Page Owner: Art CampbellMost people new to the Internet, including the sub-basement of the online 'cycle culture, encounter a new language, often made up of wierd little acronyms. This occasionally comes up for discussion on the list. Ross Brown made the mistake of asking about acronyms and has become the KOTL....
(If you don't find it here, try the Acronym Finder.)
Acronyms and Symbols
Any acronyms not on this list may be forwarded to me for inclusion -- rossbrown@ozemail.com.au
** Be sure you put the following within < > only! **
<g> Small Grin
<G> Big Grin
<BIG GRIN> Big Grin
<big grin> (Small) Big Grin
<BSEG> Big Shit-Eating Grin
<BFG> Big Fucking Grin
<BFEG> Big Fucking Evil Grin
<BEG> Big Evil Grin
<EG> Evil Grin
<FROWN> Big Frown
<frown> Small Frown
<GD&R> Grinning, Ducking and Running (after poking fun at someone)
<GD&RLH> Grinning, Ducking and Running Like Hell
<WINK> Big Wink
<wink> Small Wink
<seg> (Small) Shit-Eating Grin
** Be sure you _always_ have acronyms capitalized! **
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
AND Any Day Now
ADMF Adios Mother F--ker
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AISI As I See It
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor
AOL America Online (A commercial service)
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASAFP As Soon As Friggin' Possible
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATFQ Answer The F*cking Question
ATSL Along The Same Line
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through ALL This Again?
AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
B4 Before
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBL Be Back Later
BBSTYWTCMDJBAP Be back sooner than you would think, considering my dog just bit a policeman
BBS Bulletin Board System
b/c because
BCU, BCNU Be Seeing You ....
BDC Brain Dead Cager
BDI Brain Dead Idiot
BF Boyfriend
BFD Big F*cking Deal
BMF Big Mother F*ucker
BMWOA BMW Motorcycle Owners Of America
BMWOC BMW Motorcycle Owners of Canada
BNF Big Name Fan
BOOF Brotherhood Of Old Farts
BOT Back On Topic
BRB Be Right Back
BRBDGA Be Right Back Don’t Go Away
BTBO Bight The Big One
BTDT Been There Done That
BTW By The Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BTW By The Way
Cage car
CFD Call For Discussion
CFV Call For Vote
CIAO Goodbye (Italian)
CU See You
CUL Catch You Later
CUL (CUL8R) See You Later
CUL8R See You Later
CUNT Caring Understanding Nineties Type see SNAG
CWYL Chat With You Later
DDD Direct Distance Dial (as in the phone system)
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Darn?!
DIY Did It Yourself
DNF Did Not Finish
EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In
EMFJI Excuse Me For Jumping In
ESAD Eat Shit And Die
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FFR Flat F--kin Run
FITB Fill In The Blank....
FOAD F*ck Off And Die
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FMPOV From My Point Of View
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster Than Light
FTP File Transfer Protocol (Used on Inet/Unet/WWW)
FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
FUBB Fouled Up Beyond Belief
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information
GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running (Usually left at the end of a mean or digging statement)
GAL Get A Life
GALSLIM Get A Life Stop Living In Mine
GF Girlfriend
GFC Going For Coffee
GIF Graphics Interchange Format. Pictures drawn in graphics.
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GROK As in "I GROK" means thorough understanding.
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike!
GPS Global Positioning System
HAGO Have A Good One
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HHOK Ha, Ha, Only Kidding
HHO 1/2 K Ha, Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHTYAY Happy Holidays to You and Yours
HOAM Hold On A Minute
HOAFM Hold On A Fucking Minute
HTH Hope This Helps
HTML HyperText Markup Language (Graphics on Inet/Usenet/WWW)
HTTP HyperText Transport Protocol (Used in the WWW)
HUA Heads Up, Ace
IAC In Any Case
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC I See
DK I Don’t Know
IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me?
IITYWISWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Says, Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IIWM If It Were Me (Mine)
IKHYF I Know How You Feel
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture!
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion or In My Honest Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMRO In My Royal Opinion
IMWTK Inquiring Minds Want To Know
INPO In NO Particular Order
IOW In Other Words
IP Internet Protocol. Main protocol used on the Inet.
