2d. Acronyms and Vocabulary
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This article is from the rec.arts.bodyart Welcome & Netiquette FAQ, by Heidi Anderson with numerous contributions by others.
2d. Acronyms and Vocabulary
People save bandwith by using acronyms for oft-used phrases. There are
some terms you may encounter on RAB that you may not see in the "real"
world.
:) The colon and close-parenthesis characters are used to show a
smile (tilt your head to the left and read sideways. Other
smileys include ;) :-) 8-)
<g> grin, used to indicate humor
AFAIK: As far as I know
BB: BarBell
BCR: ball closure ring, used in Europe instead of CBR
BH: Butt-Head or Better Half
BME: Body Modification Ezine (http://bme.freeq.com)
BTW: By the way
CBR: captive bead ring
CBB: circular barbell, or curved barbell
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions. Most newsgroups have FAQ files to
help lessen the amount of traffic.
FWIW: For What It's Worth
FYI: For Your Information
ga: Short for "gauge", measurement of the thickness of jewelry.
IDTS: I Don't Think So
IIRC: If I remember/recall correctly
IMHO: In my humble opinion
IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion
JTYLTK: Just thought you'd like to know
JTYMLTK: Just thought you might like to know
LITHA: Leave it the hell alone. A method of healing piercings.
LMAO: Laughing my ass off
MOTOS: Members of the opposite sex, as in soc.motos
MOTSS: Members of the same sex, as in soc.motss
Ob: Short for "obligatory." A person who posts something remotely
related to a newsgroup topic may add "Ob..." at the end of
their post so they put in an obligatory word about the
pertinent subject.
ObBodMod:See above, as applied to a note about body modification.
OT: Off-topic (also sometimes used for On-Topic)
OTF: On The Floor
OTFL: On The Floor Laughing
OTOH: On the one hand; or, on the other hand.
PA: Prince Albert. A pierce through the urethra of a penis. For
more info on PAs, please refer to the body piercing FAQ.
There are many terms specifically regarding body pierces but
this one seems to come up most often.
RAB: Rec.Arts.Bodyart
RABbit: One who hangs out in RAB
RANA: Daver, the king of the RANA's, has not told anyone what this
stands for, to my knowledge. In any case, RANA awards are
given by Daver most Fridays (starting Feb, 2000, and continuing
sporadically throughout mid-2000), to the funniest, lamest and
bitchassiest posts of the previous week.
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RTF: Read the FAQ, often put at the beginning of posts directing
a reader to the FAQ.
RTFFAQ: Read the *friendly* FAQ.
SO: Significant Other
SSS: Surgical steel. Commonly used for body jewelry.
TAFN: That's All For Now
TTFN: Ta-Ta For Now
TTYL: Talk To You Later
WTF: What the f*ck
YMMV: Your mileage may vary.
blank: One who has no bodyart.
Celtic: A style of tattooing that incorporates the delicate knotwork
designs of the Celts (pronounced with a hard "K" and not a
soft "S" as in the basketball team).
Conch: The "bowl" of your ear.
delurk: To post a first message in a group, or to post an
introduction to yourself and/or your mods, or to post only
very infrequently in between "lurking".
Flash: Tattoo designs that you find stapled to the walls of tattoo
studios. The opposite of this would be a custom design you
bring in on your own.
Frenulum: The web of skin that connects your tongue to the bottom of
your mouth.
Frenum: A specific type of piercing on the penis.
Gun: Either a tattoo gun (modern tattooing machine) or piercing
gun. In RAB, tattoo guns are good, piercing guns are B-A-D
and should be used only for earlobes.
heidi: To pull a heidi is to injure a piercing due to carelessness
or inattention, coined when Heidi's nostril screw was pulled
out when her nose was bumped by a penis.
geoff: To geoff someone is to cause real-life implications for
bad on-line behavior. It was widely believed that the infamous
Dawn lost her job after Geoff informed her bosses of her tendency
to post inflamatory material from her work account. (The truth
may be more along the lines of "she quit", but the term lives on)
Lurk: Lurking. Reader of RAB who doesn't post. The act of
"delurking" involves a reader who posts for the first time,
or once in a great while.
mary: code for anatometal. Barry of Anatometal coined the term
himself, I believe, to prove that he wasn't here just for
the free advertising.
munch: meet + lunch. A gathering of RABbits.
mink: meet + drink. A gathering of RABbits.
navel: Please note spelling. It is not "naval".
Niobium: A type of metal that is "electrified" to produce any number
of combination of rainbow hues. Also an inert metal used for
body jewelry.
penis wrinkle: An insult once wielded by an inept self-flamer that
became a favorite in RAB. Now used to refer to a poster that,
in the process of trying to defend zirself after doing/saying
something particularly stupid, ends up digging zirself deeper
and deeper into a hole.
perforink: Combination of perforate and ink. One who is perforinked
is both pierced and tattooed.
plonk: Sound of someone being dropped into a KillFile.
Septum: The tissue between your nostrils. Site of a pierce.
Sludge: The name of the ASCII slug with which delurkers were once
greeted by Jay "Golgotha" Eaton.
slug: Refers to an unpierced tongue. Denise Robinson once made
the comment that kissing someone whose tongue was not pierced
was like licking a slug. Ever since, slug has been used
synonymously with tongue.
Squick: Verb: To gross out, feel revulsion. Alt.sex.bondage has been
cited as its origin, and comes from the sound made when one
copulates with the space between the 2 halves of a brain
after a hole has been bored into the skull (trepanation or
trephination).
Tat: Short for "tattoo"
tongue: Please note spelling. It's not "tounge".
troll: Posting deliberately inflamatory remarks to a newsgroup for
the sole purpose of stirring up controversy or trying to see
how big a thread will ensue. Obvious trolls, like "you are
a bunch of sickos" should be ignored.
Tragus: The triangle of cartiledge in the front of your ear.
Tribal: A tattoo style that's sometimes confused with Celtic. Often
called "blackwork," involves geometric primitive designs.
Uvula: The little dangly piece of flesh that hangs down the back of
your throat.
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