LOL 2008

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When I laugh out loud IRL I generally type this:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

which is a decent approximation of the volume & intensity of my laughter in general.

I am inconsistent. If I'm actually laughing out loud I will use LOL with "seeker of truth" levels of truth. If something doesn't make me laugh out loud, but makes me smirk REALLY HARD, then I will probably go with aaaaaahahahahaha.

i genui-LOLLED at that image. time was i would never lol unless i was laughing, except maybe for a sarcy or ironic lol here and there. lately they've been creeping in though, but i'm still close to a 100% truth levels.

Yeah, I think "lol college" and stuff like that is ok. It just bugs me when I'm AIMzing with an old high school friend and it's like

THEM: So what have you been up to the last 8 years?
ME: Oh sheesh, I don't know. Lots of stuff. Some of the old.
THEM: lol yah

YOU DID NOT LAUGH OUT LOUD AT THAT

do you guys ever have dreams where you are in-between sleeping and waking and your mind is writing some untold brilliant lost Simpsons script or some such and then you are literally laughing out loud in between falling back asleep? I have had that experienced multiple times, and last night, it happened again, within the context, of all things, a Laurel and Hardy film that was played out in my mind from start to finish at four in the morning.

0-24%

smirk = lulz

for reference:

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i tend to use LOL to indicate where i would genuinely laugh were i having a face to face conversation

you can not hear me; therefore i laugh not

LOL is social lubricant

lolbrication

Dell, I had a hilarious dream week a few years ago, where I woke up my girlfriend THREE DIFFERENT TIMES in the space of a few nights, because I kept cracking up. The opposite of nightmares: LOLmares

bahahahaha

see?

I don't think anyone EVER genuinely ROFLs

sometimes lol is positive feedback for people who say funny things, so they will continue to say funny things

give the dog a LOL

ZS you have five minutes to turn this into an awesome gif thread or you will forever be tainted in my eyes

Or ROFLMAO. Your ass has not fallen off!

At the same time, maybe we should loosen up. We don't want to turn into Amelia Bedilia.

xpost oh shit

i mean if we're taking msn/aim convos into consideration then i'm guessing we're all hovering at around roughly 0.5% if that

Unfortunately, I have to do the exact opposite of an awesome gif thread today (type up a fact sheet summarizing my boring ass white paper on THE FUTURE OF COAL AND ELECTRICITY).

But, I did hand my friend $15 last night to pay for a year of webspace where I can place all of my animated gif storiez in one place so that the people of the world can more easily sue me for stealing their copyrighted photographs and putting talking butts on them and the like.

My LOL is a bright shuddering peal of mirth that shivers the sky with delight

my ROFL is a great lazy beast lolling in bright meadows

I guess I was just thinking about how communication has gravitated toward online forums such as IMs and messageboards for so many people, and how it's weird that the most recognizable new "word" is a LIE most of the time!

what is elmo's LMAO i bet it's nice and earthy

i find it hard to believe anyone telling me about their laughing experiences online, even these new fangled *whole sentence* physical lols eg: jesus christ i shot tea out my eyes! or guyz i have just been sacked from my job.... for laughing so loudly!!

i propose a usb microphone that listens for and captures your laugh, embedding it automatically into the webpage or chat window.

It's like I say goodbye to you on the street, but instead of saying goodbye I say "I have to go mortgage my house now", and you say "Yeah I have to mortgage my house also"

lol does not mean laugh out loud... don't be gay

it means lots of love

fwiw i signify genuine lols with "genuine lols"

WATCH OUT GUYS, LAUGH POLICE ON THE WAY

i like
lol
lol!
LOL
LOL!
lolllll
lolololol
it really depends. caps usually mean for real out loud laughing, i always thought

tl; dr,

just loled, and loled, but for real

we have neglected to mention that LOL is not used exclusively as an interjection

it is also a substantive noun (true lols) as well as an adjectival modifier (lol college)

also first name (lol creme)

french form is L'OL

i will rep for lolol

lolly lolly lolly get yr adverbs here

SEB is the french (saurire en bruit)

oh shit

REB (rire en bruit)

my lols tend to be more belly-chuckle-related than raucus laughter-related

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5921/imageuploadimagenx7.gif

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I would be completely happy to be Amelia Bedilia.

http://i33.tinypic.com/mt35g7.gif

lol @ steamloller

"I'm gonna need some assistance, HQ,Niner, over. Amelia Bedelia is literally hitting the road once again, disrupting traffic.

http://www.nbp.org/nbp/images/book_photos/EARLY.jpg

Oh man see, that would be kind of the perfect life.

i hav lold out loud

"Roger, this is No. 1 Niner. Sorry we got back to you late. We put Amelia Bedelia in the psych ward alone with the guy who throws his poop at everyone. He told her to "put your money where your mouth is" and she said she didn't have any, and then he gave her currency with fecal matter all over it. We're gonna need backup."

Too many pratfalls!

you know, worrying if people are actually laughing out loud when they use the internet colloquialism "lol" is kind of aspies

25-49% but I'm kinda giggly

i like typing/reading lol cause in Dutch it means fun so it kinda makes sense to me. that said, i rarely LAUGH OUT LOUD but just sort of do huhuhuh with my mouth closed (when sitting behind the comp, IRL i am a laughing horse).

My use of lol is usually cynical or memetastic in some way. I've even started using it with a straight face at meetings.

as in 'nice to see John's email bringing the lols'

2.75%

LIAR

i like typing/reading lol cause in Dutch it means fun so it kinda makes sense to me.

This is the best thing that I. have. ever. heard.

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do you guys ever have dreams where you are in-between sleeping and waking and your mind is writing some untold brilliant lost Simpsons script or some such and then you are literally laughing out loud in between falling back asleep? I have had that experienced multiple times, and last night, it happened again, within the context, of all things, a Laurel and Hardy film that was played out in my mind from start to finish at four in the morning.

-- dell, Monday, August 18, 2008 8:23 PM (4 days ago)

I do this (with music too), but when you slip out of the half-sleep state into being completely awake and realise that all of the hilarity was in Homer having fish instead of eyes, it doesn't seem so funny.

I usually reserve lol for being a dick, variations on "ha" for laughter, so I'm afraid I'm a liar too.

^^^^ full of shit