Thanks for the tip.

TeachJR

Congrats on your BotW!

Thank you also for generously sharing your skills over the years with all of us who can't carve!

The Pantheon of letterbox carvers is not complete without you!

I like to read alot of the board posts, from all states, & I’ve noticed more abbreviations being used. Even in some clues. Some, I haven’t got a
clue(pun intended) what they mean. For example, FTF ?? Going by the context it could mean a couple of things. Free To Find or Fun To Find ?
Some can be easily figured out. I’m guilty of doing it myself with the LFL
(Little Free Library), not taking into consideration these are not common in a lot of cities/states, or that visitors from other states may not have heard of them or seen one until they hit the New England area. So, just curious,
FTF anyone familiar with this one ?

oh yeah -

First to Find...

And watch for elbows trying to get there first :)

Most definitely.

Thank you so much 🫂 for that one, that should have been so clear to me.

Thanks to you too !!! Can’t believe this
wasn’t my first guess.🙄

Little Free Libraries abound in Ohio and Northern Kentucky at least. I see them frequently, so not a New England thing

As far as abbreviations, I love when people use them (appropriately) in clues. I like to figure it out and have that "Aha!" moment. But then, I do like clues better than directions.

LFL are all over.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/

I actually have a letterbox planted at my Little Free Library, and another boxer (next county over) has one planted at her LFL also.

CT has plenty! We have over 25 in our town alone (1 in my front yard!)

I seem to recall a glossary somewhere with some handy definitions, but can not seem to find it now. Things like:

TSW: (go) Through Stone Wall
BFT: Big Fun Tree!
LFT: Turn Right!
SPOR: Serious Prickers or Rash
SPOS: Some Potentially Ordinary Stuff

And so on.

Wow LOL thanks zdz for the LB refresher course. I “truly do appreciate it”, as I haven’t been out boxing for a short time, but realizing now how much has slipped my mind, by not actively getting out there to use it . I have just now taken a look over the glossary & found some a-ha words & abbreviations I had totally forgotten about, or haven’t seen in awhile. It’s nice to have a great letterboxing community to help out !

So happy to see all the LFL responses
out there. Great to know they are widespread way beyond my own little world !!! Thanks for planting in them.
Such a bonus to grab a few good books 📚 and a LB too !!!

Not just in the LBing community do we see abbreviations but it seems to be happening more and more in life; esp. on-line. I think it sometimes takes me longer to figure what they mean than it would take the writer to spell it out. The world it is a 'changin!!!! IMHO LFO LOL ROFL....

I think it might be be first to find
And I’m pretty sure they are talking about a letter 🗃️🤣

Yes it’s definitely a better day when you can get out and do some boxing

What is IMHO

In my humble opinion.

I visit several message boards and here is a list of abbreviations that are fairly common, IMHO 😉:

AFAIK - As Far as I know
ETA: - Edited to add
IANAL or IANA lawyer - I am not a lawyer;” also used as in IANA doctor, plumber, pharmacist, etc. used when giving quasi-legal advice
IIRC - If I recall correctly
IMHO - In my humble opinion
nm - never mind, usually when someone has deleted their own post
TMI - Too much information, used when a person has told way, way, way more than other people want to know.
WAG - wild assed guess
YMMV - your mileage may vary – it means, here’s my experience, you may find yours to be different
AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything”, usually used as “AMA about [topic],” in a thread title when the person starting the thread has expertise in that topic and is willing to return to the thread often to answer questions.
Cornfield – It doesn’t happen here much, but on some more heavily moderated boards, posts that are deleted or hidden from view by the board administrators are often said to be wished away to the cornfield, or corn-fielded. The phrase comes from the old Twilight Zone episode “It’s A Good Life”.
D&R – Ducking and Running, used at the end of a post, usually signifying a really awful pun.
NSFW or NSFWP – Not Safe for Work or Not Safe for Work Place, refers to material that is of a mature nature. This could apply to sexual content, bad language, adult situations, depictions of violence, etc. In other words, if your boss happened by and saw you looking at this instead of working, he/she would NOT be pleased.
OP – Original Post, meaning the post that started a thread. It is sometimes used to refer to the original poster (the person who started the thread.)
RO – Recreational Outrage describes when a poster expresses righteous indignation and gets highly worked up (outraged) over some issue, typically some news occurrence that is completely irrelevant to the person’s own life
Sock or sock puppet –- When a poster sets up an alternate username
Trainwreck – A thread that goes horribly wrong.
Troll – This is general internet usage for “somebody who is posting just to be confrontational or to raise hackles.”
Whoosh – The sound of something going over another person’s head. Usually used when someone posts a serious (often outraged) reply to a joke. The verb form is to say that the person has “been whooshed.”
Zombie – A zombie is an old thread that had ceased activity for some time (was dead), but has now been revived by a new post (was brought back to life like a zombie).

There are many, many more, but for basic message board usage, these should suffice.

This reminds me, I once visited a geocache named "TNLNSL" (took nothing, left nothing, signed log). Some smart aleck put out an adjacent geocache and titled it, "TNLNSLBADC" (took nothing, left nothing, signed log, bought a Diet Coke).

I can see why IANAL would not be as favorable as IANA Lawyer.... 🤭

YAPIDKA is/was an acronym used amongst local geocachers which stands for "Yet Another Park I Didn't Know About".

Where do you think lawyers come from in the first place?

Do you know why they bury lawyers 25 feet deep instead of the usual 6?

Because deep down, they're really good people.

I've only seen SPOR referenced as suspicious pile of rocks, as the hiding place of the box.

Hmmm..I always thought SPOR was a suspicious pile of rocks! Maybe it means different things in different states?

Whoosh!

Nice job, Quite Contrary! ha ha 🤣

First ever use of SPOR:

https://www.letterboxing.org/boxes/view.php?boxId=12828

LB