"Cracking the Code"

[Shadowstorm]

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/fox_5_links/Top_50_Text_Acronyms_Parents_Should_Know_052009

Fucking hilarious.

[Young Al Capone]

Those are pretty great. I am especially partial to number 16: FMLTWIA.

[Doogie2K]

15. This space left intentionally blank.

[diablopath]

I agree, these are fucking hilarious.

But are they real? Beyond a couple, I've never seen most of them.

Then again, I don't text with high school idiots. Perhaps that is my salvation.

[Shadowstorm]

I bet you at least 95% of those were made up just for that "article". How the hell does "1174" translate to "Nude Club"?

[Goronmon]

I bet you at least 95% of those were made up just for that "article". How the hell does "1174" translate to "Nude Club"?I believe it. High schoolers coming up with random numbers to signify things they aren't supposed to be doing? Sounds about right to me.

[ClannerDelta]

I love #20. IAYM: I am your Master. Didn't realize the Sith used text messaging.

[Shadowstorm]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NZW3IY/ref=cm_rdp_product (http://www.amazon.com/review/R2XKMDXZHQ26YX/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000NZW3IY&nodeID=1036592)

Read the reviews.

This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.Dying over here.

[Sandman]

Wrong thread?

[Shadowstorm]

No, Sandman.

[hunterx280]

LOL! I just saw this on the g4tv web page (http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/695784/Oh-Noes-Fox-Station-Breaks-Secret-Code-Of-Internet-Youth.html) as well.

[KamaItachi]

Top 50 Text Acronyms Parents Need to Know:

10 Banana Penis


I don't think these guys know what 'acronym' means.

[Shrinn]

44 is my favorite.

PRON= porn.

Do parents really watch over children so closely that they need to have these strange acronyms for everything? I would bitch slap my child just for raping language if I saw his phone fill of texts like that without knowing what they mean. I already have to try hard enough to get my little brother to spell out "u" on instant messaging.

[KidCactus]

FMLTWIA, hilarious! :D Do kids really send that to each other?

[ClannerDelta]

FMLTWIA, hilarious! :D Do kids really send that to each other?

Skanks are skanks. I wouldn't be surprised except for the fact that a skank probably wouldn't be able to remember a seven letter acronym.

[Spacetronaut]

Why does 8 mean oral sex? I'm confused.

[pronounconnoun]

@ #1-7

Kids these days. Always talking in binary slang.

[Thanasimos]

@ #1-7

Kids these days. Always talking in binary slang.

Ah! AACH! Take it back.... taaaake it baaaack.

[Alatheia]

Why does 8 mean oral sex? I'm confused.

All I can see is that "eight" sounds like "ate".

Some of these though, wtf... why didn't "wtf" make the list? :eek:

[Doogie2K]

All I can see is that "eight" sounds like "ate".

Some of these though, wtf... why didn't "wtf" make the list? :eek:

Because everyone knows what that one stands for?

I dunno, I like the pseudo-porn lines better anyway. More entertaining for the rest of us. :)

[Matthias]

Skanks are skanks. I wouldn't be surprised except for the fact that a skank probably wouldn't be able to remember a seven letter acronym.

I'm actually surprised that one has a W instead of an H. I wouldn't think any of these kids could figure out how to spell "whore".

[Whunpo]

Maybe it's because I don't hang with the right kids, but nobody I know uses these terms. Most people I know use proper English when texting and talking over the internet. I have never heard of "sexting" before Fox News started talking about it.
I have heard an instance or two of people taking pictures of themselves and sending it to friends. However, this was only once or twice.
As I said, maybe I'm not in with the right crowds, but as far as I know, most of this is ridiculous.

[Matthias]

Maybe it's because I don't hang with the right kids, but nobody I know uses these terms. Most people I know use proper English when texting and talking over the internet. I have never heard of "sexting" before Fox News started talking about it.
I have heard an instance or two of people taking pictures of themselves and sending it to friends. However, this was only once or twice.
As I said, maybe I'm not in with the right crowds, but as far as I know, most of this is ridiculous.

I'm right there with you. Back when I had a phone that told you how many characters you had typed, I would say what I wanted to say in english, and if I went over 160 characters, I went back and figured out a way to make things shorter, be it in abbreviating words (that are commonly abbreviated in the real world) or rephrasing the message with smaller words. The iPhone unfortunately doesn't have any mechanism to tell you how many characters you've used, so now I'm a little more liberal with people who I know have unlimited texts. I've actually paragraph-at-a-time conversations with one of my friends recently, because we weren't in a position to use the phone, had several things to talk about, and don't want to bother abbreviating things into oblivion. Quite fun.

I just have to keep an eye on which of my friends have limited texting... and also when I'm texting Twitter, since I don't have a data plan to facilitate using an app to tweet.

[ClannerDelta]

I'm actually surprised that one has a W instead of an H. I wouldn't think any of these kids could figure out how to spell "whore".

Good point. Clearly this is fake. :D