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EabhaC me luv lol.....lol!!!! Dec 4, 2012

Prolagus Really? This is both awesome and gay at the same time! Apr 2, 2010

milosrdenstvi Speaking of "win", excessive use of that word (and its counterpart/nonantonym, "fail") is another sure pathway to morondom. Perhaps a spoken intellectual equivalent to greengrocer's apostrophe. Apr 1, 2010

frogapplause Hmmm, lollissimo sounds very nice to my ears... Apr 1, 2010

Prolagus I heard Italian teenagers say lollissimo ("very lol"). They win. Apr 1, 2010

john Milosrdenstvi, I accept that challenge. There must be a way, and I will find it! Apr 1, 2010

milosrdenstvi There is no surer way to sound like a moron than to use this word in spoken conversation. Apr 1, 2010

oroboros Field Guide to the Acronymical Kingdom Mar 4, 2010

sionnach I almost never look at the Vexamples. The sorry assortment given for this entry reminds me why not. Feb 13, 2010

yarb Increasingly, I'm noticing compulsive use of this in internet forums, craigslist ads etc, i.e. a lol every eight to ten words. Some people seem to be using lol in lieu of standard punctuation. Feb 13, 2010

PossibleUnderscore The sixth Vexample is particularly vexing. Feb 13, 2010

dottyteddy short for Laugh out loud or lots of love. used in e-mail and phone texting Jul 14, 2009

rwhaddad Abbreviation for "laugh out loud" used in internet & text messaging. Jul 6, 2009

lea Hey, lol means 1. bloom, flower or 2. rose in Mayan language...! *Blooming laughter.* Mar 8, 2009

reesetee *replaces head*

Thanks, c_b. Odd...that hardly ever happens. Jan 6, 2009

chained_bear *hears thump*

*hands reesetee's head back*

I love sionnach's last sentence.

Also, I very seldom write LOL also... actually I never write it, and seldom type it... but when I do it's because I actually did make some kind of untoward noise. I don't think it counts to limh or even to smile in my head (simh). But if I actually make some kind of audible noise, I figure that's a fair LOL. Jan 6, 2009

reesetee At last! A Loblolly Pine Calculator! That makes me smile my head off. Jan 6, 2009

sionnach
whichbe: I think that the elusive 'lol' elixir has also been isolated in the sap of the loblolly pine. Should you have such a tree, or cluster of them, and should you be contemplating harvesting them because your 401K has become a 201K (i.e. lost half its value), an estimate of your return can be obtained by running this program . It is not clear whether cats can play any useful role in isolating the 'lol' ichor from the tree; though chained_bear might be able to lease out a loblolly boy or two to help with the harvest.

It appears that yarb is admitting to being a proto-agelast. But give him a couple of weeks with the Proust; 30 pages of reading about someone turning over in bed and whining because maman didn't come up to kiss him goodnight will have him in stitches, fer shurr. Jan 6, 2009

pollyanna I have a stifled giggle often but I don't like telling people about it. Jan 6, 2009

kewpid Though often I am laughing in my head. But limh just doesn't look right. Jan 6, 2009

yarb I very seldom write lol, and still I estimate I'm actually laughing out loud on no more than 1% such occasions. Jan 6, 2009

chained_bear Wow. Someone actually sat down and wrote that paragraph. Jan 6, 2009

thenewvivek From Wikipedia:

"David Crystal notes that use of LOL is not necessarily genuine, just as the use of smiley faces or grins is not necessarily genuine, posing the rhetorical question "How many people are actually 'laughing out loud' when they send LOL?". Franzini concurs, stating that there is as yet no research that has determined the percentage of people who are actually laughing out loud when they write 'LOL'." Jan 6, 2009

whichbe This is mystical "stuff" at the center of a lollypop that is mined through a quest of enumerable licking, then delightfully spread throughout the lands by cats. Dec 2, 2008

frindley Now this is cool: in Dutch "lol" means fun or lark(s). (And lol maken means to have fun.) Oct 12, 2008

lampbane See also lolcat. May 12, 2008

john txtspk for "laugh out loud" Oct 5, 2007