Lolcano Roflcopter, Whelans, September 2009
So I was after a few drinks when I took this picture, but my well honed toilet-graffiti senses told me there was something more to this than the regular insane ramblings of a mad man/woman in a toilet cubicle. And I was right. It’s not nonsense, it’s much worse than that.
A quick google informed me that the words Lolcano and Roflcopter are actually part of that new vocabulary of “internet speak”. You may be more familiar with their cousins, “WTF”, “LOL”, and “OMG, I hate these dumb acronyms”.
Lolcano is closely related to “LOL”, and according ot the Urban Dictionary (wtf??) means, “An eruption of laughter”. Right.
That was the easy bit, Roflcopter according to legend, originates from the World of Warcraft Game, and has something to do with the moderators on the forums interacting with players. It may also refer to some kind of ASCII helicopter. Another possible explanation it means, “Roll On Floor Laughing, Can’t Operate Properly Till Eyes Refocus”. Yet another explanation suggests it means laughing so hard on the floor that you use your legs to propel yourself around like a helicopter on the floor.
But NOBODY laughs that hard. EVER.
Feel free to figure it out if you want, but I can think of 100 other things you’d be better off doing instead. Like buying the t-shirt.
