The Internet: A Glossary

horsePart One.

IMHO = in my horse’s opinion

SMH = suck my hand

SMDH = suck my dang hand

IMO = I married Odysseus

FWIW = For once, I wept

TBH = Tim’s best horses

AFAIK = And Frank? Ask it, k?

SJW = Sad Jimmy Wemberley

LMK = Let me krump

TIL = Tim is late/Tim is lost

ROFL = running on four legs

IIRC = if I run, Carl?

IRL = misspelling of “Earl”

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65 Comments

    1. LeastBittern +25

      IMO, and thus I KNOW from running a kingdom, excellent weaving, and tricking people into not marrying me. Who’s a better fox, the fox or the fox’s wife who had to do all that tricky shit backwards in heels?

      IMO; the force of my will was great enough that the most beautiful woman in the world held no charms for him, and he fell screaming into my orbit. MY WILL IS STRONGER THAN YOURS, HEAR MY WORDS.

      1. jekyllian +15

        sometimes i think penelope & odysseus’s other paramours would get along fantastically under different circumstances

        (see also: yes, penelope is totally a bamf – a beautiful and merciless female, obviously)

  1. deleted7410012 +41

    i am trying to stifle my laughter at “suck my hand” and it’s not working very well.

  2. anklecemetery +51

    I legitimately thought that “JFC” meant “just for clarification” until about a month ago.

  3. katekari +43

    “FWIW = For once, I wept”

    DAMMIT MALLORY are you trying to give me an aneurysm? My brain is just like “There’s no w in once aaaaargh WHAT IS THIS MADNESS.”

    1. bird_internet +27

      There is a separatist group in the Philippines called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which was the source of much hilarity when I was a high school debate nerd. “What? We’re just talking about instability in the Pacific region.”

      1. bird_internet +37

        This hilarity was later surpassed by the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, during the history major portion of my nerd journey

      2. Brooks +12

        My wife went to Pulaski Middle School. Where the cheerleaders did, in fact, chant the school initials.

        It took a certain sort of dedication to be a cheerleader there, I expect.

    1. LeastBittern +23

      My mom thinks it means Little Old Lady; she goes onto Schafkopf* websites and makes wry comments about her skill, and when people say “LOL”, she says “HOW DO THEY KNOW?”

      To this day, she thinks the actual meaning is me sparing her feelings.

      *German card game.

      1. cuminafterall +11

        Ahhh I love this comment because it means that Schafkopf is real and not something I misunderstood while drunk and foreign on a Bavarian farmstay vacation in 2004

        1. LeastBittern +2

          I feel that way about Perdedor and Pedro. I’m not sure they aren’t just elaborate Mao variants where you lose all the time.

    1. mbculver +9

      Sad Justin Wemberley sounds like a jazz musician whose songs Bertie would play at the flat, while Jeeves quietly but disapprovingly mended collars in the background.

  4. alex_geedee +16

    I thought SMH meant so much hate for a looooong time, and that’s still what I equate it with. SO MUCH DAMN HATE.

  5. elsajeni +11

    I have been in groups where having an established acronym for “[name] Is Late/Lost” would have been a time-saver, for sure. Although to really capture the sentiment it would have to be “TIL A-F-G”.

  6. dakimel +12

    Tim is always lost, so I took his best horse, Carl, and in Carl’s opinion, running on four legs is the best, even though I say to him ‘If I run, Carl, on four legs, I just can’t krump. Let me krump.”

  7. ballisticjaguar +18

    FTW = fuck the world.

    For a time I legitimately thought this was what it actually meant. When I realized I was wrong through context I didn’t bother to find out what it really meant for a long time because I thought it was funnier this way.

  8. rkfire +16

    Internet Gamer Glossary
    gg = goodness gracious!
    QQ = queefing quilt
    MMORPG = minute maid’s orchestral resolution per greatness
    pwn = pony

  9. Gigi +12

    I have a sore throat and it hurts to laugh! Stop! I have the flu ROFL (Real or Flu-Like)

    Also I just ate salami and I wanted my cat to come and give me some love, so I reached out and called to her and told her “suck my dang hand!” because licking my salami fingers would be almost like affection. But nope, she ignored me.

  10. damanoid +23

    OMG = organ meat gravy
    OMFG = organ meat-flavored gravy
    AFK = away fucking kudu
    BRB = bring real beer
    BTW = Big Tom Wemberly (Jimmy’s dad)
    TTFN = the titmouse flies nightly
    FAQ = fondle a quail
    FAQs = fondle all quails

  11. californianinkansas +4

    My horse no doubt believes that I should begin all my sentences with IMHO. If he had thumbs he’d be the President for life of a small island nation -and the mini would be the head of the secret police of said small island nation.

    1. dancingcrow +7

      Minis are always the stealth horse of the bunch… the secret police, the spy for the next farm over, the creature with the courage to actually play with the Jolly ball. The one that reports back what the dogs are up to. The one that eats the chicken feed, and doesn’t get sick, leading to the bigs thinking chicken feed is something horses might eat, with less than stellar results.

      1. californianinkansas +1

        You speak truth. *nods approvingly* We believe that our mini may have been the head of an international drug cartel in his previous lifetime -it would explain a lot.

        Also, and most importantly, did any of your horses colic from eating the chicken feed?

  12. Fare +5

    Mallory, does that horse’s mane have witch braids? Are those witch-braids, Mallory???

    In MY (imaginary) horse’s opinion, they ARE!

  13. francienolan04

    It's…not? Huh. This explains all those times I was confused about why people were so angry about stuff.

  14. srijanisays +18

    TTYL – Ticklish turtles yell loudest
    BRB- Big Red Button
    FTW – Found The Walrus
    BTW -Bring The Walrus

    1. californianinkansas +1

      So, that is like ALL of them? -except for the grey ones, who are all presumably covered in mud and green manure stains.