Why can't he be both?
>Then I received a private mail from no-more-no-less Richard Brodie. I
>thought he was trying to intimidate me with a question if I knew what a
>"meme" was. It appears, the question was just a part of his signature (I
>think so now). *The only other contents* of his mail was "ROFL!", which I
>did not understand. I asked several people in Vancouver (educated here) and
>they had no idea what this "ROFL" meant, which made me feel little less
>guilty about my Polish upbringing.
BTW, if you see an acronym you don't recognize, check out this site:
http://www.pixi.com/~jplaputt/acronyms.html
OTOH, if you find these cryptic neticisms annoying, you may find humour in:
http://www.zdnet.com/people/gina/950417/stupid.html
http://www.zdnet.com/people/gina/950331/stupid.html
>Knowing the formal meaning of the abbreviation I still don't understand it.
>ROFL may mean "I liked your joke" (why didn' you just say so., Richard?) --
>or -- quite a contrary: "What a stupid joke".
If I were you I would take it to mean that he appreciates your sense
of humour. Or at least he did :-)
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/