# Ok, I give up. What's TMI? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621 "2002-05-12T12:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/1 "2002-05-12T12:41:31Z")
I’ve been trying to come up with the meaning of TMI that I see people use often in these threads when something is going to be considered gross, or whatever. So far, I have a few guesses, but nothing that seems to me to be the right answer. So, for the sake of my very sanity, What the heck is TMI? ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/2 "2002-05-12T12:46:42Z")
I always thought it was **T** oo **M** uch **I** nformation. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/3 "2002-05-12T12:51:10Z")
Too Much Information. “I took a huge dump and my cute butt hurts”. (Not TMI). “I took a huge dump and my cute butt hurts because the peanut shells scratched my sphincter and the hot peppers started burning the cuts and then made a 'roid inflame and swell up and because I cooked with a lot of lard, it was lubed up enough to slip out and start dangling down and the cat bit it off thinking it was a toy”. “TMI”. Anything written by Spoofe. Good chance of seeing some TMI. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/4 "2002-05-12T13:00:17Z")
Of course! How obvious…Now… Oh, and that example: Right on the money… Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/5 "2002-05-12T16:46:38Z")
It could stand for temporimandibular injury, also. But, I guess not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/6 "2002-05-12T17:27:15Z")
Dang! Too late! I would have answered, “You don’t want to know.” 😃 (Dr. Sweet, in Disney’s _Atlantis_: "You don’t want to know. Don’t tell him, Audrey. You shouldn’t have told _me_, but you did, and now I’m telling _you_, you don’t want to know.) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/7 "2002-05-13T04:03:14Z")
[**TMI**](http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4369605,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/8 "2002-05-13T13:31:58Z")
Ok, Thanks. I understand now! TIme to close the thread. Please, for the love of god, close the thread… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/9 "2002-05-13T13:40:22Z")
Still not closed! Time Manager International in Henley in Arden, UK. My dad worked there a few decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Balor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Balor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balor)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/10 "2002-05-13T13:49:25Z")
I thought it was Toastmasters International - [www.toastmasters.org](http://www.toastmasters.org) This shows the danger of using TLAs - soon you find them everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/11 "2002-05-13T22:29:45Z")
Transmural myocardial infarction. The list is endless. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/12 "2002-05-13T23:24:25Z")
I thought it was Three Mile Island. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/13 "2002-05-14T02:53:21Z")
Liiiiiiink to the thread. You know which one I’m talking about. Go on. Dare you. Triple dog dare you. You know you want to. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/14 "2002-05-14T02:56:10Z")
The infamous [TMI](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44749) thread. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/15 "2002-05-14T06:19:54Z")
Aw yeah… ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-whats-tmi/108621/16 "2002-05-14T20:24:51Z")
Threatened myocardial infarction and transmandibular implant. Now you have TMI.