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CCIP
08-11-12, 02:49 PM
...along with a little ship called the Dreadnought :O:

Apparently the earliest documented use of one of today's most popular internet acronyms has been found in one of his letters to Churchill:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/letter-to-churchill-may-contain-first-omg.html

...to which Churchill replied "LOL" :haha:

I guess the internet hasn't changed our language that much, huh :D

Oberon
08-11-12, 03:49 PM
Imagine the others:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Nw_beatty_01.png/200px-Nw_beatty_01.png
"OMG our ships sux, n00bs."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/Scheer.JPG/300px-Scheer.JPG
"You spin me right round, lol. Wait, WTF, h4x!"

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/159/6206_1023622596.jpg
"LOL, pwnd your fleet. Now lets go home."

Dowly
08-11-12, 04:31 PM
Before someone else posts it :O:
If World War II Was an RTS (http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057151.asp)