here's an updated version of a thread that slimboli started back on March 2, 2009. It went through several updates, which are HTF in the various pages of the original thread, so...



Slimboli wrote:
Time to start a 'fresh' new thread on the commonly used acronyms ... since the old one finally was killed off. Now we can all add-on to the ones that are missing in the list below:



Hope this helps some of you 'newbies' ...



898 varn = 898 Varnished, a cc produced by Partagas

AB = Alec Bradley

AF = Arturo Fuente

AFAIK - = As far as I know

AH = Asian Hooker, standard measuring device used for sucking ability to determine VSU

AKA = Also known as

asc = alt.smokers.cigars (a USENET Newsgroup)

bb (or bbs) = bulletin board or forum

BnA = Berger and Argenti

BBF = Bolivar Belicoso Fino

Big Smoke = cA's cigar events.

BLTTW = Be less trouble that way

B&M = Brick and Mortar, local shop, also BnM

Boli CG = Bolivar Coronas Gigantes

BOTL/SOTL = Brother/Sister of the Leaf

BS = Hemingway Best Seller

BTL = Hemingway Between The Lines

CA = Cigar Afficianado

CAT = Cigar A Thon

cammie = Cameroon

CBL = Connecticut Broad Leaf

CC = Cuban Cigar

CF = Cigar Family

Connie = Consuegra (seconds to Punch, HdM, ERDM) or Connecticut leaf

Coolerdor = Ice Chest/Cooler used to store cigars

CS = Connecticut Shade Wrapper

CUL8R = See you later

CW = Cigar Weekly/CigarWise

D4 = Partagas D-4 (Robustos), also PSD4

DC = Don Carlos, Double Corona, or Diamond Crown

DD = Donkey Dropping

DE = Drew Estates

DILLIGAF = Do I Look Like I Give a F@#%?

DMS = Don't 'Member Sh*t

Dog Rocket = POS, PI, White Owl Pineapple, unsmokeable

DOH/DOW = Dear/Damn Old Husband/Wife

DPG EC = Don Pepin Garcia, El Centurian

EPC = E.P. Carillo

EPI 1 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 1 (corona gorda)

EPI 2 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 2 (robusto

ERDM = El Rey Del Mundo

FAQ = Frequently Asked Question

FCOL = For Crying Out Loud

FFOX = Fuente Fuente Opus X

FFP = Feral Flying Pig, the biggest of Liga Privada Unico line, also includes the Dirty Rat, L40, Papas Fritas

FMITA = F*** Me In The Azz

FNG = F***ing New Guy, see "noob"

FOAD = F*** off and Die

FOG = F***ing Old Guy

FUBAR = F***ed up beyond all recognition

FWIW = For what it's worth

FYA = For your amusement

FYI = For your information

GH = Gran Habano

HDM = Hoyo de Monterrey

Herf = A gathering of people enjoying cigars and the company of each other

HOTM = Hit Of The Month

HP = Herfer's Paradise

HTF = Hard to find

IBTL = In Before the Lock, I'll Be Trish Licked: defiant posts before getting tossed/banned (ty Tiger)

IHNDIWTFYATA = I Have No Damned Idea What The F*** You Are Talking About

IIRC = If I recall correctly

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

IMNSHO = In my not so humble opinion

IMO = In my opinion

INWAP! = I'm Not Wearing Any Pants!

ISO = In search of

ISOM = Island South Of Miami, Cuba

JDN = Joya de Nicaragua

JG = Jaime Garcia

J/K = Just kidding

JL = Juan Lopez

JL S2 = Juan Lopez Seleccion No 2 (Robustos)

L = Laugh

L8R = Later

LA = La Aurora

LAdC = La Aroma de Cuba

LAM = Look At Me, posting without circumspection, also LAME, Look At Me Everybody!

LFR = Large Flat Rate, large fixed cost shipping box, U.S. Postal Service

LE = Limited Edition

LFD = La Flor Dominicana

LG = Litto Gomez

LGC = La Gloria Cubana

LHC = La Herencia Cubana

LL = LaLuna

LL AF = LaLuna African Fuerte

LL LHB = LaLuna Little Havana Blend

LL MF = LaLuna Maduro Fuerte

LMAO = Laughing my a** off

LOL = Laugh Out Loud

LOTL = Lovers of the Leaf

LP = Liga Privada

LRE = La Rosa Especial

Lusi = Partagas Lusitanias

LVR = Hemingway Limited Vintage Release

M&B = Moore and Bode

Mac = Macanudo

Mad or Maddie = maduro

MAP = Minimum Advertised Price, a price floor set by cigar makers to purveyors, trying to hold the line on their products

MF = My Father, also, Mouthfeel - total oral sensory experience: taste, texture, temperature and tactile, from food, drink or smoke

MF LB = My Father Le Bijou

MFR = Medium Flat Rate, medium fixed cost shipping box, U.S. Postal Service

MMM = Mid Michigan Militia

MMMM = Maria Mancini Magic Mountain

MPM = Hemingway Masterpiece Maduro

MOAB = Mother of All Bombs

Monte = Montecristo

MOW = Man O War

MP = Hemingway Masterpiece

MT = empty, squat, barren, nada, zilch... ie: Blueboy's gunador is MT

MUWAT = My Uzi Weighs A Ton

Nat, Nattie = natural (cameroon, Connecticut Shade, etc.)

