E-Mail Survival Guide

A Translation of all the acronyms out there on the 'net

AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned

AISI As I See It

ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor

ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word From Our WEB Sponsor

AOL Assholes On Line

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASAFP As Soon As Friggin Possible

AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again

AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Shit Again

B4 Before

BCNU Be Seeing You

BFD Big Fucking Deal

BK Bo Knows

BNF Big Name Fan

BOT Back On Topic

BTSOOM Beats The Shit Out Of Me

BT Byte This!

BTW By The Way

BTWBO Be There With Bells On

CIAO Goodbye

CIS CompuServe Information Service

CMF Count My Fingers!

CTC Choaking The Chicken

CUL Catch You Later/See You Later

CUL8R See You Later

CWYL Chat With You Later

DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read

DDD Direct Distance Dial

DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath

DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn

DQYDJ Don't Quit You're Day Job

DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing

FE Fatal Error

FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

FTL Faster Than Light

FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Repair

FUBB Fucked Up Beyond Belief

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYI For Your Information

FYM For Your Misinformation

GE GEnie Information Service

GEE No, GTE

GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out

GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That

GR&D Grinning Running & Ducking

HAK Hugs And Kisses

HUYA Head Up Your A$$

HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding

HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding

HIOOC Help! I'm Out Of Coffee!

HTH Hope This Helps

HUA Heads Up, Ace

IAC In Any Case

IAE In Any Event

IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer

IANAC I Am Not A Crook

IAO I Am Outtahere

IBCNU I'll Be Seeing You

IBTD I Beg To Differ

IFABCTE I Found A Bug, Call The Exterminator

IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me

IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink

IITYWTMWYLMA If I Tell You What This Means Will You Leave Me Alone

IIWM If It Were Me

ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture

ILSHIBMS I Laughed So Hard I Broke My Stitches

IMCO In My Considered Opinion

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion

IMO In My Opinion

INPO In No Particular Order

IOW In Other Words

ISP Internet Service Provider

KISS Keep It Simple Stupid

L8R Later

LD Long Distance

LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again

LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LSHHTCMS Laughed So Hard, Had To Change My Shorts

LTIP Laughing Till I Puke

MTFBWY May The Force Be With You

NBFD No Big Fucking Deal

NFW No Fucking Way

NRN No Reply Necessary

NYCFS New York City Finger Salute

OAUS On An Unrelated Subject

OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject

OATIS On A Totally Irrelevant Subject

OBTW Oh By The Way

OI Operator Indisposed

OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard

ONNA Oh No, Not Again

ONNTA Oh No Not This Again

OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment

OTOH On The Other Hand

OTOOH On The Other Other Hand

OTSH On The Same Hand

OWTTE Or Words To That Effect

OZ Australia

PITA Pain In The A$$

PMF Pull My Finger

RBTL Read Between The Lines

RML Read My Lips

RMM Read My Mail

ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing

ROTM Right On The Money

RSN Real Soon Now

RTFM Read The Fucking Manual (or Message)

SH Shit Happens

SH2M Shit Happens To Me

SITD Still In The Dark

SOI Sit On It

SOL Shit Outta Luck

STM Spank The Monkey

SysOp System Operator

SYP Send Your Password

TAFL Take A Flying Leap

TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Than A Free Lunch

TDTM Talk Dirty To Me

TFASB Time For A Sex Break

TFN Thanks For Nothin'

TIA Thanks In Advance

TIC Tongue In Cheek

TISEC Tongue In Someone Else's Cheek

TLA Three Letter Acronym (such as this)

TM Trust Me

TSR Terminate and Stay Resident

TSR Totally Stuck in RAM

TTT That's The Ticket

TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit

VI Village Idiot

WDIPME Where Did I Put My Excedrin

WGAFS Who Gives A Flying Squat

WIT Wordsmith In Training

WMG Wheres My Glasses

WTHDTIM What The Hell Do These Initials Mean

WTSDS Where The Sun Don't Shine

WEB World Wide Wait

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

WYSIUWYW What You See Isn't Usually What You Want

YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'