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   From: invalid@microsoft.com   
      
   Paul S. Person explained on 23/10/2014 :   
   > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:47:27 -0400, Bill O'Meally  geemail dot com> wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2014-10-22 04:24:08 +0000, Jerry Friedman said:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> "Éowyn fell forward upon her fallen foe.  But lo! the mantle and   
   >>> hauberk were empty.   
   >>   
   >> Chalk it up to aging eyes, early morning and the decline of the English   
   >> language with the pervasiveness of internet abbreviations, but I swear   
   >> at first it said, "But lol the mantle and hauberk were empty".   
   >   
   > I'm not getting your point.   
   >   
   > Please try again, perhaps later in the day.   
      
   Ah, he misread the exclamation mark as an "l", thus reading, "But   
    the mantle and hauberk were empty"   
      
   'Though I must say, a text-speak version of LOTR would be an   
   interesting experiment.   
      
   Frodo - "I will take the ring to Mordor, though I know not the way.   
   ROFL"   
      
   From Gandalf at the bridge in Moria as he is dragged downwards, "Flee   
   you fools, BRB"   
      
   --   
   Michael Cole   
      
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