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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Which is why you should think long and hard about making name changes. In order to faciliate this extended process, our beloved Community Editor, the blessed Erin, gives us plenty of time between amnesties to ponder our choice.
She's very thoughtful and considerate about such things.
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WTFWED?
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Lydia
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I just remembered I posted this question weeks ago, and then life got busy and I forgot to come back and look for the answer.
So a very belated thank you to RooK and Gracious Rebel. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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PhilA
shipocaster
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Could someone please tell me what TEC means?
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Peter Owen
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The Episcopal Church (of the USA).
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Barefoot Friar
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For the newbies, or other interested parties:
AC - Anglo-Catholic
CofE - Church of England
ECUSA - Episcopal Church in the USA (now TEC)
ELCA - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ELCC - Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada
LCMS - Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
PCUSA - Presbyterian Church in the USA
PCC - Presbyterian Church in Canada
RC - Roman Catholic Church
RCA - Roman Catholic Church in America
TEC - The Episcopal Church (US)
UC, or UCA - Uniting Church of Australia
UCC - United Church of Christ (US)
UCCan - United Church of Canada
UMC - The United Methodist Church (US)
That's all I can think of, at the moment.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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quote:
Originally posted by Padre Joshua:
For the newbies, or other interested parties:
<snip>
That's all I can think of, at the moment.
CC(DOC)= Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
SBC = Southern Baptist Convention
URC = United Reform Church (UK based)
coC = churches of Christ (lower case intentional)
LDS = Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
JW = Jehovah's Witnesses
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WTFWED?
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Alan Cresswell
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I get the feeling that if we were to try to list the acronyms of every different church group in the world then we'd a) have a very long list and b) miss a lot out.
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PhilA
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quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
So what was (where was ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) ) this thread doing between Gort, (23 April 2007) and Bonabri (21 May 2008)? That's even longer than Duchess' snooze.
I'm a slow reader. So sue me.
Many thanks for the definition, Peter Owen and Padre Joshua.
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opaWim
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Somehow I suspect it may be dangerous to ask, but what does TICTH stand for?
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rosamundi
Ship's lacemaker
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Originally posted by joris2:
Somehow I suspect it may be dangerous to ask, but what does TICTH stand for?
Today I Consign To Hell.
E.g. TICTH whoever gave me bloody swine flu. First nice day in quite a while and I'm stuck inside.
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opaWim
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Originally posted by rosamundi:
[QUOTE]E.g. TICTH whoever gave me bloody swine flu. First nice day in quite a while and I'm stuck inside.
Thank you.
And in case your example reflects your actual condition, I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:
coC = churches of Christ (lower case intentional)
Most of us actually do "CofC" when we're abbreviating, but I usually do type "church" in lower case when spelling it out.
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Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras
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Apart from the specialised religious abbreviations (MBS, OL&SJC, etc), are there any Ship acronyms that people think are actually unique to the Ship, as opposed to being rather standard internet forum usage, e.g. BTW, OTOH, IMO, etc?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Originally posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras:
are there any Ship acronyms that people think are actually unique to the Ship
ITTWACW?
SotS?
DH?
TnT? (though that one hasn't been around for a long while!)
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monkeylizard
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OK Marvin...what's SotS and TnT?
I seem to think SotS would be "Star of the Sea", but can't recall what that means. An alternate name for the Orthodox Church, perhaps?
[ 29. July 2009, 17:13: Message edited by: monkeylizard ]
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Gill H
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TnT was a board for discussing all things to do with sex - yep, really. It was called Let's Talk Tits'n'Testicles.
Before the Ecclesiantics board was formed, there were two areas where worship was discussed, one which tended to be very high church and the other which was for alternative worship type stuff. I suggested the name for the combined board should be 'Let's Talk Tat'n'Tealights', but sadly the Powers That Be didn't go for it... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Is GLE (Good Little Evangelical) unique to the Ship?
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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I've seen TnT on various Driving Instructor discussion boards, but it means something different there!
GLE I think is unique
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Originally posted by monkeylizard:
I seem to think SotS would be "Star of the Sea", but can't recall what that means. An alternate name for the Orthodox Church, perhaps?
It's the private board for Orthodox and Catholic shipmates.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Originally posted by Gill H:
TnT was a board for discussing all things to do with sex - yep, really. It was called Let's Talk Tits'n'Testicles.
That board has a fond place in my heart, as it was the one on which my first ever post was made ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Scot
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I'm sentimental about TnT too - it was my first hosting gig. There was some freaky shit posted on that board.
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Jolly Jape
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
GLE I think is unique
Well if it is original (and it may well be), it certainly isn't unique. In fact, in the circles in which I move, it's quite common shorthand for a particular type of Christain, typically a woman in her early thirties with tee-shirt, knee length trousers, short hair, little rucksack on back....you know the sort of thing.
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rosamundi
Ship's lacemaker
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DH isn't unique - it means "dear husband" on most boards I frequent.
And, as a lay Dominican, I occasionally get a bit confused by people referring to "the OP*."
*Post-nominal letters for the Dominicans, the Ordo Praedicatorum, Order of Preachers.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by rosamundi:
DH isn't unique - it means "dear husband" on most boards I frequent.
It's not always "dear."
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Originally posted by rosamundi:
DH isn't unique - it means "dear husband" on most boards I frequent.
Never heard if it before your posting here!
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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monkeylizard
Ship's scurvy
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Ah yes. SotS. I forgot about the private boards.
