Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 15, 2011

Agreed

LO…..um….forget it

IMHOTCSIVF

WOFGIM(Writhing on floor, groaning in misery.)

An acronym avalanche? Stephan, you know you were PBFI .(Practically begging for it.)

I hate to say it, but Rat DOES have a point. Those acronyms really ARE used to death on the Internet — and a lot of them are a BEAR to figure out. Whatever happened to using plain English online?

Ah yes. The Kings English. That reminds me of the LOL (little old lady) in church when the pastor was using a modern version of The Bible. She stood up and said, “If the King James Version was good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me!”

Hey, Rat…LOL (lots of LUCK)!

LOL!

Lights Out, Luser!

LOL! Need I say anything more? —Oh, yes: nyah, nyah, Rat!

ROFL !

Goat gets up: “Oh, Rat, you crack me up… LOL”

Hey, Rat; Do me a solid and take out a few more.

LOL (lots of laying) With lumps.

Rolling On the Floor Laughing My A&& off.

True. Though it can be more like an STD in the mouths of some…

Sometimes, one needs these to indicate the comment one is making is intended to be humorous. As opposed to explaining the joke. Or worse - ending it with, “insert laugh(s)here. . ..”

Sorry, too many TLA’s (three letter acronyms)

To Rat LOL sure doesn’t mean Lots Of Love.

HFS!!!

I use “lol” in spoken conversation now… (that is, I actually say “lol,” not the individual letters. Actually, I think I say a lot of supposed Internet acronymns this way. I am strange…

Don’t worry, we also use it in real life conversations (cause we really have them still).

lol. I agree! >runs away<

I just use a smilie. :)

I agree and please get rid of the word….“awesome”…..trite.

I usually use LTMS….laugh to my self.

lol

I just thought of another one, in online videos, peope say “Oh Em Gee” (omg), but I’ve always said “Om-guh.” Maybe the comic is right, these phrases just weren’t meant for civilized discourse.

(That said, I doubt I’ll be changing my ways. Though I will continue to use proper grammar on the Internet!)

LOL! oops!

Right on, Rat. It’s used when the topic isn’t meant to be funny and the comment is far from funny. Too often just a reflex with NO relation to the subject.

If I remember correctly, 4 or 5 years ago (maybe less) there was a movement afoot to reduce the use of the tern ‘9/11’. That got no where fast. Another one that went No Where is the use of ‘freedom fries’ cause we were ‘upset’ with the French..

Radish, “prithee” means “I pray thee,” so “prithee pray” is a redundancy.

BEOWULF (Page One)..Old English:Hwæt. We Gardena    in gear-dagum, þeodcyninga.Translation:What. We of the Spear-Danes  in old days of the people-kings

So true! And think about the games folks played with the language long before our time. English is easy to learn and impossible to master.

(Facepalm to the nth degree).http://facepalm.ytmnd.com/

Try that with me rat and I will cut your tail off and feed to you!

Everyone has their pet peeves. I know people who hate it when others email them jokes or videos. Maybe Rat could take a hint there.

Imho, Ita,iirc.

XD!

Rat . . . has become the hero?!

LOL ROFL LOL ROFL LOL ROFL [rat walks in to my computer room…….WHACK!

You need a dictionary or reference source? Try the Urban Dictionary.

Way to go, Rat. About time someone stopped it!

Join my new group, the AAAAA, or the American Association for the Abolishment of Asinine Acronyms.

SQUMB!!!!(snickering quietly under my breath)

This one was so good I signed up here just to share it.

GO RAT, GO!

holding rat trap LOL!

Can he work of people who use “pwn” next?

Lot of posters today on this one! I will purposely spell out abbreviations when I text just to be anti. It’s probably a waste of my time, but oh well.

L.O.L.! I love our take all linguistic nature.

LOL!

so LOL is 3 clicks and ha ha is five. How much time do you save by doing that?

I’d like to see Rat go after adults who say “veggies” instead of “vegetables” when talking to other adults.

Some linguists believe Germanic began as a trade tongue.

This would probably have predated the development of the back alley.

Haha!

xxx

WYLABFZM? (Would You Like A Brain Flavored Zombie Mint?)

LOL

You’ll prob be halfway done by the time the sun burns out, dude! But Godspeed!!

In the days before the Internet (thunder in background), I knew someone who would cuss by saying “Sugar Honey Iced Tea.” Would the Really Angry Troublemaker prefer us to do that instead, or would that Pretty Itchy See-Saw him off?

Please, please, please.

LOL! (I had to do it, sorry).

Rat needs to bring back the “mallet ’o understanding”.

PLOP!

(Painfully Laughing Overtly, Pastis!)

Ouch. LOL. Heh.

LOL. Come get me rat. You can find me on Facebook. Bring gum rubber boots and a butterfly net. A couple of mental health nurses as bodyguards might be a wise precaution…

LOL

Or, as LTCG would say, TFIDCWYA!

Oh, no! Guess I shouldn’t have used that acronym back on Peanuts… Now I’m going to have to watch my back…

I LOL’d

Lolly pop, lolly pop, oh lolly, lolly, lolly.

LOC -- lots of comments

I’ve felt this way for years. I was sick of LOL about twenty years ago.

LOL!

I agree about the acronyms being overly used. Lol doesn’t bother me TOO much if it’s in response to a joke. Although it should only be if it actually made you laugh out loud. Ha! Works equally well, is shorter and more of a real response. And you should only use ROFLOL. Should only be used if you are in fact rolling on the floor. Sadly I see LOL used in some peoples every post. Often several times in a single post on message boards. Often times when they are being entirely serious. I don’t think they even know what LOL means. “My mother died of cancer. Lol”

After Douglas’ post, I feel a little trivial saying this, but LOL is not just over-anachronimising words. To me it is part of “lolling around”, which is a form of ennui.

Lol has a purpose in text conversation. It lets people know that you found something funny without having to say the comparitively awkward “that was funny” or “you made me laugh.” It’s basically a text version of in-person laughing since that doesn’t translate well into text. The issue I have with lol is when people start using it during in-person conversations.

:-D

LOL means Little Old Lady.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLTake that Rat!WHACK!squirrel500 falls on floor, knocked out by Rat*"OWWWWWW!"

IWNUIAPDKM(I will never use it again please don’t kill me)

say lln instead

I think that David Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_x5cfdwP98 makes a good argument in favour of the despised “LOL”.

LIS (Laughing in side) ROFCU (Rolling on the floor cracking up)

lol

Would he rather we use XD?

lol… wait wait WHAT IS THA-

Haha Lol. Uh oh

I agree with rat

Lol!!!!