General Hospital - MESSAGE BOARDS

Ok I don't know if I am alone on this or not but...
I feel reading some posts i have no idea what they are talking about because i dont know what such and such is.

So my question is what is TPTB (i think thats right) and if you can think of something you think someone else might not get please post it.

We can start a message board dictionary !!!!

SID-Soaps in Dept
SOW-Soap Opera Weekly


This has been bothering me for a while so now i am doing something about it...hehe.

IMHO is also read as "in my honest opinion"

OP is sometimes "original poster"

Took me forever to figure out the lingo. Now it seems like 2nd nature and I'm having a hard time thinking of stuff to put here.

A thread like this was created about a year ago... and was closed since it wasn't GH related. And somehow I managed to get a copy of the accronyms. So here they are....

AAT -- And Another thing
AFAIK -- As Far As I Know
ATTN -- Attention
BRB -- Be Right Back
BTDT -- Been There Done That
BTW -- By The Way
CUL (CUL8R) -- See you later
DGMW -- Don't get me wrong
DGMS -- Don't get me started
EG -- Evil Grin
EOM -- End of Message
FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
FF -- Fast Forward
FOD -- Face of Deception
FUBAR -- F'd Up Beyond Any/All Recognition
FWIW -- For what it's worth
FYI -- For your information
G -- Grin
GAL -- Get A Life
GMAB -- Give Me a Break
GMTA -- Great Minds Think Alike
HTD -- Have to Disagree...
ICAM -- I Couldn't Agree More
ICHSIB -- I Couldn't Have Said It Better
ID -- I Disagree
IDTS -- I Don't Think So
IMHO -- In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO -- In My Not-so-humble opinion
IMO -- In My Opinion
IOW -- In other words
IRL -- In Real Life
IRT -- In Real Time
ISC -- I Stand Corrected
ISP -- Internet Service Provider
ITA -- I Total Agree
JAT -- Just A Thought
JK -- Just Kidding
JMHO -- Just My Humble Opinion
JMNSHO -- Just My Not So Humble Opinion
JMO -- Just My Opinion
LMAO -- Laugh My Ass Off
LOL -- Laughing Out Loud
LOLBAY -- Laughing Out Loud Back At You
NRN -- No response necessary
OIC -- Oh, I see
OMG -- Oh My God
OT -- Off Topic
OTOH -- On the other hand
PITA -- Pain In The Ass
POV -- Point of view
RL -- Real life
RME -- Rolling my eyes
ROTFL -- Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO -- Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTFLMAOPMP - Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Peeing My Pants
SORAS -- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
STS -- Sorry to Say
TAF -- That's All Folks
TDSIC -- The Dumb Sh!ts In Charge
TIA -- Thanks In Advance
TIC -- Tongue in cheek
TIIC -- The Idiots in Charge
TMI -- Too Much Information!
TPTB -- The Powers That Be
TTFN -- Ta-Ta for Now
TYVM -- Thank You Very Much
VWP -- Very Well Put
WAGS -- What A Great Story
WTG -- Way to go
YAAG -- You Are A Genius
YTTM – You Talk to Much

One that had me confused for a long time was

MOC = Marriage of Convenience

STFU---- Shut the F*&K up
Eppy---- Episode
MB----- Message Board
Bwaahahahaha--- and REALLY loud and deep laugh
Snark---- Hilarious commentary about the ridicuolousness of GH

^^^ She did not write a LONG post..... its called copy and paste.

Hi Mary!

Thanks very much for the list of acronyms. I had figured out some of them, but have been baffled by others for ages. Now at last I know what SORAS and ROTFL means.

Not sure if these were mentioned...

OTT: Over the top
OOC: Out of character

OLD = Obessive Liason Disorder

I really need to print these out somewhere so I don't have to hunt this thread when I don't catch the board lingo!