what all the shorthand means?

[johnboyjjb]

Originally posted by donga666F@cked, Up, Beyond, All, Recognision. I have been known to be wrong Not this time.
(and spell badly).
recognition.

 

[NecroN]

Maybe it\'s a Canadian Military thing, but there are two Rs, for Reasonable Recognition. Maybe they dropped an R over time or something.

 

[donga666]

Originally posted by NecroN
Maybe it\'s a Canadian Military thing, but there are two Rs, for Reasonable Recognition. Maybe they dropped an R over time or something.

Canadians, reasonable people lol

 

[Ogrebane]

WOFTAM
FLUB
LMAO
LSHISM
WTF
OMFG
Just a few I use

 

[freakinacage]

fubar can also stand for f*cked up beyond all repair

 

[Orb]

original source of FUBAR (one R) is Vietnam (IIRC). It was used in the series Band of Brothers but far too early.

 

[Ritual]

Didn\'t they talk about FUBAR in Kubrick\'s \"Full Metal Jacket\"?

 

[tooshy]

I\'m F.I.N.E......

...no really I am... F*cked-Up Insecure N\' Emotional (but don\'t tell Avicenna!) LOL

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fuck3d up
ROTFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off

 

[leopardpixie]

Originally posted by Dragon Forge Design
ROTFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off

Ahhh my favorite one lol

 

[Dammekkos2]

OTP
Yeah, you know me/

 

[Shawn R. L.]

USMC - Uncle Sam\'s misguided children.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
WOFTAM
FLUB
LMAO
LSHISM
WTF
OMFG

LMAO - laughing my ass off; a classic
WTF - what the f**k? (love that one, especially since you can lipread it so easily as in Blade
OMFG - oh my f**king God.

I could go look up WOFTAM, FLUB and LSHISM but that wouldn\'t be fair.

Originally posted by Dammekkos2
OTP

Over-time pay?

Here\'s a great one but it\'s very specialist so I don\'t expect anyone to know it without having to look it up:
TWAIN
JPEG is good too, probably a lot of people use it and GIF (and maybe TIFF) without knowing what they stand for.

More abbreviations than you can shake a stick at:
http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/internetglossary.htm

Einion

 

[Sand Rat]

Well, there\'s

FIDO - Fugg it and drive on

JANFU - Joint Army Navy Fugg Up

Charlie Foxtrot (CF) - Cluster Fugg

 

[philologus]

Hey Shawn; we always said MARINE stands for \"My Ass Rides in Navy Equipment\".

US ARMY=Uncle Sam Ain\'t Released Me Yet.\"

 

[Sand Rat]

Well, the Jarheads around here say

Marine - Muscles a requirement, intellegence not essential

And when I was in the Navy there were two we kept in mind -

FTN - Fugg the Navy

NAVY - Never Again Volunteer Yourself

 

[philologus]

I never heard that one before steelcult. I did hear the one about the Navy though. Alot of ex-water lillies for co-workers.

 

[airhead]

BOHICA
Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

 

[Sand Rat]

Originally posted by airhead
BOHICA
Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

Thats actually the name of a truck over here - a wrecker.

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by Einion
Here\'s a great one but it\'s very specialist so I don\'t expect anyone to know it without having to look it up:
TWAIN Wait, I know this one... it\'s like \"there wasn\'t any interesting name\" or something like that...
JPEG is good too, probably a lot of people use it and GIF (and maybe TIFF) without knowing what they stand for.

JPEG = \"Joint Photographic Experts Group\"
TIFF = \"Tagged Image File Format\"
GIF = \"We\'re gonna be assholes and try to enforce this patent\"

Hmm... *visits Wikipedia* it seems I was close about TWAIN:

The word TWAIN is from Kipling\'s \"The Ballad of East and West\" - \"...and never the twain shall meet...\", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. The description \"Technology Without An Interesting Name\" originated from early working group activity, though they do not accept it as an acronym