If you’ve not read engrish.com, one of my personal favorites for a good laugh, then you should go check it out now while I sit here and wait.

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OK, I’m glad you’re back! Funny stuff, huh? This last week in Texas my friend Mike told us a story about a heavy metal concert he went to back in the day and there was a band there from Japan that totally blew the audience away. Not with their music mind you, but with their Engrish. They came out onto the stage and yelled, “LOCK and LOLL!” As Mike tells the story he can’t recall the actual headliner band he went to see, but this band is stuck in his head from now until he dies or the Mannheim Steamroller sets in. So, as I was chatting with another friend tonight I realized that there was a whole area of confusion to exploit: Engrishized acronyms. For example:

ROR

Raughing Out Roud. Use this in place of LOL with your friends to help keep them on their toes (or finger tips if you will)

BLB

Be Light Back. Use this one when you’ve got to go to the potty and need to tell your frenz about it. There’s nothing quite like knowing someone is going to the bathroom at some remote location

LOFR

Lolling On the Froor Raughing. This one is even more intense than ROR and should be reserved for highly funny engrish.

ROTL

Rold Of The Lings, a famous movie reference. You can’t go wrong with Flodo, Aligoln, Gimri, Regoras, and Gandarph set out on an adventure only to be helped by Gorrum in the end. Oh, and Samwise, too, but his name doesn’t Engrishize well.