Acronyms in AH and this BBS

[Midnight]

Here are some...

AH = Aces High
AW = Air Warrior
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
BBS = Buletin Board Service/System
BH = Bomber Hanger
FH = Fighter Hanger
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
LMAO = Laughing My Arse Off
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
VH = Vehicle Hanger
WB = War Birds
WTF = What The F  ck
WTG = Way To Go (Insert F before G for F  cking)
YOYO = You're On Your Own

What are some others?

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[flakbait]

IMNSHO - In my not so humble opinion
IIRC - If I recall correctly

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Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School
"During the Battle of Britain the question 'fighter or fighter-bomber?'
had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier
with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won." Adolph Galland
 

[RAM]

FYI= For Your Information

AIGF= All In Good Fun

RTB= Returning To Base

J/K =Just Kidding

OTOH= On The Other Hand.

SOB= well known member of the FDBs Squad    

FDBs= Fat Drunk Bastards

RAM= Really Astute Man (hehehehe    )



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[Jimdandy]

My pet peeve:

CC=COPY, I acknowledge your statement. (cc of course being the old symbol for carbon copy dating back to the days before the photo copier.   )
RGR=YES!

[funked]

STFU - Shut The ____ Up
RTFM - Read The ____ing Message
WTF - What The ____

[SOB]

AFK - Away From Keyboard
RTFM - Read the squealing Manual (i was in tech support, that's the true meaning!   )
B - Beer or Booze or Bacon or Bean Burrito or Boobies..."gotta get some B!"
SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F'ed Up
RAM - Random Access Mouth    (I'm sorry, I had to)
DDA - Damned Dirty Apes!


SOB - Son Of Buzz, or Son of a B____  

[Pongo]

Saw this last night for the first time
GV-ground vehicle

and the old stand bys
CA - Heavy cruiser (armored cruiser)
DE - Destroyer Escort
CV - Fleet Carrier
PT - Partol Boat Torpedo

NP - No Problem

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by Pongo:
CA - Heavy cruiser (armored cruiser)

heh I know that this is nitpicking, but a Heavy Cruiser doesnt need at all to be armored, and the inverse also is true  

[Nath-BDP]

SMFD, figure it out for yourself.

[Jekyll]

 

CC=COPY, I acknowledge your statement. (cc of course being the old symbol for carbon copy dating back to the days before the photo copier.

Actually JimDandy, you're wrong there.  CC actually stands for 'click, click'.

You may be aware that pilots in combat situations will sometimes reply with two clicks on the microphone rather than give a verbal acknowledgement.

CC is just representative of those two clicks.  It has nothing to do with carbon copies  

[Jimdandy]

 

Originally posted by Jekyll:
Actually JimDandy, you're wrong there.  CC actually stands for 'click, click'.

You may be aware that pilots in combat situations will sometimes reply with two clicks on the microphone rather than give a verbal acknowledgement.

CC is just representative of those two clicks.  It has nothing to do with carbon copies  

Thx. I was always under the impression it was like the cc at the bottom of the page that is being sent out to more than one person, carbon copy. Obviously yours must be right.   But it does stand for acknowledgement and rgr for yes. It's just a pet peeve of mine when people cc when the should rgr or vice versa. Silly aren't I.  

[Pongo]

Ram
I believe that Armoured and Light cruiser
CA and CL where distinctions that made scence when they were orginated. By WW2 they merely denote 6 inch or 8 inch gun. The same hull converted from 6 to 8 inch guns would be classed from a CL to CA.
Not to nitpick.
CA meant Cruiser Armoured.

[LJK Raubvogel]

FP=flakpanzer
BOHICA=bend over here it comes again
LW=superior pilots

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LJK_Raubvogel
LuftJägerKorps

 

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[-duma-]

UP A1SJDFNFKH@DKSD WTF??!?!?! - There is an ostwind on the field.

[RAM]

Nope. Armored cruisers were pre-WWI ships, and were outdated by the time that the first Battlecruisers appeared. The last armored cruiser (arguably the best) was SMS Blücher, sunk in 1915...by battlecruisers  

the terms and differences  between "heavy cruiser" and "light Cruiser" were created in 1922, in the Washington Naval Treaty. As you say, were ships up to 10.000 tons, with 8' or 6' respectively. BUT BOTH KIND OF SHIPS COULD BE ARMORED. And in fact some light cruisers had more armor than some heavys.

the term "Armored Cruiser" was not used again after WWI, and the CA term has nothing to do with it AFAIK.


 

Originally posted by Pongo:
Ram
I believe that Armoured and Light cruiser
CA and CL where distinctions that made scence when they were orginated. By WW2 they merely denote 6 inch or 8 inch gun. The same hull converted from 6 to 8 inch guns would be classed from a CL to CA.
Not to nitpick.
CA meant Cruiser Armoured.