ABBREVIATIONS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY

OJK = old joe krantz
GH = Gawith, Hoggarth & Co
HB = Haunted Bookshop
StJF = St. James Flake (made by SG)
H&H = Half & Half

SWR-Sir Walter Raleigh
5Bros.-Five Brothers
ERR-Edgeworth Ready Rubbed
RG/RBG-Riverboat Gambler
MB-Morley's Best
BnB-Big n Burley
OGS-Orlik Golden Sliced
YMMV-Your mileage may vary.
SS/DD-same "stuff"/different day
LPL-license plate letters. aka WTF
CB-Captain Bob's blend/sometimes Captain Black
BC-Butz-Choquin

Edit to add the most obvious one:

MPC- My Pipes Community

Goooood idea.
I think one week about "ROTFLMAO"!

to bring up this issue a couple of times. What is it with Americans and abbreviations? They seem to be able to downsize a fullpage of babble to only one sentence that rarely makes sense anyway.;) Also they think up new ones as the go along. As soon as you figured out the meaning of one there's three new ones that's even more mindboggling.

Jeez I give up. Need 2 take my k9 for a p.

You win the prize for best belly buster for the day Olivier. NO TEXTING! ROTFLMAO (look it up!)

Took me a while to decipher (I don't abbreviate while texting).

But, I had imagined a completely different text for those abbreviations. Now I have to read every post over again since I joined to make sure I understand what the hell we were talking about.

I generally try not to abbreviate, as well. But here is one of my favorites:

"IBUWANNASMOKEALOT" = African for: "I really would like to smoke my pipe today very much, thankyou!"

WTF - Wesley's Threequarter Flake

LPL

LPL indeed. LOL. I should have expected no less from you!

Now you're speaking my (shortened language)
YGBSM!= You gotta be shittin me
WTFO?= What the f@#k, over
YMMV= You're mileage may vary
IMHO= In my humble opinion
SH= Sierra Hotel, or Shit Hot, something of the highest quality or good news. (i.e. Matches' new Chris pipe was really SH! or $2 a gallon gas would be shit hot!)
DS= Delta Sierra, Dumb Shit. An extremely stupid or offensive person.

PIPE Stuff
KW- Also K Dub, Kaywoodie
BD- Bulldog
DRG- Dr. Grabow

Most of my tobacco abbreviations have already been covered.

I received my ATC clearance for my flight to Chicago (Du Page County Airport, St Charles, IL) prior to taxi...

N596BC CDPAAF FRH CM60 E100 10 >D 126.3 3036

This came at me like lightening (as usual) but I was ready with pen in hand. After reading back my clearance correctly I heard the magic words: "Readback correct, contact ground when ready to taxi." And, I reponded...

Cessna Five-Niner-Six, Roger.

The clearance reads: November five niner six, you are cleared to DuPage airport, as filed, fly runway heading, climb and maintain six thousand, expect one zero thousand (10,000 feet) one zero (ten) minutes after departure, Departure frequency 126.3, Sqwak code 3036 (on the transponder for radar identification).

This was a very easy clearance because I was cleared-as-filed and no route changes (that sh!t came later when I was up to my a!s in aligators, rough air, on instruments and in clouds)!

Sh!t, I don't know why I work so hard, I already got the job!

Working in aviation means living, breathing, and secreting abbreviations all day.

You got that right. Nice pipes, by the way.

well let me r8 the convo we have here...we have an av8er, a h@ man, and way 2 mny abbrvs.

it is true though...especially with the tobacco names...sometimes I never know the real name of a tobacco...until I try and buy some...I think PSLNF was one that I had to look up before realizing what it was...but that was a long time ago...

nyway...l8er

cheers,

Josh

I can see it so clearly.....................

Control: N596....N596.... You need to change your altitude...
Captain Bob: Silence................(crackle of static).........
Control: N596...N596... You need to change your altitude....
Captain Bob: ................................
Control: N596...N596.. YOU REALLY NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ALTITUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Captain Bob: (Puffing away on a fill of WTF) There's NOTHING wrong with MY attitude. You're the one who's yelling...........

make a sticky out of the tobacco abbreviations ?

pretty please ?

you forgot the BurPer

Thanks for this post, Rick, now when I don't know what people here are talking about I can just type "abbreviations" into the search, and look it up!

stickified (tm)

I'd say this post is pretty much useless now for future reference. It was a good idea but ... well ...

I'll edit the original post eventually and just ignore all the other stuff for future reference ... ugh.

I had to ask what POS meant.

Yes here on MPC I learned POS=Piece of Shit.

I felt like crap.

Is this excreting abbriviations?

PA in a #2,

Tom

its not just farm talk and it is not just here on MPC. POS is POS anywhere. Ah, unless your in the retail biz, then it is Point of Sale or maybe some scientific brain or somthin where it would be Probility of Success. If your George Dubawa it was the code name for Piss Off Sadam.

Rick, sorry this thread has taken a life of its own, but if it is any consolation to ya, it was intentional.

What the hell is B&M?

You know, it takes very little time to figure out most of the tobacco related acronyms and abbreviations on this site. However, B&M stumped me for quite awhile. It stands for brick and mortar and refers to the local pipe and tobacco storefront shop that you actually visit (e.g., I went to my B&M this afternoon and . . . ). This is opposed to a virtual, online store.

I guess an online store would be a B&B (bits and bytes).

Now I get it. You came through for me Quaffer and I thank you. It takes a while but I am getting the hang of the lingo.

PAD - Pipe Acquisition Disorder
TAD - Tobacco Acquisition Disorder
BBTD - Bread Before Tobacco Disorder (for those of us with 5 kids...)
The last is the worst kind to suffer through...

B&B is already taken for Big n Burley.

I thought the online stores were always just called e-tailers...though I could imagine C&P...for code and pictures...though I think the tried and true is better...

Cheers,

Josh

B&B was just a joke. A poorly executed one, I guess.