DavisMcDavis said:
Grrrr…I hate it when they spit the hook like that.
“It’s dead, Jim.”
“Is there anything you can do, Bones?”
“Well, we can try Viagra…”
MysterEcks, your sig made me ROTFLMAO!
- I see dead threads *
Thank God! I thought this thread was lost forever!
Well, the alternative would be to make up new acronyms every few weeks so as not to bore people.
To me, lol is merely the internet version of a smile, or chuckle with LOL meaning a bigger smile/laugh. Do you get “tired of” people smiling at you IRL too?
FTR, I have never used AOL, and didn’t know that they “created” the smilies and LOLs. he He HEEEEEE (Ala Furbish).
Ooh!!! What she said!!
(and she has lots of posts too, hehe).
I think I was here when this was originally posted but it must have slipped by the radar.
I though it was a new thread until I saw a few names of posters who haven’t been here for some time and then checked the posting dates.
You’ve gotta love those newbies for picking little gems out of the dust.
And…
"ROLFLASDFGJHQERJHPFPIJOASVPVAGBNAGVEVLARG
VBARUCVAIBQWXNLAFCWP!!!
(That’s not an acronym, I was laughing so hard I smacked my head into the keyboard)
::Picks embedded keyboard keys out of scalp::"
…is one of the funniest damn things I’ve read all day.
Personal taste only, of course, but I think that LOL and LMAO are lame, and I tend (perhaps wrongly) to take less seriously someone who uses or (especially) over-uses them. Then again, I’m perfectly okay, in moderation, with smilies and things like laugh and grin; they don’t inspire nearly the chewing-on-aluminum-foil feeling I get from LOL.
So I can empathize with Davis, Tymp, and Amok in this thread from yesteryear, and I think the responses were a bit harsh.
YMM(obviously)V.
Hmmmm, interesting Gadarene. I guess they just seem like nothing more than just smiles and chuckles to me.
I’m another one of those that is from the wrote notes with tons of acronyms back in school. And that was waaaaaaaaaay before PCs were around.
But an online friend of mine was saying the same thing, that is that she didn’t mind the words, such as {smile} etc so much as the acronyms.
I wonder if it’s an age or area thing? Meaning, people who are younger/older are more likely to be annoyed by it? Or people from certain areas of the country?
Anyone care to continue that line of thought?? Just curious.
This thread has caused me to ROFL and LOL and LMAO.
I wonder why everybody is staring at me. :dubious:
LOL LMAO ROTFL?
STFU!
HAND
but frankly I still don’t know a lot of the abreviations and acronyms that are frequently posted. Anyone know a site with a glossary for the most popular ones?
http://bovis.gyuvet.ch/3dict/390ainet.htm – Here’s an alphabetical list that seems immense. The hosts seem to be Russian or Czech (a .ch TLD (Top Level Domain)), but the expansions are in English.
http://penpals.englishclub.com/abbreviations.htm – A less comprehensive, more chat-oriented list. A lot of the ones you see here you’ll probably never see on the SDMB because we aren’t a chat room.
http://google.com – The search engine I used. 