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Boy, is my face red. I had actually thought that the seemingly purposeful mispellings, the wanna-slap-your-forehead-in-embarrassment-for-a-fellow-human 'taunts' (cries for help??), and the put-on in-yer-face-sucker pose were the work of an adolescent troll doing some role play. It's not. It's more insidious. Thanks DeClaw for pointing this out!
"GBT's "lol,lol,lol" is not "LOL, LOL, LOL," as in "laugh out loud." It is in fact a representation of three little men, shown only from the shoulders up, with their arms raised in avant-garde dance."
What did we used to call those marks? Emoticons? You know, trying to make a cute little face utilizing the symbols on the keyboard. Now that you have pointed it out I can see the three little men with arms raised.
So lo,lo,lo would be three nazis saluting the fuhrer. And ~~ol~~ would be some guy bobbing in the water and waving for help. Gotcha. So Great Big Turd is actually attaching the three little men dancing ("Yes we can lol,lol,lol Yes we can!") to his posts as a way of messing with our heads??
"Sort of kitsch, but I can see why the kids might like it."
True, and I betcha he knows it . . .
