# I'm sorry, but this particular piece of internet shorthand is driving me nuts! Help!

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**Created:** [June 2, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-but-this-particular-piece-of-internet-shorthand-is-driving-me-nuts-help/306598 "2005-06-02T19:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-but-this-particular-piece-of-internet-shorthand-is-driving-me-nuts-help/306598/21 "2005-06-03T18:10:25Z")

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> [@askeptic](#):
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> Soooo, how you doin?

I’m doin’ fine, darlin’, how are you doin"? 😃

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**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-but-this-particular-piece-of-internet-shorthand-is-driving-me-nuts-help/306598/22 "2005-06-03T18:12:16Z")

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> [@vetbridge](#):
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> Ya know, you have the cutest punctuation. 😃

I am taking this as a compliment! Thank you! 😃

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**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-but-this-particular-piece-of-internet-shorthand-is-driving-me-nuts-help/306598/23 "2005-06-03T18:21:23Z")

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As for the rest of you, thanks for giving me so many smiles and outright guffaws, you are all great! As for looking those acronyms up, it’s been a crazy, well, life, and I don’t always have the time to research. This was just one of those things that I would ponder just before sleep, and the _only_ thing I could come up with was Wild Ass Guess, and I just couldn’t believe it was that simple!

SDMB is more than worth the price of subscribing, I am surely enjoying myself here. Thanks again!

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