&afda Acronyms FAQ

This is just what I came up with on a couple of evenings. Send me additions, or post them to the froup!
Also includes Campaigns, not all of which are very active!

afda
Duh. The greatest newsfroup ever, alt.fan.douglas-adams
See also some alternative meanings.

alfafda, afafda
alt.fan.afda, child of afda

DGHDA
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

DNA
Douglas Noel Adams, or possibly Digressing Nerds Associaitiain

CAMIAIN
Campaign Against Manhandling or Irresponsibly Altering Iain's Name

CamRAFDA
Campaign for Real afda, the campaign against excessive crossposting.

cIAIN
Campaign to Increase Aesthetics In the Newsfroup, the campaign to get people to call alt.fan.afda "alfafda" because it's more aesthetically pleasing than "afafda"
froup
Friends Routinely Opposed to Useful Posts, allegedly

H2G2
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, usually refering to the Earth edition of the Guide found at http://www.h2g2.com/

HHGG, HHGTTG
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, refering to the story

ICQ
Increasingly Connected Questions; see here

IIRC
IIRC means, of course, Impressively Inspiring Redundancy Conundrums.
It should be properly used before a fact that you think you remember, but are not quite sure of. Don't worry about anything, because other people won't be sure of it either. Hence the Impressive Redundancy Conundrums. After all, everyone will redundantly be trying to decide if they are sure or not, and the impressive part is how easily it is inspired. The conundrums... well, that doesn't really need any expliainatiain, does it?

LCTS
Last Chance To See

LSPNs
Lemon Soaked Paper Napkins, a radio series reference. See also here

LTUAE
Life, The Universe And Everything

MH
Mostly Harmless

ObRef
Not an acronym, but worth mentioning.
Short for Obscure, Obligatory or Obvious reference, depending

RHOD
Something we don't talk about in afda ;o)

SLATFATF
So Long, At Thanks For All The Fish

SOD
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams' infamous nonexistent book.
See also The Salmon of Doubt Experiment

TCIFOTP
The Campaign In Favour Of Topless Posting, from a misunderstanding about top posting

TCTKTACC
Campaign to Keep the AFDA Campaigns Confuzzling

TCTLSL
The Campaign To Let Spnuk Live

TCTSC
The Campaign To Spread Confuzzlement

TCTSMC
The Campaign To Start More Campaigns

TFTSNBN
The Froup That Shall Not Be Named (alfafda)

TCTSOM
The Campaign to Saw Off Mexico (no-one knows why, though)
TLDTTOTS
The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul

TMOL, TDMOL
The (Deeper) Meaning of Liff

TRATEOTU
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

YZPIS
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe