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    List Of Acronyms - Updated 12/1/05

    Following is a list of woodworking acronyms. Please feel free to post and/or send me a PM with additions, modifications, comments, spelling, etc. I’ll update the list as I receive the comments. (Note: not all acronyms listed are strictly woodworking terms, rather used frequently in wood forums).

    If you can’t find the acronym(s) here, www.acronymfinder.com.

    Note: Objectionable and subjective language and/or subject matters, i.e., forum member names have been eliminated from this list as they have always generated a lot of controversy when either included/excluded. Anyway, most if not all of the acronyms that are not being included are well know to most users.

    There have been 21 items added or modified since last update of 3/15/05 (see items with an *)

    Regards, Joe
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    6Ps - Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance (also see PPPPPP)
    7Ps - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance (also see PPPPPPP)

    *NM* - No Message

    AAW - American Association of Woodturners
    ABC - Anything But Craftsman
    AD - Air Dried (something that has beed dried just by exposure to air)
    AH - Absolute Humidity
    __ - Air Handler
    AMF - Adios My Friend
    AFAIK - As Far As I Know
    AGTH - Always Glad To Help
    AHJ - Authority Having Jurisdiction (aka, building inspector)
    ALC - Acrylic Latex Caulk
    ANI - Automatic Number Identification (as in caller ID)
    APB - All Points Bulletin
    ARU - Automatic Response Unit (as in push 1 for service, 2 for complaints, etc)
    ASAP - As Soon As Possible
    ASWR - ??? (could it be answer ?)
    ATAPCW - Adhering To A Politically Correct World
    AWW - American WoodWorkers Magazine

    B/C - BeCause
    BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
    BB - Baltic Birch,
    ___- Best Buy
    BDC - Bottom Dead Center
    BDFT - BoarD FeeT
    BF - Board Foot
    BFD - Big Flippin' Deal
    BFH - Big Friendly Hammer
    BP - Badger Pond - for-runner of SMC (Saw Mill Creek)
    BF - Board Feet
    BIL - Brother-In-Law
    BJ - Biscuit Joiner
    BLO - Boiled Linseed Oil
    BLOG - weBLOG (web log) - online journal of web activity
    BOAT - Bring On Another Thousand
    BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
    * BOL - Bunch Of Lumber
    * ____- Best Of Luck
    BORG - Buying ORGanization, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc
    _____- "A group of different races on the Star Trek Next Generation series that ..."
    _____- Big Old (Orange) Retail Giant
    BOSS - Delta’s Bench Oscillating Spindle Sander
    BPA - Back Panel Assembly
    BRO - Best Reasonable Offer
    BS - Band Saw
    ___- Big Shot
    BTDT - Been There, Done That
    BTW - By The Way
    BYOB - Bring Your Own Bottle
    BW - BridgeWood, manufacture of woodworking machines

    CA - CryanoAcrylate, basically super glue
    * CANT - ??? (something to do with lumber amount)
    CC - Cube Centimeters (1 cc = .061 sq in)
    CCD - Charged Couple Device - chips used in Digital Cameras
    CDAOWTSIO - ???
    CE - Civil Engineer
    CEFGW - Close Enough For Government Work
    CFIC - Chief Flunky In Charge
    CH - Campbell Hausfield, manufacture of air compressers
    * CI - Cast Iron
    CM - CentiMeter (1 cm = .3937 in)
    ___- CraftsMan
    CMS - Compound Miter Saw
    CNC - Computer Numerical Control
    CNU - ???
    CNY - Central New York
    COTE - Curvature Of The Earth (what I forgot to take into consideration when the cut came out wrong)
    CPS - CentiPoiSe - measurement of flow (viscosity) as in glue, where 1 cps = water, 1000 cps = honey
    CPSC - Consumer Preduct Safety Commission
    CRS - Can't Remember Stuff
    CS - Contractors (Cabinet, Circular) Saw
    CSMS - Compound Sliding Miter Saw
    CSR - Customer Service Representative
    CVG - Clear Vertical Grain
    CWD - Cool Web Design

