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    Acronym FAQ posted! —Shiri Dori
   Ever wonder what a MOC means? Wondered why SNOTs are annoying, and POOPs are hated by many AFOLs? If a BURP is more than just impoliteness? If a SPUD is more than a potato, and a KABOB more than a piece of meat? Why the annoying girls that sing "No (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce)
   
        Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Craig Hamilton
     (...) great job shiri, and much needed! as much as i enjoyed the acronym FAQ, i got more of a kick out of this intro! it had me laughing out loud! er.. i mean LOL! later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Shiri Dori
     Craig complimented: (...) Thanks! I tried to make it as interesting as possible, 'cause that type of posts are usually overlooked by most ;-) Uh-oh. I just realized, BTW, that I forgot to include By The Way! Well, I'll put an Addon soon. There will (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Craig Hamilton
      (...) i thought it stood for _Really_ Old Fan of LEGO... later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Johannes Keukelaar
      "SD" == Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> writes: SD> I also don't have the definition of ROFL, but I know it has SD> something to do with laughing very hard... hmmm... Rumbling Out SD> Feirce Laughs? ;-) Hmm, back in the days when I was playing MUD (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Frank Buiting
      (...) ROFL: Rolling On the Floor Laughing ROFLMAO: Rolling On the Floor Laughing My #ss Off Maybe this acronym could be added: (I have seen it being used in threads here about copyrights and things like that) IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer CMIIAW: Correct (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Gene C. Weissinger
      for the BTW or ROFL etc...(non LEGO acronyms) goto: (URL) interesting... EC (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Christian Gemuenden
      Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FpJp92.62K@lugnet.com... (...) I'll (...) don't (...) laughing (...) [snip(s)] IIRC, I have seen BURPMAN before, it's the name of the rock monster from RRs, it means: BURPMAN: Big Ugly Rock (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) D. Garcia coined the name but I supplied the meaning... see: (URL) and exIBMers are acronym masters, we can make any word into an acronym that has a domain specific meaning, if we want to. (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Acronym FAQ posted! —Jeff Thompson
   (...) This is great, Shiri. I hope you'll continue to update it as time goes by. There was one thing I was hoping to see, but didn't - credits? I'm not sure, but it looked as if your list was an update to Derek Schinn's RTL Jargon list. If so, it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
 

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