Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00232)

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On 15 Jan 2004 at 17:29, stevestubbs wrote:

> --- 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.
> 
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