Common Abbreviations in the Pond

Well, I have a few that aren't abbreviations but I'd like to post them anyway.

Fish-con = the little pictures of fishies etc
Invisi-Ink = making your post white so it can't be seen unless highlighted
Burrito Bombing = what happens when a manatee eats kelp burritos

I didn't see anyone else use these before me, so I'm claiming credit for them! ROFLMBO!

Lauralei, MA and Suzangh,

Your additions have been posted in the second part of the long list on page 9 of this thread - thanks!!!

Fair

I've just spent the last 1/2hr reading through this thread lmfo. Thank you for creating this to help us newbie fishes. I've learned alot that I couldn't initially figure out. You guys rock!

Fiskite,

Welcome to The Pond.

Most of us are funny fishies, having a good time. We're glad you've joined us, and that you enjoyed this thread. If you run across any other abbreviations you'd like on the "master list" on page 9, just let me know!

You won't be a for long!!!!

Fair

suzangh, Thank you for:

''invisi-ink = making your post white so it can't be seen unless highlighted."

I never knew how that invisible spoilers writing was done. Sorry, but have to ask how to make writing white?

Lauralei,

Hope you don't mind if I answer your question.

When you are in the text area of the message that you are typing, highlight the text you want to make invisible. Then click on the big T with the block of colors next to it, and click on the very first block (white). This will give you an entry with brackets at the front and end of the typing. If you then click on preview, you will see that your writing has become.....invisible!!!!!

The reader has to roll their mouse over your writing to "highlight" it, at which point it becomes ..... visible!!!! I did an example below my name - run your cursor over it to highlight, and tell me what you see!

Fair


MAKE INVISIBLE.

Thanks, Fairhavenfish, for that explanation, very clear. You just taught me something I'd always vaguely wondered about. Haven't had this much fun since my Seargent Preston decoder ring.

For anyone lurking, you are seeing the benefits of BFG membership. We have fun, meet interesting people and learn cool things. Also, some of us think BFG wards off Alzheimer's, a win/win proposition! What was I saying? Oh, yeah, read my answer to your question. below my name. Thanks again.

Laurelei

MAKE INVISIBLE

Lauralei,

You did great!!!!

I cannot figure out how people do the "drawings" - that will be my next experiment....


LOL

HFFS (High 5 Fin Slap)

Fair

testing my invisibility

Thank you Fairhaven

From this

YOU ROCK

Mystbecky,

Right back atcha!

HEEHEE

Fair

Thanks for the tips. Most of them are useful, but one can hardly bear at least a tithe of all the expressions in mind. In my opinion it is too banal to invent some new abbreviation language as it weakens the language. More over it takes much more time to spend on abbrevaition expension.

Eather,

Welcome to the Pond! Hope you'll enjoy yourself here - I think you'll find that a lot of our threads are pretty much just to have fun - please use the abbreviations you want, and ignore those you don't. No requirement to use them, I assure you!

HFFS (High Five Fin Slap), LOL


Fair

bump for newcomers

'nother bump

Wonder why this was unstickied?

this post is great!
you guys totally rock!!
i've been racking my brain trying to understand some of the abbreviations used here.
just one question, what is a red message? its from FSRM.

suzangh wrote:Well, I have a few that aren't abbreviations but I'd like to post them anyway.

Fish-con = the little pictures of fishies etc
Invisi-Ink = making your post white so it can't be seen unless highlighted
Burrito Bombing = what happens when a manatee eats kelp burritos

I didn't see anyone else use these before me, so I'm claiming credit for them! ROFLMBO!

How does one get the fishies-cons?

You type the name of whichever fish you want to show a picture of between parentheses. Like this without the spaces ( herring ) or ( angelfish ) .

Thank you very much Dianna925.

You're welcome! I just learned a couple things about abbreviations that I had been wondering about too.