You Gay Monkey... YGM, and other misconceptions

[Apostle 83]

Allright, its time. After talking with a respected member of sysopt who shall remain anonymous (unless mattheadfat, who is the only one ive told blabs on the guy), and finding out he thought YGM means you gay monkey, its time to post internet acronyms.

Here are a few basics from me

1) YGM-you've got mail
2) ROFL-rolling on floor lauging
3) DDDD-dont do dat duphis!
4) j/k-just kidding

[medo]

Hello,

Yes, I found those short words (slang or whatever) extremely difficult to understand and sometimes I do not dare to answer some topics because I am afraid of misunderstanding. OK I have excuse - English is my second language and things will go better because I am now forced to use it daily.

Medo

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[U-96]

hehe "you gay monkey" hehehe

kinda reminds me of that joke about the employee who thought his bosses "F.Y.A" (For Your Attention) notes meant "**** You ***hole!"...

LOL - Laugh Out Loud, or Lots of Laughs
FYI - For Your Information
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion (read I AM RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )
404 - depending on context, lost, confused, unknown, unsure, nowhere to be seen

U-96

[Dave_H]

Thats pretty good,
I'm LMAO
Dave

[pickel]

At one time,when fairly new to the world of computers, someone put on a post..YGM...
I thought it meant.."your a gay man" and at that time I really didn't know how to take it
Zotzmeim strightened me out. BTW on a licence
plate in the Big Apple(N.Y.City) Take the first letter of each word,put a dot or period after each letter and there you have it.Pronounced with a Italian inflection.

United Precision Pistol Association of(silent) the(silent) United States

This guy was from out on Long Gyland,even.

[OuTpaTienT]

In online games (Quake 2/3 etc.) you sometimes see these:
gg - Good Game
ns - Nice Shot
n1 - Nice one
gs - Good Shot
brb - Be Right Back
bbl - Be Back Later

And others seen everywhere,
LMAO - Laughing My *** Off
ROTFLMAO - Rolling on the Floor LMAO (sometimes with LOL)
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
OTOH - On The Other Hand
WTF - What The *oops*, guess I better stop here.

TTYL (talk to you later) or TTFN (ta ta for now)
OuT (outpatient)

[plucky duck]

Hey, I can't find them anywhere in the dictionary.

Apostle 83 - YGM (hint: its nothin' to do with mail), hehehe...

There should be a legend posted somewhere in this forum so newbies won't get the wrong idea and start a flame war or somethin', just an idea guys.

"YOU GAY MONKEY"...hehehe

Plucky Duck

[Apostle 83]

Young Gay male... plucky... You made me laugh. I no longer dislike you. Come join the family my boy!

By the way, never ever call me a young gay male again. I'll cry!

[OuTpaTienT]

I guess it all depends on your self esteem and how your view yourslef. For example, I just figured YGM meant You're Great Man. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Apostle 83]

How about "Young Girly Man"

[This message has been edited by Apostle 83 (edited 02-08-2000).]

[Apostle 83]

How about "Young Ghandi Man"

Thats worse than bein gay though....

[plucky duck]

Apostle 83 - thanks. I think that we all should be one big happy family. With a family comes trust. It'll make it easier for everybody to do some fun lovin' internet trades without ever worrying 'bout ever getting jipped or ripped off.

"I love you, you love me, we are best friends and family, in a great big hug and a kiss from me to you, won't you be my (buddy)too."

Don't even ask. No, I don't watch it everyday. Somehow the song's just stuck in my head.

Anybody get any goosebumps? hehehe...

Your warm and wonderful purple duck,
Plucky

[Warthog]

Apostle, that's so random and stupid that I'm almost ROFL!!!

Young Ghandi Man....You guys crack me up. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Hey I've got one - "Yodeling Grand-Ma"

Warthog

[netsurfer]

OuTpatient,

My favorite Q2/Q3 (or generally any FPS online game) term of all: OWNED

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[cyphen]

Yeltsin's Glutious Maximus???