Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00260)

It is better to laugh, then to roll over your bicycle and die of the 
wrong fall down and then don't remember.
Christina








-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> I wonder what makes you think this list is any different?
> IROFL BIKWYSMB "ROFL" . . . Now, that's RF DYT?
> 
> In a message dated 01/15/04 1:59:20 PM, stevestubbs@y... writes:
> 
> >--- 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.