New to this forum. What's "IANA", "IANAL" and "WAG"?

I see it in shorthand often but can’t figure it out. It’s probably something really basic that will make me feel stupid for not knowing… :smack:

I Am Not A

I Am Not A Lawyer

Wager A Guess

WAG can be and is often used to mean “Wild-Assed Guess” here too.

If someone goes “My WAG is…” they’re not saying “My Wager A Guess is…”

Damn, I thought IANAL was if they liked anal sex.

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No, that would be I [heart] ANAL.

Mudshark, I’m looking at your location and resisting the temptation to go all Arlen Specter on you. (I kid! I kid! Poland is a lovely place. I used to drive through it every time I went to visit a client in Bessemer, PA.)

abbreviations.com is useful for anything you come across that’s not in the SDMB Glossary.

Official meaning of MPSIMS – Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share
What I and some other posters think seeing MPSIMS – Mundane Pointless Shit I Must Share

I always read WAG as Wild Ass Guess.

Sorry that’s just some mundane pointless shit I must share.:slight_smile:

It was that or call it the Titanic Wallpaper Forum.

Welcome.

Have you already gone through initiation? If not, how did you get in?

Until this past August, I lived within walking distance of Bessemer.

Huh, all this time I always thought WAG was “Well, A Guess”, even when used in terms of “My WAG”, as in the “My” was just added to the acronym. I can’t remember where I first thought of this, but my WAG is that I saw it in context of guesses or assumptions and just kinda guessed right on the “G” part and and got the other two wrong.