# Evar? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792 "2008-12-11T23:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/1 "2008-12-11T23:34:15Z")
Well back in my IRCing days, a guy in #apprentice in efnet got mad or frustrated and while typing a sentence with excessive punctuation and all caps accidentally typed “evar” instead of “ever.” We kind of adopted that as an inside joke and used it every once in a while. That was around 5 years ago. I still use it once in a while but none of my new friends use it or have even heard it muttered by anyone else. It seems like some straight dopers use it though. Anyone have a clue on how it got started or at least where you first saw it? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/2 "2008-12-11T23:49:28Z")
Caught on in your group because it has the charm of invoking a ridiculous & overly emphatic & self-important voice I presume, same as why it caught on elsewhere. It’s been around for a long while. I remember it from a BBS chatroom in the late 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/3 "2008-12-12T00:05:44Z")
I think it’s the sort of thing which would have been “re-discovered” by completely disparate groups. I think it’s cute though. But then, I like “kitteh” too, soooo… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/4 "2008-12-12T00:10:20Z")
“[quake iz the bezt thing thats evar happined](http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.games.duke3d/browse_thread/thread/a864574a996d89d/b6f791af9b89b477?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=evar#b6f791af9b89b477)” - July 3, 1996 Sorry, but do you think #apprentice invented “evar” in 2003? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/5 "2008-12-12T00:19:00Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > “[quake iz the bezt thing thats evar happined](http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.games.duke3d/browse_thread/thread/a864574a996d89d/b6f791af9b89b477?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=evar#b6f791af9b89b477)” - July 3, 1996 > > Sorry, but do you think #apprentice invented “evar” in 2003? actually 5 years is not early enough. It was more like 2000. Doesn’t matter because I was only 10 in 1996. But yes, that’s where I first saw it ---
**Author:** ![Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stately_Greek_Automaton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/6 "2008-12-12T00:25:43Z")
As for where it came from originally, it’s like asking who first misspelled the as ‘teh’. As for who made it popular, I seem to remember it playing prominently with Homestar Runner. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/7 "2008-12-12T04:36:26Z")
FWIW, I remember first seeing it spelled that way when people were quoting Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons (Worst. Episode. Evar.). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/8 "2008-12-12T04:42:07Z")
My wife and I have been saying it for years completely independent of the internet, because people in my family have a tendency to proclaim their every experience the best (or worst) thing EVAR! I mean right down to the most mundane thing you can imagine. Potato salad at a deli is the worst potato salad EVAR! A walk in the park is the best walk EVAR! A movie or tv show or quote heard on the radio is the funniest EVAR! And now that I think of it, we still make fun of them for it but I haven’t heard any of them do it for awhile. Must’ve been a phase. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/9 "2008-12-12T07:43:57Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > It seems like some straight dopers use it though. Anyone have a clue on how it got started or at least where you first saw it? Usually associated with Teenage girls What Evaaaaaaaaar Declan ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/10 "2008-12-12T07:48:02Z")
It’s been used on 4chan’s /b/ (among other boards there) for as long as I can remember (although usually in the word “nevar” as in “NEVAR 4GET!”).\* \*as long as I can remember being since at least 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stately_Greek_Automaton)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evar/476792/11 "2009-03-13T21:04:17Z")
> [@Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](#): > > As for where it came from originally, it’s like asking who first misspelled the as ‘teh’. As for who made it popular, I seem to remember it playing prominently with Homestar Runner. For the record, though, Homestar Runner is a fucking piece of shit.