Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 22, 2019

People over 50 (and pigs of an equivalent age): SPELL EVERYTHING OUT!!!

Undoubtedly, everyone has their perspective and idea according to their age and time.

ROTFL: really outrageous texting from lady

Maybe at that age, people laugh about the fact that it’s not them.

Lots Of Luck?

Dang, even Pig knows that.

Years before there was an Internet I used it for Little Old Lady, often with DOM.

Oh no, is Neighbor Bob dead?

Pig was shocked to see the “LOL”.

Pig was shocked to see the “LOL”.

Pig’s mom is a LOL—Little Old Loser, according to Pig. But death can be funny. See all the deaths in the Final Destination movies, and read about every death in each volume of “The Darwin Awards”, and I am sure one will agree. And finally, there is “fun” in “funeral”.

“She’s gone, gone, gone, I don’t know if I am happy I don’t know if I am sad, cause she’s gone, gone, gone, I don’t know if I’ll cry, I don’t know if I’ll die laughin’…..” —Bad Company, or Even Worse Company, in this case.

C’mon Pig! Does she need to spell it out for you?!

TTFN

Depends on one’s “Point Of View” …… Croc Power !

BBQ served at 6.

Reminds me of a Pickles comic strip when Earl gave his definition or ASAP: After September April Possibly.

reading between the lines.. this strip makes an attempt to spell out the differences between generations….

Remember, Pig, you will always be dear to my heart, TOWM.

(The other white meat)

The only letters I now respond to are BYOB.

Back in the day, Pig’s mom wasn’t very nice to him so her “laughing out loud” at him wouldn’t be surprising.

Was it Bob? Is Bob gone? Say it’s not Bob!

At this funeral, will there be a buffet with pulled pork?

At my age, all my invitations say…BYOP (Bring Your Own Prescription). :) :) :)

stolen from The Newsroom.

It could mean “lots of lamentation”.

I am 66 and use these all the time! ttul

I don’t use “textspeak”, so quite often I have to actually look up some obscure 3 or 4 letter shorthand acronym to figure out what the heck someone is trying to say!! FOMO ?? SMH? IMHO??

My mom thought it meant “Little Old Lady” and thought we were making fun of her :) LOL!

Now we know where PIG gets his hysteria….lol

I’ve seen this joke before. Apparently, a women sent the LOL out at the end of a group text announcing the death of a family member. I’m insisting they use LOL, LMAO, and/or ROFL somewhere in my obituary, at least once.

Mom claimed to be a SOG w/ PIP. Silly Old Grandma with Pictures In her Purse.

Over 50? Not necessarily. I’m 51, and I’ve been online since I was 13. I’m no stranger to acronyms.

I see teenage kids with team shirts with DILLIGAF or BOHICA across the back instead of their name. Mom: “But your name is Sharron. Who’s Dilly?… It means WHAT!!!” (Before you Google them be warned those are rude acronyms).

I knew a guy who literally did this and for the same reason. Only it was his mom who died and he was telling his kids.

I made that mistake – I didn’t text much… and still don’t when I can avoid it.

That must have be Pig’s neighbor Jim who was a vegetarian, went to the gym every day, cycled with Jef, and had the perfect BMI.

Didn’t you hear, he slipped off his treadmill and hit his head as he was rushing to take his quinoa off the stove before going to work as a clown.

Yes. we learned how to spell, recite,and describe feelings into true “words.”

LOL could mean Lots of Lard.

OY! that’s ageism………..

Gumball?

My mom thought the lots of love thing when she first started to text.

Truly? An “LOL” text joke? This was old 10 years ago …

WTF, Pastis ? OMG ! BTW, those are the only acronyms I know. ROTFLOL!

Many of these acronyms predate the days of phone texting. LOL for “laugh out loud” has been around since the days of Usenet in the ’80s. I definitely remember seeing it on Internet message boards and forums in the ’90s.

There are 26 capital letters, so there are 26*26*26 = 17,576 TLAs (if you add one and two-character acronyms, it gets up to 18,278). My online dictionary has almost 236 thousand words, which means that it has approximately 13 times as many distinct words as there are distinct "LA"s… and of course most TLAs refer to multi-word phrases such as “Losers Often Leave”. Naively, then any given acronym is overloaded with something like 2200 meanings. Talk about ambiguity! (reality: More likely between a dozen and a thousand)

(check out https://www.acronymfinder.com/LOL.html)

I would have said that they were having BLT s for the wake. :-)

Little Old Lady.

It could also stand for Lucifer our lord! YIKES!

She suffers from ADD – Acronym Discernment Disorder.

My father thinks LOL means Lots of Love. I’ll get a text “I just rushed your mother to the hospital, LOL” or “The dog is really sick, LOL”

Why do so many people think LOL = lots of love? It has NEVER meant that.

Just chuckle over it, Pig. Mom is old and from a non-LOLing generation. She is probably mortified at her mistake!