Re: Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending

Posted by Dean Gerber on Apr 06, 2013; 5:30am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-New-post-The-Loud-and-Clear-Message-that-the-TED-Controversy-is-Sending-tp7582434p7582556.html

I thought woo was a FRIAM local-ism for the Santa Fe local-ism woo woo now in urban usage:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo+woo

Dean Gerber

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Urban Dictionary: woot.

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Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".  "w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement. "I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"  "woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)  "Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'

and there's wood, would, woof, Wookie, wool...

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Compare Urban Dictionary: woot.
-Arlo James Barnes

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