Gotcha Ya- what does it mean?

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Gotcha Ya!

I just saw this in a thread and rather than hijacking it, I thought I’d ask here. What does “gotcha ya” mean? Well, I can guess from context that it means gotcha, but why the additional ya part? (And from a quick google search, it doesn’t even seem to mean that. I can’t even figure out the context from how it’s used in some of the things I found on google) So what does it mean and where does it come from?

I couldn’t find it in the glossary of terms.

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That’s a good idea about adding it to the glossary. And you probably did a thread search too (which came up empty for me too).

Someone will be along who was around when it first became a meme here and explain this better, but basically that’s all it is, one of many SDMB memes. One poster errantly typed “gotcha yah” no recognizing that he basically said “got you you” and the following posters to the thread picked up on it and it became a joke for them.

Every now and then a poster will bring it back up.

I know that thread you’re talking about. Ask about Manny. It’s a much better story.

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It’s from this thread by Wildest Bill.

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Thanks, Fish!

Ya, that really should be in the glossary. The first few times I saw it, I wondered if they didn’t notice the additional ya also.

Maybe they could add “implode of it” also. Of course, that meme didn’t last from 2001, and may not be around that long.

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OK. I’ll bite.

Who’s Manny?

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Manhattan. A former General Questons moderator.

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Manhattan. A former General Questons moderator.
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Correct, but I was referring to an earlier Manny. I wasn’t around, but I heard this story from an old thread awhile back, I’ll recount it for you:
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Before Manhattan, way back on the AOL board, we had a precursor to the sort of kid who starts thousands of pointless GQ question threads–but this guy was on drugs. He used to begin every freaking thread with the phrase
"Manny peoples wonder and now I ask. . . "
followed by his lame (and often insulting, frequently racist) question. He actually did not last very long, but the damage was done and he became, in the minds of the AOL crowd, “Manny Peeples.”
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For your edification, some samples of the posting style of “Manny Peoples”, aka ZPhobiaZ, aka ZSPhobiaSZ. The parts that include lower-case were quotes he’s replying to, his own stuff was always in ALL CAPS. (Only one of these contains a variant of his trademark “MANNY PEOPLE ASK ME” phrase, sorry to say):

Subject: Re: Does God exist? Did God create man? Or did man create God?
Date: Mon, Dec 22, 1997 10:17 AM
From: ZphobiaZ
Message-id: <19971222151800.KAA11890@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Does “God” exist? Is “God” truly the “Higher Power” that created the earth and the universe? Did “God” create man? Or did man create “God”? Is “God” something that mankind created because mankind needs something to believe in and needs something to give people a reason to live? I am curious to know what “The Teeming Millions” think.:
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR T MAN BE CREATOR OF GOS CAUSE IN THE BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT HOW IN THE BEGINING THEREWAS GOD. THIS MEANS THAT GOD WAS THERE BEFORE MAN. I HOPW THIS HAS HELPED YOU, IF YOU EVER NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING FEEL FREE TO ASK ME, AS THERE ARE MANNY PEOPLE WHO DO.

Subject: Re: Titanic
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 1997 1:06 PM
From: ZSphobiaSZ
Message-id: <19971210180601.NAA16373@ladder02.news.aol.com>

Well here is a couple,How many survivors were there
and two how many are still living?
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Of the 2,200 people aboard 707 survived. Not a clue how many are still living.:
THEY SHOULD ALL STILL BE ALIVE.THE TITANIC WAS A BOAT SO WHEN IT WAS SINKING ONLY WATER WAS A THREAT FOR THE PEOPLE.IT IS NOT LIKE AN ATOM BOMB THEY EXPLODED TO TRY AND MAKE PEOPLE SICK AND DUMB FOR YEARS TO COME . THE WATER HAS NO LONGTERM EFFECTS SO LL OF THWM SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE

Subject: Re: EL Nineo & Global Warming Fact or Fiction?
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 1997 5:11 AM
From: ZSphobiaSZ
Message-id: <19971210101101.FAA18193@ladder02.news.aol.com>
Facts and Opinions are Welcome

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Quoted by Richard Kluger The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune Knopf 86:
I THINK RICHARD KLUGER WAS RIGHT,YOU ONLY GFET FREE SEECH IN THIS COUNTRY IF YOU OWN A NEWSPAPER.IT’S LIKE WITH GUNS YOU CAN ONLY KNOW YOU’LL BE FREE IF YOU HAVE ONE,MAYBE THATS WHY THOSE FOLK IN WASINGTON DETROIT ARE TRYING TO TAKE THEM AWAY
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