On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:17:03PM -0600, Jacob Fugal wrote: > On 3/22/07, Daniel C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 3/22/07, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> LOL > > > >LOL WTF BBQ OMG PWN FTW DPS CC RFC WC DM VC MC BC AFK AOE BRT GZ BRD > >MMORPG PCMCIA SCUBA LMFAO PST WTB LFG UC AH > > > >> +1 to middle posting > > > >+1 to way too many acronyms > >+2 to pointless, annoying emails > >+3 to anyone who can tell me what those acronyms all mean > > Sure I'll bite.
Yup. > > LOL: many variations, my prefered rendering, "laugh out loud" > WTF: "What the [fetch]?" > BBQ: duh, but the placement of BBQ after WTF comes from the CAD blog > OMG: "Oh my [google]!" > PWN: not an acronym, derived from "own", as in "to beat" > FTW: "For the win!" > DPS: "Damage per second" > CC: "Credit Card", but perhaps you also meant a WoW reference here? Carbon Copy, but young whipersnappers wouldn't know that. > RFC: "Ragefire Chasm" Request For Comment, as the denizens of this list should know. > WC: "Wailing Caverns" Water Closet, where this thread should go. > DM: "Deadmines" > VC: "VanCleef" Victor Charlie, or Viet Cong, another one young whipersnappers won't know. > MC: "Master of Ceremonies", but sandwiched between VC and BC, maybe > another WoW one? > BC: "Burning Crusade" Britsh Columbia, Barret's Commune (a reference to a former PM of the first BC), Before Christ > AFK: "Away From Keyboard" > AOE: "Area of Effect" or "Age of Empires" > BRT: "Be right there" > GZ: GNU Zip? Maybe you mean "ZG", which could be "Zul'Gurub" > BRD: "Blackrock Depths" > MMORPG: "Massively multiplayer online role playing game" > PCMCIA: "Personal Computer Memory Card International Association" > SCUBA: "Self contained underwater breathing apparatus" > LMFAO: "Laughing my [fetching] [ankle] off" > PST: "Please send tell" Pacific Standard Time -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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