Just learning the lingo here......

by doubtless 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • doubtless
    doubtless

    sorry for the crazy question, but what's a dub?

  • Midget-Sasquatch
    Midget-Sasquatch

    Dub is short for dubya... as in JW (a Witness)

  • lonelysheep
    lonelysheep

    a jehovah's witness

    dub-W

    (like george dubya bush)

  • upside/down
    upside/down

    Jehovah's Witness

    JW

    Double you (W)

    Dub

    kinda like calling George W. Bush "Dubya"

    u/d

  • Taylor S.
    Taylor S.

    thats the first thing the caught my eye too ... its for Double U (W) ... for witness. the first i heard it was in reference to George W Bush ... people called him dubya. don't know if that's where it began, but its where i first heard it.

  • fairchild
    fairchild

    Welcome to JWD!

  • GetBusyLiving
    GetBusyLiving

    Also theres 'Robo Jobo', my personal favorite.

    GBL

  • metatron
    metatron

    you might also hear the term "borg" taken from Startrek in reference to the organization.

    it's one of my favorites

    metatron

  • lonelysheep
    lonelysheep

    I also love Crooklyn.

    And (I think it's Pozate who wrote it) convinced.

  • Big Tex
    Big Tex

    Off the top of my head

    WTS -- Watchtower Society
    GB -- Governing Body
    JW/dub/dubbies/borg -- Jehovah's Witnesses cheese and cracker men -- elders
    KH -- Kingdom Hall
    LMAO -- laugh my ass off
    LOL -- laugh out loud (or lots of laughs)
    brb -- be right back (generally found in chat)

    There's more but that's all my poor pre-Alzheimer's brain can come up with for now.

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