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Posted by: The Dark Knight

I thought I saw one here earlier. Any help with a link or if I'm mistaken on seeing it earlier...

Any help on a list would be much appreciated.

For instance, what is (a) GTG?

Posted by: Longfellow

GTG = Good Time Girl
GCG = Green Card Girl
FSU = Former Soviet Union
RW = Russian Woman
UW = Ukrainian Woman
AM (AW) = American Man (Woman)
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
Won't go into more standard web TLA's but to say to your post
LMAO! (JK)

Posted by: The Dark Knight

Thanks! Some I had figured out but that one was a baffler.

DK

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by The Dark Knight

Thanks! Some I had figured out but that one was a baffler.

DK

I know what you mean.
No doubt, in every web venue there is going to be some abbreviation that become common but are nonsensical to the newcomer.
Good to you for asking. Keep asking questions as you journey your path because there are many great people here who can offer solid advice and/or ideas worth considering.
Welcome to RMP!

Posted by: freebird

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Originally Posted by The Dark Knight

I thought I saw one here earlier. Any help with a link or if I'm mistaken on seeing it earlier...

Any help on a list would be much appreciated.

For instance, what is (a) GTG?

Sometimes the "Good time Girl" can also be referred to as a "professional dater" (FYI)

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by freebird

Sometimes the "Good time Girl" can also be referred to as a "professional dater" (FYI)

For example, dinner and a movie with Freebird on your arm will run you $400... oh but what a good time you will have!

Bear in mind, that's $400 Canadian dollars, so about a $5.98 here in the states. For an extra buck, you can get curling lessons included!!!
(kidding mate... oh, I should not submit that word or it'll cost more!) LOL

Posted by: Cheburashka

And of course, when dealing with the FSU one will inevitably mumble other acronyms like: WTF? and OMG!

Dark Knight welcome to the forum. You will like it here.

Posted by: freebird

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Originally Posted by Longfellow

Hey my first job as teenager was at a 7-11, the Americans would come in and complain that all their change came back in "monopoly money"
Don't look now Longfellow, our Canuck buck has gone up from $.64 (US) 4 years ago to over $.96 this month! When the Canuck Buck is worth more than the U.S., I think we will have to stop taking American Peso's up here! Cheers Mate!

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by freebird

No doubt! Our currency is going down the toilet faster than an unwanted pregnancy on grad night!
Just as soon as your pretty paper has better value than our greenbacks, I'll be sending plenty of scammer letters your way...
"My darling, I will come to be in your bed as soon as you pay my airfare!"
Be afraid... very, very afraid! LOL

Posted by: The Dark Knight

Back to topic: Is there a TLA list here or am I mistaken. I've looked but I can't find it (again).

Posted by: firemansam

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Originally Posted by The Dark Knight

Back to topic: Is there a TLA list here or am I mistaken. I've looked but I can't find it (again).

Nope, you are not mistaken, there is no official list here

Posted by: GentleGiant

If you come across one you don't get, just post it followed by "???" and some kind soul will explain it.
TBH I figure out most TLA from looking at the context; I mean WTF it isn't Rocket Science.
Currently listening to a BBC MP3 using a PC in my 3B SDH in UK; OK?

(And for all you users with dinky little 2" tall PC Speakers, I am using a QED Pre-Amp feeding a Crimson Electric Power Amp and out to a pair of 120watt RMS Gale 301 HiFi speakers).

AND IT SOUNDS AWESOME !!!!!

Posted by: firemansam

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Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

If you come across one you don't get, just post it followed by "???" and some kind soul will explain it.
TBH I figure out most TLA from looking at the context; I mean WTF it isn't Rocket Science.
Currently listening to a BBC MP3 using a PC in my 3B SDH in UK; OK?

(And for all you users with dinky little 2" tall PC Speakers, I am using a QED Pre-Amp feeding a Crimson Electric Power Amp and out to a pair of 120watt RMS Gale 301 HiFi speakers).

AND IT SOUNDS AWESOME !!!!!

TBH.. TLA...WTF..???
LMAO!!!!

Sam.

Posted by: Firestorm

For all those answers

))

http://www.jazz.erb.pl/akronimy.htm

Posted by: GentleGiant

There is one missing from that list.

TANSTAAFL

Anyone here know what it means??

Posted by: Longfellow

Quote:

Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

There is one missing from that list.

