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lol - What's it mean?

         

Jon_King

6:18 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Sorry this is a simple question... I see this: 'lol' in posts and do not understand the meaning. It means Laugh-out-loud or List-of-links to me, but this does not seem to fit the contexts.?

diddlydazz

6:23 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hi jon

I would go with laugh out loud.

Dazz

dvduval

6:28 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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When I first started learning about the internet, I thought chat rooms were nothing more than a meeting place for people talking sex with each other.

I thought it meant, "Love Online"! ;)

diddlydazz

6:30 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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lol :o)

Love online....i like it :o)

Dazz

Chicago

6:39 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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we should create a key:)

lol - laughing out loud
imho- in my humble opinion
gg- google guy
g- google
:)- smiley face
ppc -pay per click
cpc- cost per click
cpm- cost per 1000 impressions
cpa- cost per aquisition or action
pfi- pay for inclusion
btw- by the way
O-overture
WW- Webmasterworld

[edited by: Chicago at 6:41 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2003]

Marketing Guy

6:40 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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wtf - world trade fair?

;)

brakthepoet

6:48 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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PR = Google page rank

I lurked here a week before I figured that one out

Jon_King

6:49 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Here's a new one that may be used freely in the 'longest threads' ... you know the one I'm talking about:

gal - get a life

lol,
jon

Chicago

6:52 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Nice!

SERP- Search engine results Page(s) or Postion.
CTR- click thru rate.
SER- Search Engine Registration
DMOZ- ODP (Open Directory Project)
METAs - Meta Tags (title, description,and keywords)
H(1-3) - Header Tags
INK- Inktomi

brotherhood of LAN

9:13 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Here's a new one that may be used freely in the 'longest threads' ... you know the one I'm talking about:
gal - get a life

hehe, that would make them google-gal's (whoops i can feel myself getting drawn to forum 3.....)

dvduval

9:29 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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When I first started learning about the internet, I thought chat rooms were nothing more than a meeting place for people talking sex with each other.
I thought it meant, "Love Online"! ;)

When I asked this girl what it meant, she said, "I'm surprised you don't know what it means. Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you. You'll have to find out for yourself."

So I went into a chat room and asked, "Are there any single ladies in here interested in LOL."

I was flooded with requests to go private.
So I went private and asked, "Have you ever LOLed before?"
She said, "I'm LOLing right now".
I said, "Wow, I can't believe my luck! What do you want me to do?"
She said, "Make me LOL."
I said, "How can I do that from here?"
She said, "LOL"
I said, "WOW, you LOLed faster than a man! I haven't even LOLed yet"
She said, "LOL"
I said, "Now your starting to irritate me. Goodbye!"

It happened something like that.

msr986

9:34 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Y! = Yahoo

EBear

9:42 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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GG = GoogleGuy

fathom

9:48 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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TLA - three letter acronyms

tbear

11:17 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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ROI - Return on investment

MHes

11:24 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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SEO - search engine optimisation

or is that no longer allowed?!

andreasfriedrich

11:38 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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AC

You can figure that out for yourself. If not ask Nick.

Andreas

TheDave

8:27 am on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I can't help but read gg as good game ;) and if you said hf I'd think you were saying have fun and if you said gl i'd think you were wishing me luck. There's also some other which I won't translate such as bs wtf and sk. I play way too many games ;P

[edit] and on rare spur of the moment occassions I've actually *said* "lol".. lol ;P [/edit]

deejay

8:36 am on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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....and the prize for making my day goes to dvduval

who had me 'lol'ing at work, and so loud the boss had to come and look what I was doing. *ahem*

lawman

11:42 am on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Should that have been 'l'ing 'ol'?

lawman

OntheEdge

3:46 pm on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If it didn't seem to fit context, it's likley the write was being sarcastic or just couldn't stop laughing.
Don't forget ROFLMAO - rolling on the floor laughing my a** off

mahlon

4:30 pm on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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LOL! What kind of question is that? :)

SlyGuy

4:37 pm on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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IDA - I dislike Acronyms

gingerbreadman

4:46 pm on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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PEKUSH - Press Every Key Until Something Happens.

Gets me thorugh the day.

austtr

10:33 am on Mar 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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lol... "laugh out loud"

Oh you cruel bas****s! You have just shattered my long held illusions that it was "lots of love".... I used to get all warm and fuzzy when ever I saw it... reminded me of being back in the communes of the 60's... the days when "a drag" had nothing to do with a two motor cars and a set of traffic lights and lol was something we need not go into here.

Only reason I've been around these forums this long is because I thought everyone was so affectionate to each other.... damn, there goes another myth.

lol to you all!

Jon_King

2:51 pm on Mar 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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austtr

I think you've got it! 'Lot's of love' - this fit's the context.... don't be heart broken the 'Haight' still lives! Thanks, this has been fun.

Brett_Tabke

3:06 am on Mar 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

brotherhood of LAN

3:15 am on Mar 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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FWIW, Brett, you forgot to take the keywords from your template ;)

OTOH, it doesnt look like that page is important to you. (the netins list)

Jon_King

12:30 pm on Mar 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the Webmaster Acronym Standards. We should optimize that page its good for much exposure. lol!

gingerbreadman

2:31 pm on Mar 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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It's almost the weekend, prize for the first person to translate this...

One day at work my boss caught me looking at webmasterworld instead of analysing server logs.

The conversation went like this.

"Ross what are you doing? I think we need a F2F. We needed the reports yesterday. What happened!"

My response was "BTSOOM". My boss, FYI, is a BWFH. We are never going to be BFFL. I don't think he likes me because I once told him to RTFM.

Sometimes I wish he would FOAD. The reports didn't get done because I was out on the piss last night and CRAFT.

Anyway GTG, need to get those reports done.

LOLing, SIMCA and NIFOC
ginger

ANFAWFOS
We are all google bitches

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