I've been reading the messages on this board for some time now, and I still can't figure out what GI means, or OT (could it be "off topic"?), and some of the other terms used here. Could someone list all the abbreviations used.

-- Linda Hitchings (lindasue1@earthlink.net), November 16, 1999

Answers

GI = Get it

OT = Off Topic

BTW, by the way

IMHO = In my humble opinion

TEOTWAWKI = the end of the world as we know it.

-- Me (just@helpful.com), November 16, 1999.

DGI = Don't Get It

DWGI = Don't Wanna Get It

FWIW = For What It's Worth FUBAR = F*%ked Up Beyond All Recognition

-- matt (whome@somewhere.nz), November 16, 1999.

ROTFLMA0- rolling on the floor, laughing my a## off TSHTF - the sh*t hits the fan BITR - bump in the road

Morrighan

-- Morrighan (matotipi@worldpath.net), November 16, 1999.

The term GI seems to have developed two distinct definitions:

1) Majority definition. Someone who realizes there are lots of date bugs that won't be fixed, posing a threat of real problems, extent unknown.

2) Minority definition. Someone who has come to the unshakeable conclusion that everything is going down, taking everything else with it, in an unstoppable chain reaction.

Having two very different uses for the same term leads to occasional failure to communicate very well.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), November 16, 1999.

Thanks everyone......now some of the messages make more sense.

-- Linda Hitchings (Lindasue1@earthlink.net), November 16, 1999.

Linda: Do you like to mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 16, 1999.

I understand that the letters "OT" stand for "off topic". But considering the non-stop stories about contrails, solar flares, airplane crash conspiracies, etc, etc, etc, *WHAT*, pray tell, could even remotely be considered off topic for this forum any more?

-- CD (not@here.com), November 16, 1999.

OT would probably be Jello wrestling...

-- squid (Itsdark@down.here), November 17, 1999.

O.K. Now what does LOL mean?

-- Sleepless (in@seattle.com), November 17, 1999.

LOL= laughing out loud, or, lots of luck (usually the former)

-- RZN (robinsun@netscape.net), November 17, 1999.

'Do you like to mudwrestle?'

A stress-relieving interjection by a member of royalty, who, if he wasn't blessed with so much charm, might be considered a total armhole.

-- Midas (midas_mulligan_2000@yahoo.com), November 17, 1999.