ILOLAW

I've been meaning to write about this topic for days. As many will recall, our good friend Cocktail keeps a blog (here). If you read it, you know that Cocktail and some of his compatriots have coined the term ILOLAW (Inappropriate Laugh(ing) Out Loud At Work). Recently, they submitted the term to Urban Dictionary and ILOLAW is now an official entry. There is also a facebook group dedicated to ILOLAW that I encourage all to visit/join. Here ends the shameless promotion.

Now, everyone is a little prone to some outbursts, especially in an office environment. But some people just go above and beyond in their inappropriateness; those people deserve to be ridiculed.

I have a friend, who is only willing to be identified here as "Cougar", who recently told me about some of her ILOLAW situations . She a great fan of this new terminology and is happy it finally has a name as she has to deal with this situation daily. Couger has a coworker, "Z", that ILOLAWs constantly. Not little titters or giggles, but wholehearted guffaws.

"I don't get it, there I am minding my own business doing my work and suddenly I hear this ear-piercing yelp followed by the loudest laughter I've ever heard. I remember thinking, 'What the f**k was that?!' That was day 1. It's been like that every day since. I don't know what she's laughing about, if she's trying to get attention or what, but it got old... fast."

Our hearts go out to you, Cougar.

Do any of you have ILOLAW stories to share?

The blog review edition

Okay ... for all of the 3 people who read this out there, you may or may not be surprised that this is not my first venture into blogging.  All the way back in the Spring of 2005 there was a great blog out there called the Daily Sheabird.  It used to be located at daily.sheabird.com - which hopefully will one day be back.  The Sheabird was far from daily, but it offered some excellent coverage on the GWU SA/MCGB/PB elections of 2005.  I had a good time making fun of a ton of people, made fun of the Daily Colonial which is an illegitimate source of news on GW's campus, and took most jokes way too far.  Anyway ... the Daily Sheabird was shut down - which was probably for the best.  And although I have had many false starts since then - I think my blogging days are back, and hopefully I won't offend too many people.  Although if Mr. Bojangles, Jim Graham, is offended I think I am doing my job.

As a sidebar on the whole Mr. Bojangles thing - I know I said I would be using it exclusively when referring to Councilman Graham, but I realized that in the 21st Century the world is run by Google.  So it will be my goal that when someone Google's Mr. Graham's name - this blog comes up.  By the way Bojangles, if your staff has a Google Alert out for you - I'd be happy to sit down and discuss my opinion of your actions anytime.

Okay ... Sorry about that whole sidebar.  The point of this post was a blog review, and today I will be talking about Cocktail Blog.  Cocktail Blog is not a blog about Cocktails, it is a by run by Marc Abanto - who is affectionately known as Cocktail, although I have never really been sure if he likes that nickname.  He has a great blog and I really encourage you check it out over at - http://marcsgchat.blogspot.com - add it to your RSS Reader, or start checking it daily ... its really funny.  The reason I decided to write about Cocktail's blog today was a post he had about ILOLAW, which I have never heard of.  Apparently its an acronym for Inappropriately Laughing Out Loud At Work - and I generally hope that at least some of the stuff we put up here entertains you enough to do just that.

And cocktail - Blogger/Blogspot thinks internet is spelled incorrectly because it thinks that the internet is a proper noun ... and should be Internet - I don't get it either.

The other reason why I love Cocktail's blog is the weekly post known as the Moron on the Week.  He also has a similar, but daily, For the Win/For the Loss - which is similar.  Anyway, this week I made two nominations - DC Metropolitan area's best Friend, John Catoe, and DC's favorite Circus performer, Mr. Bojangles (Jim Graham).  Unfortunately it seems that Cocktail agrees with Bojangles and wants those little kids to get really drunk, so he didn't chose him for the Moron of the Week voting - but Catoe made it!  So go now - click here - read about Catoe's failure this week, and be sure to vote on the sidebar poll.