| Author | Message | ||
     Slaughter |
I'm confused. Started seeing stuff like abbreviations... OK, In My Not So Humble Opinion, some of them made sense but now we seem to have gotten to where we really have minimized the effort in putting in a response to a particular point. I just got curious about HOW, WHERE, WHEN we started stuff like WORD and +1 - where did they come from? Word?? Yeah, I kinda get the context. Am I too old to use those responses in an online discussion? I'm trying to be KEWL here, need some help. | ||
| Tramp |
Actually, Steve, "Word" is an urban neologism, from the late '70s, derived from "Word up" (you may recall cameo), which, in urban-speak, means, "Indeed, old chap, isn't THAT the truth", or "You are CORRECT sir". If you spent any amount of time around , say the dance or music scene of most major American cities, you'd understand how "word", in the given context, was both an appropriate and droll response. Much like "Homeboy", few folks truly understand, or care to research, it's actual origin. I'm aware of the etymology of both "-isms". | ||
| Spiderman |
Well "word" is jive for I agree, way before the intraWeb.  | ||
| Slaughter |
Excuse me, I speak JIVE. | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
What gets me is that "FTW" now has two meanings. | ||
| Doon |
+1. Means agreeing with the post or the like. Not sure where it came from exactly but in geek/coding stuff. If you agree with what is going on you just say +1 to the thread or the email. Kinda reminds me of <aol/> Which is basically geek talk for Me Too! | ||
| Etennuly |
HTFU!  | ||
| Tramp |
FTW has meant F*ck the World and Forever Two Wheels (as a joke-xplanation) ever since I was a kid...is there a new definition? (Message edited by tramp on August 11, 2008) | ||
| Slaughter |
I won't tell you what my draft lottery number was or you'd deduce my DOB - but FTA became a very common expression back in the day. Dude. | ||
| Grndskpr |
FTW = For The Win | ||
| Grndskpr |
FYYFF ATGATT FTMFW All fun R | ||
| Tramp |
This is the first time I've ever heard this "for The Win" hocus pocus. ...new one on me. thanks | ||
| Oldog |
WTF With the facts DAMHIK is another one. | ||
| Slaughter |
WFO was probably the first moto-abbreviation that we used in polite conversation. I think it was Cycle World with the cartoon "Indian" - asking "What mean-um WFO?" | ||
| Tramp |
How old, I wonder, is "WFO"? I KNOW it was around in the '60s, as evidenced by MC mags, and it also, at that time, made it's way to polite motorcycling texts. I've seen it credibly quoted from 1950s HA chatter....what are the chances it's prewar? | ||
| Cruisin |
My wife's K bike has the classic: DILLIGAF Some people scratch their heads reading it, others laugh... | ||
| Tramp |
Dilligaf was around in the mid-'70s, fo'sho! | ||
| Grndskpr |
How old, I wonder, is "WFO"? I KNOW it was around in the '60s, as evidenced by MC mags, and it also, at that time, made it's way to polite motorcycling texts. I've seen it credibly quoted from 1950s HA chatter....what are the chances it's prewar? Which meaning, there are 2, the more polite very well could be R | ||
| Tramp |
??? I've only known of Wide F**king Open since I was about 6. What other solution is there, and I don't mean in that "For The Win" or "With The Facts" version that, like, 4 people use somewhere in Missouri | ||
| Slaughter |
Wide F-ing Open gets its "F" changed by the same people that insist FUBAR is Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition and SNAFU is Situation Normal, All Fouled Up. Foul you and the horse you rode in on! (just doesn't work the same) | ||
| Oldbiker |
Tramp.......I carry DILLIGAF as kind of a signature...i've learned the term was coined by navy boy's during WWII. Steve (I'm sure this statement will cause dispute) | ||
| Tramp |
Proud recipients of the Green Weenie won't soon forget BOHICA, while assuming the position... parade rest...? | ||
| Grndskpr |
What other solution is there, and I don't mean in that "For The Win" or "With The Facts" version that, like, 4 people use somewhere in Missouri WFO can mean Wound Flat Out,like, the more polite version Missouri has nothing to do with this conversation, you know R | ||
| M1combat |
FTW meaning "For the Win" originated (I believe  ) with online MMO games... People would say something like "2 Geared Pallys LFG Kara FTW" Anyway... I was on the internet before there were pictures. Thus I remember when we would type lol not to save strokes but to save BANDWIDTH. Yeah... there weren't pictures OR web browsers back then. This was long before Al invented it... For me though... FTW is FTW. FTMMOP... They're in their own little world those guys . | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Thanks to this place and ADVRider, I know have Douche Canoe and A$$hat embedded in my lexicon.  You guys haven't even brought up "205". | ||
| Glitch |
rule 34 | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
I never did understand "douche canoe"..how did that one come about? | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
It was part of a Craig's List ad for a bike. It was almost poetic. | ||
| Tramp |
Douche Canoe is a relatively gnarly old (1970s) expression for an ill-fitting bikini, esp. one which holds water when the wearer reemerges from the ocean. It's been expanded to include "Organ Grinders", as well, even though they're typically donned by a different gender of Shoobee or Hodad. | ||
| Slaughter |
You mean Gremmie? |
