BYOSOH

[wenwilder]

Back in the good 'ole days of a few hours ago, I was conversing with a family member, one that I actually claim, and she made a comment about how many men use acronyms in this forum.

(Okay, honestly we were discussing the "Wayback" thread and she got a laugh out of mikmik, wclew, etc. using all the acronyms.) So......she wondered just how many acronyms, with definitions, WPWer's could come up without using well known or popular ones. For example: LOL = Laugh Out Loud. Everyone knows that one so it wouldn't count.

Do you dare meet her ChallAnge? ;)


P.S. BYOSOH = Bring Your Own Sense Of Humor :)

[wenwilder]

Oh! One last thing, as always, keep it PPFF! (Polite, profanity free and fun!) Boy almost messed up the whole challAnge. ;)

[Czar]

Here ya go wen lol.

AFCPS Any Fool Can Plainly See
AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle
AMIGA A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word Word From Our Web Sponsor
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different
APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again?
AYCOOYM Are You Completely Out Of Your Mind
BAF Brain Already Fried
BAIC Boy Am I Confused
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
BGUTI Better Get Used To It
BTDTGTS Been There Done That Got the T-Shirt
BUGS Bloody User Generated Symptoms
BYORL Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher
CD-ROM Consumer Device Rendered Obsolete in Months
CUA Common User Access or Commonly Used Acronyms

Ok enough for now so I don't get banned for flooding lol

Czar

[mikmik]

Here is one that I just made up;
LMNOP = Leave My Name Out Please, something I would never really eversay 3B
(And I really like your sister, BTW lol)

AYCSIAVL
= As You Can See I Am Very Lovable/Lonely/Loonie/Lucky

BDFTrSI = But Don't Forget That ronniethedodger Started It

IDWTMC = I Drink Way To Much Coffee

ABCIMA = And By Coffee I Mean Ale

LOL xoxo :o*

(IWPMBTCYT? = It's Way Past My Bed Time Can You Tell Questionmark?)

[minstrel]

(And I really like your sister, BTW lol)
Shouldn't that read: AIRLYSBTWLOL?

[mikmik]

minstrel noted:
Shouldn't that read: AIRLYSBTWLOL? ISC...A
I Stand Corrected...Again
(end communication)
:o)

[Leisa]

TEBWRTW ...he who translates will gain great insight into the goals of the most powerful group around.

[minstrel]

UOSBAAHNP - uh-oh, she's back and already hatching new plots...

PADCTIWSITBR - posted after double-checking that I was still in The Break Room

[rocky1]

TEBWRTW ...he who translates will gain great insight into the goals of the most powerful group around.

T....? E....? Blonde Women Rule The World!

[minstrel]

Close, Rocky:

"The Estrogen Berets Will Rule The World"

Either that, or Leisa's using one of those Dvorak keyboards and meant to type

HWTWGGIITGOTMPGA = "he who translates will gain great insight into the goals of the most powerful group around"

[rocky1]

WWTDILWAO!


-->Well When They Do I'm Leaving Wide Ass Open!<--

[Leisa]

Close, Rocky:

"The Estrogen Berets Will Rule The World"

Either that, or Leisa's using one of those Dvorak keyboards and meant to type

HWTWGGIITGOTMPGA = "he who translates will gain great insight into the goals of the most powerful group around"

IKTMTTTSTWBM I knew the major threat to that secret transmission would be minstrel.

MWDITSFHOG - Minstrel Woo Doggie is too smart for his own good.

[ldyguique]

EQTGLGPDLBDGMPA
elle qui traduit gagnera la grande perspicacité dans les buts du groupe moins puissant autour

[minstrel]

ISTWJAAUFTMHIASDETTSLFATGLAS

I suspect that we've just added an update for the "Most hits in a single day" entry to the site logs for AltaVista Translate, Google Languages, and Systran.

[mikmik]

Idy, Idy, Idyguique (sigh) wrote, in part
la grande perspicacité dans les buts

I only got to the 'big perspirations in/on the bum'

and I fell into a profoundly perspicatationally void stupor. and then I wept ... o -uh wiped

[ldyguique]

he who translates missed

[mikmik]

If he who aims, aims not to hit but to miss, does he who then misses, hit?

[ldyguique]

I reckon . . .iffn he's aimin' to miss -- but an ENTIRE side of the barn?? Seems a mite big miss.

[mikmik]

Idyguique keeps up with the relentless taunting of the adversary
I reckon . . .iffn he's aimin' to miss -- but an ENTIRE side of the barn?? Seems a mite big miss.
Yes, it was a tough shot, I do have my perspicasity to demonstrate, but never underestimate the opponent, no matter how trivial their appearance or obvious their facade!

Am I close yet?

[mikmik]

m w
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I suspect that we've just added an update for the "Most hits in a single day" entry to the site logs for AltaVista Translate, Google Languages, and Systran.

mikmik = 15 alone

[wenwilder]

(IWPMBTCYT? = It's Way Past My Bed Time Can You Tell Questionmark?)

Mind if I use that one at the end of my emails? It's great! :)

[esiegel]

I once worked on a production of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" that was a last minute substitute for another show....All of the scenery was over sized building blocks...you know the ones...with the letters on each side.

Snoopy's dog house was a stack of blocks that spelled out WAFWOT.

If only the producer knew it meant..What A 'Friggin' Waste Of Time.

[mikmik]

wenwen wrote:
Mind if I use that one at the end of my emails? It's great! :)
You might as well, it is only fair seeing I use :
Critical Thinking
http://www.thinkingcritically.net
on mine :o)

[wenwilder]

ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC is the longest acronym in the 1965 edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command [Dickson]. Another acronym, PUMCODOXPURSACOMLOPAR, stands for "pulse-modulated coherent Doppler-effect X-band pulse-repetition synthetic-array pulse compression lobe planar array" (from Willard Espy). COMSUBCOMNELMCOMHEDSUPPACT (26 letters) stands for Commander, Subordinate Command, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, Commander Headquarters Support Activities [Charles Turner].

However, the world's longest acronym according to the Guinness Book of Words is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHST ROMONT (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic). Found in the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, it means: The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR [Stuart Kidd].

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th ed.) PAKISTAN is an acronym for the five Northern units of India - Punjab, North-West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan, and was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali (1895-1951). However, according to the World Book Encyclopedia (1976), Pakistan means "land of the pure" in Urdu [Charles Turner].

[sonnie]

All this and no one has mentioned FUBAR?

[ronniethedodger]

All this and no one has mentioned FUBAR?

or DILLIGAS. ;0)

I know a good one for CAMEL forwards and backwards again, but like DILLIGAS it is not suitable for print here.

[minstrel]

When one is FUBAR, one doesn't actually have to mention it...

[paulhiles]

IUD = Insert Usual Disclaimers

IBM = Inadequate But Marketable

IITYWTMWYBMAD = If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?

BGTJWIBM = Bang Goes That Job With IBM

ILSHIBAMF = I Laughed so Hard I Broke All my Furniture

:o)