I was talking with my great friend (and inspiration) Sarah Edmondson about year ago. I made a joke of some kind, what I thought was an awesome joke, and she replied with “Lol.”
I had a bit of a moment. Why wasn’t it in caps?
Did she actually laugh out loud? How loudly or rambunctiously did she laugh? Or did she find my awesome joke a bit boring, and just chuckle to be polite?
We needed a way to communicate the loudness, the outwardly visible hilarity.
And, we needed to be able to measure the hilarity.
We came to agree that there would be a LOL scale, from 1 to 10.
From 1 to 4: From a silent and boring mental “heheh” to a visible and hearty chuckle no one can hear. Silent, all four.
From 5 to 8: From a restrained quiet chuckle to roaring with laughter. An 8 will disturb a room.
And everything in between.
9 and 10 are different. They are in their own category.
We called it: the Roberdmondson Scale™.
Sarah later told me it was an Lol7, so I was stoked.
lol4 😉
Awesome! Love it! LOL7