In recent years, a new trend among rugby league followers on the internet is
lolling@50uffs. This can be as simple as typing
lol@50uffs (variations include
lol@souffs and
lol@50uff$), or it can take advanced forms such as posting pictures, jokes and general insults to the South Sydney club. Although the origins of the term aren't 100% clear, it is theorised that it began as
lol@souffs to indicate laughter and the lack of teeth in the South Sydney region, before evolving into
lol@50uffs due to the many 50 point margins that Souths would conceed. In the Russell Ira Crowe era of the club, some fans have added the dollar sign into the phrase to reflect Crowe's big spending ways.
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Popular
lol@50uffs topics include the lack of teeth of Souths fans, their lack of premierships since 1971 and their failure to record a winning season since 1989 (although they reached the finals in 2007 they still lost more games than they won).