LOL: Laugh Out Loud, or Lots of Love (bless your heart...)?

Hi Mike,
You are right!  It is a term we (Southerners--I'm from NC) use to excuse our comments at times but also to sympathize.  I think my Grannie uses that term in every conversation she has.  LOL (laugh out loud or lots of love) fits here.  I enjoyed your post.

 

Mike - great reminder - as the saying goes "Live, Love, Laugh" - while laughing is important, love is not-an-option.  Our friends add those wonderful giddy words "bless 'er heart" at the end of just about every sentence.  Love it!

Thought provoking Mike! LOL

PS. Love the picture...was it staged or lucky?

My Grandmother was a true Florida cracker.  Grandpa used to drive cattle across Florida.  Whenever Grandma would pass a rumor about a neighbor she would always whisper.  She would do this even though we seated inside the house.

She'd lower her voice while saying, "You know, I heard that the Silas's were having money trouble."

We could hardly hear her, bless her heart. LOL

Ah, yes. I remember LOL! A sixties phrase.

Mike, I told someone recently and I think it was on AR, so I hope it wasn't you and I'm repeating myself.  But I thought for a short time that LOL meant lots of love.  So I would finish my emails to friends and family with LOL.  I found out the hard way that LOL actually means, laughing out loud when I sent an email to a fried telling them how bad I felt about their accident and ended it with LOL.  Talk about a faux paux!  Let's just say, "I had some 'splainin' to do, Lucy"! 

One of the funniest comedians I ever saw talked about the Southern euphemism, bless their hearts.  She said you could use it to get away with saying nearly anything.  Her example was, "a thought in that girl's head has about about as much chance as a bee-bee making it safely across an 8 lane highway during rush hour...bless her heart!  Yup...that softens it.

Mike, I have to say, I really enjoy reading your posts.  When I first came across an email that had LOL in it (a couple years ago), the person who sent me that email, well let's say, she used that LOL a lot.  It took me 3 months to finally get the courage to ask her what that meant. Meanwhile I was trying to figure it out, it was goofy what I came up with.  "laughing on life" or "lending our lunch" or "losing our lights" or "leaping on logs".  Yeah, I know, nothing that really made any sense.  Asking is always easier than guessing. 

Mike-Losing Our Lunch.  Hmmmm...been there, done that! 

That's funny, Mike. You've taught me two new things today. LOL (lots of love) and BYH. I'm still in the habit of using LOL to suggest laughter!