'Words' made out of the first letter of each word in a phrase. In some cases articles and such may be skipped, or the first two letters of some words may be incorporated.
ACRONYM (as an Acronym): Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse
AAA: Amazingly Appropriate Abbreviation
AAMOF: As A Matter Of Fact
AAMOFID: As A Matter Of Fact, I Do
ABFT: A Blue Fish Tuesday!
ADIDAS: All Day I Dream About Sex
ADN: Any Day Now
AFAIK: As Far As I Know
AIMB: As I Mentioned Before
AMCTATAM: And My Children, They All Turn Against Me!
AOA: Alive on Arrival
APA: Amateur Press Association
ASAP: As Soon As Possible
ASATISSFISSAMISS: All Statements Are True In Some Sense, False In Some Sense, And Meaningless In Some Sense
ASYOYO: Adios, Sucker(s) - You're On Your Own!
ATFTMIAJFA: After The First Two Minutes, It's All Just Friction Anyway!
ATSL: Along The Same line
ATST: At The Same Time
AWGTHTGTTA?: Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
BAC: By Any Chance
BAMN: By Any Means Necessary
BBS: Busted, Broke SysOp
BBBTAF: Bede, Bede Bede, That's All Folks!
BCNU: Be seeing you
BION: Believe It Or Not
BIP: Books In Print
BJN: Bungee Jump Naked
BNF: Big Name Fan
BOHICA: Bend Over Here It Comes Again!
BOID: Bend Over I'll Drive!
BRB: Be Right Back
BTSOOM: Beats The Shit Out Of Me
BTWTOE: By The White Thighs of Eris
BTW: By The Way
CBIP: Current Book In Progress
CCITT: Can't Conceive Intelligent Thoughts Today
CCITT: Confused Corporations In Thrall to Terror
CHEVROLET: Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
CHEVROLET: Cheap Heaps Erratically Vibrate Running On Level Even Terrain
CHRYSLER: Car Having Really Yucky Stupid Lazy Engine Runs
CMIIW: Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CU: See You
CUL8R: See You Later - also CUL
CYA: Cover your a-- (ASCII?)
DIIK: Damned If I Know
DILLIGAF: Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck
DILLIGAFF: Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fuck?
DLG: Devilish Little Grin
DNPM: Damn Near Pissed Myself
DOA: Dead on Arrival
DOAG: Dirty Old AndroGyn
DOM: Dirty Old Man
DOW: Dirty Old Woman
DUOE: Dried-Up Old Eunuch
DYSAF: Do You See A Fence?
DYTIMAMDTOBBTHOT: Do You Think I Made A Mistake, Dividing The One Brain Between The How-many-ever Of Them?
EMSL: Evil Mad Scientist Laugh
EOC: End Of Cosmos
EOD: End Of Discussion
EOF: End Of File
EOL: End Of Lecture
EOLAWKI: End Of Life As We Know It
EOM: End Of Multiverse
EOU: End Of Universe
ESAD: Eat Shit And Die
ESAL: Eat Shit And Live
FAPP: For All Practical Purposes
FAQIM: For A Quarter I Might!
FAQIW: For A Quarter I Will!
FAQOAMM: For A Quarter Of A Million, Maybe!
FBI: Female Body Inspector
FIAWOL: Fandom Is A Way Of Life
FIFO: First In, First Out
FITB: Fill In The Blank
FMR: Fuck Me Running!
FORD: Fast Only Running Downhill
FORD: Fix Or Repair Daily (backwards) Driver Returns On Foot
FORD: Found on Road (Dying or Dead)
FPOE: Favorite Position, Over Easy
FPOF: Five Pounds Of Flax!
FUBAB: Fucked Up Beyond All Belief
FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
FUBB: Fucked Up Beyond Belief
FUBS: Fidonet Used Book Squad
FUBS: Fucked Up Bull Shit
FUMTU: Fucked Up More Than Usual
FUWOTD: Fed Up With Off-Topic Discussion.
