# OP **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 26, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861 "2012-03-26T17:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/1 "2012-03-26T17:56:12Z")
What does OP stand for? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/2 "2012-03-26T17:57:11Z")
Original Post/Poster. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/3 "2012-03-26T17:58:50Z")
Seven years here and you didn’t know that? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/4 "2012-03-26T18:07:19Z")
If you want you can call it “Opening post”. If you want to. ---
**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/5 "2012-03-26T19:20:52Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Seven years here and you didn’t know that? Had a feeling, just wanted to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/6 "2012-03-26T20:25:14Z")
I tend to read it as Obsequious Pendant. You’d be surprised how often it fits. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/7 "2012-03-26T21:29:05Z")
OP = original post, original poster or overpowered, depending on the context ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/8 "2012-03-26T21:31:26Z")
The OP asked what OP stands for in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/9 "2012-03-26T22:36:44Z")
[Obsequious Pedant Mode] > [@SiXSwordS](#): > > I tend to read it as Obsequious Pendant. You’d be surprised how often it fits. I’m pretty sure you meant “Pedant” 😉 [/Obsequious Pedant Mode] ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/10 "2012-03-26T23:06:48Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > I’m pretty sure you meant “Pedant” 😉 Going for the low-hanging jokes, I see. I always use “OP” to mean “Out-Patient”, on the assumption that very few of us are actually, currently, committed. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/11 "2012-03-26T23:06:52Z")
Optimus Prime ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/12 "2012-03-26T23:18:56Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > I’m pretty sure you meant “Pedant” 😉 > ] Obvious Pissant ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/13 "2012-03-26T23:25:31Z")
When I was a kid, it meant [Ocean Pacific](http://www.shopvpv.com/images/uploads/thumbs/thumb_tn_IMG_1406.JPG), and we _liked_ it. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/14 "2012-03-26T23:32:15Z")
[Sheriff Andy Taylor’s son.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Teen_Opie_101.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/15 "2012-03-26T23:53:09Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > Obvious Pissant I forgot the winky: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/16 "2012-03-27T02:50:42Z")
The Dominicans: Order of Preachers in English, _Ordo Praedicatorum_ in the original Latin. Otherwise as noted in Post #2, above. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/17 "2012-03-27T03:53:09Z")
Opus the Penguin. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/18 "2012-03-27T12:47:02Z")
A dyslexic’s version of OK. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/19 "2012-03-27T14:05:47Z")
OP, how can I explain it I’ll take you frame by frame it To have y’all jumpin’ shall we singin’ it O is for Original The last P…well…that’s not that simple It’s sorta like another way to call a message or an entry It’s four little letters that are missin’ here ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861/20 "2012-03-27T15:45:27Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > OP, how can I explain it > I’ll take you frame by frame it > To have y’all jumpin’ shall we singin’ it > O is for Original > The last P…well…that’s not that simple > It’s sorta like another way to call a message or an entry > It’s four little letters that are missin’ here I’m down with the-O-P… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op/616861.md?page=2)