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  1. 06-05-2009, 02:36 PM #17
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    fixed?

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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

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    IBTL

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    why?
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    why?
    What Have You (as in forsale threads swaps) ?
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Quote Originally Posted by Ice Tea View Post
    What Have You (as in forsale threads swaps) ?
    not allowed swaps in the for sale section :|
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    stupid betond belief.
    You owe it to yourself to click here really.
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Is it just me, or is posting a reply to the OT utterly pointless once Clunk has made a contribution?
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Quote Originally Posted by HSK View Post
    POS...I thought that meant piece of sh*t. I'm weird?

    Edit* Just looked at all of them, i don't know any. Except ASL. Most of them seem to be about alerting the other party about parents, what the hell!
    +1 to that. Then again, I never had to worry about parents looking over my shoulder. If those acronyms are really used, I imagine that it's mainly used by people born in the mid-90s (wow I feel old).
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    i only know one LOL i fail


    this might amuse you, i know a christian friend who thought that LOL mean lots off love she only discovered the real meaning off it last week when we told her and shes now 18
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    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    this might amuse you, i know a christian friend who thought that LOL mean lots off love she only discovered the real meaning off it last week when we told her and shes now 18
    Almost as funny as the couple of people I know who actually say "Lol" face-to-face....

    One of them is quite fond of saying "Berb" when leaving the room (brb)///

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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Only ASL, although once I saw what MorF was, I correctly guessed what SorG stood for - does that count?
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    i only know one LOL i fail


    this might amuse you, i know a christian friend who thought that LOL mean lots off love she only discovered the real meaning off it last week when we told her and shes now 18
    This situation of course being the basis to that old chestnut of a joke which ends "I heard your grandma died. lol."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Englander View Post
    I correctly guessed what SorG stood for - does that count?
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    Quiz was rubbish, massively out of date and teenager aged....how am I going to know the one with parents when I don't live at home...?
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    According to that gallery, the whole of the internet is just full of intercourse-hungry idiot teenagers.

    O WAIT
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virtual Monkey View Post
    According to that gallery, the whole of the internet is just full of intercourse-hungry idiot teenagers.

    O WAIT
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    d'oh didnt mean to use it here
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
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    Re: Internet Acronyms (how many do you know?)

    http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...ictionary.html
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