IRC Internet Relay Chat (Real time worldwide chatting)
ISHBAB (ISHBTB) I Should Have Bought A/The Book
ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits, Wear It
IYHO In Your Humble Opinion
JAFM! Just A F*cking Minute!
JFYI Just For Your Info
JHO1M Just Hold On One Minute
JMNSHO Just My Not So Humble Opinion
K Kompakt engine in K- Bike
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid
KOT Keeper Of The --------
KOTL Keeper Of The List
K-Whiner K Bike Rider
L8R Later
LD Long Distance
LDR Long Distance Relationship
LEO Law Enforcement Officer
LJBF Let's Just Be Friends
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LMAO Laughing my A-- off
LOL Laughing Out Loud or Lots of Laughs
LTIP Laughing Til' I Puke
LTNT Long Time, No Type
MCM Motorcycle Consumer News
MFWIIC Mother F*cker Which Is In Charge
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol for audio messages sent as Inet email.
MMS My Main Squeeze (steady sexual partner)
MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex
MPOV My Point Of View
MRP My Romantic Partner
MS Main Squeeze (steady sexual partner)
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MYOB Mind your own Business
NBFD No Big F*cking Deal
NFI No Friggin' Idea
NFW No Fucking Way
NFWM No Fucking Way, Man
N'SP Nobody 'S Perfect
NTYMI Now That You Mention It
NW No Way
NWD No Way, Dude
NWM No Way, Man
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject
OBTW Oh, By The Way
OBMWC Obligatory BMW Content
OIC Oh, I See
ON BMW Owners News
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment
OOTQ Out Of The Question
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTOOH On The Other Other Hand
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ Australia
PITA (pita) Pain In The Ass
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
POP Post Office Protcol. Internet protocol for Inet email
POV Point Of View
POQ Piss Off Quick
PTB Powers That Be.
PPP Point to Point Protocol. Similar to SLIP for the Inet.
PS Post Script
RA BMW Riders Assoc.
RAT Road Anomalies Tour
RFD Request For Discussion
RFI Request for information
RTKABA Right To Keep And Bear Arms
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTFLUIPIMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing Until I Pissed In My Pants
ROTFLUIWMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing Until I Wet My Pants
ROTFLWTIME Rolling On The Floor Laughing With Tears In My Eyes
RP Romantic Partner
RSN Real Soon Now
RTDM Read The Damn Manual
RTFM Read The Fucking Manual
RTGM Read The Goddamn Manual
RTM Read The Manual
Sig A persons signature
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
SNAG Sensitive New Age Guy
Snailmail Regular paper mail sent via the government Postal Service.
SNAMU Situation Normal, All Messed Up
SO Significant Other (Not Sex Object!) (Use RP or MMS instead).
SOB Son Of A Bitch
SOD Society Of Dickheads
SOHF Sense OF Humor Failure
SOW Speaking Of Which
SS1K Saddle Sore 1000 miles
SSU Shiny Side Up
STD Sexually Transmitted Disease/Diseases
SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYSOP System Operator
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TANSTAASQ There Ain't No Such Thing As A Stupid Question
TIA Thanks In Advance
TLx The Lovely X wife or husband
TNP Take No Prisoners)
TOBAL There Oughta Be A Law
TOBG This Oughta Be Good
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL (TTUL) Talk To You Later
TYVM Thank You Very Much
Unet (UNET) Usenet. (One third the Internet/Usenet/Wordwide Web)
Unews (UNEWS) Usenet Newsgroups. (Public echoes on the Usenet)
URL (Address of a site on Unet, or the WWW)
UUCP Unix to Unix CoPy. A transmission protocol that carries Internet email.
VIDIOT Village Idiot
WAG - Wild A** Guess
WFO Wide F*cking Open
WGAS Who Gives A Sh*t
WKF Well Known Fact
WRT With Regard To
WT Without Thinking
WTF What The F*ck
WTTM Without Thinking Too Much
WNOHGB Where No One Has Gone Before
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YWIA Your Welcome In Advance
WACO We Aren't Coming Out!
WAFM Wait A F*cking Minute!
WAIS Wide Area Information Server (for Inet/Unet/WWW)
WAM Wait A Minute!
WTF? What The F*ck?
