Hi all!

My SWMBO is not a fan of AM because I spend too much money on them in my LHS . She thinks I have AMS ! IMO she's right since I buy every new PE set ASAP. But since I want to win this month's MOM I just can't build an AFV OOB ! I don't know if this is the right DG , if not just PM me! THX

If you were able to read this, you are an Armorama veteran! If not, you are probably a rookie!
The first time I was here I didn't understood half the messages because of "strange words" I couldn't find in a dictionnary: SWMBO, ASAP, IMO, AM, PE, DG, OOB etc...
I don't think there is an Armorama dictionnary for those words, why couldn't we make one?
The rules are simple: I'll edit the list below each time someone comes with a new one! After a while I think we will have hundreds of them and if someone new asks for some explanation, he could be pointed in the right direction.

Dictionnary for Armorama users:

A
AM = After Market
AMS(1) = Advanced Modeler Syndrome
AMS(2) = After Market Syndrome
ASAP = As Soon As Possible
AFV = Armoured Fighting Vehicle
B
BTW = By The Way
D
DG = Discussion Group
DIY = Do It Yourself
F
FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions
FOTM = Figure Of The Month
FYI = For Your Information
H
HTH = Hope that helped
HWMBO = He Who Must Be Obeyed (rarely used)
I
IIRC = If I Remember Correctly (?)
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
L
LHS = Local Hobby Shop
LMHO = Laugh My Heart Out
LMAO = Laugh My A.. Out
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
M
MOM = Model Of the Month
M
NP = No Problem
O
OD = Olive Drab
OMG = Oh My God
OOB = Out Of the Box
P
PE = Photo Etched
PM = Private Message
R
ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
S
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed (wife or girlfriend)
T
THX = Thanks
U
UOM = User Of the Month
Y
YMMV - Your Milage May Vary

You can post some more but don't forget to add the explanation...

Jean-Luc

Armoured Fighting Vehicle.

Dave

ROFL

Good one Jean-Luc.

Yesterday a romantic story by Easyoff. Today a short story by JL. Perhaps we should have an AOTM (Author of the month) or a SOTM (Story of the month) I better stop here, this is begining to sound like a music award. :-)

BTW - By The Way
IIRC - If I Remember Correctly (?)
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

You're kidding about the AFV right??

LMAO=laughing my ass off
ROFL=rolling on floor laughing
OMG=Oh my God
and many more.....
cheers!

if need more to know about this jargon please check this

Great post!

Thankfully my time spent on other forums has given me an insight into most abbreviations.

I’m also young enough to have got in to text speak (what it’s called over here) and old enough for it not to have tarnished my written skills for good. I still have lads, well gents, in the office going “what does lmao mean again” and “LOL – I think ‘he’ loves me! NO!!!”

Took me a while to work out LHS

Actually AMS is Advanced Modeler Syndrome. You can suffer AMS even if you don't use after market parts. Scratchbuilders usually are vicitims of AMS.

Oh, and one more to your list:
HTH = Hope that helped


HTH
Pawel

About 3 years ago there was a thread about Military acronyms - CF Charlie Fox Cluster F, SNAFU situation normal, MRE etc etc
This one is taking a small shift...

LMAO - laughing my a off
YMMV - Your milage may vary

Don't ask me i've got NFI (no F*#king idea) :-) :-) :-)

Scott,

I've always wondered what the "YMMV" in your signature meant... thanks to Engin's link I found out.... and let me just say, it really is a philosophy more of us need to folow...

For those interested:

We do/did have a glossary of terms here at Armorama: http://figures.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Glossary&file=index

So THAT's what SWMBO means! LMAO, LMAO, LMAO!

Hi all!

Thanks for your replies and links (Engin ), as Robin pointed out, this was made before, so we can consider this to be some kind of an "update" of the previous list...

I edited the "dictionnary" until that post but we can find more I think!

Jean-Luc

P.S Err... Rudi.. no I wasn't kidding, I didn't knew what the F meant in AFV... but you know I'm French. That's a good excuse!

I know everybody will think I'm stupid, but it took me forever to figure out what a DIY store is. Do It Yourself...........DUH.

Patrick

FUBAR-F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
Always loved that one. :-)
Kyle

LMAOROF....... now I'm wondering what all these would look like in French, or German, or Spanish, etc..... :-) :-)

hehehe, NP (that's "No Problem" ).... wasn't sure if you were pulling the Mickey... Armoured French Vehicle?

En outre, mon bon ami, votre anglais est meilleur que mon... merci traducteur français "Babel Fish" - not sure if that last bit is correct... :-) :-) :-)

Here is one that only applies to people in Asia.

KNNBCCB

I fear to elaborate on it but people in the army there will know this one straight away. :-) In short, its not a form of polite greeting and often used for "highlighting" a point.

Isn't "The Brick-and-Mortar" (Spelling?) also another name for the LHS? (Which really isn't all that local, by the way.... ) Thanks for your time.

Two different things:

Brick and Mortar refers to an actual store as opposed to an online store (no real walk in store front, just internet sales).

LHS or local hobby shop is the nearby (to you) store you frequent. It will aways be a "brick and mortar" store.

LMAO..... you hit that on the nail there Jeremy..! :-) :-) :-)

I suggest you not elaborate..

PUFO

An old RAF term used by observers in open cockpit aircraft before proper intercoms were installed.At the end of the mission he would pass a note to the pilot with this written on it.

Pack Up and F*** Off

Well that does it SWAMBO must be right and I do have AMS even thought I build mostly OOB and stear clear of most AM. Can't seem to pass the LHS by without taking a peek inside...

and to top it all off I knew what every one of those "strange words" meant..

it also was a help that I was on the computers in the early days and was able to learn most of the common words and smilies as they were being developed and catching on with the mainstream public... (smilies started out as a way for early computer programers to sign their work, I.E. their programming code.... (this was before any type of windows software) .

and to show yall how old I am i'll tell ya when that was..

1986 on a thing called Compuserve... with a Commodore 64 Computer with a whopping 64k of memory, and a 300 baud... (thats right 300 baud) compare to 56k which is dialup right now means 56,000).....

it would take an hour to play the text version of Star Trek agaist someone.. LOL ..

and when the World Wide Web opened up I was right there at the head of the line.. Techno Weenie that I am..

LOL; "lol" really means "fun / pleasure" in Dutch!

But heh... would our female members than have a HWMBO?
Or are they just more clever than the guys here? :-)