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Subject: What does lol mean, please? From: Deni Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:48 PM I've finally cracked. I expect it'll only need one answer. What does it mean, anybody? Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Kim C Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:52 PM Laughing out loud |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: SeanM Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:53 PM Hi, my name's Sean, and I'm a charter member of NetGeeks anonymous. LOL = Laugh Out Loud ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing ROFLMAO = Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Off SBUAPAA = 'Spaw's Blowing Up A Possum's Ass Again Hope these help. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Roughyed Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:54 PM I gather it stands for 'Loser on line'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Burke Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:56 PM Laughing-out-loud Here's an acronym dictionary to help you out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Burke Date: 18 Apr 01 - 05:57 PM 1-2-3, All together now. BG |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:01 PM It means "late on the levee", an old phrase which rounders used to employ back in the 1800's. Loosely translated, it implies that you haven't quite caught up with reality or are "out to lunch" or "a couple of beers short of a six pack", to use more modern expressions. Does that help? :-) - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Snuffy Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:11 PM I know two people called Lol. One is really Lorraine, and the other is Laurence (Lawrence?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:22 PM I still think "loser online" is the best! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Chicken Charlie Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:24 PM Snuffy--Don't forget Miss Lollie Lenya, who used to hang with old Lucy Brown. That was before Mac got back in town, however. CC |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:35 PM Not to be confused with Lil - the object of Rocky Raccoon's infection, I mean affectation, I mean . . . Pax yall |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:36 PM Chicken Charlie - you oughta join the Alliterated Names of America Club at once. Then you could get to hang out with Lollie Lenya, Robert Redford, Ronald Reagan, Zeke Zelensky, and all the others at the annual meetings. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Ebbie Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:00 PM I like lolling around. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:06 PM No lolling on the liver though. Deni, don't let them get ya down. Someone asks about every four or five months. It ought to be posted in the FAQ, and then we could chide people for not reading the FAQ. Hell, maybe it IS in the FAQ, I can't remember if I saw it there! Anyway, how about you go read the FAQ and see, and if it ain't there suggest it, and then help orient someone next time around? WOBH = Whale Oil Beef Hooked. Say it fast and you will get it. I think it may be Aussie in origin-- it was born in a thread I think. Is LOL taken as a Mudcat name BTW? I think someone ought to claim SBUAPAA right away. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:20 PM I always thought it meant, Lots of Love |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Amergin Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:22 PM Oh quit lolligagging around..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:51 PM When I use it in PalTalk it means LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 18 Apr 01 - 08:09 PM Lord, Oh Lord... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Bill D Date: 18 Apr 01 - 08:25 PM Lilliputian Oligarchy Limited |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: catspaw49 Date: 18 Apr 01 - 08:30 PM Like kytrad, another of our members thought i8t meant "Love On Line"...pretty similar. This became a problem when someone was telling a tale of woe and poor annamil put in a response which included LOL.......and it made no sense and made this sweet member sound really calloused and cruel. We all had a good laugh straightening her out and after a brief stay at the NYCFTTS she was allowed back in polite society. Spaw, CEO, Neil Young Center For The Terminally Screwed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: GUEST,2feathers Date: 18 Apr 01 - 09:40 PM No one suggested "lots of luck"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Helen Date: 19 Apr 01 - 07:03 AM I looked through that list of acronyms - what a hoot!
Here are some alternative names for WYSIWIG:
WYSIAWYG-What You See is Almost What You Get We could invent a WYSIWYG mood barometer, so depending on her mood the outcomes would change *g*
Here is one problem we rarely have at Mudcat:
TSOHF Total Sense of Humor Failure
But this one *can* be a problem at the 'Cat sometimes:
ROTBA Reality on the Blink Again
I kind of like this one - reminds me of the 'Cat too, sometimes, e.g. the Mudcat tavern threads:
ROFFNAR Rolling on the Floor for no Apparent Reason
This one reminds me of the User Friendly cartoons:
PBKAC Problem Between Keyboard and Chair
This one is for a lot of 'Catters:
IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
But this one is especially for Big Mick when talking to the Fair alison:
This one is pretty useful for some of our BS topics:
IARTPFWTSIOWIM I am Repeating this Parrot fashion without the slightest idea of what it Means
These remind me of 'Spaw for some reason:
GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running
This is my favourite - now who can I use it on?
