who or what is MATY?

[JadeEliott]

Alright, AFAIK was too easy, AFAIK.

I think we need to come up with some very hard ones to guess.

[Sagana]

Not only am I bright like that, but nothing gets by me.

It's SOP for my MOS.

points for MOS then.

[BlueSoup]

Standard Operating Procedure for my Military Occupational Specialty?

[RainbowTigress]

it's too easy for people to look this stuff up on the web now, and you have no way of knowing.

BTW, I'm pretty sure the BFBVFS originated at H*R, although the acronym didn't, the phrase did.

[Ness]

I've always taken BRB to mean be right back

[RainbowTigress]

I've always taken BRB to mean be right back

Me too, but some people I've talked to said they thought it meant bathroom break, and one guy told me when he first got online, he thought people were being rude and burping all the time!

[BlueSoup]

LOL!  I guess I always knew it was be right back as well.  Although, there was a couple I didn't know, like ROFLMAO.  I had no idea what that one was. 

[Brynne]

Although, there was a couple I didn't know, like ROFLMAO.  I had no idea what that one was. 

At least you didn't ask your husband what Rowfmalow meant.
Not that I did. either...

[RainbowTigress]

Although, there was a couple I didn't know, like ROFLMAO.  I had no idea what that one was. 

At least you didn't ask your husband what Rowfmalow meant.
Not that I did. either...

Um, yeah.

[Sagana]

Yup BlueSoup. I think BRB does mean Be Right Back, but the idea is if you're gonna be right back, it's generally cuz you need a bathroom break - noone leaves the computer for much of anything else.

I always hate to get stuck asking what they mean. I'd rather spend forever trying to figure it out - sooner or later someone says or something. A friend and I would make them up to stump each other. There were rules. It had to be some sort of phrase we used, not just any made-up string of letters, but we'd end up signing off with long long ridiculous strings of letters. Was fun.

[BlueSoup]

I always hate to get stuck asking what they mean. I'd rather spend forever trying to figure it out - sooner or later someone says or something. A friend and I would make them up to stump each other. There were rules. It had to be some sort of phrase we used, not just any made-up string of letters, but we'd end up signing off with long long ridiculous strings of letters. Was fun.

In my last job, my boss handed me a memo and at the bottom, there was this long sting of letters.  I can't remember exactly what they were, but I managed to figure out what he was talking about, although he had me stumped for a few minutes when he used "C" instead of "S" for "see." 

[Sagana]

<laugh> sounds like a pretty cool boss? also sounds like a games magazine game - those are fun. You know?

3=bm

like that? or 2BON2B like that, really.

[BlueSoup]

Yeah, he was an awesome boss, I miss him a lot.  Since I was living in this small town, and didn't know many people or have any family there, he would also invite me to his house for holidays.

3=bm...not sure what that means?

[vector]

but the idea is if you're gonna be right back, it's generally cuz you need a bathroom break - noone leaves the computer for much of anything else.

*moans in horror*

Oh, you savage Americans. Next you'll be telling us you don't even drink tea.

[Sagana]

The idea is that you think of things that are associated with the number 3 until you find the one that starts with the letters BM. I guess it really should be written like this:

3 = B M (S H T R)

24 = H in a D

That one might be easier to give you the idea :)

Me, I drink so much coffee I might as well be piping it in intravenously. Tea is fine for a break now and then, but it's not coffee.

PS: Added something more that might help. I wish I had a boss like that :) And all that coffee explains why I need so many BRBs ;)

[LynnMar]

well, I am a little better than when I first got a computer a few years ago.   I didn't even know what lol or rofl meant.  My college daughter made me download the aol messenger thing and she started typing so fast and using that lol and all that stuff and I said  "now listen, honey, you are going to have to slow down and quit using them codes because I can't keep up with you nor do I know what you are even talking about."     

well, she just about cracked up laughing.  She is always laughing at me and saying "oh, mother"

then she made me hook up some kind of headphone jacks to my computer and she was talking to me from her house and typing too and I said  "I've had it, I am going to bed.  Leave me alone.  She thought that was funny too.   

[BlueSoup]

I was really late to the Internet as well.  I didn't even get a computer until last November, and even then my only requirements for the salesman was that it had a CD burner, DVD drive, flat screen monitor and a printer, for $1000 tax in.

Well I got that and for awhile it worked great.  But then I discovered TS1 and within about 2 months, I had every single EP and I was getting bored.

Then I read about the Legacy Challenge on the TS2 site in March, and bought the game and started hanging out on the BBS. I was an Internet virgin, lol. And the BBS broke my cherry! 

[veilchen]

AFAIK, BFBVFS is pretty MATY limited.

Not anymore, I run into it all over the place now. I even saw it on the official board (I had to blink, I thought my eyes had gone hay-wire)

Anyway, this all is a bit of a relief, at least I'm not the only one who has problems with the initialism. Try it on boards where the language used is not your native language...it's a whole other ball-game

Thank's Rainbow, site bookmarked.

[laeshanin]

Yeah, thanks Rainbow. Bookmarked the site as I'm pretty much virgo intacta re this acronym stuff. Much to my daughters' vast amusement. But then they just like confusing the wretched old hag. 

[RainbowTigress]

Yup BlueSoup. I think BRB does mean Be Right Back, but the idea is if you're gonna be right back, it's generally cuz you need a bathroom break - noone leaves the computer for much of anything else.

Either that or food...you have to get up to reheat the leftovers.

You all are doing much better than my mom.  She likes playing computer games and getting on the internet, but she doesn't play sims anymore because they are too time-consuming.  She has never played Sims 2.  Her computer couldn't handle it anyway.  She gets the left over parts when we upgrade, and she is happy with that.  I think that it would be too much for her to deal with all the bugs and I'd be stuck having to fix her game as well as mine.   So it's probably just as well.  She gives me enough grief accusing me of being addicted to the sims.   

[magic cookie]

I knew some guy who used FANTA but he's the only one I ever heard it from, I don't think it's really used.

[idtaminger]

What does BFBVFS mean anyway? I never quite caught on to it, though I did think it had something to do w/ major game screwups?

[BlueSoup]

BFBVFS = Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space.

[LK]

Then, of course, there's the one I came up with:

LMHOWSBMFOTDASCIAOTM
(laughing my head off while simultaneously banging my fists on the desk and spraying Cheez-Its all over the moniter)

But I think it's pretty self-contained.

[Sagana]

But I think it's pretty self-contained.

lol. I should hope. Please contain the cheez-it spray to that side of the monitor ;)