    D4 - model number of leigh jig's 24" dovetail jig
    DAISAID - Do As I Said, Not As I Do
    DAMHIKT - Don’t Ask Me How I Know This
    DC - Dust Collector
    DF - Douglas Fir
    DFW - Dallas/FortWorth area
    DIB - ??? (something to do with diameter of tree log)
    DILLIGIFF - Do I Look Like I Give A Flyin' Flip
    DDC - Dino’s Dust Collector
    DIY - Do It Yourself
    DP - Drill Press
    dpi - Dots Per Inch
    DSTM - Don’t Shot The Messager
    DW - DeWalt, manufacture of power tools
    DWJFDI - Don't Wimp, Just Flippin' Do It

    E - Eurekazone, Saw Guide System Company
    EADJ - Electrically Assisted Dovetail Joinery
    EC - Entertainment Center
    EMC - Equilibrium Moisture Content
    ETYWTKAABWATA - EveryThing You Wanted To Know About Acronyms But Were Afraid To Ask
    EVSPK - model number of a Bosch Router
    EWP - Eastern White Pine

    F - Festool, manufacture of woodworking tools
    FA - Festoolies Anonymous
    FAIT - Fix It Again Tony
    FAQ - Frequent Asked Questions
    FAS - First And Seconds (wood grading term)
    FAY - For All of You
    FCLP - Field Carrier Landing Practice
    FHB - Find Home Builder
    FIADO - Forget It And Drive On
    FIGG - ???
    FIGMO - Forget It, Got My Marching Orders
    FIOS - Fiber To The Perimeter (aka Fiber Optic Services)
    FL - Flat Lander (one that works with flat wood, see FW)
    * FLAPS - Friendly Local Auto Parts Store
    FMLA - Family & Medical Leave Act
    FMT - leigh jig’s Frame Mortise and Tenon Jig
    FOB - Free On Board
    FOG - Felder's Owners Group
    FP - Freedom Pen
    FPP - Freedom Pen Project
    FS - For Sale
    ___- Feet Square
    FT - FeeT
    FUBR - Foulded Up Beyond Repair (Reality, Reason, Recall, Recovery, Relief, Repair, - Restitution, Running)
    FUBAR - Fouled Up But All Right
    FUBB - Fouled Up Beyond Belief
    FUGAZI - Fouled Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In
    FUMTU - Fouled Up More Than Usual
    FW - Flat Worker (one that works with flat wood, see FL)
    FWIW - For What It’s Worth
    FWW - Fine WoodWorking
    * FYI - For Your Information

    G1S - Good 1 Side
    GB - GigaBytes (thousand megabytes, i.e., thousand million, 1,000,000,000)
    GC - Gift Certificate
    GCSS - Guided Circular Saw System
    GFCI - Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
    GFY - Good For You
    GHR - ???
    * GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out
    GNW - Great NorthWest
    GOLD - as in Powermatic, manufacture of woodworking machines
    GRAY - as in Porter Cable, manufacture of woodworking tools
    GRR - ripper and mt splitter (by Micro Jig)
    GR - Guide Rail
    GREEN - as in Bridgewood, manufacture of woodworking machines
    GTH - Glad To Help
    GUMP - Graphical User Menu Pop-up

    HCWG - Howard County Woodworking Guild
    HD - Home Depot,
    ___- Heavy Duty
    HDL - Honey Do List
    HDPE - High Density Polyethylene
    HEMI - HEMIspherically shaped combustion chambers
    HF - Harbor Freight, catalog store
    HFCD - Harbor Freight Dust Collector
    Hitachi - manufacture of woodworking tools
    HM - Home Magazine, as in woodworking@HM
    HO - Honest Opinion
    HOOGAFF - wHoo Gives A Flyin' Flip
    HOA - Home Owners Association
    HRO - Hampton Roads Online (where SawMill Creek lives)
    HTH - How The Heck,
    ____- Hope This Helps,
    ____- Happy To Help

    IGIT - ???
    IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
    IRYC - If I Read You Correctly
    IJWFMOML - I Just Wasted Five Minutes Of My Life
    IMBF - It Must Be Friday
    IME - In My Experience (Estimate)
    IMHO - In My Humble (Honest) Opinion
    IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble (Honest) Opinion
    IMO - In My Opinion,
    ____- Initial Money Outlay
    IOW - In Other Words
    IR - Insoll-Rand, Pneumatics Products Company
    ISA - Industry Standard Architecture (PC software)
    ISC - I Stand Corrected
    * ISP - Internet Service Provider
    ITURRA - manufacture of band saw equipment
    IVROCS - Integrated, Variable, Rotational, Overhead, Clamping System (with piece of wood)

