DU, please help a newbie.....

[patrick t. cakes]

what does n/t mean after a post.
I CANT FIGURE IT OUT! (sorry)

thanks

:)

[qnr]

1. It means that there is no further text (in the message body)

Welcome to DU!

[reyd reid reed]

2. no text.

And...welcome!!!

:hi:

[Goblinmonger]

3. "no text" n/t

[Kutjara]

4. People type it so that those on slow dial-up connections...

...don't click on the link and have to wait for it to download, when there's nothing further to read/see.

[patrick t. cakes]

5. cheers...

i was thinking things like
"nice try" or "next time"

:)

[qnr]

7. For future reference, "eom" basically means the same (end of message)

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

10. Oooooh...see, that's one

that I've been trying to figure out but felt silly asking.

Thank you.

:)

:hug:

[qnr]

12. My pleasure

:) :hug:

[Richard Steele]

28. I still see "nm" occasionally, as well. Same thing: No Message.

[qnr]

29. yes, I still see that too n/t

[reyd reid reed]

30. That one I figured out...I haven't seen it often.

The 'eom' had me completely baffled, though.

And no cracks about how that's not a major accomplishment....

:crazy:




[edited because...well...because I'm an idiot.

[wildhorses]

6. welcome to DU --wanna hear a newbie story?

when I was a no0B I thought it was short for "isn't it"--iddnit

then I thought it was short for "in it"


I know--I'm stoopid

:yoiks:

[qnr]

8. Well, I'd say "creative thinking" rather than "stoopid" :) n/t

[wildhorses]

21. my brain is wired backwards

being left handed and all--

I, most of the time get to the same end result I just got there a different way:shrug::hi:

[qnr]

27. Yeah, I've read a lot about the creativity of left-handed creatures.

Creatures because I remember some stories about non-human left-handed individuals.

[patrick t. cakes]

9. lol

thats hilarious!:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. That's 'st00pid'

:rofl:



:hug:

[wildhorses]

22. and don't you forget it---odie

I mean eddy
I mean whirlpool
I mean
shit what do I mean--:hug::hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. LOL!

:rofl:



:loveya:

[Richard Steele]

33. I didn't realize what "IIRC" stood for until last year...

I kinda knew what it MEANT, from seeing it in context,
but I never figured out the acronym...
Because my brain had been reading it as "2RC" every
time I saw it!(damn Romans!)
Then one day, I was actually typing the phrase "if I recall correctly"
and the light bulb finally appeared over my head.

[reyd reid reed]

35. There are a ton of 'em that I'm seeing for the first time...

(I've led a rather sheltered life)...IIRC is one that's recent. OTOH is another. There's one more...hell, can't remember it now...

3 a.m. THAT'S when I'll remember it.

[qnr]

38. On The Other Hand n/t

[Richard Steele]

41. Well, a rule of thumb that's helped me a lot with the Netcronyms:

When in doubt, the "F" always stands for the same word! :wtf:

[qnr]

42. Floor? :) n/t

[Richard Steele]

43. Yes, "floor". ATAIHTSAT!

[qnr]

36. I hate when that happens. Something similar happened to me, and I

posted about it a couple of weeks ago, yet I have absolutely no clue what it was, now.

[reyd reid reed]

39. Well, at least now I don't feel so alone...

I was starting to wonder if maybe the gray hair was affecting the gray matter, y'know...

:hug:

[qnr]

40. OTOH (phffffft) I remember my telephone number from 1969 lol n/t

[reyd reid reed]

46. I can remember mine from 1989..

But then again, it's the same one.

:shrug:

We changed phone numbers and addresses so often when I was growing up that it's hopeless.

[qnr]

59. yeah, it might actually mean something if I could remember any others.

That one is just a fluke. :)

[SeattleGirl]

11. Welcome to DU, Pat Cakes!

Don't worry -- many of us have had to ask at least one question about what something means.

Hope you enjoy it here. :hi:

[patrick t. cakes]

13. absolutly love it.

im so glad i found this place.
its a treasure chest of info(ammo).

[Chan790]

14. Welcome

to the DU Lounge.

[patrick t. cakes]

16. thanks

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Pat Cakes!

Welcome to DU! I hope you will enjoy your time here with us......

