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2005-10-03, 2:03 PM #1

Squirrel King

NEVER.

Posts: 5,369

I just found out it "We own other team"

I totaly did not know this, I just figured it meant like an exclamation of some sort. Any one here knew this?

2005-10-03, 2:07 PM #2

genk

doot!

Posts: 10,781

ACRONYMS ROCK LIKE OMGWTFBBQLAWL

Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!

2005-10-03, 2:10 PM #3

Baconfish

ALL GLORY TO THE CONTEST WINNER

Posts: 18,004

I wasn't aware of that. I thought it was a happy noise, like yay!.

nope.

2005-10-03, 2:11 PM #4

Rob

Bah, HUMBUG!

Posts: 13,278

You are wrong.

2005-10-03, 2:16 PM #5

kyle90

Laser Lover

Posts: 8,450

I thought it was a derivative of hackers yelling "root!" when they gained root access to someone's box... at least that's what I heard.

Stuff

2005-10-03, 2:20 PM #6

..would like a shrubbery.

Posts: 4,822

actually the origin is ambiguous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot

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2005-10-03, 2:53 PM #7

Oxyonagon

"emphasis"

Posts: 2,801

I'd heard the story of the woot being close too "loot" and mis-spelled for fun. In dungeony games.

Sneaky sneaks. I'm actually a werewolf. Woof.

2005-10-03, 2:54 PM #8

ECHOMAN

"Has it won yet?"

Posts: 17,215

Couldn't it be a shorter form of "Woo Hoo"?

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2005-10-03, 3:00 PM #9

Zell

Not the senator.r

Posts: 7,190

They used a pic from JA as thier example picture.

DO NOT WANT.