w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word 422
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
Cromulent (Score:5, Funny)
woohoo! (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:5, Funny)
W00t! (Score:5, Funny)
Well thats just craptastic . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:5, Funny)
We don't need to make stuff up to be misunderstood.
Re:Other common Words (Score:1, Funny)
as in "That chick's ass is so stile!"
Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Duke - Kwizibyck.
Marty - That's not a word.
Duke - Get Webster on the phone. Noah, how ya doing? It's Duke. How much would it cost to make kwizibyck a word? I don't know what it means. Uhh, how about a big problem? Great. How 'bout that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No one's using it? What a Duketastrophy!
Back in my day... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:my favourite is (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? THATS OLD!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If w00t made the list then... (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. n00b hasn't been around long enough...
Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's funnier than all of these fake words.... (Score:4, Funny)
Obscure reference, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Rich Hall must be rolling in his grave right now. That is, if he's dead.
If not, surely his career is rolling in its grave...
W
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
[playing scrabble game]
Bart : Kwijybo. I win, I'm outta here.
Homer: Wait a minute, you little cheater. You're not going anywhere 'til you tell me what a Kwijybo is.
Bart : Kwijybo. A big dumb balding North American ape. With no chin.
Marge: And a short temper.
Homer: I'll show you a big, dumb balding ape.
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
w00t > Jubilation!
thx > Gratitude!
gj > Felicitations!
Now you get to be different from the mainstream once again.
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:my favourite is (Score:1, Funny)
Finally! The recognition I deserve! (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well. (note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
In one episode, Cat uses the word 'Jozxyqk' in a Scrabble game, claiming it to be a cat word meaning, "the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something."
Re:Ok.. Ok. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
They also don't know how to spell fuck.
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:4, Funny)
I fucking hate that word...
Re:Ginormous (Score:4, Funny)
Re:woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:5, Funny)
bj > Fellatitations!
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
Eh? The Jargon File [catb.org] would disagree - see the entry for w00t [catb.org]
"An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a raise!" Often used for small victories the speaker dies not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. 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". Still other claim it on originated on IRC as the "Ewok victory cheer"] 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."
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that when the Oracle database goes down and you're the DBA?
Re:Cromulent (Score:3, Funny)
Are you trying to embiggen our language?
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:1, Funny)
"Is it in the dictionary?"
"Well I guess it could be, if you were reading in the nude and you close the book too fast"
Probably still not 100% accurate, but much better.