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. 
Not only that, but it turned out about 6 months of threads had not been backed up, and had to be sent to Jesus.
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.
No mention of the grapist yet? I get it, but don’t know the background.
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?
And what does * ‘pw3nd’ * - or something like that, not sure of the spelling - mean?
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.
Thanks, Chronos
I saw it around here. Must have been meant sarcastically. [which I don’t always ‘get’]
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.
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.
Same deal here. Almost exactly.
Kay-Kay was running amuck at the time IIRC.
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 and select “Gallery”.)
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
This thread gives a great overview over the history of the board:
Watershed moments in SDMB history; or, the SDMB Anthology Project
So I must swallow my pride and ask, what does WAG stand for?
“Wager A Guess”?
“What A Guy!”?
“White Asparagus Gumbo”?
Wild Ass Guess
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.