Color me: Dumb

[Wingnut]

I think you mean bfd. Big - - - - - - - deal.

There's an acronym for just about everything out there. I didn't know BFE until someone mentioned it on this thread. If you want to know what it is, look it up on Urban Dictionary. Fair warning: it's got the same offensive word in it as BFD.

[Iggy]

There's an acronym for just about everything out there. I didn't know BFE until someone mentioned it on this thread. If you want to know what it is, look it up on Urban Dictionary. Fair warning: it's got the same offensive word in it as BFD.

Yes I Know- looked it up, please see my edited post.

[FunkyTown]

I have read on facebook on two different profiles the person labeling the person they are pictured with, or have gone to lunch/dinner/concert with as BFF.

According to this site: Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia that means Best Friends Forever.

Why not just use BF? or BFE (Best Friend EVER)?? I can understand if the person using BFF is under the age of 15- but both people were well over the age of 30, and gramatically knew better. Best Friend Ever- would be more appropriate.

Guess I am just dumb when it comes to text speak.

Iggy - OMG! Ur <>l33t. idk y u dunno wat dis means. My bff needs t^4y. Den ull know dat dis txt iz kewl.

[Dravin]

Iggy - OMG! Ur <>l33t. idk y u dunno wat dis means. My bff needs t^4y. Den ull know dat dis txt iz kewl.

Bah, the really cool people do binary.

01011001 01100001 01111001 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 00100001

[beefche]

In my job, we use abbreviations all the time. Some are widely used, some are unique to our company.

A couple of such abbreviations is "follow up" = fu, f/u, fup and "check" = ck. One of the good Christian women left me a note once using a combination of the previous two abbreviations without realizing what it spelled. I laughed so hard when I realized she wasn't cursing at me, but letting me know what she wanted to do on a particular claim. She was quite embarrassed when I pointed it out to her.

[pam]

Bah, the really cool people do binary.

01011001 01100001 01111001 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110 00100001

OMH don't get Dravin started.

[Dravin]

OMH don't get Dravin started.

59 6f 75 20 61 72 65 20 6a 75 73 74 20 6a 65 61 6c 6f 75 73 20 6f 66 20 6d 79 20 6d 61 64 20 68 65 78 69 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 73 6b 69 6c 6c 73 2e

[Blackmarch]

I have read on facebook on two different profiles the person labeling the person they are pictured with, or have gone to lunch/dinner/concert with as BFF.

According to this site: Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia that means Best Friends Forever.

Why not just use BF? or BFE (Best Friend EVER)?? I can understand if the person using BFF is under the age of 15- but both people were well over the age of 30, and gramatically knew better. Best Friend Ever- would be more appropriate.

Guess I am just dumb when it comes to text speak.

I"m from the BFG generation......

so it takes me a moment to realise they aren't swearing.

>.>

<.<

[Suzanne627]

I think you mean bfd. Big - - - - - - - deal.

(edit) Nope you didn't, Bum - - - - egypt. Had a customer who said that all the time, not in initial form- I finally 86'd (banned) him forever. Got tired of his foul mouth.

I always thought the the F in BFD was for "flipping". That is what my non-LDS mother always said.

What line of work are you in?

[Iggy]

I always thought the the F in BFD was for "flipping". That is what my non-LDS mother always said.

What line of work are you in?

A hundred years ago <1980-1985> when I was really inactive, I owned a tavern. From 1985 to 1999 I worked cocktailing/bartending on holiday weekends and the rest of the time in a hardware store. All in the same town. Truck drivers, contractors, loggers, fishermen, gas station attendents/gas jockeys, etc. By and large the 'working' (as in manual, physical labor working ) people had a 'colorful' language.

BFD was pretty much the only thing they did say in shorthand. The rest was sounded out, and used way too frequently.

For the last five years I have been working for an independent Insurance Agent.

Yeah, Beefche, the first time she left me a post-it note with "fu", I nearly broke down crying. I was alone in the office, hadn't been there for even a week, and I thought- "Oh My Lord--she cusses via posties."

[Mahone]

59 6f 75 20 61 72 65 20 6a 75 73 74 20 6a 65 61 6c 6f 75 73 20 6f 66 20 6d 79 20 6d 61 64 20 68 65 78 69 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 73 6b 69 6c 6c 73 2e

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101000 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100101 01101100 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00111111

Or, a snippet of binary from microsoft windows: 1100000111001103111110011