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ACRONYMS (and things that look like them)
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(Note: the purpose of this list is to provide folks with a place where
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they can find out what all of those strange acronyms they see in here
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mean without having to write a lot of "What is that?" messages (good-
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ness knows we've enough traffic in here already.) Please don't deluge
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me with obscure acronyms unless they're actively in use in here...)
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AFAIK: As Far As I Know
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APA: Amateur Press Association. Sort of like this bulletin board
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only each member prints up his/her own comments and passes
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them to the Official Collator (or Official Editor) to fasten
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together and distribute copies to members. Most appear
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monthly or quarterly, but there is at least one yearly one
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(WOOF - the Worldcon apa) and a weekly (gisp) one, APA-L,
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collated and distributed at LASFS meetings.
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AWGTHTGTTA?: Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
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Alternative form is AWGTHTGTATA (...Through ALL This
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Again?).
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BNF: Big Name Fan
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BOOF: A typo for "book" which appears to have caught on. It
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means "book".
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BTW: By The Way
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DUFF and TAFF: Respectively the Down Under Fan Fund and the Trans
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Atlantic Fan Fund (funds to import fen from same for World-
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cons.) A Mid Atlantic Fan Fund for well known fuggheads is
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occasionally suggested...
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DUOE: Dried-Up Old Eunuch. To quote Jo Peshek "An organization of
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folks who have thoughts about things other than sex. We do
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occasionally think about sex, but it isn't an exclusive
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subject in our lives. In other words, we have brains as well
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as hormones."
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FBT: Frigging Blue Turtleoid. Refers to the gigantic blue six
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legged turtle like critter with several people tied to its
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back which appears on the cover of John DeChancie's novel,
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CASTLE KIDNAPPED. It does not appear anywhere INSIDE the
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book. (Upon his visit to the LA, John was presented with a
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Super Sculpy model of an FBT by yours truly which may ex-
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plain why he has gone home again, heh, heh...)
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FIAWOL: Fandom Is A Way Of Life
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FIJAGH: Fandom Is Just A Ghoddam Hobby (or possibly "Ghu-dam
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hobby" if you're into invoking fannish ghods [personally I
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like The Great Spider or The Church of Herbangelism -
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"Praise Herbie and Pass the Buck"], note also the fannish
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insertion of silent "h"s into things, such as "bheer".)
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FIJASOI: Fandom is Just Another Source of Income
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FITB = Fill In The Blank....
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FYI: For Your Information
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GAFIATE: Get Away From It All (as in drop out of Fandom)
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GIWIST: Gee I Wish I'd Said That
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IITYWIMWYBMAD: If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a
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drink?
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IMHO: In My Humble Opinion. Also IMNSHO: In My Not-So Humble
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Opinion and IMOBO: In My Own Biased Opinion.
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INPO: In No Particular Order
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LASFS: The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which is the
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oldest continuously meeting science fantasy society in this
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world. Founded on October 27th, 1934, it settled on weekly
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Thursday meetings by the end of 1939, and has an unbroken
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record ever since, including Thanksgivings. It can current-
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ly be found at: 11513 Burbank Blvd., N. Hollywood, CA 91601
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telephone (818) 760-9234.
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LLTA: Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
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LOL: Laughing Out Loud
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NASFiC: North American Science Fiction Convention (aka North
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AmeriCon)
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OOK!: This is not an acronym - it's the abbreviated form of Ook
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ook slobber drool!" This started out as "Ook ook!" which Ed
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Buchman introduced to the LASFS claiming a strange lady told
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him it meant "your pleasure centers had been diddled." He
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soon modified it to the longer form. Lee Gold, who was LASFS
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secretary at the time says that once at a LASFS auction when
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Pelz was auctioning off a thingie looking like a toilet bowl
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and lid, Ed exclaimed "Ook Ook Slobber Drool!", Bruce asked
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Lee for a definition, and Lee defined it as a bid amount.
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So an "Ook" is worth $.50, a "Slobber" is $.75 and a "Drool"
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is $1, and OOSD = $2.75.
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OOTC: Obligatory On Topic Comment
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POV: Point Of View
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ROFLASTC! (or ROFLASC!): Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scar-
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ing The Cat. Originated, I'm told by Pamela Dean, who types
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with a cat on her lap.
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RSN: Real Soon Now
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RTFM: Read The Fershlugginer Manual
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SFBC: Science Fiction Book Club
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SFWA: Science Fiction Writers of America
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SMOF: Secret Masters of Fandom
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SPAM: SPiced hAM or something like that. A brand of semiedible
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canned meat referred to in a famous Monty Python's Flying
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Circus sketch.
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ST:TOS, ST:TNG: Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The
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Next Generation
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TANJ: There Ain't No Justice
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TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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TINAR: This Is Not A Review
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TPTB: The Powers That Be
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TTBOMK: To The Best Of My Knowledge
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TTFN: Ta Ta For Now.
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WAMKSAM: Why Are My Kids (or Kitties) Staring At Me?
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WYLABOCTGWTR, WYLASOMWTC: Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go
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With That Remark?, Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With That
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Comment? Created by Steven Brust (& common in Minneapa)
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YATI: Yet Another Trek Inconsistency
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YMMV: Your mileage may vary.
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y'yin quap'je: A Klingon salutation used by Gary Akins, it trans-
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lates approximately as "survive and succeed". |