WWW World Wide Web (Part of the Internet/Usenet/WWW system)
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XSO Ex-SO (Ex-Significant Other) (not Sex Object!)
YA Yet Another--------
YGLT You're Gonna Love This...
YKYARW You Know You're A Redneck When...
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YWIA Your Welcome In advance
YPOV Your Point Of View
YPOVS! Your Point Of View Sucks!
Ass Icons
(_!_) a regular ass
(__!__) a fat ass
(!) a tight ass
(_._) a flat ass
(_^_) a bubble ass
(_*_) a sore ass
(_!__) a lop-sided ass
{_!_} a swishy ass
(_o_) an ass that's been around
(_O_) an ass that's been around even more
(_x_) kiss my ass
(_X_) leave my ass alone
(_zzz_) a tired ass
(_o^o_) a wise ass
(_13_) an unlucky ass
Emoticons
Smile(y) :-)
Midget smiley :)
Surprise =:^0
Smile/Grin 8^) or =:^)
Bug-eyed smile 8-)
Laughing :-D
Sad (frown) ;-(
Forlorn :-<
Frown :-(
Grim (dead face) :-|
Too bad :-{
Good grief! |-{
Oh, no! (uh, oh) :-o
Crying :'-( or :~<
Happy tears :'-)
Wink '-)
Wink and smile ;-)
Ironic smile :-}
Biting sarcasm :->
Tongue-in-cheek :-^ or :-J
Hmmm (smirk) :-,
Wry :-7
Speaking with forked tongue :-w
Bleahhh (sticking out tongue) :-r
Sticking out tongue :-P
Devilish >:->
Lewd >;->
Drool(ing) :-)~ or ;-P~~
Tongue hanging out in anticipation :-P
Kiss, kiss :-x
Big, wet kiss :-X
Censored :-#
Angry :-||
Screaming :-@
Yelling :-(O)
Shocked (wow!) :-o
Really shocked :-O or =8-O
Puzzled :-?
Confused %-(
Tongue-tied :-8
Thinking (undecided) :-\
Skeptical :-/
Indifferent :-I
Bored :-o zz z z Z Z
Yawning |-O
Asleep |-I
Dead X-(
Lips are sealed :-X or :-#
Hard night last night :+<
Screen-dazed %-)
Seeing dollar signs $-)
Brainy (@):-D
Dreamy O o ... :-}
Moustache :-{)
Beard :-)}
Lipstick wearer :-{}
Sunglasses 8-)
Glasses on forehead 8:-)
Horn-rims B-)
Black eye !-(
Big nose :--)
Piggy nose :@)
Wearing cap d:-)
Wearing Walkman [:-)
Wearing bow tie :-)X
Smoker :-Q or :-i
Pipe smoker :-?
Chef C=:-)
Clown *:o)
Doctor :-)-O
Dunce <:-I
Graduate K:-)
Nurse ]:-)
Pirate P-)
Pope +<|:-)
Punk rocker =:-)
Angel O :-) or o:-)
Cyclops O-)
Devil >:-)
Adolph Hitler :=)
Dracula 8:}=
Ronald Reagan 7:^]
Homer Simpson :-{)}
Uncle Sam =|:-)=
Baboon := |
Cat }:-<
Cow }:-o
Duck :.v
Frog 8)
Pig 8:)
Eating ice cream :-]o>
Breasts (tits, boobs, etc) (.)(.)
Face (^-^)
Other Symbols
Sword {}xxxxxxxxx[]:::::::::::::::::::::::>
Fish ><XXXXX*>
Rose @--------}--------
Arrow >->->---------------à
Necklace >o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o<
Dynamite (XXXXX)----#
CAUTION The following symbols may not transmit over Emails
Inverted ? ¿ (Alt 1,6,8)
,Inverted exclamation ¡ (Alt 6,8,5)
Smile(y) face Ü (Alt 1,5,4)
Eyes & nose ô¿ô (Alt 1,4,7 then Alt 1,6,8 then Alt 1,4,7)
This list is compiled from contributions made by IBMWR Presidents. The information is often supplied without source recognition. Should any person feel that information supplied is substantially theirs email me and your name will be included as a co-author to this prestigious document……… Ross Brownrossbrown@osemail.com.auActually, we're in need of a new maintainer for this list. If you're interested, email me at the address below. Art