# If someone replied to a topic with \*FapFapFap\*, would you know what it referenced? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883 "2012-04-15T21:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/21 "2012-04-16T15:16:41Z")
As much as I try, I can’t imagine masturbation making that kind of sound unless the guy has a big, floppy foreskin. Ick. Now this is what masturbation sounds like (minus the musical intro): [PAC MAN WAKA WAKA - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffSaZs6Vmk) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/22 "2012-04-16T17:38:16Z")
It was new to me. But then, I’m always the last to know about Internet memes. Maybe that’s because I don’t go to most of those websites that are notorious for spreading them, e.g. Fark. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/23 "2012-04-17T10:42:41Z")
Yeah, I’ll be in my bunk… fapping like a mother… 😉 Back in the 80s in NZ it we used **strop/stropper** in a similar onomatopoeic sense (as opposed to _throwing a strop/stroppy_ for a tantrum). I never quite got it myself - those slappy noises are usually indications of non-solo activities, if you know what I mean. Si ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/24 "2012-04-17T12:36:22Z")
Don Martin syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![HBomb29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@HBomb29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HBomb29)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/25 "2012-04-17T19:26:29Z")
Lol! I know 😉 but i always wondered what the female version was. flap flap flap? ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/26 "2012-04-17T21:32:01Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > There’s a school in Bangalore, where I’m from, called Frank Anthony Public School. Commonly known as FAPS, of course. I giggled a lot the first time I heard that acronym, but I was the only person who did, I’m ashamed to say. I’ve known that “phrase” for at least a decade (funky internet sites even back then), which makes driving by this [Auto-Import/Processing site](http://www.fapsinc.com/)in Newark NJ sort of bizarre ever since (they used to have “Burma-shave”\* style signs stuck in the fencing along Port Street, I think ending in “FAPS cares!”. Also, holiday decorations like Turkeys, Pumpkins, Presidents etc suitable to the season). \*Yeah, well Kids today can watch classic Popeye, Bugs Bunny, & Road Runner cartoons on YouTube, so they darn-well know what those were. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/27 "2012-04-17T23:24:48Z")
If you’ve seen it with any context applied at all, I’d think it should have been obvious. At least, that’s how I figured it out on the forum which must not be named. When you said referenced, I at first thought you meant some movie or meme that used it first. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/28 "2012-04-18T03:15:34Z")
Too much time on Demotivational posters. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/29 "2012-04-18T04:25:56Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > But not in Words With Friends. > [@StephenG](#): > > They’re not that kind of friends. Words With Friends With Benefits? ---
**Author:** ![SnakeBabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SnakeBabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeBabe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/30 "2012-04-18T04:40:04Z")
Of course 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/31 "2012-04-18T05:53:07Z")
Yeah, but…I’ve always wondered why people needed to specify firing a barrage Fuel Air Projectile (A backronym, truth be told, for “ФАП”—the actual original Russian term is slightly different, although it describes the same mechanism) from an SPG-9 recoilless launcher, using the authentic old-style Red Army fire support call, towards something they, from the context, seemed to find sexy. I’m guessing it originated as an in-joke from a wargamer or military historian forum (the members of which are, typically, notoriously embittered against the overzealous political and “vice suppression” of the former USSR), and spread memetically from there. 😃 > [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Looking at the comic right now (Mike’s Left Hand, Family Ties), I see the proper female term is “shlick shlick shlick”. So when Wolverine does it, is it _snikt snikt snikt_? (God, there’s like two or three levels of horrible implications waiting behind that sound effect. :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/32 "2012-04-18T13:06:07Z")
fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap Surprised it took 32 posts. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/33 "2012-04-18T16:16:55Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap > > Surprised it took 32 posts. We were leaving it just for you. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/34 "2012-04-18T16:21:15Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > We were leaving it just for you. I have to bring SOMETHING to the board, right? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/35 "2012-04-18T17:46:04Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Yes, and it always makes me go ‘ick’. In my case it’s more of a “bleargh”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883.md?page=1)