NC, nc = Non Cuban

NH, nh = never had

NONV = noob on noob violence

noob = Odious POS unworthy of consideration, newbie

nood = See above

OF = Old Fashioned (seconds to Partagas, Cohiba and Macanudo)

OLH = Online Humidor, website where private persons sell and buy cigars

OO = Omar Ortez

OP = Original Post(er)

OpNBC = Operation Noob Birthday Club

OR = Original Release

OpFTH = Operation From The Heart, charitable org. that sends care packages to the troops overseas

OSOK = One Shot One Kill

OTT = Off The Truck

PAD = Padron

PAM = Padron Anniversario Maduro

PAN = Padron Anniversario Natural

PBP = Punch Black Prince

PC = Petite Corona

PERF X = FFOX Perfexcion X

PI = Puros Indios

PIB/PIF = Pay it Back/Pay it Forward

PL = Petite Lancero, Por Larranaga

POS = Piece of Sh*t

PP = Punch Punch

PSD4 = Partagas Serie D #4

RAG = Ramon Allones Gigantes

RAOK = Random Act of Kindness

RASCC = Ramon Allones Small Club Coronas

RASS = Ramon Allones Specially Selected

RC = Bolivar Royal Coronas

RdC = FFOX Reserva de Chateau

RH = Relative Humidity

ROTFL = Rolling on the Floor Laughing (also ROFL)

ROTFLMAO = Roll on the floor laughing my a** off

ROTFLMAOPIMP = ROTFLMAO Peeing in My Pants

RP = Rocky Patel

RTFI = Read the F****** Instructions!

RTFWP, RTFWOP = Return to Forum Without Posting

RyJ = Romeo & Julieta

RyJ CF = Romeo y Julieta Celestiales Finos (panatella)

RyJ POW = Romeo y Julieta Prince of Wales

Sams-a-dor = a cheap, but nice, humidor, purchased at Sam's Club

SB = Skull and Bones

SCdLH = San Cristobal de La Habana

SDB = Standard Dress Box

SFR = Small Flat Rate, small fixed cost shipping box, US Postal Service

SG = Sun Grown

shpo = local cigar store, B&M, possibly in protection racket, definitely dyslexic

SIG = Hemingway Signature

SLB = Slide Lid Box (this is the slide box or mini-cab with the slide lid top)

SLR = Saint Louis Rey

SnS = Saints and Sinners, Tat cigar club

SNAFU = Situation Normal All F@#ked Up

SS = Hemingway Short Story

STIR = Spend(ing) Time In Reality

TAA = Tobacco Association of America

TAD = Tobacco Acquisition Disorder, common affliction caused by hanging around here

Tat = Tatuaje

TFAMGD = Time for a Miller Genuine Draft

TIA = Thanks in Advance

TOP = A way bring attention to a msg thread without adding content/ posting this will take the thread to the top of the board: also "ttt = to the top"

TTFN = Ta Ta for Now

TTT = To the Top, also "ttt" and "TOP," to take a thread to the top of the board.

TTYL = Talk to You Later or Type to You Later

Tupperdor = Tupperware container used to store cigars

UC = Undercrown, Unholy Cocktail

UPP SW = H Uppman Sir Winston

UTS = Hemingway Untold Story

V = Vintage

Vet = Glorious Articulate Smart Benevolent Accomplished Giant

VR = Vega Robaina

VR DA = Vega Robaina Don Alejandros (prominente)

VSG = Ashton Virgin Sun Grown

VSU = Volumetric Smoke Unit, smoke output of cigars, scale: 1 (Dud) - 5 (Fire Alarm)

WGAF - Who gives a frig?

WOA = Hemingway Work of Art

WOAM = Work of Art Maduro

WTF = What the Foobar?

WTFDDML = Who the F*** Doesn't Drink Miller Light

xXx = Opus X^3 (Power Ranger)

YMMV = your mileage may vary



Edited.

What is the purpose of having YMMV on this list? There are a ton more that seem silly as well, but that was the easiest to find.

I just don't understand why that one, and a few others need an acronym. I understand why they are needed in general.

haha...wouldn't that be a little extreme for THIS civilized place? and several fogs continue using YMMV...

Nice try Delta1 but they were off by one

Junk post

Tweedle dee, Tweedle

Of course this one goes up too

Gotta keep the numbers synch'd.

WTFDDML = Who the F*** Doesn't Drink Miller Light

Pretty sure Jerry Jones came up with that one...

Toppity top top for the weekend

Bur slackin again.

Think I'll leave this to Bur

Matching the numbers back up

Everybody's topping

back to top of page one we go

back up to the tippity tippity top

Where's Delta? Off looking for Crocs? Off killing fish?

Another day

Up up and away

Fur any nOObs lurking about.


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