# 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:** 4
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/61 "2005-03-19T20:58:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. Maybe the goat was a kid and the thread was therefore disappeared? ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/62 "2005-03-20T00:31:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. But that doesn’t make sense. Felching a live goat I can understand, but a dead goat? That is virtually biologically impossible. WRS ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/63 "2005-03-20T03:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > That is virtually biologically impossible. Not for a necrophiliac who also practices bestiality. “Felching” was a topic that arose on several occasion back on the AOL board, with it occasionally appearing as a question and occasionally being prompted by an insult. Adding goats to the exchange may have originated here, or may go back to AOL days. (People were certainly as “inventive” in those days, just as they are now.) ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/64 "2005-03-20T04:43:18Z")
> [@Lockz](#): > > **Winter of Our Missed Content** : A period of a few months when something really bad happened here, and the SDMB shut down. There was a temporary board where a lot of us migrated to that served as the Dope for the time being. It was quite interesting, with many new features. One of those being (that you might hear about): > > **Smashie** : The new board had animated icons. Nice for a board that likes those things, but we generally don’t do that at the SDMB. The temporary board was just temporary and didn’t really look like ours so it had things that we normally wouldn’t have. Like animated icons. Anyways, there was this one really popular icon that was a happy face wielding a large hammer and smashing whatever was beside him. He was placed beside things so as he’d be hitting them, as was the style of the time. There were requests to bring him back here (he was named by then), but the **Powers that be** decided that animation wasn’t what this board was about. Aww, c’mon! I’d pay_extra_ for that! Especially if we had the barf smiley. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/65 "2005-03-21T01:47:39Z")
**Polycarp** - This is a bit off subject but, I was thinking of an exchange you had in another thread in which I was lurking where a comment about your “pontificating” was discussed. Have you ever considered 1. Polytificate or 2. Pontificarp I kid 😃 This isn’t currently being used on this MB but it is big in the Biker circles: **DILLIGAF** **D** oes **I** t **L** ook **L** ike **I** **G** ive **A** **F** –k Just for the consideration of the Teeming Masses Your Humble student ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/66 "2005-03-21T03:40:05Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > Your Humble student _I’m_ his humble student. There can only be one padawan. Or am I mixing Sith Lords and Jedi Knights again? WRS - Your humble student. (See how humble I am? The “y” is capitalized but the “h” isn’t!) ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/67 "2005-03-21T03:49:54Z")
To **YouRSauron** - Can I then be the humble apprentice student, oh more humble than thine? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/68 "2005-03-21T04:56:27Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > To **YouRSauron** - Can I then be the humble apprentice student, oh more humble than thine? 😉 We permit it. 🙂 As it is, you must be a very wise and holy [insert “man” if you are a man, insert “woman” if you are a woman], what with asking the Lord Jesus questions about rebirth and all that. WRS - _servus servorum_. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/69 "2005-03-21T15:28:48Z")
> [@WeRSauron](#): > > We permit it. 🙂 > > As it is, you must be a very wise and holy [insert “man” if you are a man, insert “woman” if you are a woman], what with asking the Lord Jesus questions about rebirth and all that. > > WRS - _servus servorum_. A thousand thanks. And it is “Man”…Nic for short. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/70 "2005-03-21T18:03:52Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > : > **DILLIGAF** > **D** oes **I** t **L** ook **L** ike **I** **G** ive **A** **F** –k Oh, _Sure_. Now you tell me. I coulda put that on my liscense plate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/71 "2005-03-21T19:23:34Z")
I burning your glossary! I agree with whoever said, basically, lurk or look it up. sheesh, kids today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/72 "2005-03-22T02:34:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Oh, _Sure_. Now you tell me. I coulda put that on my liscense plate. > > 😃 :smack: Sorry **Shirley Ujest** - However, it is availbale in bumperstickers, patches and pins. I saw a store of this name this year at Bike Week and they said they have an online site. The plate is probably taken if the DOT will even issue it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/73 "2005-03-22T05:28:31Z")
