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To: John Meares who wrote (11227)12/2/1997 9:35:00 PM
From: Chris Anderson  Respond to of 45548
 
IMO = In my honest opinion
JMO = Just my opinion
JMHO = Just my honest opinion
there are other variations
ROFL = Rolling on floor laughing
ROFLMAO = above plus "my ass off" (presumably you'll be "ass-less" after such an excercise)
FWIW = For what it's worth
BTW = By the way
some specific to SI:
WS = Wall Street
IBD = Investors Business Daily
DD = Disk Drives
Can't think of any morre right now!
Chris



To: John Meares who wrote (11227)12/2/1997 9:59:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa  Respond to of 45548
 
IMO= in my opinion

Pancho

PS: I hate acronyms myself. It took me a while to figure out this one.

another very common one is IMHO (h stands for honest) and BTW (by the way) there are many others people use but I don't know



To: John Meares who wrote (11227)12/3/1997 7:59:00 AM
From: Thomas Haegin  Respond to of 45548
 
IMO = In my opinion, IMHO = ... humble ...

But I don't know for really sure.

How about this one: :) - I assume it means joking kind of. But I'm not sure either.

Thomas



To: John Meares who wrote (11227)12/3/1997 5:31:00 PM
From: LTK007  Respond to of 45548
 
John,try this netguide.com Max