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Sangye
07-13-2009, 11:33 AM
Hi Everyone,
My landlady just emailed and said to check if I could get on here yet. Guess she and the ISP figured out the problem. I am SOOOO happy to be back on here. I can't tell you how much I missed all of you. I'm like Lisa right now after her trach came out-- yacky yacky yacky....

Good timing, too. I just learned last week that my Wegs is flaring up. We've hopefully caught it just as the wave has started to rise, though. Back on cytoxan as of yesterday. Bleh.

Okay, I gotta go catch up on all the new posts I've missed. Hugs to everyone! :)

andrew
07-13-2009, 11:47 AM
Wooooooo!!! Welcome back!!

Terri
07-13-2009, 12:08 PM
Glad to have you back. You are going to be busy catching up.
We've all had questions for you.
Hope you are up to it with your flare up and all.
Just do what you can. We still love you!!;)

Dumpy
07-13-2009, 01:25 PM
Sure are glad to see that you are back everyone has missed you. Don't worry about talking to much you deserve it after all you have been through. Hopefully our BFF isn't to cruel to you this time. Will say a prayer.

jola57
07-13-2009, 02:51 PM
Welcome back Sangye

Jack
07-13-2009, 03:35 PM
Great to have you back Sangye.
Be kind to yourself!

crackers
07-13-2009, 05:14 PM
nice to have you back sangye.
john.

RCOSSIO
07-13-2009, 06:47 PM
So You're Bff Came To Visit...i Thought You Had A Conversation About Breaking Up...amazing How The Love Never Leaves...oh Well Give Her Some Cytoxan Maybe She Will Sleep For A While

Derek
07-13-2009, 07:08 PM
Welcome back Sangye, look forward to your input again

Derek:cool:

Sangye
07-14-2009, 12:10 AM
Thanks, everyone. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes while I was "away." (Isn't reality funny? I mean, I was sitting in the same chair in the same basement, looking at the same computer, but because of one bizarre computer glitch, I was suddenly light-years away from all of you!)

Richard--love the new avatar. You look very happy and healthy. Your BFF must be honoring the rules of a good relationship, eh? I don't know what happened with my BFF. It/she/he has been increasingly nosing around in my life since about February. Maybe I have a MILF (mother-in-law forever) instead?

Luce
07-14-2009, 12:57 AM
Sangye, thank you for clearing up what your interpretation of MILF is.

I have to say I've always known it to stand for something more profane!

Sangye
07-14-2009, 01:02 AM
REALLY???? Omigosh, I had no idea. I'm new to this whole "abbreviate every stupid thing we say" thing. I'm not gonna use it anymore--I mean if it's commonly used as something bad (and I gotta say, I can't figure out what that would be) then someone new on here might get the wrong impression about us. Like we're gangsters with Wegs or something.

Luce
07-14-2009, 02:13 AM
I don't want to offend anyone with an explanation, but I think I first heard it while watching one of those "American Pie" teenage party films.
It starts "Mum I'd like to..." - I daren't finish and will happily remove this post if anyone is offended.

RCOSSIO
07-14-2009, 08:49 AM
LMAO=Sangye

Sangye
07-14-2009, 09:20 AM
LOL--okay I know what THAT means!

Even with your clues, Luce, I couldn't figure out what that stands for. So I finally googled it and wouldn't you know, it showed up on Yahoo answers! It's awful. I actually might go back and delete my post. I mean, I'm cracking up laughing, but you know.

andrew
07-14-2009, 12:16 PM
No no leave it. It'll increase the hit rate on the site no end LOL

Luce
07-15-2009, 02:54 AM
Ohmigosh I can't really believe we're discussing such a thing and that poor Sangye had to go to Yahoo answers! I should have PM'ed you the whole thing to save you the trouble.
I admire your innocence Sangye! Or perhaps some of us have been too corrupted by the shocking media considered as entertainment!

