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Sorry for being a bit dim, but what exactly is IIRC an acronym for?

I can't figure it out.  :oops:

If I remember correctly...

I owe ben a pint.

If I recall correctly.

Cheers, I would never have figured that out.

Nice try Ben, I would buy you a pint for effort but the logistics of it all are a bit daunting.

I can't believe anyone in the world would word it like that, rather than 'remember'

americans.

I've used FYI in a recent e-mail and some of the staff never knew what it meant!!
My god its been around for years.

He's right though.

Pretty obvious FYI is Fuck You Inbred.

Seconded

Samdy's always right  8)

Wasn't saying you weren't Sam, just sounds odd said that way

**cough*  filter lanes **cough**

Slightly off subject.

But an Ozzie girl ask myself and my English (Actually Welsh) boss if we where aware that Ozzie's called us POM, or Pommies.

Simple answer was well, Yes we do, do you know what it stands for Debbie (Ozzie girls name).

She didn't have a clue. Silly Ozzie bint. (She's actually OK though)

Touche  :soapy tit wank:

You'd be amazed how many don't know what it means but they all say it.   :D

pomegranate?

I stand by my first statement  8)

Going off even more off a tangent.

I find it amazing (And also quite amusing) that when asked so many Americans don't know the reason why they call us Limie's (Sp). And also that oh so many don't know that the statue of liberty was not American built, but a gift from France.

i remember once it was actually POHM and dated back a few hundred years and meant either Property or Prisoner of His or Her Majesty - which if thats true should really refer to them convict inbreds rather than us, so maybe its bollocks

One version floating around with POMS was Prisoner of Her Majestys Ship!

Some even went as far as saying POME as 'Prisoner of Mother England'  :o

I think the prisinor of her majesty thing is a myth. Most stuff like that tends to be.

i must admit, i do get annoyed being referred to as whinging poms - one does occasionally meet the odd ozzie thats the sort of whining bitch that would put a premiership footy manager to shame - the entire australian cricket team being a perfect example

My boss and I had a discussion about the exact meaning of it, I s'pose that there have been many variations over the years and so maybe no right or wrong answer.

Anyways, getting back to Americans... They DO NOT know why they call us Limie's. None of them (Or at least the one's that I have met and Iv'e met a few)

Aussies are the worst sportsmen around.  Watching England V Australia (cricket) in a pub in Sydney only to get told if we cheered again we'd be kicked out.  Unbelieveable.  Saw rather a few get evicted from the cricket at the games we went too as well.

They cannot take losing at all.

Stop trying to pretend you haven't read this on wikipedia Ben !

Actually Snopes. Close though.

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/pommy.asp

The POM things something to do with people from Britain going to Australia and getting burnt bright red by the sun, looking alot like a pommegranite (sp). Thats what QI said anyway, and steven fry is the don, so i'd imagine it to be true.

No its not!!

what is it then?

Well it sort of on the burnt offering, but it originally came about in rhyming slang.....


The most convincing suggestion for the etymology of the term 'Pom' is to be found on Michael Quinion's World Wide Words website.
"It is now pretty well accepted that the pomegranate theory is close to the truth, though there's a slight twist to take note of. HJ Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia. He suggested that the word began life on the wharves in Melbourne as a form of rhyming slang. An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant (was there perhaps a famous real person by that name around at the time?), but over time this shifted to Pommy Grant, perhaps as a reference to pomegranate, because the new chums did burn in the sun. Later pommy became a word on its own and was frequently abbreviated still further. The pomegranate theory was also given some years earlier in The Anzac Book of 1916.

"Whatever your beliefs about this one, what seems to be true is that the term is not especially old, dating from the end of the nineteenth century at the earliest, certainly not so far back as convict ship days".

Porked Ozzies' Mothers

or perhaps Penises of Magestic Extension

THOU SHALL NOT QUESTION STEVEN FRY

I had a work email which was headed "FFS (then work stuff)" I asked the author whether he realised what FFS meant on t'net, he had no idea, poor fella.  He had just abbreviated some work related to ffs.