    J/P - Joiner/Planner
    JACS - Just Above Congressioinal Standard
    JD - John Deere, manufacture of farm equipment
    JFDI - Just Freaking Do It
    JFS - Just For Starters
    * JK - Just Kidding
    JMHAO - ???
    JMO - Just My Opinion
    JOB - Just Over Broke

    KB - KiloBytes - thousand bytes (bits) (thousand, in binary, is really 1024)
    KIA - Killed In Action
    kilm - over of some type used for drying things, especially pottery and wood
    kilm dried - wood that has been dried in a kilm
    KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
    KMA - ???

    * LMAO - ???
    LB - Leaf Blower
    LFOD - Live Free Or Die
    * LIB - Linear Incremental Backoff
    LOA - List Of Acronyms
    LOL - Love Of Life,
    ____- Laugh(ing) Out Loud
    ____- Lots Of Luck
    LOHL - Love Of Her (His) Life
    LOML - Love Of My Life
    LOYL - Love Of Your Life
    LN - Lie-Nielsen,
    ___- Like New
    LULU - Locally Unwanted Land Use
    LV - Lee Valley, catalog of fine hand tools
    Lyptus - (great) new wood from Brazil

    M&T - Mortise & Tenon
    M12V - a hitachi's router number
    *MB - MegaBytes - million bytes (bits)
    MC - Methlene Chloride (Paint Stripper),
    ___- Moisture Contents
    MDF - Medium Density Fiber(board),
    ____- Medium Density Fiberboard (construction)
    MEK - Methyl Ethyl Ketone
    melamite - a hard plastic used for laminated coatings
    MFT - ???
    MIA - Missing In Action
    MIL - Mother-In-Law
    MO - Mineral Oil
    MM - Mini Max, manufacture of woodworking machines,
    ___- MilliMeter (25.4mm = in)
    MO - Modus Operandi (latin: mode of operation)
    MOG - Minimax Owners Guide
    MOL - More Or Less
    MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price

    NASA - Not Another Supid Accessory
    NEC - National Electrical Code
    NEEBEE - see NEWBEE
    NEWBEE - new to a particular item, i.e., career, forum, hobby, etc
    NFG - No Freaking Good
    NHLA - National Hardwood Lumber Association
    NMP - Not My Problem
    NOOB - None Of Our Business
    NSL - No Such Luck
    NTMS - ???
    NYW - New Yankee Workshop
    NYWS - New Yankee WorkShop

    OBO - Or Best Offer
    OBS - Oriened Strand Board
    OEM - Original Equipment Manufacture
    OMG - Oh My Goodness (God, Gosh)
    OMS - Odorless Mineral Spirits
    OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Adminstration
    OSRDCHS - Overhead, Supended, Rotational, Dust Collection Hose System (w/string)
    OSS - Oscilating Spindle Sander
    ____- On Site Service
    * OT - Off Topic
    OTDDTR - Out The Door, Down The Road
    OTH - ???
    OTOH - On The Other Hand
    OTR - Off The Record
    OTS - Offer To Sell
    OTW - Off The Wall
    OWWM - Old WoodWorking Machines

    P/V - ???
    PAD - Precision Adjustment Device (dead blow hammer)
    PB - Polish Brass
    PC - Personal Computer(s)
    ___- Porter Cable (manufacture of woodworking tools)
    PDO - Personnel Day(s) Off
    PDQ - Pretty Damn Quick
    PFM - Pure Freaking Magic
    PM - PowerMatic, manufacture of woodworking machines,
    ___- Private Message
    PPPPPP - Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance (also see 6Ps)
    PPPPPPP - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance (also see 7Ps)
    POC - Piece Of Cake,
    ____- Pile Of Crap
    POLY - POLYurethane i.e., gorilla glue
    POND - badger POND, for-runner of SMC (Saw Mill Creek)
    POS - Parent(s) Over the Shoulder (chat room),
    POV - Point Of View
    PPI - Pixils Per Inch
    PS - Pocket Screws
    PSI - Pounds per Square Inch
    PSL - Plumb, Square & Level
    PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
    PTL - Praise The Lord
    PTO - Power Take Off
    PVA - PollyVinyl Acetates, glue
    PVR - Personel Video Recorder (see TIVO)

