# IIRC?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160 "2001-10-13T00:12:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![McStain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@McStain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McStain)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/1 "2001-10-13T00:12:20Z")

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What does this mean?

That’s all. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/2 "2001-10-13T00:15:02Z")

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If I recall correctly.

[More message board acronyms here](http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://home3.inet.tele.dk/hgaarde/Acronyms.html&e=747)

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/3 "2001-10-13T00:28:03Z")

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The best one I saw today was from WAVERLY, before hazarding a guess: IANN – I Am Not Nostradamus. 🙂

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**Author:** ![McStain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@McStain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McStain)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/4 "2001-10-13T00:36:09Z")

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dear god. so many acronyms…

Thank you for the amazingly comprehensive list, Crusoe.

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**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/5 "2001-10-14T05:10:13Z")

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Do note that many (if not most) of the acronyms in Crusoe’s list aren’t used here, so don’t throw one in that you’ve seen there (without an explanation) if you haven’t seen it used here also.

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**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/6 "2001-10-14T14:06:54Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Crusoe \*  
> \*\*If I recall correctly.
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> [More message board acronyms here](http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://home3.inet.tele.dk/hgaarde/Acronyms.html&e=747) \*\*

Wow. Thanks, Crusoe!  
-Another

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/87160/7 "2001-10-14T17:16:09Z")

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Do also note that many of those acronyms aren’t used _anywhere_. As that thread started getting old, people started just making them up on the fly, for silliness’ sake. Then again, though, there’s probably a few that started in that thread which _have_ caught on, though I don’t know which they might be.