Sangye
07-15-2009, 06:02 AM
Asking you directly was my Plan B if I couldn't find it online. I'm not so innocent as I am ignorant! Anyway, it made for some hysterical laughing between me and the friend who drove me to JH today. I was really down-- cytoxan is giving me major nausea and I'm all kinds of wiped out-- and it lifted my spirits to share the whole thing.

Luce
07-15-2009, 06:45 AM
I'm glad we've had a chuckle, I was a little nervous of highlighting your faux pas and also thought that perhaps it was only me that had heard of the 'other' meaning :)

Sangye
07-15-2009, 06:49 AM
Apparently it comes from the movie American Pie. (Along with fast food, one more American export to shudder about. I'm sorry, World.) I'm probably one of the few Americans under the age of 60 who hasn't seen the movie.

I do like pie, however.

coffeelover
07-18-2009, 04:55 AM
yack away Sangye! We missed you
Lisa

Doug
07-19-2009, 12:18 AM
REALLY???? Omigosh, I had no idea. I'm new to this whole "abbreviate every stupid thing we say" thing. I'm not gonna use it anymore--I mean if it's commonly used as something bad (and I gotta say, I can't figure out what that would be) then someone new on here might get the wrong impression about us. Like we're gangsters with Wegs or something.

:cool: Google the Urban Dictionary for any current abbreviations used among texters and YouTubers, and you will learn the meanings. Oops! In fact, Google the abbreviation itself, and the returned pages will give you more than enough of the sense of the breadth of meaning and the color (beige through dark blue....) of meaning these annoying abbreviations have. :)

Doug
07-19-2009, 12:23 AM
LMAO=Sangye


LMAO = laughing my xxxx off! :eek:

Doug
07-19-2009, 12:40 AM
LOL--okay I know what THAT means!

Even with your clues, Luce, I couldn't figure out what that stands for. So I finally googled it and wouldn't you know, it showed up on Yahoo answers! It's awful. I actually might go back and delete my post. I mean, I'm cracking up laughing, but you know.


Here is an example of why these abbreviations are tedious: lol, as defined in the Urban Dictionary (the author of which probably has my abhorrence for these texting and YouTube abbreviations- read with caution):

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lol 16597 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 1346 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)It's original definition was "Laughing out loud" (also written occasionally as "Lots of Laughs"), used as a brief acronym to denote great amusement in chat conversations.

Now, it is overused to the point where nobody laughs out loud when they say it. In fact, they probably don't even give a **** about what you just wrote. More accurately, the acronym "lol" should be redefined as "Lack of laughter."

Depending on the chatter, its definition may vary. The list of its meanings includes, but is not limited to:
1) "I have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this conversation."
2) "I'm too lazy to read what you just wrote so I'm typing something useless in hopes that you'll think I'm still paying attention."
3) "Your statement lacks even the vaguest trace of humor but I'll pretend I'm amused."
4) "This is a pointless acronym I'm sticking in my sentence just because it's become so engraved into my mind that when chatting, I MUST use the meaningless sentence-filler 'lol.'"

See: lmao (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lmao), lmfao (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lmfao), rofl (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rofl), lawl (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lawl), heh (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heh), haha (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haha), lolol (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolol), and 120 (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=120) for similarities.
Statement: Sorry if I'm not too cheery, my best friend just died yesterday.
Worthless Reply: lol

Statement: The golden ratio is truely an intersting aspect of not only mathematics, but art as well.
Worthless Reply: lol

Statement: ... And then he says, "Your mom goes to college!"
Worthless Reply: lol