    QED - latin for "Quod Erat Demonstratum" or "which was to be demonstrated"
    * QFT - Quote For Truth
    QS - Quarter Sawn
    QSRO - Quarter Sawn Red Oak
    QSWO - Quarter Sawn White Oak
    QTRSWN - QuarTeR SaWN

    * RAC - Right Angle Clamp
    RAS - Radial Arm Saw
    RBL2 - "handle" of a woodnet.net member, a wood forum
    RED - as in Milwaukee, manufacture of woodworking tools
    RBO - ???
    REA - ???
    REFURB - Refurbished (tool)
    RFB - Request For Bid
    RFI - Request For Information
    RFQ - Request For Quote
    RGH - RouGH (lumber)
    RL - Random Length
    RICK - "pile of hay",
    ____- "pile of wood, stacked, ready for air drying"
    RO - Red Oak
    ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
    ROFLOL - Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud
    ROS - Random Orbit Sander
    RR - Router Raizer
    RSE - Rip Single Edge
    RTFM - Read The Friendly Manual
    RTF - Rigid ThermoFoil (panel, laminate or veneer)
    RTFP - Read The Friendly Print
    RTFT - Read The Friendly Topic
    RWRL - Random Width/Random Length

    S1S - Surfaced 1 Side
    S1E - Surfaced 1 Edge
    S2S - Surfaced 2 Sides
    S2E - Surfaced 2 Edges
    S1S1E - Surfaced 1 Side 1 Edge
    S1S2E - Surfaced 1 Side 2 Edges
    S2S1E - Surfaced 2 Sides 1 Edge
    S4S - Surfaced 4 Sides
    SAFIMID - Stick A Fork In Me, I’m Done
    SAL - Siliconized Acrylic Latex
    SBC - Southwestern Bell Company
    SCMS - Sliding Compound Miter Saw
    SCVG - Straight Clear Vertical Grain
    SELECT - Select (wood grading term)
    SF - Square Feet
    SIGG - Sorry, I Gotta Go
    SIGMO - Screw It, i've Got My Orders
    SIL - Sister-In-Law,
    ___- Son-In-Law
    SK - Solar Kiln
    SLLYP - ???
    SLR - Single Len Reflex (camera)
    * __- Straight Line Rip
    SM - Service Measure
    SM&N - ???
    SMC - SawMillCreek,
    ____- Saw Mill Creek
    SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
    SO - Significant Other
    SOAP - Significant Other Assimilation Program
    SOS - Stuck On Stupid,
    ____- Same Old Stuff
    spam - unwanted sales solicitation via internet
    SPAM - registered trade mark of Homel’ canned meat product
    SQRT - SQuare RooT
    SRL - Single Lens Reflex (camera)
    * __- Straight Line Rip
    SS - Scroll Saw,
    ___- Single Speed
    SSDD - Same Stuff, Different Day
    SSS - Satelite Saw System (Dino, YCF’s System)
    STFU - Shut The Freak Up
    STS - Sad To Say
    SUSFU - Situation Unchanged, Still Fouled Up
    SWHTM - She Who Has The Money
    SWIWTP - She Who I Want To Please
    SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed
    SYP - Southern Yellow Pine

    T/L - Truck Load
    T/Ls - Tractor Loads
    TAIGFN - That’s All I Got For Now
    TARFU - Things Are Really Fouled Up
    TAT - Turn-a-Thon
    * __- This And That
    TBA - To Be Announced
    TC - Technologically Challenged
    ___- Triple Cities (minn/st paul, mn)
    TDC - Top Dead Center
    TDY - Tour of DuTy,
    ____- TempOry Duty
    TEGO - The Eyes Glaze Over
    TIA - Thanks In Advance
    TIR - Total Indicated Runout (reading)
    TIVO - A brand of personal video recorder (see PVR)
    TLA - Telephone Network Adapter
    TMI - Too Much Information
    TOH - This Old House
    TMOA - The Mall Of America (i.e., shopping mall)
    TOS - Term Of Service
    ____- Time Of Sale
    TPI - Teeth Per Inch
    TS - Table Saw
    TSC - Tractor Supply Company
    TTFN - Ta Ta for Now
    * TWAIN - Technologh Without An Interesting Name

