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[Theatrical Landladies]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:20pm

Help please! I am an ignorant Scotsman who still doesn't know what all the abreviations used on this site mean. Could someone provide a glossary? It really should be a basic requirement of the site to make relative newcomers feel welcome. Confusing terms include:

lol - I would expect this to mean "lots of love" but this doesn't work in some contexts

img - no idea!

omg - Oh my God (I assume)

Please would someone "in the know" please help me out?

Many thanks!

[timote316]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:23pm

lol - laugh out loud

img - image

omg - you are correct. oh my god.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:23pm

I believe F U! is also a big one around here

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:28pm

Two other big ones.

imo- in my opinion
imho- in my humble opinion (as if )

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:30pm

While each may have its varying degree of usefulness, I've always thought "LOL" was pretty stupid. Perhaps it's because most of the time people put it after things that I just don't think are actually funny (and can't imagine they do, either).

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:32pm

I think it has lost its meaning by horrible misuse.

(I know some posters who would put a "lol" after that comment.)

[BluCat500]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:34pm

Ah,but you have to put LOL around everything , otherwise people take you seriously and denounce you as satan...

Whoah, wait a second...


...Is this a trick, you're not satan are you?

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:39pm

Oh, of course I'm not.
I simply have control of all the elements of evil in our nature.

People think I'm evil anyway, but the is more effective than the lol as an anger defuser.

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:42pm

But even so, I wonder why it's "laugh out loud." Often I just LSTM.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:44pm

Sure,I suppose this is more effective, that is if you're attempting to solicit sex...

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:54pm

Funny I never thought of "winking smiley" as sexual. Just goes to show how little we can assume on a message board, maybe lol does not even mean "laugh out loud" at all.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:56pm

LOL has come to be used in place of JK in a lot of instances. The one that has always irritated me is ROFL, as if anyone, EVER, was amused enough by something said in a chat room or on a message board to fall to the floor and roll around with glee. I mean, come on!

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:02pm

hahaha i agree! for the longest time I never knew what ROFL stood for, but I knew it was like an lol.. one i dont know--what does ETA mean, i've seen it used before and felt stupid asking

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:03pm

ETA- Edited to add, that one makes sense.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:03pm

I am guilty of using "lol" entirely too much. It's just easier than trying to use "chuckling quietly to myself because I think I am darn funny."

Updated On: 12/9/05 at 05:03 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:09pm

LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:10pm

when I say "lol" I usually mean "I'm fake-giggling because I really don't know what to say, but I feel a need to say something" OR "what I said was funny..so laugh, damnit"

[lildogs]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:13pm

Sometimes I actually do lol when I claim to lol...sometimes I fake it...a girl has to reserve herself.

[pab]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:14pm

"LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls"

GAL

[MUNKY]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:15pm

LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls

Haha! Don't forget
Gah= You know I love Wicked.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:18pm

For the longest time, I thought ETA meant estimated time of arrival. You can imagine my confusion.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:26pm

Lizzie, I can honestly say that your post did indeed make me lol

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:36pm

i alwasy thought ETA meant estimated time arrival too.. so i was always confused.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:37pm

It actually is "estimate time of arrival". At least, in real life.

For example, at hospital, when they ask for the ETA of an ambulance, they get a number of minutes.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:38pm

Wait...so what else does ETA mean?