Once. Literally happened. I’d be exaggerating if I claimed it actually spewed onto my monitor, but some got onto my keyboard. Most of it went down my chin and onto my shirt.
Ooh, I like this – may I borrow it?
twicks, fingers twitching with the desire to throw in a smiley…
There is a term for this action invented over at the ULMB on www.snopes.com
YOMANK
You Owe Me A New Keyboard
I use it quite frequently in my IMing with friends. I’m trying to spread it as far as possible as I am quite fond of it. 
They even have a emoticon for the action. 
To manwithaplan’s query regarding actually spraying beverages onto the computer from laughter, had I been drinking,
would have done it. Of course I almost never drink when I’m using my computer (someone else’s? Sure! Why not?) Of course, none of this answers your question at all, but I did LOL.
One of the more annoying things I’ve found (mainly on LJ) is teens who end every sentence with “lol j/k” – and I have heard this, also, in real life.
Why do kids nowadays* say things they don’t mean?
*Am I sounding like my parents?
This has always struck me as the equivalent of the (equally annoying) nervous giggle some people have in real life. And I’ve seen it from older women as well as teens.
We need a new acronym that represents the sound of air escaping between my closed lips—just a little “sss” laugh… “HOL”? - hissing out loud…
ha (not funny enough for more than one ha)
How about “IIPIIWYGA?”, or ippywigga for short (if I pretend I’m interested, will you go away?)
How very odd; something that does not annoy me.
I will go on other posts feeling very tolerant and virtuous.
Oh, HNFY; ‘How nice for you’.
LOL!!1111!!111!!!11!!11!!1!!!
I’ve always preferred a " hmmmmm" sound in real life when something is interesting, but not exactly Bwahahaha funny.
I have laughed so hard at some of the things I’ve seen here Hey, I’m easily amused that I’ve had tears running down my cheeks from laughter. Naturally, I black out a second later and scroll elsewhere and never find said funny peice again. Ever.
How about:
TIFITTOHH.
That is funny, it is to laugh. Ha. Ha.
Feel free, my good man. I’m off for a spirited game of tennis.
twickster is way female. 
Wow, not only female, but “way” female?
How 'bout “gd” for “giggles delightedly”?
Or “pyst/tggowwf”? (“pshaw, you sweet thing/taps gallant gentleman on wrist with fan”)
It heartens my cynical old soul (can a soul be heartened? can a heart be sold?) to hear that people do lose control of their faculties to the extent that they dampen their equipment. I’ll be slower to rush to judgement in future. So I suppose I’ll be slowly rushing, which I haven’t done since my drug sodden youth.
Oh, I think “gd” is reserved for something more… uh… dignified.
:eek:
Please accept my deepest apologies, madam.
D00Dz, #0// |_@//\3 1z U p#r3@kz?
Just the other day I was sucking down big sip of coffee when I read something so funny I had a moment to decide between three courses of action: (a) continue to suck it down and inhale it and choke for five minutes, (b) spray it all over my keyboard in an unrehearsed spit take, or © control myself sufficiently to ultimately dribble it back into my cup. I chose ©, but for a moment there it was really up for grabs.
I don’t mind an occasional single lol in a post with one friend who doesn’t know better because she uses AOL, but otherwise it is shunned from my life. Except to wince over it in posts.
But what’s even more obnoxious is that some folks are now sprinkling their emails with smileys at the end of EVERY sentence and several times in between, often moving and blinking smileys. How can people not realize it’s almost impossible to read the text when there’s all that blinking crap interspersed with it???
I use “LOL” occasionally. It says what I mean. I see no problem with it.