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   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   Scott Alfter  wrote:   
      
   > In article <1qyz5z0.kcoobeasj0vdN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>,   
   > Sn!pe  wrote:   
   > >Without wishing to give offense:   
   > >   
   > >I dislike the use of "+1", which I see as a web forum abomination.   
   > >   
   > >I by far prefer the time honoured "" (agreeing out loud)   
   >   
   > I'm pretty sure "AOL" is a reference to the online service that was   
   > responsible for the September that never ended, not "agreeing out loud."   
   > Their users were infamous for quoting whole posts and just tacking on "Me,   
   > too!" to agree with something...see Weird Al Yankovic's "It's All About the   
   > Pentiums" as an example:  [...]   
   >   
      
   Yes, quite so.  It's a pun, a play on words, a double entendre.   
      
   I remember when AOL borged Compu$erve, the service I used before   
   I came onto the real Internet 30 years ago (not with AOL, I hasten to   
   add).  AOL had a terrible reputation even then in those far off days   
   before the Web was invented.   
      
   Then there was WebTV...   
      
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