I'm thick...

[FATBOYPEE]

Help me out willya, acronyms are not my strong point. WHAT THE FK is LOL ? wot does it stand for, I'm happy to be called stupid over this, it's a 'given' as they say.....

just put me out of my misery....

BPF

[Ianpbaker]

Laugh Out Loud

[beachbum]

LOL = Laugh Out Loud in chat parlance but i wont hassle u cause when i first saw BRB (Be Right Back) i thought it signified a burp

[chrismitchell]

LMFAO... Laugh My ****ing Ass Off
ROTFLMFAO ... Rolling On The Floor Laughing My ****ing Ass Off

A couple more to help

[FATBOYPEE]

Ok, so I Woz thick....

Thanks for that.....

BPF

[MartinSmith]

Hey FatBoyPee I am so glad that you asked that question because I have been thinking that it means Lots of Love all this time!

[Jim Brown]

OK, so what's BPF.....

[nullus]

i got another one. what's IMHO?

[beachbum]

In My Humble Opinion
i dont use tho cos is a bit of a ****** one

[nullus]

haha, yeah, don't think i'll be using that one

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by Jim Brown
OK, so what's BPF.....

Boy Pee Fat, maybe?

[nullus]

Bouncy Pants (are) Fun?

[Jim Brown]

Someone put IMNSHO in here somewhere recently, which I suppose is a 'Not So' humble opinion.

TTFN.

[beachbum]

Thats that for now?
TAADMN!!!!!

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by Jim Brown
TTFN

Please, just... don't.

"Cheerio" is so much better.

[Jim Brown]

Close, beachbum, good guess: TaTa For Now.

Comes from an English radio program a few decades ago. What show was it again, Duncan. Round the Horne or something was it not?

[MartinSmith]

Originally posted by Jim Brown
OK, so what's BPF.....

In the Chat Room context I have no idea but...

According to this link

BPF Stands for "Bat Performance Factor". It goes on to explain...

Bat Performance Factor is a partly-measured, partly- calculated number to describe how much "pop" (trampoline) effect you can expect your bat to have.

To make a long story short: if an average batter can take your bat and hit a 100mph pitched softball to a batted speed of 115mph, or 1.15 times the ball's original speed, we would say that your bat has a 1.15 BPF

In a laboratory, the bat in question is affixed to a special clamped apparatus, and then a pitching gun and multiple radar guns are assembled nearby.

The pitching gun then fires a regulation softball of 0.47 COR/350 lb hardness rating at the bat's "sweet spot" with a measured speed of 100 mph.

When the ball deflects off the bat, a radar gun then measures the ball speed a second time. Simultaneously, the bat rotates backwards from the blow, and more measurements from that rotation are used to calculate the absorbed kinetic energy.

After all the measurements are taken, a batted-ball speed is calculated. If the ball deflects off the bat at a calculated 118 mph, when the original ball speed was 100mph, then the BPF is 1.18 for that bat.

This measurement is repeated several times at slightly different "sweet spot" locations, and then an average rating is taken for that bat.

As you might guess, some bats trampoline more than others. By using all kinds of fancy technology, like nitrogen gas bladders, concentric sleeves, and cryogenically -tempered alloys, manufacturers can achieve higher BPF trampoline effect. These high-tech bats are expensive, as you might guess, but they can achieve amazing trampoline effect. In recent years, some bats have attained BPFs of over 1.40.

[Jim Brown]

I got bitten by a bat once.

[beachbum]

Gawd i hate Jane Austen... but was it Emma or something where the whole plot rested on a misunderstood acronym? ie SWALK

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNBMBMBM (acronym for the batman theme )

[Jim Brown]

Beat's me. The only JA I ever read was P&P which was under severe duress because it was a setwork in my final year at High School. But hey, everyone's got to make a living eh?

(She probably hates reading VB code. (Unless you fill the comments with all sorts of literary illusions and stuff.)) Or is it alusions. Not sure.

Which reminds me... a colleague refuses to put comments in his code. He says if it's difficult to write, it should be difficult to read. Trouble is, I think he was being serious.)

[filburt1]

Originally posted by FATBOYPEE
Help me out willya, acronyms are not my strong point. WHAT THE FK is LOL ? wot does it stand for, I'm happy to be called stupid over this, it's a 'given' as they say.....

just put me out of my misery....

BPF

http://www.comnet.ca/~tatsall/net_abrev.htm

[beachbum]

Golly gosh and jeepers
That site is sooo sweet and considerate to censor the real meaning of some acronyms and leave out those naughty naughty ones.
Toodle loo

[Jim Brown]

If 'AFK' means what they say, HTF do you type it in

[beachbum]

Originally posted by Jim Brown
If 'AFK' means what they say, HTF do you type it in

Well i always do ITPOMAFK to ensure the proper use of tense. And i could add a T before the K for correct grammar.

[filburt1]

Voice regonition software or:

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by Jim Brown
Close, beachbum, good guess: TaTa For Now.

Comes from an English radio program a few decades ago. What show was it again, Duncan. Round the Horne or something was it not?

Couldn't tell you (I'm old, but not that old). It's had a bit of a resurgence in recent years, though, and it drives me mad. I don't know why - I just have a thing about it.

[InvisibleDuncan]

One I'm rather fond of is used by our Technical Support team to describe user error: PEBCAK.

Problem exists between chair and keyboard.

[beachbum]

Well if they were AFK using the onscreen keyboard would they ever be BAK and if so would they use the onscreen keyboard or the real one to say so? Should they say "AF physical K and am notifying with the onscreen keyboard and hence not technically AFK quite yet". What if it took too long to type on the onscreen keyboard and before they were actually AFK they had actually become BAK on the physical keyboard.

[Jim Brown]

OK, I'll bite: ***s ITPOMAFK

[beachbum]

Hey Jim, Flobbert wiped ur cabaret thread!! In The Process of Restarting this Thread elsewhere

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...threadid=98257

[Jim Brown]

Yeah I saw- I'm FPO about that.

I'll be AFK soon, because I'm GH. But I'll be BAK ITM when I CTW.

TTFN all.

[Jim Brown]

And he better keep his hands off my jokes in 97319....

Ah sh*t, I'm advertising again.....