I have been reading these forums for a while now and I have a question!! What does IMO mean!!!????? I have been going mad trying to figure it out!! Someone please help me!!!!

In My Opinion...but that's just my opinion.

IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Honest Opinion
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed

These are those that I see the most on the forums.

Mike

IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

The ones that keep getting me (until I remember) is...

SBS = Step By Step

and...

DIY = Do It Yourself

:)

Jim

LOL= Laughing Out Loud----- which I do quite often here.
LMAO=Laughing My A** Off---- more frequently lately
ROF= Rolling On Floor---- going along with LOL
LMAOROF= combine above
LBC= Lost Bladder Control----- comes with old age, and reading some threads.

SOB=Still means what you think...

The ultimate tool for people of my age

Abbreviations.com

I always wondered what IIRC meant. Now I know . . . thanks.

HTH : hope this helps

I know what you felt, being non native English speaking, I had some fun time figuring out all those funny abbreviations.
A great thanks to Grumpyoldman for his input.

Olivier

THANK YOU!!! I feel much better. Now I can sleep peacefully tonight!

And my favorite hobby abbreviation: OOB (out of the box)

as in "I built this kit OOB, except for the Fruil tracks and photoetch sets #3, #4."

Or 'MOOB' (mostly out of box). My fav is SIBU (stuff in box useless).

Thanks everybody.

TTFN.....(ta-ta for now....)

AFAIK = As Far As I Know
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary

Think I'll join COCOA, the Campaign to Outlaw Contrived and Outrageous Acronyms....

acav out

Het Dave,
Sounds like you have a case of IWIK. I wish I knew.
Joe

Dave, how could you possibly sleep peacefully NOW with all these new "half-words" you're learning? I think it took me six months to finally do that after being "hammered" by all this online "part-talk." Don't get me going on texting!!!!!

Should keep this thread going....think of all the 2 to 6+ letter acronymns that are regularly used here....and those of us "oldtimers" that don't/didn't have a clue WTH (What The Heck) they meant and now will. SheeeeeeiiiiiiT.....I actually PM'd (Private Message'd) a member here to find out what IIRC meant! Yup, felt silly...but like you, drove me nuts trying to figure it out.

Anyhow, hope to see more "model" related ac'yees.

Mike

One other....took me a bit to figure out L8R...... Doh! Later.

We can't leave out modern military abbreviations, and if "foxhound" means the same in the USA as it does in the Canadian army, an infantryman will already know them:
ODS:Operation Desert Storm
OEF:Op Enduring Freedom
OIF: Op Iraqi Freedom

Cheers!

... and let's not forget the very shortlived Operation Iraqi Liberation.

OIL.

acav out

Well I'm a pretty young guy at 26 and am always texting with others and grew up with AOL chat so I am pretty knowledgabe with abbreviations (or figuring them out) but I just could not figure out what IMO meant!!!! It makes sense though so thanks once again!!!

I have several of those I like

BOHICA is right at the top of the list.

sure , you'll found youre answer allready?
Eric

How about KFOR? I know it was used in the Bosnia campaign (well, at least I think it was), but WTH does it stand for?

Cary, KFOR was NATO's Kosovo Force... not to be confused with IFOR (Intervention Force), SFOR (Stabilization Force) or UNPROFOR (UN's PROtection FORce).
That's another can of worms, though -UN and NATO acronyms...

OOOOOOOWWWWWW !!!!,Thanks for posting this. I`ve just used half of gallon of printer ink copying this,blow that for a lark refering backwards an forwards for definitions.
LOL,ROF ETC.

Mike,

IFOR was Implementation Force, not "Intervention"

Cheers
Graeme

Dare I....ESABATM

Eat s*&t and bark at the moon!