Common and Not-So-Common Internet Shorthands

(February 2006)

 
 
 
Common Internet Shorthand
 
 
 
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
 
ASAP As Soon As Possible (see FLATPICK-L version)
 
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
 
BIC Buy It Cheap 
 
BTW By the way
 
CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
 
CWYL Chat With You Later
 
DSTM Don't Shoot the Messenger
 
EMWTK Enquirying Minds Wants To Know (or IMWTK)
 
FCFS First Come, First Served
 
FOF Full of Flubs
 
FS For sale
 
FTB Full Tilt Boogie 
 
FWIS From what I've seen
 
FWIW For What It's Worth
 
GRHS God Rest His (Her) Soul
 
HHOK Ha Ha Only Kidding
 
HWG Here We Go
 
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
 
IME In My experience
 
IMHEO In My Humble Experience and Opinion
 
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
 
IMLE In My Limited Experience
 
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
 
IMO In My Opinion
 
IOW In Other Words
 
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If....
 
Kettled Given Mention by a Pot (verb; intransitive)
 
 Ex: Ouch! Boy, am I kettled*, or what!
 
 attributed to Joe Cline (joe.s.cline@trellis.net)
 
LMK Let Me know
 
LOL Laughing Out Loud
 
MIL Mother-in-Law
 
MOPO My Own Personal Opinion
 
NRFB Never Removed From the Box
 
OBE Overcome By Events
 
RFI Request For Information
 
ROTFL Rolling on the Floor, Laughing
 
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Things As a Free Lunch (Thanks Anita!)
 Coined by Robert Heinlein
 
TBF To Be Frank
 
TBK Truth Be Known
 
TIA Thanks In Advance (var. TSMIA (so much), TALIA (a lot))
 
TNSTAAFL see TANSTAAFL
 
 
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
 
TTYL Talk To You Later
 
TTYTT To Tell You The Truth
 
WGAD Who Gives a Damn
 
WTB  Want to buy (WTT = Want to Trade)
 
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
 
 
 
:-) Smile, happy, major chord/scale/key
 
:-( Sad, minor chord/scale/key
 
;-) Wink
 
;^) Tongue in Cheek (aka TIC)
 
\(^-^)/ Banzai
 
 
 
{g} grin
 
{bg} big grin
 
{vbg} very big grin
 
{weg} wild-eyed grin
 
{beg} big evil grin - instead of { and }, you should use inequality signs but I can't use them here









 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Common and no-so-common FLATPICK-L shorthands
 
 
 
FPL Flatpick-L
 
GAS Guitar Acquisition Syndrome
 
 (MGAS = Multiple GAS)
 
CGAS Chronic Guitar Acquisition Syndrome
 
BMGAS Broken Multiple Guitar Accquisition Syndrone
 
BAD Banjo Acquisition Disorder
 
MAD Mandolin Acquisition Disorder
 
CASE Case Acquisition Syndrome Experience [Pat Flory]
 
SRT Spousal Restraint Therapy (supposed to supress GAS)
 
BF Beaver Fever (a deadly variant of GAS where you want to trade as much as acquire)
 
GPCOH Guitar Player's Code of Honor (you can't talk to someone's spouse about
 someone's instrument purchase)
 
RABBS Random Airborn Beer Bottle Syndrome
 
SAD Stupid Answer Disorder
 
SGC Stupid Guitar Craving (not to be confused with SCGC)
 
OTIS Order of the Immaculate Sunburst (Rolly Brown, president)
 
OBOJ Official Butt of Jokes
 
FSG Fingerstyle guitarist
 
SCGC Santa Cruz Guitar Company
 
SCGC-TR SCGC Tony Rice model
 
CW Clarence White (or Collings Clarence White model = CCW)
 
 not Country Western!
 
BG Bluegrass
 
DPS Dobrolic Plectral Society
 
RW Rosewood
 
BRW Brazilian Rosewood
 
IRW Indian Rosewood
 
MOMA Masters Of Mahogany Axes
 
TS Tortoise Shell
 
FWI Fossilized Walrus Ivory, sold by FIK
 
SKFC Steve Kaufman's Flatpicking Camp
 
 (KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken)
 
PKD  Post Kamp Depression
 
MSKIM Much Steve K. Instructional Materials
 
LBO Learn by Osmosis
 
PLP Bluegrass Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
 
 (series of instruction books by Steve Kaufmann)
 
FOTF SK's Figuring Out The Fingerboard DVD
 
Plec Plectrology (as in Plec-1, Plec-2)
 
TT Tape Tsar
 
MFC Mandatory Flatpicking Content
 
MFPC Mandatory Flatpicking Content
 
OFC Obligatory Flatpicking Content
 
No FPC  No Flatpicking Content
 
NNFPC Not Neccessarily Flat Pickin' Content
 
 [authorship of this acronym belongs to Chris Huey]
 
Gold Clayton Ultem pick
 
CG Clayton Gold
 
MBF Musical Brain F@rt
 
PITA Pain in the Accessory
 
rmmga rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Newsgroup
 
FGM Flatpick Guitar Magazine
 
BTB Better Than Bob (Dylan) (used by DOM)
 