The Lounge is especially nice...........people come here to relax and talk to everyone......

It is very addictive!

:hi:

[patrick t. cakes]

19. ya know ive never really posted here before

in the lounge but ive been eves dropping a awhile and
it really feels like a good community.

[MrScorpio]

18. Not titilated

[haf216]

20. Welcome n/t

[bridgit]

23. 'not tonight'...

:rofl: not really i'm just being a stinker :hi:

[WildEyedLiberal]

24. Hi Pat Cakes! Welcome to DU!

:hi: :pals:

Some other DUisms you might not know yet:

IBTL: In before the lock. This is very useful in the lounge. :evilgrin:

Crashcart: Dick Cheney, so called because he has a heart attack every other week. (I post this because it took me a year and a half before I knew WHY Crashcart referred to Cheney.)

Moran: Yes, we know it's spelled wrong - "moran" became famous from a hilarious picture of a freeper holding a protest sign that said "Get a Clue Morans! Go USA!" Maybe someone can post it for us :evilgrin:

HUGH!!!!: Another freeper gem - apparently freepers can't spell "huge."

Series: See HUGH!!!! - in this case, the misspelled word is serious.

That's all I can think of now: enjoy DU!

[haf216]

54. Thank you for explaining the "hugh" thing.

I had figured out what it meant, just did not know why!

[Guy Fawkes]

26. Nocturnal Tangerine (eom)

[Random_Australian]

31. That's not it! It means "nice terrasaurs"

[reyd reid reed]

37. Not

'nice tushie'?

Nah...couldn't be. Around here, they'd just cut to the chase and say 'nice ass'.

[The_Casual_Observer]

32. Long ago on DU you had to type something in the message

otherwise it wouldn't post, so n/t (no text) became the usual way around it.

[Hissyspit]

34. Welcome to DU, Pat Cakes!

:patriot:

:toast:

[patrick t. cakes]

44. cheers all...

....thanks for the info and the laughs;-)
love it here.
this place (all of DU) is a great source of information
and im trying to spread the word to friends and family.
so beware plenty of more silly questions to come :D

[ruiner4u]

45. Since we are in a 'happy love the newbie' mood...

Can ya tell me how to post a image? I clicked on the help link and it said to list the link, then ? mark, then a few letters... I tried that and it didn't work

Im just asking cause I have a cute pic of my dog that I want to share with the cat people...:)

[Control-Z]

49. You need to have your image

parked on the internet somewhere first.  Most people use
Photobucket, I think, or someplace similar if they don't have
their own site. Then all you do is type in the URL. 

As an example: 
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jgrif/alGore.jpg

would display a photo of Al Gore if I had set this post to
HTML. 

If you don't know the URL of your image once you've uploaded
it you can right click on it (the photo) - then click on
properties and it will show the URL.

[haf216]

55. Can you use any site that has pic,

I have stuff on Shutterfly, whould that work?

[Control-Z]

57. Yep

Just right click on whatever photo you want to use. Click on properties and you should see the URL there.

[haf216]

58. Thank you!!! n/t

[Omphaloskepsis]

50. I use this...

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/

Self explanatory.
It will give you eight boxes of options. Just copy and paste what is in the eight box.

[Rhiannon12866]

47. no text, just a subject line, so you won't have to read further...

And welcome to DU, Pat Cakes! We're so glad to have you with us! And feel free to ask anymore questions that you like. That's what we're here for! DU is an amazing resource...:toast:

Rhiannon:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

48. Welcome to DU

Always nice to meet new peeps :)

[billyskank]

51. EVIL people put n/t in their message headers. n/t

And then put some text in the body anyway. :P

[buddhamama]

52. Welcome to DU, Pat Cakes

glad to have you with us. :hi: :toast:

as other have already stated "nt" means No Text in the message body.

a link to the DU Glossary:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x190

a good reference tool for DU lingo, abbreviations and acronyms.

[LNM]

60. Thanks for the link!

I was looking for that yesterday and couldn't find it. I was stumped on IBTL although I knew it was something about a lock.

[cwydro]

53. welcome!

and thanks for the question...I got a lot of mine answered too!:hi:

[bigwillq]

56. Hi!

Welcome to DU! :hi: