Internet acronyms explained

[Robert]

IIRC - take your pick.

IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IIRC Interactive Illinois Report Card
IIRC If I Read Correctly
IIRC If I Really Cared
IIRC Image and Identity Research Collective
IIRC Impedance Imaging Research Center (Korea)
IIRC If It Really Counts
IIRC If I Recollect Correctly
IIRC International Internet Recruiting Consultants, Inc.
IIRC International Inter-Society Research Committee (on Nuclear Codes and Standards)
IIRC Internet Information Research Center
IIRC Immunity and Infection Research Centre
IIRC Interstate Insurance Receivership Compact
IIRC Information Integrity Research Centre (UK)
IIRC International Interpretation Resource Center
IIRC International Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium
IIRC Iraqi Islamic Reconciliation Conference
IIRC Inactive Item Review Code (US DoD)
IIRC Isn't It Really Cool
IIRC IVF & Infertilty Research Centre (Calcutta, India)
IIRC In Internet Relay Chat

 

[Spudman]

These will come in handy.

IIRC - take your pick.

IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IIRC Interactive Illinois Report Card
IIRC If I Read Correctly
IIRC If I Really Cared
IIRC Image and Identity Research Collective
IIRC Impedance Imaging Research Center (Korea)
IIRC If It Really Counts
IIRC If I Recollect Correctly
IIRC International Internet Recruiting Consultants, Inc.
IIRC International Inter-Society Research Committee (on Nuclear Codes and Standards)
IIRC Internet Information Research Center
IIRC Immunity and Infection Research Centre
IIRC Interstate Insurance Receivership Compact
IIRC Information Integrity Research Centre (UK)
IIRC International Interpretation Resource Center
IIRC International Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium
IIRC Iraqi Islamic Reconciliation Conference
IIRC Inactive Item Review Code (US DoD)
IIRC Isn't It Really Cool
IIRC IVF & Infertilty Research Centre (Calcutta, India)
IIRC In Internet Relay Chat

 

[Rampant]

FTW

For the win

 

[Brian Krashpad]

FTW

For the win

And if you're really excited, FTMFW. I'll let everyone guess what the MF stands for. (Hint: think Samuel L. Jackson.)

Here's a few guitar-centric ones I've used or seen used, and sfaik (see what I did there?) haven't been in this thread:

MIM: Made In Mexico
MIK: " " Korea
MIC: " " China
HB: humbucker
Wrap/Wrap Around/Wrap Bridge: Single-piece combination tailpiece/bridge as used on original Les Paul Juniors and Specials, and on some modern PRSs
Overwrapping: Term for stringing strings through a stoptail towards the butt of the guitar and then looping back over in the other direction, towards the bridge and headstock. Some players like to do this because they perceive different playability/tonal characteristics from the different (flatter) angle at which the strings pass over the bridge, or because there may be less string breakage at the bridge because of the flatter angle. I can't tell about the former, but the latter seems to be true, so sometimes I'll overwrap the 2 thinnest strings to avoid breakage.

 

[Spudman]

The mother load of acronyms. Now you'll never need to know how to spell again.

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

 

[poodlesrule]

EOM
End of message, as used in the Subject line of an email without body text.

Here is an example, announcing new guitar to spouse via email:
" Guitar arrived via UPS - Love you! EOM" :rockya

Quite useful for the non-texting crowd still corresponding via email.

 

[Robert]

TMWSMG - that would be Spudman.

The Man With So Many Guitars.

 

[Spudman]

TMWSMG - that would be Spudman.

The Man With So Many Guitars.

They have that one?

TMWBVTDLOR (the man with bulging veins that does lots of reviews)

 

[kiteman]

DDD- dumb dumber and....... uh, whats next?:thwap:

dumbfounded?

 

[deeaa]

LOL, this thread reminds me...you know, we usually speak of Les Pauls as 'LP's or LP style guitars in general, and we use 'STD' fro Standard and 'CLS' for Classic and 'STU' for studio...well little did I think STD also stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease, so when I was in Sam Ash in N.Y.C. and the salesperson came to me asking if he could help, I replied something like 'Oh, I'm just cruising for an STD here'...or something to that effect anyway...and he could barely contain it

 

[deeaa]

Must tell another fun anecdote from my days in the NYC...I was at this occasion, we were maybe 20 persons awaiting food, and it was so quiet, and I decided to break the silence, and said 'I'm starving!' except I translated it *literally* from Finnish...and we say 'Hungry like a wolf' which I quickly learned meant another kind of hunger altogether.

Well anyway when I said it, really like stressing it, maaan, I'm so hungry like a wolf...I got really strange looks, and one guy said 'Well Antti thank you for sharing that' and then another thumped me in the ribs and winked at me and whispered 'me too!' and...well I didn't get it until maybe 15 minutes later.

Heheh...I can remember lots of similar occurrences where I used a funny kind of saying, to americans that is...how could one know, really

 

[kiteman]

"Cruisin' for an STD" :dance

Sound like a song title. oke