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pomo, fomo, homo: what are they?

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fabzorba

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May 19, 2012, 1:05:09 AM5/19/12
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What is the meaning of these acronyms, which, I am reliably informed,
have to do with social functions which we would like to attend?
Winners of quiz get Fabzorba's Fabulous Fanzine Inaugural Ball
tickets, for you and any number of loved ones up to 4.

myles (broadminded enuff to cater for polyamorists AND Muslims, and
Mitt Romney even) paulsen

Nasti J

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May 19, 2012, 1:53:36 AM5/19/12
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On May 18, 10:05 pm, fabzorba <myles.abzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the meaning of these acronyms, which, I am reliably informed,
> have to do with social functions which we would like to attend?


They have NO meaning as acronyms, as they are NOT acronyms.

R H Draney

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May 19, 2012, 3:15:07 AM5/19/12
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Nasti J filted:
Maybe not in *your* neighborhood, but let's see what www.acronymfinder.com can
come up with:

** POMO Polulle Oman Mentorin Ohjauksessa (Finnish prison program)
* POMO Primary Open Market Operation (finance)
* POMO Production Oriented Maintenance Organization
* POMO Position Of Maximum Opportunity
* POMO Post Modernist
* POMO Permanent Open Market Operation (banking)
* POMO Point of Maximum Opportunity

***** FOMO Fear of Missing Out
*** FOMO Fort Moultrie (US National Park Service)
*** FOMO Friends of Mulanje Orphans
** FOMO Former Mormon
* FOMO Fleet Operations and Maintenance Officer
* FOMO Female Only/Male Only Fellowships

****** HOMO Homosexual (slang)
***** HOMO Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
** HOMO Honorable Order of Macintosh Operators (Player vs. Player web comic)

So they're acronyms, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of overlap as
to where you'd encounter them....r


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aquachimp

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May 19, 2012, 3:06:41 AM5/19/12
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Honorable Order of Macintosh Operators is a social event?
Keen to attend "Friends of Mulanje Orphans" given that Fear Of
Missing Out has a social connotation?
It might provide a "Point of Maximum Opportunity"

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Harrison Hill

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May 19, 2012, 4:45:00 AM5/19/12
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You seem to have missed out "bobo" and "mofo", but I am none the wiser for knowing that:

http://pomohomobobomofo.wordpress.com/

Curlytop

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May 19, 2012, 5:37:43 AM5/19/12
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fabzorba set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
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> What is the meaning of these acronyms, which, I am reliably informed,
> have to do with social functions which we would like to attend?

In view of the name of the last one, I personally would *not* like to
attend.
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Curlytop

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May 19, 2012, 5:40:17 AM5/19/12
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R H Draney set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
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> Nasti J filted:
>>
>>On May 18, 10:05=A0pm, fabzorba <myles.abzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What is the meaning of these acronyms, which, I am reliably informed,
>>> have to do with social functions which we would like to attend?
>>
>>
>>They have NO meaning as acronyms, as they are NOT acronyms.
>
> Maybe not in *your* neighborhood, but let's see what www.acronymfinder.com
> can come up with:
>
> ** POMO Polulle Oman Mentorin Ohjauksessa (Finnish prison program)
> * POMO Primary Open Market Operation (finance)
> [snip MOTS}
>
> So they're acronyms, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of
> overlap as to where you'd encounter them....r

Trying to visualise a former Mormon operating a Macintosh while languishing
in a Finnish prison . . . sorry, no image comes through.

aquachimp

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May 19, 2012, 2:46:47 PM5/19/12
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On May 19, 11:40 am, Curlytop <pvstownsend.zyx....@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
I'm wondering about how accurate the acronym reference is. PoMo (other
than an indigenous Californian tribe) being an abbreviation for Post
Modern. Fomo being a heterosexual feigning homosexuality to win over
women (a kind of PoMo metro-sexual?) and homo being a reference to
homosexuality Add them up and it sounds like a post modern closet gay
guy... whatever that is.

Donna Richoux

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May 19, 2012, 3:00:42 PM5/19/12
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fabzorba <myles....@gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the meaning of these acronyms, which, I am reliably informed,
> have to do with social functions which we would like to attend?
> Winners of quiz get Fabzorba's Fabulous Fanzine Inaugural Ball
> tickets, for you and any number of loved ones up to 4.

The Urban Dictionary suggests "fear of missing out" for "fomo". "The
fear that if you miss a party or event you will miss out on something
great." That definitely relates to attending social functions.

I figured "because of FOMO" would be illuminating. There are 86 Google
hits, such as:


-- I remember being scared to study abroad in college because of FOMO.

