On 6/8/06, Matthew Jennings <attjen at gwu.edu> wrote: > I'm not sure anybody but Casey actually looked at these, but here are > some clues for usage, to help out. > > 1. IATYAM - when caught > 2. C&S or CNS - exclamation > 3. KBs - exclamation > 4. WANB or IANB - pleased with something > 5. BotH - exclamation > 6. WYDMTHTSOMWYHJS - offended (or for your later years) > 7. IDP - multi-purpose non sequitur > 8. TYPYAO - when feeling overwhelmed, in the face of adversity > 9. BIEI - nasty > 10. DTTTIMW - on departure > 11. WWHAATWMG - hopefully > 12. NMBD - cautiously > I got 2, 4, 5, and oddly enough, 7, rather quickly, but not the rest. After staring at 6, I figured out the first part, and amazon search inside found the instance that supplied the complete phrase. But I suspect that even the speakers of those phrases would find it difficult to identify them just by their initialisms alone.