The Acronym Thread

[Ani]

With many new users venturing over to the SSS from the other HC forums, I thought it might be nice to come up with an acronym dictionary to help better serve communications.... There's probably a bit of redundancy between sites, but here are some sites that offer glossary/dictionaries to the most commonly used Internet acronyms...


http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/acronyms.php

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

http://www.magicpub.com/netprimer/acronyms.html

[Tedster]

I'm not going anywhere near those. I have acrophobia.

[Ani]

I thought you had ARACHNIPHOBIA with all of those creepy, crawling critters that like to sneak up your pant legs and tickle your knees....

How's the recluses doing this year?

[Tedster]

They've been good...haven't had a problem. But, y'know...I've come to the determination that that wasn't the problem. It's CA-MRSA...which is a very serious staph infection. In its early stages, it mimics a spider bite.

Words to the wise...any sort of thing that appears to be a spider bite...itchy...with a white center...(distinguishing it from a mosquito bite) that turns painful...see a doctor immediately...