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The purpose of this list is to provide you with explanations for many of those strange acronyms you see in ILink so you don't have to write a lot of "What does that mean?" messages.

AA Alcoholics Anonymous
AAA Travel club
AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
B4N Bye for Now
BAMF Bad Assed Mother ********
BBS Bulletin Board System
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTW By The Way
CU See you
CUL See you Later
CUL8R See you Later
DIIK Damned If I Know
DILLIGAF? Does It Look Like I Give A ********?
DL or D/L Download, transmit to you
DTRT Do The Right Thing
EOT End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message)
ES&D Eat s**t and Die
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank_________
FUBAR ******** Up Beyond All Repair
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYDITM F- You Directly In The Mouth
FY&TSYRIO ******** You And The Sysop You Rode In On
FYI For Your InformationG Grin (as in )
GAFIA Get Away From It All (as in drop out of ILink for a bit)
GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running
GH Getting Hard (see GW)
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GW Getting Wet (see GH)
IC I SeeIDTT I'll Drink To That!
IITYWIMIWHTKY If I tell you what it means, I will have to kill you
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink?
ILTNMMAMOTC. HYCFAPMSFTJ I'd like to nominate Mike Meyer as moderator of that conference. Honestly you couldn't find a person more suited for the job.
ILY I Love You
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion.
INPO In No Particular Order
IOW In Other Words
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
L8R Later
LAB&TYD Life's A b***h & Then You Die.
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My a** Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
NFW No Friggin Way
OIC Oh, I See
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OTOH On The Other Hand
PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left
PITA Pain In The a**
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV Point Of View
RE Regarding
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLAHMS Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Side
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The ******** Manual
SMO Serious Mode On
SMOff Serious Mode Off
SNAFU Situation Normal: All ******** Up
SO Significant Other
SOB Do you really need *me* to explain this one?
SPAM SPiced hAM. Hormel's canned meat.
ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation
ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYSOP SYStem OPerator
TAFN That's All For Now
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living God
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLG The Living God
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta-Ta For Now
TTUL Talk (or Type) To You Later
UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBSWFM Works For Me
WOFTAM Waste Of Flaming Time and Money
WRT With Regard To
WTF What the ********?
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary.

Emoticons
smile smile :> Smiling, happy faces; don't take me too seriously
wink wink ;> Winking happy faces (something said tongue-in-cheek)
B-) Above, but from a person wearing glasses
cool Same as previous; also used to denote wide-eyed look
sad Sad or angry face
razz Tongue stuck out
biggrin biggrin Wider happy face (or mouth open too much)
surprised "Oh, nooooooo!" (a la Mr. Bill)
:-# Message concerning something that shouldn't have been said...
:-$ Message indicating person is ill...
:-& Message indicating person is angry...
:-* Kiss...
sad =) Message from a person with big teeth.
< smile Dumb questions
|-( Late night messages
:^) From a person with a large nose
:-{#} From a person with braces
& smile From a person with curly hair
@ smile From a person with wavy hair
# smile From a person with matted hair
neutral K- Formal message
....---... S.O.S.
@%&$%& You know what that means...
2B|^2B Message about Shakespeare
(O--< A fishy message...
( } User is Alfred Hitchcock.
@>--->---- A rose.
(.)(.) Ms. Dos
()x() Ms. Dos with "Cross Your Heart" Bra