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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 04:45 AM
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dan
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What does LOL stand for?
Thanks in advance for your help on this one.
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 04:50 AM
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Laugh(ing) out loud
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 04:51 AM
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LOL= laughing out loud
LMAO= laughing my a** off
IIRC= if I recall correctly
IMO= in my opinion
IMHO= in my humble opinion
BTW= by the way

I'm sure there are others, but these are the handful that puzzled me for awhile.
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 06:15 AM
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Have also heard of LOL as "lots of luck."

 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 06:23 AM
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And I think once upon a time in either police speak (probably in Pasadena) and/or ham radio speak it stood for "little old lady." CQ, CQ.
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 06:54 AM
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This one got me for a while:

ROFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off.

How about a new one just for this board?

GAL = Get a life!
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 07:38 AM
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With this continuing dumbing down of the English language, pretty soon we will be writing and speaking in symbols. I guess that Prince fellow was ahead of his time.
 
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Old Jan 11th, 2001 | 01:21 PM
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TYVM !!!!!!!
(That means thank you very much.)
 
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