Way
NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer
NOTE Not Of This Earth
NPN Nine Patch News
NQR Not Quilting Related
NRN No Reply Necessary
NT Next Time
NTTRN No Time To Reply Now
O OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OATUS On An Totally Unrelated Subject
OBF Ongoing Bain Farts (ideas)
OE Operator Error
OIC Oh, I See
OL Old Lady
OM Old Man
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
P PIGS Project In a Grocery Sack
PIP Peeing In my Pants
PITA Pain In The A**
PMP Peed My Pants
POU Poo On You
POV Point Of View
PPP Practice, Practice, Practice / Petty Pet Peeve
Q QR Quilting Related
R RL Real Life
ROTFAPMP Rolling On The Floor And Peeing My Pants
ROFFNPR Rolling On the Floor For No Particular Reason
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROTFLASTC Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat
ROTFLGO Rolling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out
ROTFLOL Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
ROTFLMAOAPMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off And Peeing My Pants
RSN Real Soon Now
RTDM Read The D*mn Manual
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
RTM Read The Manual
RTGDM Read The G*d D*mn Manual
S SCOMM Snorted Coffee On My Monitor
SPOMM Snorted Pepsi On My Monitor
SETE Smiling Ear To Ear
SEX Stash Enhancing eXperience
SFTMI Suffering From Too Much Information
SFTWUF Suffering From Typing With Uncoordinated Fingers
SH S**t Happens
SICS Sitting In Chair Snickering
SID Stitch In Ditch (quilting)
SIL Sister-In-Law, Son-In-Law
SISO Scotch In, Scotch Out
SIWTSDS Stick It Where The Sun Doesn't Shine
SMPOK Snorted My Pepsi On Keyboard
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SO Significant Other
SOI Stunk On Ice
SOT Short On Time
SOTGA Short On Time, Gotta Go
SOTMG Short On Time, Must Go
SPOK Snorting Pepsi On Keyboard
SU See You
SUL, SUL8R See You Later
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SWAG Scientific, Wild A** Guess
SYS See You Soon
SYT Sweet Young Thing
T TA Thanks Again
TAFN That's All For Now
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TCOYS Take Care Of Your Self
TEOFWAWKI The End of the World As We Know It
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Triple Irish Chain
TILII Tell It Like It Is -- Telling It Like It Is
TINWIS That Is Not What I Said
TMI Too Much Information
TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It
TNT Till Next Time
TNWIS That's Not What I Said
TOY Thinking Of You
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL, TTUL Talk To You Later
TTYRS Talk To You Real Soon
TTYS Talk To You Soon
U UFO Unfulfilled Opportunity, Unfulfilled Object
UNT Until Next Time
V VBG Very Big Grin
VVBG Very, Very Big Grin
W WAG Wile A** Guess
WB Welcome Back
WDYMBT What Do You Mean By That?
WGAS Who Gives A S**t
WHIMM Work Hidden In My Mind
WIP Work In Progress
WIWO Water In, Water Out / Whiskey In, Whiskey Out
WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out With Soap
WMTA Warped Minds Think Alike
WTG Way To Go!
WTH What The Heck -- Who The Heck
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYLABOCTGWTR Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go With That Remark?
WYLASOMWTC Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With That Comment?
WYS Watch Your Step
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYWH Wish You Were Here
X -
Y YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Message
YBS You'll Be Sorry
YDD Yabba Dabba Do
YG Young Gentleman
YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For
YL Young Lady
YM Young Man
Z ZT Zero Tolerance