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[edit] lol wat

I couldn't understand anything you said because you used weird <big> terminology all over the place. --Harish Rallapali 22:09, 15 Jul 2005 (UTC)

its art duh. or "its art its 2 smrt 4 u" from my masterpiece.

Dude. You tottaly didn't use low caps did you. Even nazis [1] "they're going to get you every time" do it.

And you forgot to sig it 2 times. {∞ 08:08, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)}

Please read at least a thousand articles before attempting to edit any help pages. Start with Encyclopedia_Dramatica:Templates, which you are too retarded to find by yourself. --Banbot talk to Banbot 15:17, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Yeah. I recommend reverting all (wow that's many) my edits. Or just deleting account.

[edit] Etc

lol whinosaurus

I find that to be very immature, and the correct expression is LOL or more specifically L.O.L. if you want to show you're not a Wanker and are aware you're using an accronym. (Note the punctuation at end, too, something which might earn you respect.)

LOL GRAZI

At least you show your shift- or caps-lock key isn't broken, but I'd like to mention that wanting people to be more understandable can't in any way be related to the heinous hate-crimes which were less than 100 years ago, for ones that are beyond this, we don't mind them at all, we call them freedom; newbie - roflolmao.

• As fascinating as this discussion with yourself is, it's worth mentioning that acronyms typically lose their periods once they become recognised as acronyms. See also: LASER, RADAR. Also worth mentioning is that L.O.L. is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation: lol is an acronym. --無 00:07, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
  • Some dictionary definitions on old words say "also spelled (300 different ways, because people are stupid + there was no public education)". After crying, the user created the anti-anti-wikipedia, or anti-ae, where it was realized that weirdness eventually reached higher levels of hilarity than pure lulzdom. {etc 00:53, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)}
  • Accr = male. Abbr = female. When Cs turn Bs they also lose their Ps. Other way. {∞ 00:18, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)}
    • I disagree, intentionally trying to be wacky and off-beat is generally tired and uninteresting. --無 00:29, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
  • My disability disables my recognition of things which are kinda the same. Or opposite. Or complicated. (Neologism, abbreviation, left, right, librarian, libertian, columbia, nietzchse) {mYnaMeiSreaLcleVer 00:32, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)}
    • Thanks for coming out with this. -- Oprah
    • WTF is a "libertian"?--Buffy the Apostrophe Slayer (talk) 00:39, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
      • Well, let's see: Librarian, libertian, librerian, libretian. One of them had to do with binary politics. {mYnaMeiSreaLcleVer 00:45, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)}
        • AS best as I can tell, "librarian" is the only real word out of the four. Are you aiming for "libertarian"?--Buffy the Apostrophe Slayer (talk) 00:47, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
          • I thought "Liberian" was intended. --Banbot talk to Banbot 00:50, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
            • Perhaps EternityInterface has had a few too many libations.--Buffy the Apostrophe Slayer (talk) 00:51, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
              • Through common usage, only ∞ is accepted, thank you. {etc 00:55, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)}