I have friends that I text, IM and email with the same amount of passion (and dispassion) as jefbot displays in today’s strip. Even so, I try to keep my use of terms like LOL and ROFL to a minimum because I generally don’t want people to think I’m actually laughing out loud or rolling on the floor if I haven’t been. Emoticons are more my speed because I do smile every so often when I’m writing, and maybe even wink or stick my tongue out on occasion. These things have nothing to do with my writing process; they’re just weird tics I should probably be medicated for.
Long time no Ahero D: ! Oh my god, I feel the same way about LOL and other phrases. If you aren’t doing it, don’t say it, or at least try not to. Emoticons…are a lot of fun, except i hate the pre-programmed ones like in msn or yahoo, or on facebook. :J Great strip.
Also..this is my first, first. ;D sha sha sha shaaaa~
sha sha sha shaaaaa… 😎
we’ve missed you here, Ahero! hope you’ve been away doing fun stuff. congrats on your first First!
and while i don’t like using LOL/ROFL/LMAO etc. myself, i do kinda like it when others use ’em ‘cuz of all the images they bring to mind. heheh. and yeah, preprogrammed emoticons generally suck, even the ones WordPress uses. i especially hate this one: 😛 <- that just doesn't evoke the right vibe for tongue-sticking-out-smiley-face.
…sha sha shaaaa? 8)
I have been away…but the fun stuff is debatable. XD Glad to be back.
Thanks for the first congratz of a first first…first?
Wait. That’s a tongue face? ….you’ve gotta be kidding me. : P My least favorite of all pre-programmed smiles is probably the grins..with teeth. Especially the yahoo messenger one. D8
First time commenter on the comic. Popped in from Legend of Bill and read the whole thing. Great story Jefbot! 😀
I LOL and ROFL online quite a bit more than I actually am. I suppose using more emoticons would help, but maybe I just like being a sounding board for other peoples’ humor. 😉
thanks for the kind words and the first-time-commenting, Insectoid! happy you found your way over here from LoB and i appreciate you going through the archive. hope to see your feedback in future strips as the characters and storylines progress!
i think i 🙂 and 😀 more than i actually grin or smile too, so keep LOLing or ROFLing or whatever makes you feels best!
I like the preprogramed smileys!! They are cuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!! And the tongue-sticking one is the best! The one made with text looks like one is dying or something!
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You guys are weird.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, the passion in Jefbot’s face is incredible (sarcasm mode off)
*evil laugh of doom*
i think that’s why i don’t like the tongue-sticking-out wordpress emoticon, Sonitan: it’s too cute! i usually use it to mean something sarcastic or like, *groan* and wordpress’s looks like *hee!* or i’m being silly or something.
glad you liked bot’s “passion” in that last panel! 😛
This had me laughing out loud at all of the terms that I myself don’t even use. (LOL, ROFL, etc.) I always called them AOLism’s, and REFUSE to use them because they’re so overused. That and, people just use them as conversation filler in texts and IM’s. (I do say WTF or FTW, but that’s about it. And when I’m smiling, I (over)use the smiley emoticons; as well as say “hahaha” when I’m actually laughing. ) The lack of emotion of JB’s face in the last panel after reading all that he wrote, really had me laughing out loud again. This was great! 😛
haha, you know what? I DIDN’T notice that untill i read your comment about jeffs face! LOL for realsies on that one. 😀
you’re not the only one, Joenis – i bounced this strip off my buddy Michael before i uploaded it and he thought the joke was that jefbot was texting while they were eating, until i pointed out jefbot’s look of disinterest as he’s typing this enthusiastic text, at which point Michael *literally* LOL’d. i think i might have to zoom in a little on jefbot’s face so people aren’t missing the punchline. hmm…
ha! glad you were “laughing out loud” but not LOL’ing, Spanky! 😉 i use (and overuse) the same terms and emoticons as you. i guess it’s just a preference. i don’t hate when people use LOL and ROFL, it just seems a little extreme for me. at least to use all the time.