TANSTAAFL

Anyone here know what it means??

There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Posted by: deccie

Quote:

Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

There is one missing from that list.

TANSTAAFL

Anyone here know what it means??

Often used, if not coined by by RAH. He had another too..

Bibwyloaiwytbw is the full version although it is often written as BIBWYLO.
I leave it to others to find out what it means.

Two of my favourites are not TLA's but MLA's..
PEBKAC - Computer Support term for Dumb User - Stands for "Problem exists between Keyboard and Chair"

and

NATLA - "Not another Three Letter Acronym!"

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by deccie

Bibwyloaiwytbw is the full version although it is often written as BIBWYLO.
I leave it to others to find out what it means.

Heinlein is such a provocative fellow!

Be In Bed With Your Legs Open And I'll Wake You The Best Way

Posted by: GentleGiant

Don't remember coming across the 2nd one, which books did he use it in, I will go through my library and find them.

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

Don't remember coming across the 2nd one, which books did he use it in, I will go through my library and find them.

It is from "To Sail Beyond The Sunset"

Posted by: Firestorm

WYBMADIITY

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by Firestorm

WYBMADIITY

Will You Buy Me A Drink If I Tell You?
Make mine Akavit!

Posted by: Longfellow

I'm a member of AAAAA.

Ever heard of it?

Posted by: GentleGiant

It would be a lot easier to find the book if the shelves had not collapsed and dumped 4,500 books all over the bedroom.
I think that one is in the emergency stash still under the bed; when I get a free month I must put them back in alphabetical order.

Posted by: deccie

"To Sail Beyond the Sunset" is one of my RAH's all time favourite reads.
That, combined with "Time Enough for Love" and "Friday" would be my top three.

"Time Enough for Love" I get something out of it every time I read it.

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by deccie

"To Sail Beyond the Sunset" is one of my RAH's all time favourite reads.
That, combined with "Time Enough for Love" and "Friday" would be my top three.

"Time Enough for Love" I get something out of it every time I read it.

So hard to pick a favorite.
I am very fond of "Job: A Comedy In Justice" though "Time Enough For Love" also has some great philosophical values and a way of at chewing the hidden areas of ones psyche.

Posted by: GentleGiant

"Her nipples were erect; she was happy" lol made the worst description list in Playboy many years ago.
Still, Friday IS a great book; although as a young teenager "A Tunnel in the Sky" was my favourite.

Posted by: Longfellow

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Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

"Her nipples were erect; she was happy" lol made the worst description list in Playboy many years ago.
Still, Friday IS a great book; although as a young teenager "A Tunnel in the Sky" was my favourite.

Oh, no doubt! You raging hormone, you!
Isn't RAH such a spokesman to the pure, raw and un'refined' youthfulness we all cultivated. I hope I still have a smattering still left in me.
We need more great writers and fewer writers of 'wisdom' (read 'politically correct').

Posted by: deccie

One of the things I loved about RAH was his character's total mistrust of government and regulation.

I loved his use of the phrase "bread and circuses" which until I read the Wikipedia article I had no idea where it came from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Another I liked was the assertion that an indication of a breakdown of society is the cleanliness of public toilets. I don't assert that is necessarily true. But I do assert the breakdown in the small things that keeps our society a nice place to live could well be an indication of something more.

Heinlein is VERY challenging in some areas. Particulary some of the challenges he raises about sex.

Some of the gems he has in "time enough for Love"

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

And this one is defintely true when dealing with women!

"And another -- In a family argument, if turns out you are right -- apologise at once!"

Posted by: deccie

and this one is a classic..

"A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain."

Posted by: Longfellow

It drives back to "An armed society is a polite society".

This is not praise, but admonition that we digress to politeness because we are, mostly, unwilling to back up our true expression with our very lives.
We arm minimally (no personal responsibilty, ridiculous state responsibilty, and always finding a scapegoat... these days, aren't smokers the greatest cause of respiritory malady in the land? Not noxious spewing autos or industrial.. so much easier to blame the most powerless, minimal contributor - the individual) and to compensate we act with saccharin politeness towards the rest
.
As said in 'To Sail Beyond the Sunset':
"Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

For all the debate happening in threads here currently, perhaps RAH is most germain to addressing the topic.
I challenge those that are now deciding to look at these, older but increasing poignant, perspectives.

