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On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 12:41 , Philip Jonkers wrote:
> IMHO: In My Humble Opinion;
> IMO: In My Opinion;
> IIRC: If I Recall (Remember or perhaps Retrieve) Correctly;
> LOL: Lots of Laughs;
> FUBAR: Go See `Saving Private Ryan';
I've never seen LOL mean anything other than Laughing Out Loud. There
are of course the variants of ROTFLMAO that signify even greater depths
of hilarity and frivolity.
> ps. As for not passing on: yes it is... perhaps not to everyone but it
> still
> winded up in my mailbox. Explain that to me Einstein if it wouldn't
> have any transmission
> potential...
The explanation is vividly obvious- and here it is- it's your choice (or
rather your slavish memebotic non-choice) of emailer-
- X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
Remove yourself from this trance, and all will be right and true.
- Wade
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