I'd like to know what some of these strange, reoccuring online idioms mean that japenese use. One of them is (ry, for instance. Here is a thread for your opportunity to explain them to us online gaijin.
A starting point might be this obscure page here:
homepage.mac.com/igarin/2ch.html
warota is often shortened "w".
"orz" is a pictograph of a guy on his knees. It's a simplification of "ﾂ�斈ﾂ￣|_". The exact meaning escapes me, though.