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Looking on the World Wide Words website, it looks like it started as an insult for people who were being too smarmy and affectionate in public. In other words, too much PDA (PDA means Public Displays of Affection). Here is the article: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-lol1.htm

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