TDMATBICPLY This Doesn't Mean A Thing But It Confuses People Like You But the main thing I noticed was that there were far too many nasty acronyms on that list, and yet I have never seen them here on the Mudcat forum, either as acronyms or spelled out. That's a really nice reminder of why I love coming here. Helen
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: gnu Date: 19 Apr 01 - 07:55 AM I thought WOBH was from Newfoundland... MR fish. MR'nt fish. SMR, CDEDBDI's ? Whale oil beef hooked ! MR fish. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Gervase Date: 19 Apr 01 - 08:13 AM Bah, those bloody TLAs! Too confusing when your brain's FUBAR, and not enough information, IMNSHO! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Apr 01 - 08:57 AM Helen, I always preferred What You Chose to See is What You Got, WYCSIWYG. *G* ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: MudGuard Date: 19 Apr 01 - 09:34 AM WYGIWYD - What you get is what you deserve |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Lady McMoo Date: 19 Apr 01 - 09:40 AM Oh! I thought it mean Lowden or Larrivee. You learn something every day! mcmoo |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 19 Apr 01 - 09:42 AM gnu, osmr2! M |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Pseudolus Date: 19 Apr 01 - 10:13 AM I thought it meant Little Old Ladies..... that's why I was planning on skipping the almost nude calendar!!! Maybe I'll have to get one now!!! LOL!!!! Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Kim C Date: 19 Apr 01 - 10:29 AM Hey y'all, that's LOTTE Lenya. She was a European singer back in the 20s or 30s or something. I think she actually sang a foreign version of Mack the Knife. KFC Lolling around |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:57 PM Strange to say I always thought that it meant I have accidentally pressed the Caps Lock key and was trying to press the "K" key but keep missing. Strange how your mind fools you isn't it! LOL oH SOD IT tHAT BLOODY CAPS LOCK IS ON AGAIN. qUACK! oH bUGGER! - that's better. Why don't computer nerds just learn how to type like the rest of us have to? Geoff the Duck! ROLFHARRIS! Any guesses on that one? QUACK!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: jeffp Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:01 PM Rolling On Leaves From Hearing A Really, Really Inane Statement? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:09 PM Is ther one of these stupid acronyms for "I didn't really mean it"? GtD |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:13 PM Yeah, it's this one: :-) I never get what I deerve. Most days I am thankful about it. :-) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Bert Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:21 PM I don't know of an acronym for that Geoff, I usually say 'sorry' or 'oops' |
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Subject: rotflmao - Yuck!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:33 PM The editor of the Mudcat FAQ is a veteran of 3 years of military service and 25 years of civil service, and never, ever wants to see another acronym for as long as he lives! Just last week, he had a severe attack of acronymophobia when he encountered a message peppered by acronyms, posted by an apparent acronymphomaniac. The FAQ editor finally found relief when he discovered this Acronym Dictionary thread. The FAQ editor considers online acronyms to be obnoxious and unnecessary. There will never be a glossary of acronymns in the FAQ as long as this editor is in control, but a link to the acronym dictionary will be added to the FAQ (reluctantly). [grin] -Joe Offer, FAQ editor- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Blackcatter Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:43 PM What does FAQ stand for?