Freedom is about living up to credo, a high standard maybe none can match but all can aspire towards. It rarely matches a societal norm.
Let's define a mandate here.

One mans humble opinion...

Posted by: deccie

This has to be one of his more provocative ones!

"Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell."

Posted by: deccie

gosh, isn't this one true of modern society..

"Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so."

Posted by: deccie

And a quote of his in real life...

"I said that "Patriotism" is a way of saying "Women and children first." And that no one can force a man to feel this way. Instead he must embrace it freely. I want to tell about one such man. He wore no uniform and no one knows his name, or where he came from; all we know is what he did.
In my home town sixty years ago when I was a child, my mother and father used to take me and my brothers and sisters out to Swope Park on Sunday afternoons. It was a wonderful place for kids, with picnic grounds and lakes and a zoo. But a railroad line cut straight through it.
One Sunday afternoon a young married couple were crossing these tracks. She apparently did not watch her step, for she managed to catch her foot in the frog of a switch to a siding and could not pull it free. Her husband stopped to help her.
But try as they might they could not get her foot loose. While they were working at it, a tramp showed up, walking the ties. He joined the husband in trying to pull the young woman's foot loose. No luck �
Out of sight around the curve a train whistled. Perhaps there would have been time to run and flag it down, perhaps not. In any case both men went right ahead trying to pull her free... and the train hit them.
The wife was killed, the husband was mortally injured and died later, the tramp was killed � and testimony showed that neither man made the slightest effort to save himself.
The husband's behavior was heroic... but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him.
This is how a man dies.
This is how a man... lives!"

Posted by: Longfellow

DC,
All fabulous expressions of a great thinker and outstanding anarchist!
I think we should devote a thread to discussion of RAH (might turn out to be the longest running and most popular to date at RMP!)
Even sub-forum it into the maturation of his thinking by novel.
Of course, RMP is problably not the place, these threads exist elsewhere.

Still, it's nice to know there are kindreds like you and GG who share a passion for this 'novelty' of thought.
Here's to 'sweeping out the niche" , women and cats!!

Posted by: GentleGiant

Can I substitute "Squirrel" for "Hog"; I think I can cover all the others, although I am not sure anyone would want to work in a building I designed.

When it comes to politics, I always think of StarShip Troopers, not that awful, awful film, but the original book; only veterans are allowed to be citizens and allowed to vote; put your life on the line or shut up!!!
Perhaps our society is falling apart because we do the exact opposite, the only people NOT allowed to vote are the very ones ready to die to defend it.

Posted by: stevo

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Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

When it comes to politics, I always think of StarShip Troopers, not that awful, awful film, but the original book;

It's actually a really good film if you consider it ironic, which may well be the intent - although the stars are undoubtedly playing it straight.

Posted by: GentleGiant

That is the problem with it, the script is written as a pi$$ take but no one told the actors; I wont even mention the follow up, cos it stinks!!!

If anyone wants an up to date SciFi writer who goes deep, like Heinlein did before he got old and greedy, try Orson Scott Card; start with Enders Game and work your way through the two series that follow it and then try Wyrms; there is also a collection of short stories that features an early draft of Enders Game but be warned, one of the stories is not for the squeamish, I don't mean shock horror, it just gives me the creeps !!!
HURRY UP !! YOUR ASS IS DRAGON !!! THE ENEMIES GATE IS "DOWN"!!!!

I am waiting with a mix of anticipation and dread for the film; how badly will they fcuk it up??

Posted by: stevo

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Originally Posted by GentleGiant2

That is the problem with it, the script is written as a pi$$ take but no one told the actors;

Surely that makes it all the better

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I wont even mention the follow up, cos it stinks!!!

Never seen it but I assumed that would be the case...

Posted by: GentleGiant

If they were good actors or really bad actors then it might have worked, but at best they were mediocre actors, so dull you could not relate to the characters; the follow up was more like a cartoon than a serious attempt.
But the thing that really got to me was how they acted as soldiers WTF!!!! Whoever planned the combat scenes has never seen a war film and thought it should look just like a prison riot coming over the horizon; a couple or Paras or Royal Marines could have wiped the floor with the lot of them.
A five year old could organise a better combat formation.

Posted by: Longfellow

But one must attempt to wipe out a species capable of farting so powerfully that the aloquat can reach escape velocity and destroy an orbiting ship!
Such uncouth bugs! LOL