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Setementor - Jedi Master  |
I know this is a stupid question to some of you, but it's been buggging me for ages. What does w00t mean or stand for. |
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Drathir - Student 
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w00t!!!  _______________ Where we ask the question, "Is real life really stranger than fiction, or is fiction about real life being stranger than fiction stranger than real life being stranger than fiction?" Ow. -Paradox Lost Want to read my slowly in progress webcomic? -TCTI |
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Mreoton - Student |
Quote: the canadian way to say "what" " woot was that?? i saw it scurry aboot that way!!!" lol that movie pwns  |
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Drathir - Student
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Rofl legolian! _______________ Where we ask the question, "Is real life really stranger than fiction, or is fiction about real life being stranger than fiction stranger than real life being stranger than fiction?" Ow. -Paradox Lost Want to read my slowly in progress webcomic? -TCTI |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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W00t! _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Lego[DEAD] - Ex-Student ![Lego[DEAD]](/image_thumbnail.php?f_type=users&f_width=70&f_height=48&f_image=../banned.png){kind=small}
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yo kenyon you forgot something on your post. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woot rofl _______________ AHH YOU ARE ALL NICE LADS This comment was edited by Lego[DEAD] on Apr 13 2004 09:43pm. |
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Jippie Phoenix - Student 
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Woot!!  _______________ |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Can I get a w00t w00t?!?!?! _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Dan - Student |
LoL kenyon... -Aiden  yeah...what kenyon said... |
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Nero - Student 
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I think we should buy kenyon a life _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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I think we should vote him The Jedi Academy's w00t-analyst _______________ Website |
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Lackeh- Retired - Student 
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Somebody give Kenyon a new job, he evidently has nothing better to do...LOL Just goofing on you bro. w00t _______________ A champion is someone who keeps getting up; even when they can't. Founder Of the Jedi Academy Adlut Support Group. PIE!!!!! Padawan of Katan. Brother to MOTREC, DarkDragon, (SKX)DarkBlade, Jacen Aratan, Achilles, Kool_Aide, EvilSquirrel, and Katan's Padawans. This comment was edited by Lackeh- Retired on Apr 12 2004 04:12am. |
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Mitch - Student 
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Kenyon...you have entirely too much time on your hands lol _______________ Power Preceived, is Power Acheived.' Brother to 3th, Janus, and Vlad. |
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3th - Retired 
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i've always been under the impression that the "root" explaniation that Kenyon cited there is the primary origination into popular net usage. the h4X0rz are among us _______________ this is the internet, be serious damn it! |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Kenyon if I didn't know any better....I'd say you're a genius! w00t! _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Dicemaster - Student 
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kenyon...you...have way to much time on your hands....w00t -Dice _______________ Dicemaster |
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Ulic |retired| - Student 
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wow.... _______________ Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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The term w00t is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web is by no means uncommon. Usage of this term dates back to the mid-1990s, when it was probably derived from the alternative spellings of whoomp and whoot. These spellings are variously used in the phrases, "Whoomp, there it is," or "Whoot, there it is" from two songs in 1993 from rap groups Tag Team and 95 South, respectively. In those songs, the phrase is used exclusively for identifying voluptuous female buttocks. This is analogous to another derivation from urban African-American music scenes to mainstream, White American culture, namely rock and roll. W00t itself was first seen in 1994. The expression rose in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s to reach general usage and understanding. The definite origin of w00t is unknown. One theory claims it to come from the vocalization made by the player in games of the Quake series when a jump is performed; however, as Quake was only first released in 1996, this etymology probably only furthered the popularity of the existing term. Another derives from root, the traditional username for the administrator on a UNIX machine: it might be an abbreviation of "Woohoo! I just h4x0r3d [hacked] your box [computer] and got r00t!", or some such. Yet another theory is that w00t came from We Owned the Other Team. W00t is pronounced as if it were "woot", and can also be written thus, or even w00+. The symbolic approximation of Latin letter forms makes w00t a prime example of leet. Another possibility is that w00t comes from the sounds of jubilation by Daffy Duck. This comment was edited by Mookie on Apr 10 2004 04:23pm. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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Okay, thanks, I also asked on the home server and they said pretty much the same. |
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Halendor - Ex-Student
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People were bored with 'wow!' and 'woohoo!', so they came up with 'w00t!' |
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JavaGuy - Student
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Some people say it means We Own the Other Team, but I'm pretty sure it was originally just a cheer. I've never seen an authoritative source on the matter. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Menaxia - Student 
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Just a happy exclamation as far as i know... _______________ This is not the place to look for me |
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