ECS elegant, consumate skill [K Shuldberg]
 
HAM Helpful Advisory Mail
 
UDA Usual Disclaimers Apply (no financial connection etc)
 
IBMA International Bluegrass Music Association
 
OIBF Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival
 
AFAP As Fast As Possible (240+ bpm)
 
COF Circle Of Fifth (also, CO5 - not to be confused with CO2, carbon dioxide)
 
bpm beats per minutes (Doc Watson's guitar break on Black
 
 Mountain Rag is about 240 bpm or 120 bpm, depending on
 
 how you count)
 
GGFQ Guitar Gung Fu Quotient, multiplying the number of
 
 years of practice by the number of hours per day
 
 (orig. Rolly Brown)
 
FAD Fiddle Aptitude Delusion - coined by Dick Daniels in
 describing his love-hate relationship with fiddle playing.
 
BPF Bo Parker Format (tm) for ASCII tab
 
MF Merle Fest
 
DW Doc Watson or Gallagher Doc Watson model
 
Normalize To become a devout fan of Norman Blake
 
TDF To Die For or Too Durn Fast
 
QS Quarter Sawn
 
FWI Fossilized Walrus Ivory
 
BZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
 
 Sound of prodigy alarms going off
 
CBCP celtobulgarioclassic player (Trish O'Neil)
 
TMTT Total Mandothingey Tab
 
pluckables Anything that can be plucked
 
CE Cool Edit (PC computer software)
 
BIAB Band In A Box (computer software to provide a back-up band)
 
BYNM Between You and Me
 
OTR Off the Record
 
DH Do Hickey
 
DTE Deader Than Elvis (not Data Terminal Equipment)
 
GTLWJ Gone To Live With Jesus
 
SSF Short, Stubby Finger
 
TSF Terminally Slow Flatpickers
 
MTCW My Two-Cents Worth (var. M2CW)
 
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer (Not I am Anal-Retentive)
 
IANAA  I Am Not An Attorney
 
IANAPGRP I Am Not A Professional Guitar Repair Person
 
JCL Johnny-Come-Lately (not the IBM system 360's Job Control Language)
 
ACL Austin City Limit
 
GOO Grand Ole Oprey
 
TAGS The Andy Griffith Show (by Mike Arant)
 
 
 










Song Titles etc
 
 
 
BMR Black Mountain Rag
 
OBC Old Brown Case
 
RHB Red-Haired Boy
 
WBB Whiskey Before Breakfast
 
WCBU Will the Circle Be Unbroken (as in WCBU and WCBU-2)
 
 
 










Personal Names etc
 
 
 
AKUS Alison Krauss and Union Station
 
AS Allen Shadd
 
B. Bubba Charlie with a Martin model HD-28-666
 
BCH Berline, Crary, Hickman
 
BK Bryan Kimsey (see DOM) (not Burger King!)
 
BD  Brad Davis (not Bob Dylan, not Bo Diddley)
 
Bo Bo Parker
 
CK Cody Kilby
 
CL Claire Lynch
 
CS Charles Sawtelle
 
CTOO Charlie the other one (Charles Donaghe)
 
Darci Ms Darci Cotten who founded Cotten Music with her late husband, Richard
 
DBFS Dry Branch Fire Squad
 
DC Dan Crary
 
DG David Grier
 
Doc Doc Watson (also DW)
 
DOM Duke of the Mod (Bryan K)
 
F&S Flatt and Scruggs
 
FIK Fossil Ivory King (John Mickelson)
 
FPH FlatPickin Hipster (Mike Arant)
 
FPSB Claire Lynch and the Front Porch String Band
 
FQMS First Quality Musical Supply
 
GPEGS Grand Poobah Emeritus GAS Society (John Beaver)
 
GS George Shuffler
 
Jack Jack Lawrence
 
JH Jerry Hurst
 
Kim Kim Sherman
 
LRB Lonesome River Band
 
Modzilla Bryan Kimsey (aka DOM)
 
MC Mark Cosgrove
 
MOC Mark O'Conner
 
NBB Nashville Bluegrass Band
 
NGDB Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
 
NGR New Grass Revival
 
NB Norman Blake
 
Norman Norman Blake
 
N&R Norman Blake and Red Rector
 
Pistolero Allen Shadd (in celebration of his 1997 Winfield
 
 championship)
 
PM Peter McLaughlin
 
R&S (Don) Reno and (Red) Smiley
 
Rolly Rolly Brown
 
SPC South Plains College in Texas
 
TAFKASK The Artist Formerly Known as Steve Kaufman
 
TBGAB The BlueGrass Album Band
 
TBLP The Brown Liquor Pickers
 
TGOFKAPOD The Guitar Owner Formerly Known As Prince O'Darkness
 
TRU Tony Rice Unit (not to be confused with Toys'R'Us)
 
TWGSRGP The World's Greatest Second-Rate Guitar Player (John Novack)
 
WSM William Smith Monroe (Bill Monroe)
 
 WSM is also a country radio station in Nashville.
 










Mystery short hands
 
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