Statement: Hey, are you doing anything tonight? You could come over to my house and play some Unreal Tournie...
Worthless Reply: lol, ok
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lol images http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/page/lol-47983.jpgLol. 1of 9 2. (http://lol.urbanup.com/1079038) lol 1949 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 557 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)lol - originally meant "laughing out loud", but now is the most common expression in any text conversation, just used instead of HAHA or any giggle or something like that. Also used all the time when there's nothing else to say... LOL key should be added to a standard keyboard.
AiMDuMaSs1:I ripped a fart today in school
aImdUmAsS2:lol
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3. (http://lol.urbanup.com/1474164) lol 1143 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 449 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)It stands for "laughing out loud." A slight irony to this definition is that generally people don't literally laugh out loud. That's reserved for other acronyms such as, but not limited to, LMMFAO, LMAO, ROTFLMAO, etc. Lol is most commonly used as a silence breaker, a reply to a joke that is SUPPOSED to be funny but really isn't, or an answer to an uncomfortable or random statement that one couldn't think of a better response to.
Example 1:
Person 1: Hi
Person 2: Hey
Person 1: umm..
Person 2: uh.....
Person 1: lol

Example 2:
Person 1: I like to pick my nose and then massage the boogers on my anal orifice
Person 2: lol

Example 3:
Person 1: I got fired from my job today, got dumped, contracted HIV, lost an eye, got caught xxxxxxxxxing in the elementary school parking lot then shot the cop who tried to arrest me
Person 2: lol
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4. (http://lol.urbanup.com/409982) lol 2023 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 1495 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)1. Computer slang for "Laughing out Loud"
2. A phrase meaning to laugh. Mostly used by n00bs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=n00bs)

See also: lmao (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lmao), stfu (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stfu)
1. That Rick Hollern is so gay, lol.
2. lol!
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A: I'm probably gonna kill myself tonight...
B: lol
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6. (http://lol.urbanup.com/1418201) lol 786 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 442 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)A term commonly used on the internet when you're not really paying attention, or have nothing to say.
Person: Man, my grandma died today. I'm totally bummed.
Me: lol


Person: Today was boring.
*10 minutes later*
Me: Lol.
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7. (http://lol.urbanup.com/2773050) lol 294 up (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#), 178 down (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol#)Originally found in Sumerian Tax Logs to define overdue fees (Late on Lamp Oil, some experts believe), this phrase has evolved through time. Shakespeare shunned the abbreviation, finding it impossible to rhyme with. Thoreau punched Jim Bowie in a local tavern for carving it on the table with his special knife, but Lincoln ad-libbed it in the original Gettysburg address during an uncomfortable moment in the Monologue. It meant "Laughing On Line" during the internet craze of the late 20th century, but now has been reduced to a response to the dull person you are texting to out of politeness rather than the one you are actually engaged in a conversation with, if you can call it that.
Sumerian Tax Log: Entry-2 dribs of Lamp Oil, payment 2days past due- LOL (usually required lopping off of something).
Shakespeare's feeble attempt; Mehears the lady LOL, mehopes not at mine nether hole.
Lincoln:Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.(uncomfortable shifting in crowd of living-dead did not shift hopefully)LOL, I meant equal as in, ya know, separate but equal, ya know, LOL, wait till you see my new bathroom signs. (Crowd relaxes) Ok, did I mention there's a new dee-luxe horse and buggy in the lot for y'all who came out today?(big whoop from crowd).
Justin text:RU still there?
Kimberly:LOL

crackers
07-19-2009, 09:54 AM
then again doug you could just ignore it.(lol).sorry doug couldn't resist.
john.

Doug
07-19-2009, 11:28 AM
then again doug you could just ignore it.(lol).sorry doug couldn't resist.
john.

LMAO = laughing my xxxx off! :eek: That's OK. Lisa Coffeelover thought I was a preacher until I told her the tragic truth: I was a quality analyst. Plugging away at numbers tends to make one a bit literal, perhaps one reason I let it rip when I am liberated from them. "LIR" "QUANAL" "BITLIT" "RIPIT"

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andrew
07-19-2009, 06:37 PM
Summer, I moved your question here: http://www.wegeners-granulomatosis.com/forum/general-wg-chat/337-how-know-when-youre-having-flare.html

Shannon: moved your warning here: http://www.wegeners-granulomatosis.com/forum/general-wg-chat/338-warning-those-hearing-loss.html

It'll make them easier for people to find :)

sumsum5587
07-20-2009, 02:52 PM
Ok thanks