# Glossary Of SDMB Terms **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205 "2005-02-09T15:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/41 "2005-02-10T15:13:13Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Waaaaaa! No link to “Wally Tries Cybersex”? Sounds like must-reading. > > Which brings up another DopeQuirk: the Wally emoticon. There was a member known as Wally, since gone on to his reward (which, one hopes, includes free DSL service) who was in the habit of hurling the insult “Putz!” at various and sundry. The Wally Smilie was created in his memory. From what I understand (he was before my time), there is a lot of controversy about **Wally** , including whether he actually died or not. The “ **Wally tries cybersex** ” thread, also, was apparently plagiarized. The guy is kind of a taboo subject, I think. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/42 "2005-02-10T16:03:42Z")
The Wally smilie (a winkie with a “Putz!” balloon) has been ruled as too rude for most forums. It’s perfectly OK for **The BBQ Pit,** where rudeness is routine. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/43 "2005-02-10T20:37:33Z")
**Winter of Our Missed Content** was originally suggested by **widdershins** in the thread [post=1942494]Literary types! Name the Straight-Dope-astrophe![/post] ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/44 "2005-02-10T22:38:18Z")
Don’t forget **angry…hungry** - two of the three supposed words in the English language that end in -gry and overall meant to refer to the type of stupid questions infesting emails that Dopers outgrew about 30 seconds after they discovered the Internet. When you see it mentioned, assume that someone will be taken to The Pit. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/45 "2005-02-11T16:31:37Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Yet another board convention is my slow descent into senility! :o > > Actually, I’d forgotten having discussed Mod Hats in my first post (#2) and thought I’d done it, along with IANAL, etc., in “a long post which the hamsters ate” as referenced in my other post. > > Color me mortified. :o There, there, **Poly** , mortification is entirely unnecessary. Just permanently place that paragraph at the bottom of your posting field. Now it’s another SDMB Tradition! ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/46 "2005-02-11T18:23:33Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Which is another convention – the SDMB server, you see, is apocryphally powered by a wheel powered by little hamsters Apocryphally? –Cliffy P.S. I miss Smashie. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/47 "2005-02-11T18:46:41Z")
[Rio by Duran Duran](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296939) is our latest entry. It still cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/48 "2005-02-11T18:52:29Z")
Occasionally, you’ll see a reference to “All your [‘base’ or something else] are belong to us.” This is originally a line from a poorly-translated Sega game called Zero Wing, but then the line [took on a life of it’s own.](http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/) Ah, the wide, wacky world of catch-phrases… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/49 "2005-02-11T19:25:16Z")
How come [Gotcha Ya](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=80870) isn’t mentioned in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/50 "2005-02-12T00:30:53Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Apocryphally? > > –Cliffy > > P.S. I miss Smashie. Apocryphally. It’s not well known that the hamsters are all Syrian Orthodox, hence very familiar with the Apocrypha. 😛 (Mess with my word usage, will you! :mad: 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/51 "2005-02-12T01:50:21Z")
**Apocryphallic** : A penis so big it is the sign of the end of the second coming. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/52 "2005-02-12T02:01:02Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **Apocryphallic** : A penis so big it is the sign of the end of the second coming. > 😃 That probably deserves the newest SDMB cliché: _Penis ensued!_ Tell me, **Shirley** , have you ever considered getting a job writing spam e-mails? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/53 "2005-02-12T04:34:26Z")
BTW, FYI: NIFSTD has been shut down. If a new need (the current unpleasentness stuff) for a haven for Sci-Fi Doper geeks comes up, I might reopen, but with some major changes. Thanks for the plug, tho, **elmwood**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/54 "2005-02-13T02:22:02Z")
For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what **YMMV** meant. Assuming that old age was my handicap, I mentally shrugged and chalked it up to the early stages of The Great Fog. Then one day it hit me: **You Make Me Vomit.** Sounded appropriate to me. My husband was the one to point out that it’s **Your Mileage May Vary**. Hey, he has his interpretation; I have mine. (YMMV) ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/55 "2005-03-09T00:34:59Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Anyone care to explain “goat felching?” Ask TwoFlowers. I still don’t want to talk about it. [Can I come in and play?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294682) ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/56 "2005-03-09T00:44:38Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Anyone care to explain “goat felching?” But wait… there’s [more](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250814)! ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/57 "2005-03-19T09:16:37Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Anyone care to explain “goat felching?” Earliest reference I can find to the subject is [post 5 of this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=27176). Apparently, goat felching is a subject that arises independently in disparate circumstances – a phenomenon that I find more than a little disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/58 "2005-03-19T17:10:45Z")
It may be so understood by most as to be overlooked in a thread of SDMB definitions, but can anyone put forth a clear meaning for **whoosh(ed)**? ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/59 "2005-03-19T17:15:26Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > It may be so understood by most as to be overlooked in a thread of SDMB definitions, but can anyone put forth a clear meaning for **whoosh(ed)**? When a post has obviously gone right over another poster’s head. Usually in re someone who posts a serious (often outraged) reply to a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/60 "2005-03-19T20:53:32Z")
I coulda sworn that goat-felching dated back to '99. I seem to recall the original usage being in the Pit, with the OP inviting whoever the heck he was complaining about to go felch a dead goat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205.md?page=4)