FOO stands for Family of Origin.

While we're talking about this, I want to know what CofC stands for.

Haha. Thanks Alpaca. I was just editing my title and such and I managed to guess it.

Ohh thats a good one. Lord knows! Lol.

C of C stands for Circle of Care, somebody's wise T invented it, but I forget whose

starfishy

According to Google CofC is; College of Charleston.

I think Google might be wrong.

In fact, I'm quite confident Google is wrong this time.

Google you are wrong.

Merci Starfishy

These are very reasonable questions. You forget after a while that you needed to learn these at one point.

SU - refers to suicidal urges
SI - self injury
AF - attachment figure
T - therapist
P - psychiatrist or psychologist

Alcapa,
I think, think mind you, that CofC stands for Circle of ? Care (not completely sure about the "f". It's a name all the folks who post on the Another Countdown thread coined as a name for the group. I was going to try and locate where it originated but that thread is up to 36 pages! Hopefully someone else will pop in with the explanation.

AG

PS Oops cross posted!

Thanks AG.

And of course I guess that 'H' means Husband, as I've seen H quite a few times.

quote:

I think Google might be wrong.

In fact, I'm quite confident Google is wrong this time.

Google you are wrong.

ROFL, FNM!

Oh FMN,
That's another I forgot "DH" is dear husband and "DW" is dear wife. The D comes and goes depending on how I'm feeling that day.

Ah ha, thanks AG. I had seen those pop up a few times. I usually skimmed through them but I did sometimes think 'DW' ?, does that mean 'Don't worry', but in certain sentences it never made sense lol. 'DW was not great today' or such etc

OOoh good one FMN I kept meaning to ask about FOO. Yay!

CofC - wasn't that JMB's T that coined that phrase? It's cute. I like hanging out in the Another Countdown thread.

....what is ROFL please?

ROFL = Rolling on the Floor Laughing

My mum had a habit of putting LOL at the end of every message. I don't think she knew what it meant. Although it can mean 'lots of love' as well as 'laugh out loud'. I construed it as 'laugh out loud' which made the endings of text conversations a bit strange sometimes. Lol.

AhHa .....thank you Alpaca

starfishy

I like this thread. Wish it was the first one I'd read when I was new to forum-speak. A few more came to mind which I have seen to add to the list...it took me awhile to get these:

SAHM - stay at home mom
OTOH - on the other hand
IOW - in other words
IMO - in my opinion
IMHO - in my humble opinion
IYKWIM - if you know what i mean
IDK - i don't know
WTF - what the...i think everyone knows this one

Ok two more.

LMAO - Laughing my @$$ off
BTW - By the way

Ah, and this:

JICTAADCTNTSO.

: Just in case there are any delays, contact the national travel service on..

No, just kidding lol.

There will be entire acronym sentences one day, mark my words MMW. Ah, thats a good one! I might write a dictionary and dedicate it to Johnson.

Other real ones are (if your feeling particularly down and expressive at the same time and you need to vent, post haste);

FML: F**k my life.
FFS: For f**k sake.