I was just thinking this was needed here while browsing Something Awful’s encyclopedia. Besides local stuff, it explained some of the more general Internet jokes, like “All your base are belong to us,” and “Wise fwom your gwave!” and “In Soviet Russia…” as well as unique features like Oolong the balancing rabbit and the infamous and thankfully now defunct goatse.cx picture. I’m not sure if that amount of depth is needed, but it could cut down on newbie questions. It would at least get Godwin’s Law out of the way. (The first person to use Hitler or the Nazis as an example to try to win an argument automatically loses.) I’m also placing _felch_ around '98 or '99, along with _squick_, to have sexual relations via natural or artificial holes in the skull. Think Lou Gossett’s yelling in _A Officer and a Gentleman_. I was unaware **WallyM7** was now in doubt. All I knew when I came was a) everyone liked him b) he was dead from a fall and c) he wrote the sigs for half the board (but not my favorite: “Yer pal, **Satan**.”) Since I missed out the first time, I don’t suppose it’s surprising I missed the update. You may also see reference to a banned poster named **Jack Dean Tyler**. JDT had an unwholesome obsession about circumcision and how it was causing the downfall of western civilization as we knew it. Everything could be traced to missing foreskin. This monomaniac did have a certain entertainment value and lasted an amazingly long time considering he was a complete loony. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/74 "2005-03-22T05:42:50Z")
> [@](#): > > (The first person to use Hitler or the Nazis as an example to try to win an argument automatically loses.) Actually, in the interest of the Straight Dope, (_i.e._, getting it right), you might want to read over the [real meaning of Godwin’s Law](http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/) or [Godwin’s own observations](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html). ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/75 "2005-03-22T05:46:35Z")
> [@don Jaime](#): > > “Wise fwom your gwave!” and “In Soviet Russia…” as well as unique features like Oolong the balancing rabbit Are these used on the SDMB? Where do they come from? What do they refer/allude to? I have never heard of these before. WRS ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/76 "2005-03-22T05:58:25Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > [Godwin’s own observations](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html). Oh, no. Not memes. I had no idea Godwin phrased the law in terms of memetics. God, I’m sorry. Never did like memetics. Still, it’s useful to know what most people assume it means on top of the true meaning. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/77 "2005-03-22T06:19:52Z")
And I should learn to preview too. > [@WeRSauron](#): > > Are these used on the SDMB? Where do they come from? What do they refer/allude to? I have never heard of these before. “Wise fwom your gwave” is reserved for resurrecting old threads. The video game Altered Beast opened with these words as the player’s character came back to life for some coin-op heroics. For some reason the game couldn’t pronounce the letter r, so the god/wizard that said this sounded like Elmer Fudd. “In Soviet Russia” is Yakov Smirnov’s formulaic joke about how in America, you (verb) (noun), but in Soviet Russia, (noun) (verbs) you. The classic example: “In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find you.” I’ve seen it used a lot of places different ways, but it’s usually a signal that a comment or joke is trite. And Oolong is just a rabbit whose owner discovered would zone out having his ears scratched and would allow small objects to be placed on his head. Here’s the link: [http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~sokaisha/rabbit/rabbit.htm](http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~sokaisha/rabbit/rabbit.htm) This will not only get you a photo of virtually everything Oolong balanced on his head in eight years of life, it’ll also give you the link to his successor, Yuebing. All of these turn up all over the web. I’d be surprised if none have appeared in the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/78 "2005-03-22T08:05:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. Goes back further than that, even; I can recall it being in use back in July of '98 when I first discovered the Straight Dope (back when AOL hosted). ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/79 "2005-03-22T08:19:00Z")
:rolleyes: I now invoke ExTank’s Law: If it’s worth saying, chances are **tomndebb** has already said it, and much better than I could have. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/80 "2005-04-01T23:42:06Z")
I’ve seen this one showing up in a few places since it was found, so I’m gonna jump the gun and predict that it’ll hang around. [Pottery, sheer pottery.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6003312&postcount=15) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205.md?page=5)