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• etlag n. [IRC, MUD] A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network or on a MUD become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contac
  causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute....
• etlag: [IRC, MUD] n. A condition that occurs when the delays in the {IRC} network or on a {MUD} become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contac
  causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute....
• etburp n. [IRC] When netlag gets really bad, and delays between servers exceed a certain threshhold
  he IRC network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better....
• etburp: [IRC] n. When {netlag} gets really bad, and delays between servers exceed a certain threshhold
  he {IRC} network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better....
• bamf /bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj.
  Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity....
• link-dead adj. [MUD] The state a player is in when they kill their connection to a MUD without leaving it properly.
  The player is then commonly left as a statue in the game, and is only removed after a certain period of time (an hour on most MUDs)....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• AFK [MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify others that you will be momentarily unavailable online.
  eg. "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet, I need to go AFK to make a phone call"....
• ehi [IRC, MUD] "Hello again." Very commonly used to greet people upon returning to an IRC channel after channel hopping.