and glad you liked jefbot’s (lack of) emotion in that last panel – i think that sells the joke!
lack of expression in RL + overused internet lingo online = priceless. xD
erm, RL = Real Life. been so used to it.
thanks, Jaeh! exactly what i was going for! 😀
Have you been looking in my windows AGAIN?! I do all this and more. There are friends I will interupt time at work for. What can I say…They need me. I LOL, ROFL, And sometimes even ROFLMMFAOPIMP if it’s a really funny one. I also EPic, Win, Fail, WTH,WTF, FTW, and GD all the time. I “hahahahaha” a lot. I also “GGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
I can never remember all the emoticons so I just <3 the ones I can!
<3 the look on Jefbots face and the fact that CF is about to eat pancakes sans butter or syrup. I too have perfected the "Uh huh" look.
didn’t i tell you i look in your windows for inspiration when i’m out of ideas for my strip, Pixie? heheh.
yeah, but do you ROFLMMFAOPIMPBBQ!?
funny you would pick up on those details about the Cornfather’s “naked” pancakes – in real life, he only butters them lightly and doesn’t use *any* syrup! i lOOooOOve syrup and butter so i don’t understand what his glitch is. i guess that’s why he’s lost 70 pounds and it’s taking me forever to lose 5.
*blush* Now stop that you big fooler. Makin Da Pixie blush….
Ok I admit it…I have no IDEA what the BBQ is other than ribs! (yeah I love food). Throw me a bone? (OMG make the puns stop!)
Of course I noticed no butter or syrup cause as you said the pancake are nakies!!!! How can he eat them like that?! OMG You people need to come visit my house. My Latina instincts would kick in and I would stuff you full of food. Both Latin and American/English. I have no idea why, but I love food from “Across the Pond.” Beef Wellington, Scones, tea cakes and finger sammies, corned beef. so on and so forth. Dayum Eet! Now I’m hungry again! Anyway, CF and JB would both have lil bellies when I was done feeding you.
you should see my sister text…she puts 4 ? or 4 ! after everything. It’s annoying. And shes 33.
And I agree with you, but theres something to be said about properly using the term ‘ROFL WAFFLES’ or ‘ROFLCOPTOR’. Just saying, those do make me LMAOROLF.
wha!!!!???? is your sister crazy, jh3!!!!????
and i can honestly say i’ve never used “ROFL WAFFLES” or “ROFLCOPTOR.” ever. but i think i’m about to start.
Me and a friend were having this disscussion the other day. I use lol in real life, but I just feel it’s useful to describe how I feel I use in a someone-done-something-dumb sense. Espeshally if I’ve found something amusing but not actually laughing at it…
I hate OMG…espeshally when certain types of girls say it, makes shivers run down my spine and not good ones. ^^, emoticons are very important, they can get you out of tons of trouble when you say something that gets taken the wrong way -_-‘
well that’s just funny, Kat – saying LOL in real life while not actually laughing! kind of gives the term an ironic twist, so i definitely approve. heheh.
have you heard that Usher song, “OMG”? i’ve heard it so many times, i think i’ve sworn off it’s use forever.
jigoo JB
CF eating pancake?!!! so adorable. i guess we’re both the same JB. i’m currently writing this sounding so excited whoaaa but with my pokerface on. LOL. FYI i really wannna go pee so bad.
till next time. jigoooooo
jigoo (did i say that right?) to you too, JF300!
and i could tell you weren’t 100% sincere because you LOL’d but you didn’t ROFL or PiYP. 😉
jigooooo!
Holy crap! Jefbot’s turned into a teenage girl! Only on thing can fix this… quick! Get the Playboy magazines and a subscription to “Bending Stuff Weekly”, especially the steel i-bar issue! And for good measure, hide his razors so he grows a beard. Should be enough manly to offset the fact his eyes are now permanently affixed to the phone.
oOOoooh… that i-bar issue of “Bending Stuff Weekly” is so hot, Alexander. *drOOooL*
as far as the beard goes, i’m half-asian so that would take like, 3 weeks to start showing. 😉
That is the wonderful thing of instant messaging, you don’t have to MEAN what you write XD. Of course that in the future where video chat will be easier to do..that dispassion that we all love will be gone u.u.