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: annamill Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:55 PM That was good Blackcatter! Sorry Joe! L.A. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:14 PM Fully Addressed Quandaries. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:17 PM That was good, too, Susan - but what it means is "Frequently Asked Questions." -Joe Offer, appropriately chastised- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:31 PM No chastisement! Firm Assistance Quotient ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:34 PM I forgot that FAQ was an acronym. As a retired government investigator, I assumed it came from the phrase, "Just the FAQs, ma'am." -Joe Friday- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: mousethief Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:37 PM Fatuous Arsehole Quotient -- when you reach it, it's time to stop posting for the day. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: tiggerdooley Date: 19 Apr 01 - 05:39 PM 'v. sit, lie, or stand in a relaxed way; hang loosely.' No? One too many 'L's?,br> Ah, well! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Burke Date: 19 Apr 01 - 06:03 PM JO, thanks for the laugh! I looked at the thread & back at the link I put in. Some acronyms have been around so long that no one thinks about them any more: CEO, PC, my SO, FAQ, GIGO, KISS. Others are newer but pretty widely used: LOL, IMHO, AFAIK, IIRC, WYSIWYG are all ones I know pretty well at sight. Then there are the ones, like all the winkies & smilies, simply made up for the dictionary that no one really uses. TDMATBICPLY indeed! [:-{) SPAW, what does NYCFTTS mean? What does SPAW stand for? Live on Luck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: mousethief Date: 19 Apr 01 - 06:06 PM Neil Young Center For the Terminally Screwed. SPAW is short for Cat's Paw. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: SeanM Date: 19 Apr 01 - 06:08 PM I always liked the explanation they used to give on my ship in the US Navy for "FAQ" (sensitive eyes stop reading. This IS the Navy, after all) "Fucking Assinine Questions" M |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Snuffy Date: 19 Apr 01 - 06:09 PM DILIGAS - Do I look like I give a shit? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 01 - 06:15 PM What was that "beer-out-the-nose" acronym somebody mentioned in another thread? I made the mistake of reading it when I was drinking a beer, and the same thing happened to me. I'm very susceptible to that. Max got me thoroughly embarrassed at the Getaway that way - he said something about his one kid with the middle name "Dylan" and the other with the middle name "Joanbaez." I snorted beer all over. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Roughyed Date: 19 Apr 01 - 10:49 PM I ws once on a trade union course about a management initiative called the FAMAS(Financial and Management Accounting System) which was part of the FMI (Financial Management Initiative). By the third day we were on the second jargon sheet containing lists of acronyms which had been mentioned together with their definitions. Our tutor, a very down to earth ex NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) activist came in and asked "Does anyone know anything about fish?" "What does it stand for?" asked one of the students. The tutors reaction is not printable. My favourite management acronym was 'MARILYN' - Management and Recruitment in the Lean Years of the Nineties. I'm sure they made the problem up just for the acronym. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Apr 01 - 11:19 PM When you read grant proposals or program proposals, it's fun to spot the acronyms they do NOT realize they are creating. Always THINK! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Deni Date: 20 Apr 01 - 06:32 AM Can I have the last word after all this wit? I thought it meant lots of love too, (IT MUST BE MUDCAT LOVE) but didn't like to embarass myself. Just shows we can't take anything for granted in a mudcat world. Overwhelmed by the response, from Devon |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Blackcatter Date: 20 Apr 01 - 06:19 PM Not that it matter - and I would guess that most everyone here understood - I did know what FAQ stood for. I just thought it was funny that Joe unknowingly used it in a short rant about he hates acronyms. I tend to dislike them too - but any organization is suseceptiple to their use - it is just so easy to use shorthand. For instance I am the Chairperson for the FDCMYASC of the UUA. (Florida District Campus Ministry / Young Adult Sub-Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association.) yikes! The sad thing is that there is a Unitarian Church known as F.U.C.K. ME - the First Unitarian Church of Kennebunkport Maine. pax yall |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Burke Date: 20 Apr 01 - 06:42 PM Hey Blackcatter, I thought you church was UUC, not to be confused with UCC. We need to work on the beer acronym Joe mentioned. I didn't find anything in a forum search. It's got to have SBOMN (spewing or spraying beer out my nose) or SBOOMN (spewing beer out of my nose) as part of it. LOLSBOOMN? ROTFLMAOSBOOMN? