This is one of the reasons I read my comics online. Newspapers are quite literally yesterday’s news. I mean, I did enjoy reading a newspaper years ago when there was no alternative, but now they’ve gotten so thin, so chintzy, and so mean with their content that I don’t bother. Our local paper, the Halifax Herald, longest running newspaper in Canada, has recently filed for bankruptcy protection. It’s not hard to see why. They’ve lost the classified market to Craigslist, Kijiji, and Facebook Marketpkace. They’ve reduced frequency from seven days a week to four (making old news even older). They’ve lost most of their advertisers. And because they’ve cut content back so much (including comics) that they’ve lost most of their readers as well.
My father thinks LOL means lots of love. I’ll get a text to the effect of “Your mother fell down the stairs and was just rushed to hospital, LOL, Dad” (this was a real text from him, she broke her ankle). Or “The dog was just ran over by a car, LOL, Dad”.
Oh no…