-- Angel investors are more likely to invest money into the next
internet-based opportunity (because of FOMO), even if it is quite early,

-- Clauds and I dragged ourselves to the Keukenhof yesterday - mainly
because of FOMO and because

--
Best -- Donna Richoux

tony cooper

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May 19, 2012, 4:02:52 PM5/19/12
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On Sat, 19 May 2012 21:00:42 +0200, tr...@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux)
wrote:
Not being familiar with any of those groups (I almost wrote "gropes"),
I tend to guess them to be big city neighborhoods.

POMO: Philadelphia Off Mainline Offices
FOMO: Flats On Manchester Outskirts
HOMO: HOustonM-trainstOp.



--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

R H Draney

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May 19, 2012, 6:05:17 PM5/19/12
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Harrison Hill filted:
>
>You seem to have missed out "bobo" and "mofo", but I am none the wiser for
>knowing that:
>
>http://pomohomobobomofo.wordpress.com/

And then there's BOGO, for those of us who clip coupons....r

Harrison Hill

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May 20, 2012, 6:20:33 PM5/20/12
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You are obviously correct with this. So POMO can only (perhaps) mean 'perception of missing out': "They keep me out of the loop all the time!" and HOMO perhaps 'hope of missing out': "I don't have time for any of this!"

bob

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May 21, 2012, 5:17:59 AM5/21/12
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On May 19, 11:40 am, Curlytop <pvstownsend.zyx....@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
Perhaps you're suffering from fear of missing out!

Robin

fabzorba

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May 22, 2012, 9:21:13 PM5/22/12
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On May 20, 6:02 am, tony cooper <tony.cooper...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not being familiar with any of those groups (I almost wrote "gropes"),
> I tend to guess them to be big city neighborhoods.

As long as you didn't almost write "froups"...


> POMO: Philadelphia Off Mainline Offices
> FOMO: Flats On Manchester Outskirts
> HOMO: HOustonM-trainstOp.
>
> --
Sorry Tony, but there is no way you would get a ticket to the ball
with "Flats on Manchester Outskirts". Could it REALLY be the case that
a sufficient number of people talk copiously enough about the flats on
Manchester's outskirts to warrant the coining of an acronym to save
them all time? Goodness, how many will succumb to excitement when the
Olympics commence?

myles [of course I've never seen those flats, and I HAVE seen "The Ice
Storm", nudge nudge...] paulsen

fabzorba

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May 22, 2012, 9:27:42 PM5/22/12
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On May 21, 7:17 pm, bob <rcp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you're suffering from fear of missing out!

Sorry, no winners. Some got pomo, but not fomo, and some vice versa.
And no one got homo
Pomo is "pain of missing out", and fomo is "fear of missing out", but
what is "homo"?

Here's an example: "I got pomo about the big do, and my mate got some
pomo, but you really are the biggest raving homo I ever saw."

Answer: "Hatred of Missing Out".

myles [Question: does "Honorabable Order of Macintosh Operators" refer
to those prone to suddenly flinging open their raincoats?] paulsen

fabzorba

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May 22, 2012, 9:30:53 PM5/22/12
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Ah, One of the atana brand of folk etymology critics: "as they are not
acronyms"...

myles [ IOOTMOAGD: I'm one of them myself on a good day, and yes it
CAN be pronounced] paulsen

tony cooper

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May 24, 2012, 6:58:49 PM5/24/12
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On Tue, 22 May 2012 18:21:13 -0700 (PDT), fabzorba
<myles....@gmail.com> wrote:

>On May 20, 6:02 am, tony cooper <tony.cooper...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not being familiar with any of those groups (I almost wrote "gropes"),
>> I tend to guess them to be big city neighborhoods.
>
>As long as you didn't almost write "froups"...
>
>
>> POMO: Philadelphia Off Mainline Offices
>> FOMO: Flats On Manchester Outskirts
>> HOMO: HOustonM-trainstOp.
>>
>> --
>Sorry Tony, but there is no way you would get a ticket to the ball
>with "Flats on Manchester Outskirts". Could it REALLY be the case that
>a sufficient number of people talk copiously enough about the flats on
>Manchester's outskirts to warrant the coining of an acronym to save
>them all time? Goodness, how many will succumb to excitement when the
>Olympics commence?
>
My post might not have registered with you if you are not familiar
with New York neighborhoods. "SoHo", for example, is the area south
of Houston Street in Manhattan. "NoHo" is north of Houston Street.
"ProCro" is the Brooklyn neighborhood around Prospect Heights and
Crown Heights. And so on.

Evan Kirshenbaum

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May 25, 2012, 6:32:17 PM5/25/12
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E.g., "Dowistrepla".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowisetrepla

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