Lounge Insiders:

[Robb]

Poll question: Lounge Insiders:

Think of all our new members, just heading out to the Lounge for their first experience, looking at the padded walls and wondering what the heck we're talking about....

Which of these commonly-seen words, abbreviations, or phrases do you think our new-folk find most puzzling, and deserve explanation?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Other: Braiding Abbots.

:evilgrin:

[Robb]

2. There's "inside"

...and then there's "so inside you can't imagine".... ;)

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. *

* - that confused the hell out of me the first time I saw it. Then I read Doonsbury and figured it out. :)

[Richardo]

4. BFEE always gets a WTF from the newbies...

as does LIHOP>

[Tharesa]

5. What the hell are trolls?

Tharesa keep looking for them under cyberbridges, but they never seem to be there! :shrug:

[kmla]

6. Morans would easily confuse a newbie...

If they didn't get the joke, they may think we are actually "morans", who have no idea of the spell check function we possess.

[Tharesa]

8. this is true...

Tharesa make this mistake as well. :crazy:

[Robb]

9. It happens!

I've got a really bright friend who started saying "This isn't rocket scientrey!" about stuff so much, now he says it in front of people who don't know him well enough to know he's kidding. :)

[wtmusic]

10. Where is that Moran dude anyway?

He deserves an honorary membership to DU, kinda like the court jester

[Richardo]

16. Youuuuuu asked for it!

[amandae]

23. Maybe that was his name and he was

just signing the poster ... like "with love, morans"

LMAO ... I *LOVE* that picture :-)

[Dogmudgeon]

24. His other sign -- he ran out of space

It was supposed to say "GO USAMA!"

(That's the FOX News spelling, you morans.)

--bkl
Who, other than me, would like to see a full picture of the comely Freepette to his left (and out right) holding the "Fre Ri" sign?

[Robb]

25. While we're digressing

What a great word, "comely". :)

[Richardo]

31. A great companion to "nubile"

:-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. Do you remember right after 9-11...

people were complaining to Faux that OSAMA shouldn't be USAMA because the first three letters were USA. I swear, people are retarded.
Duckie

[demnan]

7. Other - Yaks

I still don't get that one.

[dolo amber]

22. *Nods*

Me either. I was going to make that my 1000th post;

"For my 1000th post, I would like to know...WTF IS A YAK??"

It was really late at night and I figured I'd get a bunch of smarty-farty "a large long-haired wild or domesticated ox (Bos grunniens syn. B. mutus) of Tibet and adjacent elevated parts of central Asia" type replies so I didn't bother. ;)

[nomaco-10]

11. LIHOP and MIHOP

[LTR]

18. IHOP

International House Of Pancakes

:evilgrin:

[grannylib]

12. Can someone please provide the link again to the glossary? Helped me

tremendously as a newbie here!
Welcome to any new DUers on this thread:toast:

[Robb]

14. Here 'tis:

Look at that old-timey DU... :)

[wa state wanderer]

15. Thanks for the link!

Most helpful.

[Shrek]

13. "700 Club"

Took me a while to figure that one out.

[omshanti]

17. what's a Cthulthu?

:shrug:

[Kellanved]

19. An Elder God of Darkness

Created by Lovecraft.

http://www.cthulhu.org/

[omshanti]

20. ahh.... I see.... thanks for clearing that up.

I've been losing sleep over that one :-)

[_NorCal_D_]

21. Good question

:shrug: B-)

[ACK]

26. Dapocaginous WTF?

What the heck is that? I have been around for awhile and don't what that is.

[amandae]

28. Thank goodness someone else doesn't know!

I thought I was the only one! :D

[GOPisEvil]

29. It means mean-spirited or heartless.

* is dapocaginous. :-)

[Terran]

30. And, um, what's "ABB"?

I've only been here two and a half years, how would I know?

[Richardo]

32. "Anybody But Bush"

...in 2004.

[geniph]

33. TRIAD

and M.A.T.C.O.M. confuse many...