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Baa, and all that

Oct 18, 2003 16:30

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yunitsa October 18 2003, 14:24:49 UTC

So, am I a sad R.J. Anderson fangirl for being certain about 3 1/2 of these? ;)

fangirls yunitsa October 18 2003, 15:50:08 UTC

How fabulously meta is being a fangirl of a fangirl? W00T.

Em

Re: fangirls rj_anderson October 18 2003, 16:03:23 UTC

Can I betray my utter ignorance and ask what "w00t" means? Oh, and while you're at it, can you explain "y0"? I think I have a sort of feeble grasp on both, but it would be nice to know for sure...

Re: fangirls shellebelle93 October 18 2003, 17:49:48 UTC

I just think of "w00t" as sort of that club-y cheer you do when something is good. Kind of spelled how it sounds if that makes any sense. I use it far too much. ;-)

I've never seen y0, but Yo! is a greeting. ;-)

more than anyone ever needed to know about w00t yunitsa October 18 2003, 20:03:15 UTC

DEFINITION of 'w00t'
From Jargon File (4.3.3, 20 Sep 2002)

w00t An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a
raise!" Some claim this is a bastardization of "root", the highest level
of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies
as a 133tspeak equivalent of "root", and said as an exclamation upon
gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest
multiplayer game as an abbreviation of "wonderful loot". Adj. `w00table'
has the sense of "cool" or "nifty". This is one of the few leet-speak
coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers.

(or so says John Goerzen: http://gopher.quux.org:70/pygfarm/dict.pyg%7C/jargon/DEFINITION/w00t)

Em "never let it be said I missed a teachable moment" Friedman

rj_anderson October 18 2003, 16:02:18 UTC

Nah, you've just been reading my blog and chatting with me too long. :)

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