1stas

IMHO - meaning?

DB7

In my humble opinion.

1stas

Thanks!

Moor Larkin

What it really means on the web is: I'm right, you're wrong.

Steve Crook

Or, as some explanations of web acronyms put it:

• IMHO - In My Humble Opinion (very rarely humble)
• IMVHO - In My Very Humble Opinion (even less likely to be humble)

Steve

batman

I have always used it to say In My Honest Opinion .... you're out of touch again Batman.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Marky B

What is IIRC?
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Fellwanderer

If I Recall Correctly

All the best
FELL

A signature is no substitute for a life

Marky B

Thankee kindly,
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

JamesM

Same here.

Steve Crook

What a lot of honest people

But is it as likely to be "honest" as it is to be "humble"?

Steve

Jackdaw

WTF is quite a handy one, as in:

Who the ****, Why the ****, Where etc

Moor Larkin

On this forum you may also be baffled by things like PnP, AMOLAD and several others so complex I cannot even remember them, and you'll not even find in them in any glossary.............

Steve Crook

Except this one

I try not to use them too much here because I can't expect everyone to know what they all mean. They are only meant to be a shorthand - not a code. So if I (or anyone else) does every use any abbreviation, acronym, initialisms or anything else that you don't understand - do please ask, nobody will think any the worst of you for asking

The ones you'll see most often are probably

• P&P or PnP - Powell and Pressburger
• PaPAS - The Powell and Pressburger Appreciation Society

There are various ones used for the P&P films

• The Edge of the World (1937) - EotW
• The Spy in Black (1939) - SiB
  aka U-Boat 29
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940) - ToB
• 49th Parallel (1941) - 49P
  aka The Invaders
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) - OOOAIM
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - LaDoCB, Blimp
• A Canterbury Tale (1944) - ACT
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - IKWIG
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - AMOLAD
  aka Stairway to Heaven - StH
• Black Narcissus (1947) - BN
• The End of the River (1947) - EotR
• The Red Shoes (1948) - TRS
• The Small Back Room (1949) - SBR
• Gone to Earth (1950) - GtE
  aka The Wild Heart (1952) {Hacked version}
• Tales of Hoffmann (1951) - ToH, Hoffmann
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1951) - TEP, The Pimp
• The Battle of the River Plate (1956) - BoRP
  aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee
• Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) - Ill Met
• Oh... Rosalinda!! - OR!
• Peeping Tom (1960) - PT
• They're a Weird Mob (1966) - TaWM
• The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) - BWTY
• Return to the Edge of the World (1978) - Return to the Edge

You get the idea :)

Sometimes we just use a person's first name. We've seen them so often in the films that we feel we know them (even when we don't)

Some of the people have nicknames that are regularly used. Some are the nicknames they really had, some have been bestowed by members of the PaPAS group.

• Michael Powell - MP, Micky
• Emeric Pressburger - EP, Imrie (his real name)
• Sheila Sim - Lady A (she's married to Lord Dickie Attenborough)
• Ludmilla Tchérina - Ludmilla Unpronounceable
  So christened by Nicky when she couldn't remember that surname
• Raymond Massey - Ray
• Conrad Veidt - Connie
• Richard Attenborough - Lord Dickie
• Robert Helpmann - Bobby
• Martin Scorsese - Marty
• Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell
  Micky's second wife,
  Multiple Oscar winning film editor who works with Marty

I do advise people "They are only intended to be used as a shorthand, not as a code, so if in doubt it's probably best to use the full name the first time you mention it in a message & then you can maybe use the acronym the next time. If other people use any acronyms or shorthand and you don't understand it then please ask. Education is always better than ignorance or misunderstanding."

Steve

David Brent

Bats has a lot of time for NORWICH.

Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home.



Dave.