# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/81 "2005-04-02T01:41:28Z")
> [@don Jaime](#): > > 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_. Are you talking about these terms’ usage specifically on SDMB, or in general? Because I can assure you they were both around much earlier than that (they were well established by the time I started reading usenet, which was in 90). And I’m pretty sure “squick” requires the hole to be _bored_, not just an existing hole. But I’m not doing to do any research on that one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/82 "2005-04-02T23:54:57Z")
> [@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. Not only that, but it turned out about 6 months of threads had not been backed up, and had to be sent to Jesus. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/83 "2005-04-03T19:23:31Z")
There’s also the question of goat felching in particular, as opposed to felching in general. Surely, the latter predates the former, both on this board and in the world at large. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/84 "2005-04-04T17:55:07Z")
No mention of the grapist yet? I get it, but don’t know the background. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/85 "2005-04-04T18:22:51Z")
As far as I remember, the Grapist was a troll who posted everything in purple and posted (mostly) nonsensical and stupid messages, and promptly got booted. Not sure if this is verboten or not, but what exactly happened to cause the Winter of Our Missed Content? ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/86 "2005-04-04T19:48:03Z")
And what does \* ‘pw3nd’ \* - or something like that, not sure of the spelling - mean? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/87 "2005-04-04T20:12:45Z")
That’s not SDMB vernacular, it’s all over the 'Net. “pw3nd” (or variants thereof-- Misspelling is acceptable and expected in this case) is a trendy “elite speak” misspelling of “owned”. As in, if one person spectacularly beat another in some online computer game, the winner pw3nd the loser. Or more commonly, if the beating was far from spectacular or even nonexistant, but the “winner” is bragging about it anyway. One is unlikely to encounter this on the SDMB, except in sarcastic usages. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/88 "2005-04-04T20:26:00Z")
Thanks, **Chronos** 🙂 I saw it around here. Must have been meant sarcastically. [which I don’t always ‘get’] ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/89 "2005-04-06T02:04:09Z")
So is this the place t ask what a **sock** is? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/90 "2005-04-06T03:13:19Z")
> [@Plan B](#): > > So is this the place t ask what a **sock** is? A sock (more precisely, a sock puppet) is an alternate username adopted by a poster, most likely for nefarious reasons. The original poster may have been banned, and created a new account to sneak back in, or a sock may be a poster’s alter ego to advance arguments and deflect counterarguments. Socks and trolls seem to go - umm - hand-in-hand. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/91 "2005-04-06T03:23:45Z")
It’s worth noting that whatever the origin of a sock, and regardless of whether the person had ever been banned before, sock-puppetting is itself a bannable offense (for all incarnations of the puppetteer). Only one screen name is allowed per person. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/92 "2005-04-06T04:01:54Z")
> [@AZCowboy](#): > > I have also seen this period referred to as the **diaspora**. The SDMB went “off the air” for awhile in early 2002, and reappeared in March. However, all of the posts from mid-December 2001 until it died were lost forever, as the sysadmins weren’t keeping regular backups. > > I originally joined in late December 2001 (sometime shortly after the last backup), and had my first 100 or so posts lost to this period. In fact, my “Join Date” above reflects when the board came back online - not my actual date (or post count). Same deal here. Almost exactly. Kay-Kay was running amuck at the time IIRC. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/93 "2005-04-10T13:29:42Z")
Felching aside (let’s be grateful for that) it seems the association of goats with jokes about initiation ceremonies goes way back. In fact, one of the paintings of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (of poker-playing dogs fame) about 100 years ago depicts a Masonic initiation ceremony in which the blindfolded initiate is made to ride a goat. Apparently, “riding the goat” (cough cough), a facetious reference to the alleged horrors of the initiation, was already a longstanding joke among Masons circa 1900, much the way “goat felching” has become around here. (To see an image of the painting, go to [dogsplayingpoker.org](http://dogsplayingpoker.org) and select “Gallery”.) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/94 "2005-04-10T15:32:39Z")
A trivial one, and probably a dumb question. Where does the interjection _meh_ come from and what exactly does it signify? I see it occasionally elsewhere on the net but most often on these boards. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/95 "2005-04-10T16:03:06Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > A trivial one, and probably a dumb question. Where does the interjection _meh_ come from and what exactly does it signify? I see it occasionally elsewhere on the net but most often on these boards. From [urbandictionary.com](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh&f=1) > [@](#): > > Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care. > A: What do you want for dinner? > B: Meh. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/96 "2005-04-22T10:37:10Z")
This thread gives a great overview over the history of the board: [Watershed moments in SDMB history; or, the SDMB Anthology Project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118749) ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/97 "2005-05-13T21:06:13Z")
So I must swallow my pride and ask, what does WAG stand for? “Wager A Guess”? “What A Guy!”? “White Asparagus Gumbo”? ---
**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:** [May 13, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/98 "2005-05-13T21:09:16Z")
Wild Ass Guess ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205/99 "2005-05-14T07:55:05Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > 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. Y’know, I signed up here _specifically_ to ask that question. You cannot imagine how happy I am that I was too lazy to compose the post untill I’d hung out here for a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-of-sdmb-terms/289205.md?page=4)