Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Jim Forest <jhforest AT gmail.com>]

David, as another person at sea over contemporary American acronyms (ROFLMAO? Po-Mo moment?), I wonder if you could ship a crate of Geritol this way? (There's no such beverage in Dutch pharmacies -- you see how far behind the Dutch are when it comes to health care.)

Jim

(in Alkmaar, Holland, where not too many people read Walker Percy) 

PS There are web resources to help the computer-speak illiterate. Take a look at Wiktionary.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Beck, David A <dabeck AT iupui.edu> wrote:

Thanks, Ken. I'll go drink my Geritol and go to bed.

-David

Quoting Ken Wilson <kfw1 AT va.net>:

> Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
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>> At the risk of exposing myself as an old guy, what does ROFLMAO mean?
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>> Ever-increasingly clueless,
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>> David
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