Bill Barol: More Secret Scientology Abbreviations

Readers of Gawker and other sites have been viewing the Tom Cruise video in huge numbers this week. It's undeniably been a public service, if not necessarily the kind Cruise intended. Like a lot of people, though, I've been baffled by some of the top-secret intra-church abbreviations Cruise uses. A couple have been explicated by helpful blogs : "KSW" stands for "Keep Scientology Working," while an "SP" is a "suppressive person." Still, I found myself aching for more, and decided to go digging. I'm not at liberty to reveal where I obtained this partial list of officially-sanctioned COS slang. I offer it here in the hope that readers of Huffington Post may obtain some small measure of clarity. ATI: Always talk intensely MWAFP: Man with a fanny pack WAYS: What are you, stoonad ? IHIWTH: I hate it when that happens HQPY: Hey, quit punching yourself TGWLLTOG: That guy who looks like that other guy TIBHAW: Thanks, I'll be here all week IAATLIASHF: I am about to laugh in a ... (link)