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  • @snorky998:

    As I understand it, the 'D' as in DH can also be darn or damn, depending in the context and the posters state of mind:p (ie….after first posting "damn neighbor", any following references are merely stated as DN)

    Heehee. Never thought of it that way!!! Must start using!

  • LMAO = Laugh My A$$ Off
    LMFAO = Laugh My Freaking (or choose another "F" word) A$$ Off
    ROFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing
    ROFLMAO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A$$ Off
    AFAIK = As Far As I Know
    IDK = I Don't Know

    UKC = United Kennel Club
    CKC = Canadian Kennel Club (great club) or Continental Kennel Club (horrible club used mostly by disreputable breeders)
    OFA - Orthopedic Foundation for Animals
    HD - hip dysplasia

  • PPM = Persistent Pupillary Membrane
    FS = Fanconi Syndrome

  • why do some people put a series of G's? (gggg)?

  • Actually, when I search it, only Tanza lol…

  • Tanza, I've always wondered what your "gggg" means…!

  • laugh oh wait, I didn't see this second page. DexterDex, you're wondering the same thing!

  • PRA = Progressive Retinal Atrophy
    PPM = Persistent pupillary membrane
    CERF = Canine Eye Research Foundation
    PB = purebred
    Of course, there's always BOB, Best of Breed BOS Best Opposite Sex to BOB, WD and WB Winners Dog and Winners Bitch and BOW Best of Winners when reporting show wins (in the USA)

  • I think "gggg" is like a growl sound….like your "mad"..like a dog..but I might be wrong.

  • @Basenjimamma:

    I think "gggg" is like a growl sound….like your "mad"..like a dog..but I might be wrong.

    "gggg" is Big Grins, like VBG is Very Big Grin

  • "gggg" is Big Grins, like VBG is Very Big Grin

    aaahhh..I get it..:)

  • LOL Pat glad you explained cause I thought just a bunch of grins but funny some thought you were growling!

    I use DH, but the first part isn't dear and the 2nd isn't husband. Hm… Richard Cerebellum covers it. Speaking of which, one day he came home from playing ball and said sadly... a DH here and a DH there today (he had left garbage can open so I wasn't happy when he walked in door after an hour of cleaning up trash and mopping). I looked confused... "Designated Hitter" he said sadly.

  • WTHAATI= "what the hell are all these initials?" I just made that up.:D

  • So funny that we all had our interpretations of Tanza's "ggg" …

    In my head, it sounded like a version of the Muttley laugh (you know, from those old Hanna Barbera cartoons?). Except more "gk gk gk" than wheezy...

  • ^ ha! i interpreted it as the giggety giggety laugh of the pervy guy on family guy!

  • Lol.. Tlish I thought the same!

  • I always imagine Popeye's laugh what I see ggggg. :D

  • The first time I ever heard "snarky" was about Basenjis. Now I see it a lot and was asking Debbi if she also suspected the word was invented for Basenjis and spread. Sadly, we were wrong;

    Critical in a curmudgeonly sort of way. The adjective snarky is first recorded in 1906. It is from dialectal British snark, meaning 'to nag, find fault with', which is probably the same word as snark, snork, meaning 'to snort, snore'. (The likely connection is the derisive snorting sound of someone who is always finding fault.) Most dictionaries label snarky as "Chiefly British Slang." But for the last five or more years, it has become increasingly common in American publications, maybe ones infiltrated by British or Canadian writers and journalists.

    And this:
    1. Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
    2. Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
    [From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin.]

    And this:
    Main Entry: snarky
    Pronunciation: 'sn?r-kE
    Function: adjective
    Etymology: dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate
    1 : CROTCHETY, SNAPPISH
    2 : sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner

  • @nobarkus:

    WTHAATI= "what the hell are all these initials?" I just made that up.:D

    That one is the winner! Good thing I don't text on my cellphone, which I only use for emergencies. It would take me forever to say anything. Yes, I have my feet firmly planted in the 80's, when a cell phone was this huge thing that only contractors and builders seemed to have. That type of cell phone could also be used as a concealed (or not so concealed) weapon!

  • ROFLMAO, no joke Fran. My friend carried hers in a suitcase thingy!

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