FWIW: For What It's Worth
FYD: For Your Divertissement
FYI: For Your Information
GAFIA: Getting Away From It All
GAFIATE: Verb form of acronym for fannish term: 'Getting Away From It All'
G,D&R: Grinning, Ducking, and Running
GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out.
GIWIST: Gee I Wish I'd Said That
GLG: Goofy Little Grin
GMTA: Great Minds Think Alike
GO PRI: Send Private Mail
GP SPM: Go Private; Send Private Mail
GR8: Great
GYNH: Glad You're Not Here
HAPRD: Had a perfectly rotten day
HARDEHAR: Here's a really dumb euphemism hardly anyone reads
HBI: Human Body Inspector
HCILYIYWLD: How Can I Love You If You Won't Lay Down?
HHOK: Ha, Ha Only Kidding
HHTYAY: Happy Holidays to You and Yours
IAC: In Any Case
IAE: In Any Event
IAAICIATW: I Am An Impressionable Child In A Tumultuous World
IANAC: I Am Not A Crook
IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer
IAO: Isis Apophis Osirus
IAW: In Accordance With
IBARFT: It's been a real fun time
IBFAIBRBIHBRF: It's Been Fun and It's Been Real, But It Hasn't Been Real Fun!
IBM: Ice Box Machines
IBM: Incredibly Boring Manuals
IBM: Inertia Breeds Mediocrity
IBM: Inferior But Marketable.
IBM-PC: Imbecile Business Machine - Permanently Crashes
IC: I See
ICOCBW: I Could, Of Course, Be Wrong
IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
IDTS: I Don't Think So!
IHYHWAHFI: I Hop, You Hop, We All Hop For IHOP
IIRC: If I Remember Correctly
IITYYHABBWYHIAM: If I Tell You: You Have A Beautiful Body, Will You Hold It Against Me?
ILIWTPCT: I Love It When The Plan Comes Together
IMCO: In My Considered Opinion
IMHO: In My (Humble or Honest) Opinion
IMNSHO: In My Not-So (Humble or Honest) Opinion
IMO: In My Opinion
IMOBO: In My Own Biased Opinion
IMOEBO: In My Own Extremely Biased Opinion
IMOMBO: In My Own Moderately Biased Opinion
IMOSBO: In My Own Slightly Biased Opinion
INMF: It's Not My Fault!
INPO: In No Particular Order
IOW: In Other Words
IRMC: I Rest My Case
ISHBAB: I Should Have Brought A Book
ISTBE: I Sing The Body Electric
ITOTTINCT: Is That Over The Top? I Never Can Tell!
ITSFWI: If the shoe fits, wear it
JAA: Jump Almost Always
JABBA: Just Another Brain-Boggling Acronym
JAIITA: Just Another Inmate in this Asylum!
JALNW: Just Act like Nothing's Wrong - Winston Smith
JAMOT: Just a Matter of Time
JAMs: Justified Ancients of Mummu
JANFU: Joint Army-Navy Fuck Up
JASA: Just Another Stupid Acronym.
JASSLA: Just Another Stupid Six-Letter Acronym
JAUM: Jeer at User's Mistake
JAVA: Just Another Virus Attack
JAWFTIB: Just Another Withdrawal from the Insanity Bank
JAWS Jabbering Amateur Wickedly Silenced
JBS: Jump and Blow Stack
JCI: Jump to Current Instruction
JEEP: Jinxed Engine has Extra Parts
JEEP: Jump Excitedly in Every Pothole.
JEEP: Jumps Everything Ever Parked
JEEP: Junk Each Eagle Produced
JEEP: Junk Eletrical and Emissions Parts
JEEP: Junk Engineering Executed Poorly
JEEP: Junk Everyone Eyes for Parts
JEEP: Just Eat Every Pickle.
JEEP: Just Eats Every Part
JEEP: Just Everyone Elses Parts
JEEP: Just Excrement Expensively Priced
JFM: Jump on Full Moon
JHRB: Jump to H&R Block
JIC: Just In Case
JITNOT: Just In The Nick Of Time
JK: Just Kidding
JMAT: JuMp on Alternate Thursdays
JOBF: Jump On BufFalo
JOBV: Jump On BeaVer
JOM: Jump Out of Memory
JOM: Jump Over Moon
JOP: Jump OPerator
JPA: Jump when Pizza Arrives
JRA: Just Rootin' Around.