Great strip JB!!!
DEFinitely one of the reasons i can’t see video chat taking off, nicobot! we’ll all have to at least act interested and look presentable while on the phone! and that’s just unacceptable.
thanks for the kudos!
Ha! Really funny, bot! I love how you incorporate all things geek into your comics. But you don’t have to be a geek to enjoy it cause you make it appealing to the masses. I’m totally an emoticon kinda guy myself. 🙂 Again, great job, bot. 😀
thanks for the emoticons, MC! and glad you feel my comic strip makes geek culture appeal to the masses – not sure my godmother would agree with you. 😉
It’s funny because it’s true! I LOVED this strip… Excellent use of the SMS windows… and the last frame is perfect you couldn’t look less interested! I’d say I was ROTFLMAO… but I think you’d know, I was really just sitting at my computer chuckling…
glad you dug it, Funnyshaffer! and happy you got a chuckle out of this one, even if it didn’t make you literally fall on the floor and laugh your ass off. 😉
I will say that I DO sometimes literally laugh out loud. My bigger fear, though, is that if something is really funny outside of text-world… I’m going to SAY “Lol” instead of just… you know… laughing.
if you do accidentally say “LOL” instead of laughing out loud, let me know, Kate, cuz then i’ll laugh out loud. 😀
XD that makes me giggle. I always wonder when people LoL or ROFL if they actually are. Most of the time, they don’t. XD but that’s just me..
there’s no way to know, DJ – your friends could be ROFLing as we speak!
I can sum up this strip in one word: AMAZING.
awww… thanks, Annie! glad you dug it. 😀
You know, I read the comic and all the comments and only then noticed the title: “Hyperbol33t”. That’s really great and I can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet!
Also there’s a smiley that I sometimes use for a really big grin, but WordPress messes it up. Spaced out so you can see what it’s supposed to be it’s ; – ) = )
But WordPress recognizes the first three characters as a standard smiley, and the = ) is left hanging: ;-)=) like that. I think the one with the beard works, but I don’t remember if I’ve tried it here. I’ll just have to try and see if it works. ;-}}}
thanks for mentioning the title, Stonefoot – i’m happy you dug it! there were a couple other contenders in mind but i just had to go with that one. 🙂
i’m surprised that wordpress doesn’t have a more varied selection of smileys, but your beard is quite impressive as-is!
Haha! I do that too! Great strip!
thanks for the laugh, Eptha! 😀
wow, that phone drawing looks super nice! GOod job!
thanks, J! i probably could’ve saved some time by drawing the phone with a little less detail, but once i started i couldn’t stop. 🙂
I think it was worth the effort. for sure.
ROFL! 😐
(jk!)
LOL!!! 😐
😉
I hate when people do that too. what my one friend tells me it’s just a thing to say when you have nothing else to say. even to this day whenever he types ‘lol’ i get this little vein on my forehead that bulges in irritation…
i have that vein too, Steve – it bulges whenever i hear people use phrases like, “think outside the box!” or “let’s be proactive!” actually, just typing that made it pulsate a little.
…or “haven’t you taken out the trash yet?”.
hmm i think i can say that i have done this before, great update made me lol, but for reals ;D
butter and texing..that just smooth!
Bexttering?
-blink blink- some one needs somthing else to look at, CEL!! ENTER ON STAGE RIGHT!!
I tend to do the same. I don’t post Lol or Rofl unless I really laughed out and fallen off my chair. I did it once, then had to type “OW!”
I use emoticons often enough that I often feel like a dork. I have to control myself when I’m at work so I don’t put smileys in e-mails to my supervisor. 😛
I think your pancakes are getting cold… 😀
Emoticons help indicate sarcasm quite efficiently.