# My friend and I are pretty sure his Dad thinks LOL means lots of love

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**Created:** [February 28, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-and-i-are-pretty-sure-his-dad-thinks-lol-means-lots-of-love/651598 "2013-02-28T04:23:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-and-i-are-pretty-sure-his-dad-thinks-lol-means-lots-of-love/651598/21 "2013-03-01T02:46:57Z")

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> [@hrhomer](#):
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> Old meme is older than the dirt under Caesar’s fingernails.

[No kidding](http://www.google.com/search?q=+thinks+LOL+means+lots+of+love+&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu&ie=&oe=)

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-and-i-are-pretty-sure-his-dad-thinks-lol-means-lots-of-love/651598/22 "2013-03-01T03:09:23Z")

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> [@hrhomer](#):
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> I still say that “Quoted for truth” is a revisionist lie by internet society, and that it was originally “Quite Fucking True.”

I was told that “Quoted for truth” originated in boards where users could edit and delete their posts for much longer than they can here. The purpose of it was to quote somebody who said something stupid so “the truth” would be there when they inevitably edited their post to look less stupid. More like “quoted for posterity”. The fact that it came to be used as a term of agreement is, perhaps, a fluke.

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-and-i-are-pretty-sure-his-dad-thinks-lol-means-lots-of-love/651598/23 "2013-03-01T03:17:56Z")

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> [@Jragon](#):
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> I was told that “Quoted for truth” originated in boards where users could edit and delete their posts for much longer than they can here. The purpose of it was to quote somebody who said something stupid so “the truth” would be there when they inevitably edited their post to look less stupid. More like “quoted for posterity”. The fact that it came to be used as a term of agreement is, perhaps, a fluke.

That’s very interesting, thanks!

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-and-i-are-pretty-sure-his-dad-thinks-lol-means-lots-of-love/651598/24 "2013-03-01T03:57:33Z")

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> [@Baracus](#):
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> My daughter was listening to the radio one evening at bed time and the station had some show hosted by John Tesh on. He had some segment on what LOL, ROFL, etc, meant and he claimed that WTF meant “why the face?”. Uh, yeah…

That was a joke in an early episode of Modern Family (maybe the pilot epidsode?), with Phil Dunphy explaining to the camera that he was so hip that he knew that WTF stood for “why the face”.

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