ACRONYMS Multiple Letter Acronym's are to be found throughout the electronic mail/forum world to the eternal confusion of novices! They are not designed to confuse you, merely a necessity for busy people with 'hunt and peck' typing skills. AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact ADN Any Day Now AFAIK As Far As I Know AMF Goodbye (Adios Mutha-......) ATSL Along The Same Line AS On Another Subject AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? B4N Bye for Now BAD Broken as Designed BBR Burnt Beyond Repair BBS Bulletin Board System BCNU Be seeing you .... BNF Big Name Fan BRB Be right back BRS Big Red Switch BSY Be seein' you BTA But then Again (in response to IOW) BTW By the way BWQ Buzz Word Quotient CIS Compuserve Information System CU See you CUL See You Later CUL8R See you later CYA Cover Your A** CYL See you later DIIK Damned If I know DL or D/L Download, transmit to you DTITS Don't take it too seriously DTRT Do The Right Thing DUWL Doubled up with laughter DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym FISH First In, Still Here FITB Fill In The Blank.... FOAF Friend of A Friend FUBAR "Fixed" up beyond all recognition FUBAR F**ked Up Beyond All Repair FURTB Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!) FUWOTD Fed up with off topic discussions FWIW For what it's worth FYI For your information GDW Grin, Duck and Weave GFR Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer) GIGO Garbage in, Garbage Out GIGO Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says) GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd Said That GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting GR&D Grinning, running, and ducking HAPRD Had a perfectly rotten day HHTYAY Happy Holidays to You and Yours IAE In any event IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IC I See ILYKL I'll let you know later IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion IMCO In My Considered Opinion IMHO In My Honest Opinion IMHO In my humble opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMO In my opinion IOW In other words ISBAB I Should have Bought A Book ITISIA I thought I'd seen it all ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits, Wear It IWBNI If would Be Nice If KHYF Know How You Feel KUTGW Keep up the good work L8R Later LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die. LOL Laughing Out Loud LTNT Long Time, No Type MLA Multiple Letter Acronym MOTAS Member of the Appropriate Sex MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex MOTSS Member of the Same Sex NBFD No Big F***ing Deal NTYMI Now that you mention it NYTT Now you're talking turkey OIC Oh, I see OTOH On the other hand PITA Pain In The A** PLOKTA Press Lots of keys to abort POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters PMFBI Pardon Me for butting in ROF,L Rolling on floor, laughing ROTF Rolling On The Floor ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off RPG Role Playing Games RSN Real soon now RTDD Read the damn docs RTFM Read the _ Manual SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym SMOP Small Matter of Programming SNAFU Situation normal, all "fixed" up SNAFU Situation Normal, All F**ked Up SO Significant Other SOW Speaking of which SUOGOTE Shut up, or get off the echo SWMBO She who must be obeyed TAFN Thats all for Now TANJ There Ain't No Justice TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TBPH To be perfectly honest TDM Too Damn Many TFTHAOT Thanx For The Help Ahead Of Time TGIF Thank God Its Friday TIA Thanks in advance TLA Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA) TPTB The Powers That Be TOBAL There Oughta Be A Law TOBG This Oughta Be Good TTBOMK To the best of my knowledge TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTFN That's that for now TTL4N Thats the lot for now TTUL Talk to U later (lazy version) TTYL Talk to you later UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS WIMP Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing (to describe Windows & other similar interfaces) WOFTAM Waste of Flaming time and money WYGIWYPF What you get is what you pay for WYSBYGI What you see before you get it WYSIWYG What you see is what you get YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym YGLT You're Gonna Love This ... SYSOP System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum ST:TOS Star Trek: The Original Series ST:TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation ST:DS9 Star Trek: Deep Space 9 EMOTICONS Emoticons are symbols to denote emotions. Sometimes it is just a word inside < > brackets for example... or To mark a joke or sarcastic comment A very popular emoticon is: :) a smile These emoticons are particularly used by the Japanese but there is no reason why they should not get worldwide use..... ^^ happiness ^^; embarrasment ;; sadness -- when it's the occasion to bow