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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on January 04, 2008, 09:00:00 PM

Title: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Roger Kettle on January 04, 2008, 09:00:00 PM
...what do the following mean?
ICQ.
AIM.
MSN.
YIM.
Of course, I know but there might be others who aren't as computer-savvy as I am.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 04, 2008, 09:04:08 PM
...what do the following mean?
ICQ.
AIM.
MSN.
YIM.
Of course, I know but there might be others who aren't as computer-savvy as I am.

ICQ = I Can't Qualify.
AIM = Always I'm Stupid.
MSN = Me? Stupid Now!
YIM - Yes, I'm Moronic.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: peter on January 04, 2008, 09:34:13 PM
I don't know either
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 04, 2008, 09:43:25 PM
Okay. I'll be serious now. They're instant messaging services.

ICQ = I Seek You.
AIM = AOL Instant Messenger.
MSN = MicroSoft Now
YIM - Yahoo Instant Messenger
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Roger Kettle on January 04, 2008, 10:15:50 PM
I preferred your earlier definitions.
Are these email services?
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 04, 2008, 10:21:30 PM
If you have one of the programs installed, you can "chat" (swap texts in the same panel) live with anyone else who has the same program installed. These days you have live webcam, and even voice protocol too often.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on January 05, 2008, 12:05:39 AM
Nice 2CQ - 2CQ, nice!
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 05, 2008, 12:08:12 AM
Nice 2CQ - 2CQ, nice!

F.O.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Malc on January 05, 2008, 02:26:54 AM
Roger will have just grasped the first principles of ICQ as the rest of us climb into the last space shuttle off the dying planet.
Mutant humans will emerge from their subterranean world, break into Roger's house and find him at his desk asking "What's LOL? Honestly, these daft acronyms make me laugh out loud".
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Fyodor on January 05, 2008, 10:31:35 AM
Roger darling, promise you won't go off and leave this mutant all alone.

HOLLAND
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Malc on January 05, 2008, 01:33:03 PM
GARY T

That's "Get A Room, You Two"  ::)
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Roger Kettle on January 05, 2008, 02:16:05 PM
Roger darling, promise you won't go off and leave this mutant all alone.

HOLLAND
I can't say that I find this anything other than disturbing.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Joan on January 06, 2008, 10:28:47 AM
I wouldn't worry, Roger.  It concerns me that I understood all of it - sign of a misspent middle age.  :o  Even worse is that it never occurred to me in those 10 years that ICQ stood for I Seek You.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Mince on January 06, 2008, 01:35:16 PM
I used to think that LOL meant "lots of love". My online bliss with a one lass went quickly sour when I discovered it meant "laugh out loud".
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 06, 2008, 04:32:56 PM
I used to think that LOL meant "lots of love". My online bliss with a one lass went quickly sour when I discovered it meant "laugh out loud".

"with a one lass"?
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Vulture on January 06, 2008, 05:06:07 PM
I used to think that LOL meant "lots of love". My online bliss with a one lass went quickly sour when I discovered it meant "laugh out loud".

"with a one lass"?

Presumably, as it was the only one, she gets 'a one' special mention!
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Mince on January 06, 2008, 07:03:24 PM
The word "one" is slang for "cute".
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Malc on January 06, 2008, 09:35:37 PM
Quote
"with a one lass"?

I think that should be "with a windlass", a device for pulling or hoisting. Lucky old Mince.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 06, 2008, 10:43:25 PM
Wow. I never knew you could get a device for pulling. Could have saved me a lot of wasted effort trying to pick up birds in the past.
Title: Re: Dear Administrators...
Post by: Malc on January 07, 2008, 02:57:26 AM
Or hoisting them.