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commons terms.

I can't believe no ones mentioned PM yet, Private Message, as opposed to PMS which Wade has... Posting Missives Sporadically
 
Because Murphy's law sounds better....and Murphy was the one who made the rules!
 
Common Terms Updated Nov 22/09

All right folks here we go again, the list with all the updates, additions and corrections I was given.:wavey:

Forum/Site Abbreviations
Admin = Administrator/owner/GOD
Bump = means you're posting so that the whole thread goes back to the top of the new posts list (aka "bumping" it to the top).
DIY = Do it Yourself
FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions
Mods = moderators/demi-gods
PM = Private Message
Troll = Disruptive forum member who's sole purpose for existence is to cause fights.
WIR = Week In Review (a member makes a thread reviewing important parts of the previous week, this is done each week here)

Feeder Abbreviations
Red = 1 day old mouse
Pink/Pinky = young mouse with no fur
Peach/Peach Fuzz/Peach Fuzzy = fur just starting through
Crawler = mouse just staring to move around
Hopper = lively young mouse, jump like kangaroos right out of your hands!
Weanling = young adult mouse
Pups = rat pups/young rats

F/K = fresh killed
F/T = frozen, thawed food item (mice, rats, hamsters, etc)
Zombie Dance/Zombie Mouse Dance = jiggling dead mouse to induce feeding response

Abbreviations Commonly Used In Reference To Corn Snakes
1.2.0 = 1 male 2 female 0 sex unknown
1.1 = would then mean 1 male 1 female, if there are no unknowns then it is often left out
Blue = Is often used to represent a snake in shed, ie: "my snake is going through her first blue"
Brain = Cut open the skull of the F/T and allow some brain to come out
CB = Captive Bred or
CB = Colubrid (Corns, Kings, Milks, Rat Snakes etc)
CBB = Captive Bred Baby or Captive Bred and Born
CH = Captive Hatched (generally with WC gravid females)
Christmas Morning Clutch = A clutch where every egg that pips is like a fun little gift you don't know you're going to get. Especially used when referring to a clutch that's proving out hets.
Cull = Euthanize/Kill/Freeze to death
DIE = Dead In Egg
DOR = Dead On Road (in reference to field herping)
Hatchling = A baby corn snake that has fully emerged from the egg.
LTC = Long Term Captive
Munson Plan = A feeding plan created by Dean user name Roy Munson, easy to follow, great guidelines to how much to feed your snake when, based on the weight of your snake and the prey items.
Murphy = Murphy's Law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Often when discussing problems with breeding, or not getting the babies wanted people make comments like "Murphy has struck again".
Pip = Hatch ie: “day 70 and they are finally starting to pip!”
Pips/Pippie(s) = Baby corn snakes when they first start to hatch, noses just peeking out of the egg ie: “beautiful pips or pippies”
Pipping = Hatching ie: “finally they are pipping”
P.I.T.A. = Pain In The Ass, often referring to a hatchling that will not feed
Popping = A method of determining sex by squeezing a snake below the vent so their genitals “pop” out (unscientific definition)
Probing = A method of determining sex by sticking a metal probe(rod of appropriate size) into a snake’s vent
Viv = Vivarium
WC = Wild Caught

Morph Abbreviations
Amel = Amelanism/Amelanistic/Albino (means with out black pigment)
Anery/Aner(Anery Type A) = Anerythrism/Melanistic/Anerythristic/Black Albino (means lacks all red and most yellow pigments)
Anery/Aner(Anery Type B) = Anerythrism/Melanistic/Anerythristic/Black Albino/Charcoal (means lacks all red and generally all yellow pigments)
Blood(s) = BloodReds
C.C. = CandyCane
GBR = Ghost BloodRed
Hypo = Hypomelanistic/Hypomelanism(means a reduction not removal of black pigment)
Hypo Lav = Hypomelanistic Lavender
Lav = Lavenders (very light snake with purplish tones)
Mot = Motley
P/S, P.S. = Pied Sided
R.O. = Reverse Okeetee
SK = Sunkissed

Morph Related Abbreviations
het = Heterozygous (contains gene, but not physically showing)
homo = Homozygous (shows gene)
poss het/phet/ph = Possibly heterozygous (not confirmed, need breeding trials)
uk het = unknown hets

Snake Type (Non-Corn) Related Abbreviations
ATB/atb/Ammy's = Amazon Tree Boa
BCC = Boa Constrictor Constrictor (“True” Red Tail Boa)
BCI = Boa Constrictor Imperator
BP/bp = Ball Python
BRB/brb = Brazillian Rainbow Boa
Burm = Burmese Python
Chondro = Green tree python
Conda = Anaconda
ETB = Emerald Tree Boa
FWC = false water cobra
GTP/gtp = Green Tree Python
KSB = Kenyan Sand Boa
LTR = Leucistic Texas Rat
MBK = Mexican Black King
Retic = Reticulated Python
RP/rp = Royal Python/Ball Python
VBB = Vietnamese Blue Beauty.

General Speech Abbreviations
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
BTW = By The Way
DYK = Did You Know
IMHO - In My Humble/Honest Opinion
IMO = In My Opinion
JK = Just Kidding
JJ = Just Jokes
Kudos = Congrats/Way To Go
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
OMG = Oh My God
ROFLMAO = Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Off
 
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