JRAN: Jump RANdom
JRCF: Jump Relative and Catch Fire
JRGA: Jump Relative and Get Arrested
JRL: Jump to Random Location
JRRT: J.R.R. Tolkien
JRSR: Jump to Random SubRoutine
JSC: Jump on System Crash
JSNM; Just Stark Naked Magick
JSOR: Jump Somewhere Over Rainbow
JSP: Jump on Sexy Programmer
JSPS Just Some Poor Schmuck
JSU: Jump Self Unconditional
JT: Jump if Tuesday
JTC: Jump To Conclusions
JTT: Jump and Tangle Tape
JTZ: Jump to Twilight Zone
JWDYTYD-D: Just What Do You Think You're Doing Dave?
JWN: Jump When Necessary
KHYF: Know how you feel
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
KTBF: Keep The Baby Faith!
L8R: Later
LIFO: Last In, First Out
LINGO: Last In, Not Getting Out
LLAP: Live Long and Prosper
LLTA: Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LOL: Laughing Out Loud
LSL: Loud Screaming Laughter
LTMSH: Laughing 'Til My Sides Hurt
LTNT: Long Time, No Type
MBI: Male Body Inspector
MIDI: Maybe I'll Die Insolvent!
MIPS: Meaningless Index of Processor Speed
MLASS: Mind (or Memory) Like A Steel Sieve
MORF: Male OR Female?
MPE: My Point Exactly!
MYOB: Mind Your Own Business!
NATITIRI: Not Attempting To Imply That It's Really Important
NAO: Not An Option!
NBD: No Big Deal
NBL: Not Bloody Likely
NIMBY: Not in My Back Yard
NP: No Problem
NPOV: Neutral Point of View
NRN: No Reply Necessary
NTYMI: Now that you mention it
OAFE: On A Fishing Expedition
OAS: On Another Subject
OIC: Oh, I See
OOP: Out Of Print
OOTC: Obligatory On Topic Comment
OOTQ: Obligatory On Topic Quote
OTOH: On The Other Hand
OTTOMH: Off the Top of My Head
OTTOMHAROOB: Off the Top of My Head and Rolling Out of Bounds
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PFP: Pay For Play
PITA: Pain in the a-- (ASCII?)
PMETC: Pardon Me, ETC.
PMJI: Pardon My Jumping In
PNS: Pretty Neat Stuff
POEE: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood of Ἔρις (Eris) Esoteric
POV: Point Of View
PWYP: Practice What You Preach
RAH: Robert Anson Heinlein
RAM: Rarely Adequate Memory
RAW: Robert Anton Wilson
RAVE: Retch And Vomit Explosively
RHPS: Rocky Horror Picture Show
RIME: Ridiculous Idiots Mouthing Everywhere
ROFL: Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLASTC: Rolling On Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat.
ROTBA: Reality On The Blink Again
ROTF: Rolling On The Floor
ROTFLH: Rolling On Floor Laughing Hysterically
ROTFLMHO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Head Off
ROTM: Right On The Money
RSN: Real Soon Now
RTFM: Read The Fine Manual
RTFM [alternate]: The Joy of Sex.
SALFU: Such A Lovely Foul Up
SAONC: Slim and or No Chance
SAPFU: Surpassing All Previous Foul Ups
SASS: SysOps Against Stupid Signatures.
SCSI: System Can't See It
SFBC: Science Fiction Book Club
SITD: Still In The Dark
SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
SOL: Shit Out of Luck
SOP: Standing Operational Procedures
SOW: Speaking Of Which
SPS: Sve Poskupljuje Sutra
SQPWYC: Sit Quietly and Play With Your Crayons
SQWFYTF: So Quake With Fear, You Tiny Fools!
STNR: Signal-To-Noise Ratio
SUSFU: Situation Unchanged, Still Fouled Up
SYJHTSWTF: Sometimes You Just Have To Say: What The Fuck?
