Recalling the old acronyms

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Having joined MyLot sometime ago I found myself getting introduced to some new abbreviations. I wrote an earlier post on this about trying to understand the new age jargon. Surprisingly quite a lot of people had the same experience.Lol! This got me wondering whether we too did have some 'shortcuts' in our youth. The first one that I recalled was P.T.O --- please turn over . As students we would painstakingly put it on the right bottom corner of every page of our answer scripts to ensure that the teacher didn't overlook any answer. Actually , I guess we would do it to just to fill in the time after we finished answering and before the bell rang . Then there was P.S. I belong to the letter writing generation . Every letter when finished would have a P.S.to add something that was forgotten . P.S officially means Post script but we would call it" Please See". Another forgotten thought would need adding PPS "Please please see". The Beatles used it too in "P.S.,I love you". Next , there was S.O.S to indicate something very important."Please come over. S.O.S" we would ring our friends,though actually it was a Morse code signal used by sailors when in trouble. ABBA used it in their song "S.O.S" which was a hit single at that time. As letter writers we had to put in the PIN Code (Postal Index Code) of the places the letter would go to. In fact we sort of knew quite a lot of them by heart.Otherwise we had to go to the nearest post office to find out.(there was a directory, no google then ! ) RSVP was a rare occurrence and would mean the letter was an important invitation. Those who knew the french for it would show off their knowledge.:) Oh, and we used hee hee and ha ha.... There are new acronyms coming up everyday now. But can you recall some old age ones? PHOTO :pixabay.com/en/writing-write-fountain-pen-ink-1209121/