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.
 




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