[blml] abbreviations [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Jeff Easterson:

>>Ahoy blml!  In the 4-5 days since I last wrote about abbreviations
>>used not in the list, following abbreviations have appeared.
>>
>>WTP
>>TP
>>IBTD
>>IIRC
>>ZA
>>np (possibly this was a typo).
>>Can anyone supply me with meanings for the above?  Am I the only
>>blmler frustrated when encountering abbreviations not on the list
>>and which he doesn't recognise.  (A few seem to be "internet
>>slang".  But are all of us experienced internet users?  I'm not.)
>>Ciao, JE

Jerry Fusselman:

>WTP What's the problem
>
>IIRC If I recall correctly
>
>ZA  Zonal authority.
>
>That leaves
>TP
>IBTD
>np (possibly a typo)

Richard Hills:

TP = total points, IBTD = I beg to differ, np = no problem.

As a matter of my personal blml netiquette, the only abbreviations
that I use are "bridge" abbreviations, not internet jargon.  So I
used HK as meaning "heart king" not "Hong Kong".  (The reason that
I use HK instead of KH is to be consistent with H3 the card and 3H
the bid).  Meanwhile, I spell out in full "in my opinion" rather
than use the jargon IMHO.

*     *     *

"Netiquette on blml" posting 17th June 2004:

As some day it must happen
   that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list -
   I've got a little list
Of blml offenders
   who might well be under ground
And who never would be missed -
   who never would be missed!

There's the pestilential nuisances who write large monographs,
   Those posters who write flabby text in endless paragraphs -
All pedants who obscurify, and "autochthon" you flat -
   All persons who in quoting you, misquote your posts like *that* -
And all rude writers who on four-letter words insist -
   They'd none of 'em be missed - they'd none of 'em be missed!

CHORUS.

He's got 'em on the list -
   he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed -
   they'll none of 'em be missed.

There's the threading serenader, and the others of their race,
   And the pre-prandialist - I've got them on the list!
And the people posting polemics, who flame it in your face,
   They never would be missed - they never would be missed!
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
   All likely Laws but ours, and every country but his own;
Plus the weirdo from the provinces, who writes rubbish as a crank,
   And who doesn't read the Lawbook, but still SOs will spank;
And that singular anomaly, the pseudo-humorist -
   I don't think they'd be missed - I'm sure they'd not be missed!

Best pseudo-witty wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6225 6285

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