[Dragaera] LOLDragaera

[Konrad Gaertner]

Howard Brazee wrote:
> 
> Matthew Hunter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:01:39AM -0700, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought "LOL" meant "Laughing Out Loud", and didn't know there was a
> >> phenomenon.   These messages got me to Google it, but I suspect I still
> >> don't know what it is.
> >
> > "LOL" does mean "Laughing Out Loud"; the phenomenon is actually
> > "lolcats" (for "Laughing Out Loud Cats", alternatively "lolcatz"
> > for the funny spellers), consisting of funny pictures of cats
> > with captions.
> >
> I did see that in the Google links, but that seemed way too unlikely to
> be meaningful in this discussion.    I'll take your word that it's
> relevant and assume I'm too old to understand.

And there is a precedence for attaching LOL to other subjects when 
spreading the meme:

http://lolcode.com/

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