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August 26th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
XD, is that gum!? Or candy? I’m hungry now…
August 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Phil,
Don’t forget about Mythbusters special episode this week on moon landing denialism.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I didn’t understand because I didn’t know the O RLY? owl, for me Orly is one of the two international airports of Paris, situated in a town of the same name.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
LOL! I can tell you’ve been flipping through your cruise pics a lot lately.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
eh…?
Orly orly orly / orly orly orly
feeling hot hot hot….
?
August 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
All we need now is for ceiling cat to pounce on the orly owl…
August 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
ORLY?? Why I ‘ardly know her!
August 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“Orally” is what I saw. Does that make me old, or just tired?
August 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Strawberry rly? Now i feel like to nibble something.
10:30 pm at my place – not the best time to do such without gaining weight
August 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Naked Bunny with a Whip, “Orly” is webspeak for “Oh, really?”.
I once saw the following online conversation…thought it was funny.
Person 1 – Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.
Person 2 – Orly?
Person 1 – Vaginally, I assume.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I guess we might see this pic more often than we think now
Just like the “doom-cat” 
August 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
!RLY
August 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
And on another subject, would that be a Tilly on your topside?
JC
August 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Like Chris here. I took the plane in Orly a couple of times when I lived in Paris.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
JackC: doesn’t look like a Tilley hat to me.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
@JackC: Looks more like a Barmah hat to me.
Nice hat, regardless.
And that oRly… “Sweeeeeeet”
JBS
August 26th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Oh, and @AaronSTL…. ROFLMAOSTC
Oh, and regarding the hat… again…
http://home.satx.rr.com/jsandlin/Images/PDR_0979_800.png
I’m the guy on the left, that hat in my right hand looks mighty familiar. Oh, and those four folks to my left are familiar, too…
JBS
August 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
My panda avatar agrees with you, Phil!
August 26th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
As Cthulu said: “Oh, R’lyeh?”
August 26th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
“Ia! R’lyeh!”
August 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Breaking news!
I’m not Murrikan, but I’ll vote for Phil!
August 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
As a crossword devotee, I, also only thought of the airport.
Regarding annoying acronymisation in general, I once waded through a page of comments wondering why the commenters were so excited, in a rather dry discussion of a legal question, to announce their fondness for a particular sexual act.
I honestly thought it was some sort of IMSPARTACUS in support of someone, for a reason I couldn’t fathom.
This makes me officially old.
IAOO!
August 26th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I’m from Ecuador and yes, we eat that ORLY chocolate bar, but even better than that is the Cafeteria sign behind Phil, please note the SANDUCHES item. That’ll be sandwiches, for us locals. Ain’t that sweet.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Am I elite enough to comment on this?
August 27th, 2008 at 9:38 am
LMAO, SRSLY?
(Phil, I don’t think everyone “gets it”)
KTHXBAI
August 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jskong/orly.gif