SYSOP: Snooty Yuppie Sitting On Potty
SYSOP: Sent Your Spouse Obscene Pictures
SYT: Sweet Young Thing
TANJ: There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU: Things Are Really Fouled Up
TAY: Talk Among Yourselves
TBITB: Twenty Bucks is Twenty Bucks!
TBSL: Turning Blue Stifling Laughter
TCB: Taking Care Of Business
TDIF: Thank Darwin It's Friday
TDINM: Thank Darwin It's Not Monday
TEINS: Thank Eris It's Not SweetMorn
TEIP: Thank Eris It's Prickle-Prickle
TGIF: Thank God It's Friday
TGINM: Thank God It's Not Monday
TIA: Thanks In Advance
TIAIO: This Is An Illegal Opinion
TIC: Tongue In Cheek
TINALO: This Is Not A Legal Opinion
TINAR: This Is Not A Recommendation
TLA: Three Letter Acronym
TOBAL: There Oughta Be A Law
TOBG: This Oughta Be Good
TPTB: The Powers That Be
TRDMC: Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TRQ: To Read Queue
TTBOMK: To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now.
TTIHLIC: Try To Imagine How Little I Care
TTMS: Talk (or Type) To Me Soon
TTYL: Talk (or Type) To You Later
UBS: Ubiquitous Bull Shit
UTFL: Use The Force, Luke!
WAMKSAM: Why Are My Kids (or Kitties) Staring At Me?
WANTDYLF: We Are Not The Droids You're Looking For
WAPWOT: What A Phenomenal Waste Of Time
WIBAMA: Well I'll be a Monkey's Aunt
WIBAMU: Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
WIDOIDRICSAS: When In Danger, Or In Doubt, Run In Circles, Scream And Shout!
WIHSIDABO: While I'm Having Sex, I Dream About Being Online
WIMP: Windows, Icons, Mice, Pull-down menus.
WMTA: Warped Minds Think Alike
WNAM: We Need A Miracle
WTANS: Will These Acronyms Never Stop?
WTIWW: Write This in Whiter Words!
WWED: What Would Eris Do?
WY: Wyoming, the obvious
WYBMADIITY: Will You Buy Me A Drink If I Tell You?
WYMM: Will You Marry Me
WYNIWYG: What You Need Is What You Get [claim of many systems]
WYPIWYF: What You Print Is What You FAX
WYPIWYG: What You Printed Is What You Got
WYRMITM: Will you respect me in the morning?
WYSAWYG: What You See Ain't What You Get [opposite of WYSIWYG]
WYSBYGI: What You See Before You Get It
WYSIAWYG: What You See Is (Almost or Approximately) What You Get
WYSIAYFWG: What You See Is All You're Fucking Well Getting!
WYSIAYG: What You See Is All You're Getting
WYSIC: What You See Is Crap
WYSINWYG: What You See Is Not What You Get
WYSITEOOWYG: What You See Is The Exact Opposite Of What You Get
WYSITWIRLS: What You See Is Totally Worthless In Real Life
WYSIWIS: What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYAG: What You See Is What You Almost Get
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
WYSIWYGD: What You See Is What You Get [duh!]
WYSLRN: What You See Looks Really Neat
WYTYSYDG: What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get
WYTYSYDS: What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't See
WYWH: Wish You Were Here
YAFA: Yet Another Fine Abbreviation
YATI: Yet Another Trivial Inconsistancy
YCFMIF: You Cannot Fire Me! I'm French!
YDAGWYPF: You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
YDAGWYW: You Don't Always Get What You Want
YGIAGAM: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine!
YGLT: You're gonna love this
YGWYPF: You Get What You Pay For
YIDBNWY: Yes I Do, But Not With You
YMMV: Your mileage may vary
YSLFIIFI: You're Still Looking For IT, I Found IT!
YWAY: You? Who Are You?
The Acronyms that we are considering here are mostly of the general internet messaging variety, sprinkled with some ingroup jokes such as develope in any group that hangs around together a lot. Some of them go back quite a ways, to at least the time of the first or second world war.
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