SFOL!!

Pretty much everybody (besides my parents) knows that LOL means Laugh Out Loud. People type it as a way to overcome that gap in communication that occurs when you can't see the person you are communicating with. That and smileys are ways to dull the edge of a snarky comment you make, let people know you are trying to be funny. And, apparently, in games like World of Warcraft, as a punctuation to every thing said, for some people. LOL!

This morning, after calling the help desk for my work for the third time in an effort to get a password reset and after I hung up the phone after assuring the tech guy that I was squared away and could log on now and jeez did I feel like a moron for having to call at all, let alone 3 dang times for the same issue and I go to log on and....it doesn't like my password. Again. The same one I had called about.

And I said "FUCK!" out loud.

And after figuring it out myself (because I would have called in sick rather than call the help desk a 4th time for the same problem) I realized that I am much more apt to say fuck out loud than laugh out loud when sitting at my keyboard.

Not that I have something wrong with my sense of humor. I am a funny guy (as many other shy, big-boned guys have been down through the ages) and I appreciate the funny very much, thank you.

But, for whatever reason, the internet and my computer are more likely to illicit profanity than hilarity from me.

So, I propose a new acronym. Not to replace LOL, but to stand beside it in our internet lexicon.

I proudly present to you: SFOL!!! Say Fuck Out Loud.

So go forth and use it. For a while you'll be part of a small and elite group. The cutting edge of internet coolness.

I expect I will be featured on Boing Boing some day for this invention.

SFOL!!

Pretty much everybody (besides my parents) knows that LOL means Laugh Out Loud. People type it as a way to overcome that gap in communication that occurs when you can't see the person you are communicating with. That and smileys are ways to dull the edge of a snarky comment you make, let people know you are trying to be funny. And, apparently, in games like World of Warcraft, as a punctuation to every thing said, for some people. LOL!

This morning, after calling the help desk for my work for the third time in an effort to get a password reset and after I hung up the phone after assuring the tech guy that I was squared away and could log on now and jeez did I feel like a moron for having to call at all, let alone 3 dang times for the same issue and I go to log on and....it doesn't like my password. Again. The same one I had called about.

And I said "FUCK!" out loud.

And after figuring it out myself (because I would have called in sick rather than call the help desk a 4th time for the same problem) I realized that I am much more apt to say fuck out loud than laugh out loud when sitting at my keyboard.

Not that I have something wrong with my sense of humor. I am a funny guy (as many other shy, big-boned guys have been down through the ages) and I appreciate the funny very much, thank you.

But, for whatever reason, the internet and my computer are more likely to illicit profanity than hilarity from me.

So, I propose a new acronym. Not to replace LOL, but to stand beside it in our internet lexicon.

I proudly present to you: SFOL!!! Say Fuck Out Loud.

So go forth and use it. For a while you'll be part of a small and elite group. The cutting edge of internet coolness.

I expect I will be featured on Boing Boing some day for this invention.