And now that you defined TnT, I remember it. I saw it a few times when popping in from extended shore-leave. It was ermm...interesting
Thanks.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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I've seen the "DH" or "DP" for "D___ Husband" or "Partner" elsewhere--especially on the E.F. Benson Yahoo Group (although they seemed to self-destruct in a fit of pique last week).
DH for "Dead Horse", however, must be peculiar to the Ship.
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Gill H
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Yes, I know of DH for Dear/Darling/Damn Husband, and DBF, DP, DS, DD correspondingly. They happen a lot on very chatty, bloggy sites where people post threads with names like "Oh no, I burned the toast again!"
(Affectionate spoofing there, BTW, I'm an active member of one of these.)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Thanks for that MVDF!
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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We certainly do, we have duplicates, most can be sorted by context but
UCC = United Church of Christ
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UCC = United Church in Canada
can be confusing as I found to my cost. It is not helped that UC can also be Unitarian Church although they do use UUC=Unitarian and Universalist Church and in England are officially ULCC = Unitarian and Liberal Christian Church.
Jengie
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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I may have overlooked these, but I don't think they've been mentioned on this thread:
ABC - Archbishop of Canterbury
BVM - Blessed Virgin Mary
PSA - Penal Substitutionary Atonement (I introduced this acronym in a seminary class a couple years ago, and everyone was really grateful for it!)
Not acronyms, but shorthand:
Piskie - an Episcopalian
congo - congregation
And a couple more church acronyms that perhaps don't get used much here:
AoG or (as I've always used it) A/G - Assemblies of God
AME - African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Zion being a different but related denomination)
CME - Christian Methodist Episcopal
MBC - Missionary Baptist Church
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jacobsen
seeker
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I thought Star of the Sea was one of Mary's titles in the Litany of the Virgin Mary. Actually that one is Morning Star. For Star of the Sea - Stella Maris - see
http://www.stellamaris.net/ourlady.php?s=1
Of course, SoS could, in a different context, refer to a
soddin' old scumbag.
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jacobsen
seeker
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Sorry to double post, but I've just unearthed an old Roman Missal in which can be found the old Latin hymn Ave Maris Stella - Hail, Star of the Sea
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toaster
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I might be just showing my ignorance here, but I just wondered what people meant when they refer to 'flood control'.
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A constant receiving and giving. Louie Horne, 1987 QF&P 2.25
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Carex
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Flood control is the time limit on how soon you can make a second post after the first one. It keeps people from flooding the boards with messages. A read through the History of the Ship thread will show you why it was added.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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The software here includes a control that means that you can't make a post within 2 minutes of another post. This is designed to prevent a spammer flooding the boards with junk ... needing to wait at least 2 mins at least slows the down and gives the admins a chance to ban them before too much trouble is caused. "Flood control" is a very apt description.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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And, it doesn't prevent multiple people flooding the boards with multiple messages saying basically the same thing!
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toaster
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Great, thanks for clearing that up Carex and Alan. Thought it was probably something like that but didn't realise it was part of the software.
Thanks again.
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Given in passing to God.
It's more like marriage - a closeness of living,
A constant receiving and giving. Louie Horne, 1987 QF&P 2.25
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jacobsen
seeker
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quote:
Originally posted by Gort:
IBM: I Blame Microsoft.
[/QB]
Don't we all?
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[ 09. January 2010, 12:20: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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*bump*
because someone asked about it
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Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras
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A digression but an informative one: at All Saints Margaret Street in the licensed bar a single gin and tonic is known as "a protestant" and a double G&T is called "a catholic". JTYLTK (just thought you'd like to know).
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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WWED = What Would Erin Do.
I'm sure that you can work out what WTFWED stands for without my help.
Tubbs
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scuffleball
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quote:
Originally posted by redoubt:
Can someone explain the use of the word bump, usually in brackets, <bump> . This is often the only word in the post. Maybe it's some web jargon I'm totally unaware of, but I cannot work out what it means.
It's slang peculiar to chatrooms whose chats are listed according to the last person who spoke in them. If someone thinks their message has been insufficiently responded to, they say nothing but "bump," to bump it up to the top of the list, as it were. If done wrongly it can seem a bit rude.
P.S. other slang peculiar to the ship (or at least, that people outside the ship find confusing) -
MOTR - middle of the road
AffCath - Affirming Catholic/Catholicism
The Candle/The Altimetre - How "high" or "low" a church is
(whence "climbing/descending the candle," "high up the candle" &c)
PBC - prayer-book Catholic
Also, for English people, BCP doesn't automatically mean that of 1662 on the ship.
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Stercus Tauri
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Originally posted by scuffleball:
[QUOTE
P.S. other slang peculiar to the ship (or at least, that people outside the ship find confusing) -
MOTR - middle of the road
AffCath - Affirming Catholic/Catholicism
The Candle/The Altimetre - How "high" or "low" a church is
(whence "climbing/descending the candle," "high up the candle" &c)
PBC - prayer-book Catholic
Also, for English people, BCP doesn't automatically mean that of 1662 on the ship.
I keep seeing PCC where it can't possibly mean The Presbyterian Church in Canada. Is it Anglicanese for something?
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Stercus Tauri
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Ah, but for those in the know it is a particularly celebrated species of tram (streetcar).
I should have known that - thank you. Not only that, the same initials belonged to a company in the same business just up the road from here. Given local demographics, their people would likely have been Lutheran rather than the other PCC.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Tubbs:
WWED = What Would Erin Do.
I'm sure that you can work out what WTFWED stands for without my help.
Tubbs
Perhaps WRFIWEU = What Rusty Farm Implement Would Erin Use?
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