Lost in the acronyms

[DungeonmasterCal]

What does Fawtl mean?

[Cornielius]

Forums are way to long.

Long time ago, someone started a thread complainingg of the length of some of the off topic threads.
It was immediately taken as a challenge and the Fawtlies have attemped to make longer and longer social threads.
Drop by- everyone's welcome as long as you follow the rules
No politics
No sports
Be friendly.

[Aaron Bitman]

Thank you, neil. Even knowing what FAWTL stood for, I didn't know what it meant to have so many threads named for it, and had never even been interested enough to try to figure it out, until I read your post. Now I understand. Now I've finally looked enough into it to make the following sliver of contribution to this discussion...

Cornielius wrote:

Long time ago, someone started a thread complainingg of the length of some of the off topic threads.

It was immediately taken as a challenge...

Link.

And the darnedest thing is that IssacX posted exactly TWICE.

Maybe the insanity of this online community was too much for him. :)

Maybe he watched his thread grow in a direction that scared him, walked away, and never turned back.

"I've created a monster..."

[Matthew Morris]

If it makes the OP feel better...

I don't know what TL;DR means.

[Chris Mortika]

Matthew,

It stands for "Too long; didn't read". It means something like: "In summation"

[DungeonmasterCal]

Thanks! And Matthew, I learned TL:DR just yesterday lol

[Matthew Morris]

Chris Mortika wrote:

Matthew,

It stands for "Too long; didn't read". It means something like: "In summation"

And I am enlightened. Thank you.

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

I only learned IIRC and LMAO in the last week. Fortunately, you can find them using google. Well, probably not FAWTL.

Damn internet speak.

[Gary Teter]

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

Well, probably not FAWTL.

Au contraire!

Spoiler:

At least, paizo.com comes up first in that search for me. YMMV.

Spoiler:

Ah, another acronym: YMMV = "your mileage may vary".

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

All I get is Fawlty Towers. :(

Well, that's not too bad.

Also, I like the fact that the line you can see when you click on your link is:

"Wow, you losers are even more pathetic than I am."

Hee hee!

[Aaron Bitman]

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

All I get is Fawlty Towers. :(

Are you sure you entered "fawtl" and not "fawlt"?

[Aberzombie]

Cornielius wrote:

Forums are way to long.

Long time ago, someone started a thread complainingg of the length of some of the off topic threads.
It was immediately taken as a challenge and the Fawtlies have attemped to make longer and longer social threads.
Drop by- everyone's welcome as long as you follow the rules
No politics
No sports
Be friendly.

Actually, I think we do talk about sports on occasion. But the other points are right on.

Also: no religion arguments, no game edition arguments.

We also aren't overly fond of trolls.

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

Aaron Bitman wrote:

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

All I get is Fawlty Towers. :(

Are you sure you entered "fawtl" and not "fawlt"?

It's possible that's what I did.

It tries to direct me to Fawlty Towers, but when I assert myself and insist that, yes, indeed, I want fatwl, it gives me "You losers are more pathetic..."

Yay!