Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00214)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> christinaleestemaker wrote:
> > Hi Adelasie.
> > What means : ROFL ?
> 
> It comes from the early days of online chatting, when slow typists 
and 
> slow interfaces made it convenient to use abbreviations for 
commonly 
> used phrases. It stands for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing".

Actuall it comes from before then, in the days of slow walking and 
slow talking, when people dies of boredom waiting for people to say 
anything and then died of disappointment when they did say something 
and it was apparent they STILL had not said anything. The fact that 
this state of affairs still continues on other chat lists (but not 
this one) is not a coincidence.

As for the real meaning of ROFL, I heard it from a sailor years ago, 
but he was so embarrassed he had to wait until there were no other 
sailors around to communicate it. He had no problem cursing like a 
sailor, but ROFL - well, now, that was just too much. Even the 
initials of ROFL are just positively ROFL IMO IYKWIM.