what is all the talkbass terminology about?

IMO is In My Opinion.
IMHO is In My Humble Opinion.
IMNSHO is " " not so " "
IME I'm don't know and I looked up and can't find. So I'm going to assume it's In My Estimation.

 

IME is In My Experience

best site to look up stuff like this is urban dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

 

"In My Estimation" correction: "experience" probably is more right!

Here's a little glossary. You can also hit the wiki where almost any term is covered (along with most everything else). Soon, IMO, u l b 1337.

 

IME
Internet contraction for In My Experience; Used to explain a statement that is based upon the life of, or the experiences of the speaker. More forceful than YMMV.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IME&r=f

 

what does WTLW mean?

 

WTLW
welcome to last week. a term used by lame intenret geeks on the overclockers forums

use the link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

 

IMWO= in my warped opinion
IMUO= in my useless opinion
IMOO= in my obstinate opinion
IMPO= in my pathetic opinion
IMQO= in my Quioxte opinion (a literary expression)
IMAO= in my A@*&*#$ opinion
IMJO= in my Jehosophat opinion ( a biblical reference for Christian TBers)
IMSO= in my Schizophentic opinion
IMTO= in my theoretical opinion
IMBO= in my bizare opinion (could also refer to a hygene problem)
IMDO= in my drunken opinion
IMIO= in my ignorant opinion
DIGME= worthless information that has nothing to do with the current thread will be following

Hope this helps. any questions ask Brad Cook!

 

IBTL = in before the lock

 

No one posted G.A.S.?? Gear Aquisition Syndrome by the way for those always asking about that one hehe.

 

PDH: Pile-Drivingly Heavy

Mike

 

NORAD - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 

i think FWIW (for what it's worth) should be mentioned too, that one confused me for a while...

 

Ok, I've been dying to ask this but thought it might sound stupid. But I have to know...

what does 'pwns' mean? i know it means something is better than something else... I think. But where did it come from?

I feel better now.

 

it means owned.


or
pwned

its basically one of those, things like "oh ****, you just got knocked the **** out"

 

The most widely held theory is that "pwn" originated from a typo in first-person shooter games, the common mistake occurred from a hand position. The user, using his mouse right-handedly, would hold three of his fingers on the keys, "a", "w", and "d", along with the mouse in his right hand. When prompted to make a comment upon fragging his opponent, a quick motion to type the word "owned" resulted in a typo. Due to the proximity of the keys "p" and "o" on a standard QWERTY keyboard the user hit the "p" instead of the "o" key, resulting in the word "pwned". Intentional misspellings based on keystroke errors are common in leet, such as "[teh]" for "the" and replacing exclamation points with 1s.

One story reports that in the game StarCraft, someone made a custom map where losing players would see a special message. However, instead of typing in "YOU WERE OWNED", a typo resulted in "YOU WERE PWNED". It is said that every use of the word "pwn" therefore comes from this one hapless misspelling, or a similar one occurring in a Warcraft or Unreal Tournament game. One possibility exists in a mispronunciation, in Diablo: Hellfire, where an enemy claims he will “own” you. The word is pronounced more like “puh-own”. This may be somehow related to the “Starcraft Theory”.

Some people believe that the word was originally a contraction of the term "power-owned", "pure ownage", "pistol-owned", "perfectly owned", "ping-owned", "player-owned", "professionally owned," or "properly owned". These are probably back-formations.

It has been suggested that the word resulted from a rendering problem from a specific game that made the word "owned" look like the word "pwned". As a result, gamers considering themselves superior in skill started using the word as an obscure reference.

It is likely that "pwn" is actually the result of a carryover of the word "0wned" used by hackers on IRC to declare that they have successfully cracked a computer or target (i.e. "I just 0wned that Windows box").

Another theory suggests that "pwned" is a version of "owned", with supposed blood dripping from the "o".

Still another interpretation makes the case that "pwned" was not an accident, but instead a contraction of the word pawned. This theory is based upon the idea that the person who was defeated was "owned," and then pawned off, as an item would be at a pawnshop.

Another theory supports the idea that "pwned" originated on gaming forums after the word "owned" was banned. Administrators banned the word to try to keep flame wars (arguments filled with insults) down, and as a result, forum users merely censor bypassed it (changed spelling to get past any auto-blockers in place) by spelling it as "pwned".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn3d

 

Well, thats my answer and more! Thanks

I actually wondered if it was a misspelling of 'owned' that had just stuck. so I wasn't far off!

Cheers!

 

GDTRFB = goin down the road feelin bad

TMWSIY = the man who stepped into yesterday

omgwtfbbq = ???

 

oh my god, what the ****, barbeque?