ok...I am still a newbie..what does eom mean anyway?

[rodriguez94]

I figured n/t meant no time..okay, but what does eom mean and another one I cannot remember right now..lo something..is there a list of these codes somewhere??

[ohioliberal]

1. End of message

and n/t means no thread.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. n/t no text. eom, end of message.

[texastoast]

3. End of Message

I'm guessing. And I think n/t means No Text. Again, a guess. Works for me!

[GCP]

4. End of message

n/t - no text

It saves people opening the post - there's no text to read.

Welcome! :hi:

[seemslikeadream]

5. Hi rodriguez94 here's a link for ya

http://dug.amystrange.com/

:hi:

[Hugin]

6. Some handy terms...

n/t = no text in the message box.

eom = end of message

lol = laugh out loud

and so on...

:) <-- Smiley

[ashmanonar]

7. n/t actually means no text.

when someone just uses the title line. eom means end of message, i believe. same thing.

lol? that's laughing out loud. and variant forms (rotflmao, rolling on the floor laughing my ass off)

then there's lihop and mihop, mostly used in the 911 forums...means let it happen on purpose, and made it happen on purpose.

[cally]

8. I'm thankful whenever someone asks this

I was such an ignorant newbie that I refused to ask and finally figured it out when someone else asked. Welcome to DU

A few more you've probably figured out:

* is Bush. We use it with the intent he'll go down in history as the man who came to office without winning election. Hence, he'll always have a footnote.

Tweety is Chris Matthews. I've read the explanation many times but it still makes little sense.

Pickles is Laura Bush. Supposedly that's what * calls her.

Bunnypants and the derivations are our fearless leader....*

Media Whore of the year is Russert...OK that's a new one and mine

[AllegroRondo]

9. What does "Jumped the Shark" mean?

[cally]

10. Ok, I'll ask

I don't know.

[Hissyspit]

11. Jump The Shark is a television term from jumptheshark.com

It refers to when a television show goes from pretty good to absolute crapdom. It's origin is as a reference to the episode of "Happy Days" when Fonzie jumped a shark tank in his motorcycle, or was it on skis?, I believe in an episode filmed in Hawaii. It was the point many saw the show, which was pretty good when it started, as going complete shit. To use the term in reference to anything - U.S., Bush administration, mainstream media, whatever - is to analogously say something good or effective has hit the point of no return.

From the website www.jumptheshark.com :
"It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite TV show has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on. It's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark."

By the way, I saw the "Fonzie Jumps Over the Shark" episode when it originally aired and even as a kid, I thought the show had long since started sucking, so there's always some debate about when exactly the shark jump takes place. One of the reasons it was so stupid was that they had already done a Fonzie motorcycle jump episode.

[latteromden]

16. Man, thank you. I'm almost 800 posts in and I NEVER understood

WHY * was used for Bush. I knew it was, it just didn't make any sense.

[ashmanonar]

17. yea, i was in the dark as well.

i assumed it was to indirectly refer to him. so we don't have the gov't knocking on our doors.

"but officer, i used an asterisk. i said nothing about bush!"

[rzemanfl]

19. Kurt Vonnegutt in "Deadeye Dick" described the asterisk as the

universal symbol for an asshole. *
This would be more effective with a big font.

[Mabel Dodge]

25. Breakfast Of Champions...

...is where that first showed up. It was a drawing, so the lines were more squiggily, coming out from the center, but he referred to it looking like an asterisk.

Something I've always wanted to do, but never got around to, is have a bumper sticker made that says:

Back Off,*!

Mabel's other half, Bokonon

[ashmanonar]

28. welcome to du!

both halves!

:D

:hi:

[rzemanfl]

30. Never was able to hang on to my Vonnegutt books, someone

always wanted to read them, so I will take your word for the source. Welcome to DU. I know Bokonon is from "Cat's Cradle" which I read my freshman year in college (1965-1966). I remember more about it than more recent books of Vonnegutt's I've read, which says something about aging.

[ashmanonar]

27. LOL.

that works too.

i see what you mean.

[thecai]

31. I Thought This Was The Universal Symbol For

a$$hole---> (!) or a big a$$hole---> ( ! )

[Hissyspit]

21. I always assumed that it meant people didn't what to have to type his name

like not wanting to speak it. The idea of a footnote never occurred to me, but in a way, it can carry both those meanings.

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

22. I thought Tweety was Bill O'Reilly...

[Hissyspit]

12. "Leslie" is Wolf Blitzer, since his real name is Leslie n/t

[Hissyspit]

13. MSM means "mainstream media" - don't be afraid to ask these things

People are more than happy to tell you.

[stevedeshazer]

14. This will save you all a whole lot of trouble

Thanks to AmyStrange

http://dug.amystrange.com/

[geniph]

15. It's a liberal gang symbol - End Oil Monarchies

Well, no, not really, but I sort of like that idea anyway. ;-)

[welshTerrier2]

18. acronym website

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

[Patiod]

20. But some are DU-exclusive, like "moran" for moron

From a picture taken at a pro-Iraq-war rally of some idiot holding a sign that says "Get a Brain! Moran!"

[Crandor]

24. I've seen that a lot at Fark.com too (n/t)

[rodriguez94]

23. Thank you all so much...you are truly a great bunch of people!! eom

[rodeodance]

26. is there someplace where all this DU jargon is posted?

[sweetheart]

29. End Of Month

It is an old mainframe acronym for running batch jobs for the EOM.

Around here, a new generation has hyjakked it for end of message.