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Since more and more Seniors are texting and tweeting. there appears to be a need for a STC (Senior Texting Code). If you qualify for Senior Discounts this is the code for you.

 

 

 

ATD: At The Doctor's

BFF: Best Friend Farted

BTW: Bring The Wheelchair

BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth

CBM: Covered By Medicare

CUATSC: See You At The Senior Center

DWI: Driving While Incontinent

FWB: Friend With Beta Blockers

FWIW: Forgot Where I Was

FYI: Found Your Insulin

GGPBL: Got to Go, Pacemaker Battery Low!

GHA: Got Heartburn Again

HGBM: Had Good Bowel Movement

IMHO: Is My Hearing-Aid On?

LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out

LOL: Living On Lipitor

LWO: Lawrence Walk ’s On

OMMR: On My Massage Recliner

OMSG: Oh My! Sorry, Gas.

ROFL... CGU: Rolling On The Floor Laughing... And Can't Get Up

SGGP: Sorry, Got to Go Poop

TTYL: Talk To You Louder

WAITT: Who Am I Talking To?

WTFA: Wet The Furniture Again

WTP: Where's The Prunes ?

WWNO: Walker Wheels Need Oil

Feel free to add any codes you feel are missing; send the additions back to the person who sent you this so they can update their list.

- GLKI (Got to Go, Laxative Kicking In)

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Grampa...

 

I really don't have much choice but to text. Contacts are folks involved in my work. It's a pain with just a regular handset cell phone but doable. I tend not to use the shortcut abbreviations, though. One exception is the @ for "at."

 

On the other hand, back in the olden days, this region had what apparently was the last of the Associated Press "parallel wire" setups. You had what amounted to an all caps typewriter that printed what you typed at all connected locations. All state/regional news came across that wire, then was retyped either by paper tape puncher operators or directly on a linotype. The linotypes by that time, by the way, were "robots" in that the paper tape drove them to operate "automatically."

 

Anyway, we used similar systems of abbreviation for the parallel wire. Two capital "I" letters were "aye aye," thereby asserting approval or acceptance of a order. A cap "U" for "you," etc.

 

Not much new under the sun, I think.

 

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My earliest contact with these kinds of abbreviations was lol. But in my day that was the great Herb Caen's shortcut for "little old lady" and I was actually offended that Caen's invention was being stolen. BTIOSSIOOT- you figure that one out.

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