wot does LOl mean, and does anyone fancy a pint ??

[Johnsellars]

Hello all,
tell me, what does "LOl" stand for ? I see it a lot on different forums, but never managed to suss out what it means !!!! Is it an American thing ?
Off down the pub in a minute to put world to rights - nice 1 !!
John

p.s. the question marks on the smillie above will be my head hurting tomorrow !!!

 

[entity512]

laughing out load

 

[entity512]

loud* to lazy to edit

 

[Johnsellars]

Ah, now i understand.
Cheers mate.
John

 

[Masahiro]

Noob!

 

[entity512]

your the noob! OWNED

 

[Masahiro]

well EVERYBODY knows what lol means!

im suoprised he managed to get this far.........

 

[David Lindon]

Laugh Out Loud.

I asked the same question after going for a long time puzzled by its means.

 

[SocK_MaN]

i asked my brother. Everyone has to find out from someone

 

[Iowa]

Noob!

It's you that's more of a n00b if you can't understand that people don't just learn all the 'Net lingo within 5 minutes.