    UHMWP - Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene
    URAC - yoU aRe A Champ (Chump)
    URL - Uniform Resource Locator

    VCT - Vinyl Composite Tile
    VS - Variable Speed

    * WB - workbench
    WC - WoodCentral, a wood forum
    * WDYT - What Do You Think
    WGAF - Who Gives A Flip
    WOFTAM - Waste Of Freaking Time And Money
    WTF - What The Freak
    WTH - What The Heck (Hell)
    WN - WoodNet, a wood forum
    WO - White Oak
    WRC - Western Red Cedar
    WRT - With Regards To
    WTB - Want (Wanted, Wanting) To Buy
    WTF - What (Where, Who, Why) The Freak
    WTH - What The Heck,
    ____- "What This ? Help"
    WVTR - ???
    WW’ing - WoodWorkING
    WWFW - WoodWorking For Women
    WYE - ???
    WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

    YADA - Yet Another Dangling Acronym
    YCF - Your Carpenter Friend (Dino)
    YELLOW - as in DeWalt, manufacture of power tools
    YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
    YOYO - You’re On Your Own

    ZCI - Zero Clearance Insert
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    Thanks for the update, Joseph. You could add EFSTS - European Format Sliding Table Saw, Paul Cresti's very own FLA*.

    * Five-letter acronym, not to be confused with TLA, which is three-letter acronym (which could be added to the list, too).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn McMillan
    ...not to be confused with TLA, which is three-letter acronym (which could be added to the list, too).
    Or as my GF puts it, "TLAs are FTB."

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    Vaughn,

    Vaughn - EFSTS, FLA and TLA will be added. I had wondered what EFSTS had meant in the past but because of the contents, figured it had to do with table saws - thanks! TLA has bugged me because you can't search on 3 characters, i.e., "jig" in the forum(s). It would be nice to be able to use "*" as in other search engines, i.e., *jig*. According to Aaron, you can use GOOGLE (or something) to search for TLA but I have not had any luck with it.

    Lee - if you or somebody else supplies the meaning for GF and FTB, and they meet the TOS, I'll gladly add them to the list. And if GF, I guess I'll also add a double meaning to TLA (three letter acronym & two).

    Regards, Joe

    P.S., I'll also add TSO as soon as I get the correct definition and IESPELL, the "spell utility" that I use to check for spelling. BTW, as you can guess, iespell goes nuts when used to check "List Of Acronyms".
    Two weeks, your project will be done in two weeks!!! (From the Money Pit)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joseph N. Myers
    Lee - if you or somebody else supplies the meaning for GF and FTB, and they meet the TOS, I'll gladly add them to the list.
    "It's a joke, I say, it's a joke, son!!" - Foghorn Leghorn

    GF is "GirlFriend" and FTB is "For The Birds".

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    I was thinkin' FTB was freakin' technical bastages. But that was just me.

    - Vaughn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn McMillan
    I was thinkin' FTB was freakin' technical bastages. But that was just me.
    Works either way, dunnit?

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    I've often wondered why we must use, and remember a long list of acronyms, when it only takes a little longer to actually type out the words that everyone understands perfectly.....btimbof

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    Then there is "acronym" itself as an ACRONYM - alphabetically coded reminder of names you misrememeber.

    Cheers and have a great day, Charley

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    Acronym bump for AC

    Acronym bump for AC
    Comments made here are my own and, according to my children, do not reflect the opinions of any other person... anywhere, anytime.

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    Thanks Charlie. Every time I look through your list I pick up a couple of new ones.
    Please help support the Creek.


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    I noticed that you had T/L as truck load. In the business it also means trailer load. As most here will recieve tools shipped to them as a single unit off a truck loaded with many other stops, it might help them to know that on their B/L or BOL(bill of lading) that the extra charge designated as LTL means Less than Trailer Load.

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    Looks like it is time for another update --- been over a year since the last one. So if anyone has anything they would like added/modified, now is the time to get it in.

    Note that there is another thread started yesterday on this "acronym" thing that can be found at:

    http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...hlight=acronym

    Regards, Joe
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