Being New to Forums!!!!

[busdriver]

As I'm new to this forum or any forum for that matter, could someone explain the lingo to me?
Like: bump, PM, I think stands for 'post message', ping.

Anything that will help.

Thanks,

Busdriver

[dpatte]

bump means adding a reply so the message reappears at the top of the recent messages list

pm means private message

ping means to check if a person or system is reacting

[babblefish1960]

APW means all powerful webmaster, aka Darkdep, and any quotes from Monty python skits or movies will curry favour with the rest of us, but sadly not the APW.

check out the posting guidlines and netiquette, they are chock full of good information.

[PaleoFishGirl]

Netiquette sticky topic

Posting Guidelines sticky topic

PS welcome to the OVAS forum!

[dpatte]

movies will curry favour

movies with curry flavour? bollywood.

[darkdep]

Hey, I liked that movie.  Artw, take notice..

[PaleoFishGirl]

That movie? Bollywood is a whole genre

Are you talking about Bollywood/Hollywood?

[darkdep]

Oops, yep that's it.

[busdriver]

How did we get from "Being New to Forums" to Bollywood movies?
Did I miss something?
The last movie I saw was Lord of the Rings, extended version.

[RoxyDog]

welcome busdriver.   
getting from being new to the forum to bollywood is nothing, wait until you ask about oh, I don't know, FISH and they bring up monty python.   
DarkDep can't we just ban monty python references all together?!   

[babblefish1960]

Roxy you philistine, monty python is high art and mensa class humour.

busdriver, welcome, good luck, we're not always so irreverent, just more fun than a room full of upper class twits.

The fish related stuff should be fairly straight forward though, try it, you'll see and learn and enjoy yourself too.

[darkdep]

Mensa Class Humour?  Not even close my friend

[babblefish1960]

Just because these men in Monty python sang about lumberjacks, spam, slapped each other with fish and called each other Bruce and so on, does not mean they were not intelligent, Cleese for example was a barrister, Chapman was a doctor, Jones was a very talented pianist, Idle an accountant I believe, and so on.

Humour such as theirs may seem glib, but it takes much writing and practice to appear so "off the cuff" as it were. And as it has stood the test of time, it was truly funny in the very first place.

See what I mean busdriver, the APW has soaked his head enough times that all the ha ha has fallen out with the rinse.

[Laura]

Welcome aboard busdriver.
You may also find this link http://ovas.ca/index.php?page=42 helpful when a posting makes no sense - well, maybe it won't help everytime but it should clear up some of the fish related acronyms.

[gmueller]

bump means to:
B ump
U p
M y
P osts

hope that helps a bit