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Blackcatter Date: 20 Apr 01 - 07:14 PM Hi Burke - No were the UUA which long ago broke off from the anscestor to the UCC. I'm not aware of what the UUC is - there is the UUSC - the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee - our international aid organization. I am also part of the CUUYAN - The Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network - as well. And my local young adult group uses "POA" - which stands for People of Action or Pieces of Ass depepnding on how frisky we are feeling. I am also a member of TUUSH - Tanned UUs for Social Harmony - the local UU nudist group. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: GUEST,re looser online Date: 20 Apr 01 - 07:25 PM That is funny :) However for the poster of that remark here's a new one, well maybe - lets see. RTFM Regards |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Bob Bolton Date: 20 Apr 01 - 07:28 PM G'day WYSIWYG: "WOBH = Whale Oil Beef Hooked. Say it fast and you will get it. I think it may be Aussie in origin-- it was born in a thread I think." I think you will find this a lot older than the net ... and Pommy (English) in origin. I first heard it from and old Pom with whom I worked at British Leyland (Australia) around 1970 - and he said he had seen it as an entry in Punch Magazine's competition for witty new captions to old cartoons. The published cartoon for this month's comp. had an astonished fisherman on a beach, reeling in a whale ... and the new caption was roughly what you quote. I'm afraid the credit can be calimed by neither us Aussies nor us nerd nerds. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 01:35 AM IRL = In Real Life, and we missed that one so far didn't we? It figures! Remember? Life outside Mudcat? Some of us who left Mudcat used LAM for awhile-- Life After Mudcat. Being on the LAM is not as much fun as being here though so most of us come back eventually. Ever notice IRL and URL sound the same? How funny is THAT? URL-- that's Universal Reality Loss, right? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 01:44 AM WOBH! Ooops, sorry Bob! Didn't see ya sitting there till I'd turned to go! G'day! That is very interesting on WOBH, and I guess OBH now myself! Somebuddy really ought to enter WOBH in the FAQ too as a piece of Mudcat lore. I can't recall now what thread it was first in and who posted it, and the old 486 and modem are not in happy partnership tonight so it will not be me who goes looking this time. But I think we should put Bob's explanation into that thread too just to make it all right, or a link to here. I'm not saying whoever posted it tried to claim credit-- that's probably just my CRS. But I think it ought to be there-- someone find it maybe? Because we do refer people back to it from time to time. G'nite Bob! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: GUEST,Ok get it whole itz hot Date: 21 Apr 01 - 02:00 AM _|_ YOURS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Apr 01 - 04:51 AM Well, darn, maybe I was imagining the "beer out my nose" acronym. I searched for out (of) my/his/her nose. I found lots of gross stuff and a number of acronyms, but no beer-nose ones. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Micca Date: 21 Apr 01 - 07:34 AM Ithink it was something like COFFYN=Coffee Out Flowing From Your Nose, which was used with reference to songs in one of the early song challenge threads.. I have always liked DILIGAF? Do I Look Like I Give A F*** and I thought that Joe Offer had deliberately used an acronym in his rant as a piece of Irony...It would have been in (what I understand to be)character for him... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 08:51 AM I like that emoticon, Guest. Variant: Sit on _|_ and rotate! *G* Joe turned coffee into beer. There's a fancy case of hermeneutics for ya. *G* ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Micca Date: 21 Apr 01 - 11:00 AM guest I thought that one was done .,!,, |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 03:30 PM No, Micca, I think that would be keep your pecker up. Unless that one is this: o!o Or in some cases: .!. Please advise. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 03:32 PM As opposed to: *!* or: :~ ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Apr 01 - 05:19 PM Yes, my miracle of turning coffee into beer is described fully in Joe 13:72-78. Would you expect a Wisconsin boy to turn it into wine? The appropriate Wisconsin response to my using "FAQ" in a tirade against acronymns is, "Oh, fer dumb!" Hey, I'm newly in love. You expect me to be anything but dumb? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: Hawker Date: 21 Apr 01 - 05:29 PM Deni, I thought it meant 'Lonely Old Lucy' - To busy boxing up belongings to answer F.A,Q's! How the divil are ya? Coming to my party? Hope to see you on the 5th! Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Apr 01 - 09:33 PM Joe, I would be pleased to receive your report in e-mail anytime. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What does lol mean, please? From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 22 Apr 01 - 04:22 AM WATSMM HATTAH (pronounced: "Whatsumatta" or What's the matter) Why are there so many more horses asses than there are horses? I think this may very well be one of my dad's originals. He's the man who first diagnosed "Occular Feceosis" A very serious condition where your asshole shrinks up over your head and you get a shitty outlook on life. HIS father, my grandfather (I think) is he guy who, when told that the town they lived in in Russia was now part of Poland, was quoted as saying, "Thank God, I don't think I could stand another one of those cold Russian Winters". See, it runs in the family |