# "It doesn't have any wang in it!"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 20, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257 "2004-06-20T01:47:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/1 "2004-06-20T01:47:39Z")
So, I’m chatting with several people via AIM, and one person gives the “I’m going to go now to do such and such” and I’m like “Ok”. This is paraphrasing of course to protect the innocent. I closed that window.
So, anyways, I’m telling person number one that it’ll probably take a long time for an image to appear on a website because they have to make sure it doesn’t have any wang in it.
At this point the other window pops up again, as new, and naturally draws focus, causing me to type and send “it doesn’t have any wang in it” after the other person’s “see ya later”.
So I sent a completely random “it doesn’t have any wang in it” to someone I just met. Then they signed off.
:smack:
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### Author:  [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/2 "2004-06-20T01:50:23Z")
But what if it _does_ have wang in it?
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/3 "2004-06-20T02:40:06Z")
It don’t mean a thang if it ain’t got that wang.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/4 "2004-06-20T03:52:08Z")
Um, in my household, “wang” is when a food or drink is really zingy, either spicy or tart or something. Somehow, I’m guessing that isn’t what you mean by wang. 😛
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/5 "2004-06-20T04:39:42Z")
“Well, it’s got _SOME_ wang in it.”
“How much?”
“Six. Rather a lot, really.”
“I’ll look at a page without so much wang in it.”
_One webpage without so much wang in it later:_
“Appalling.”
“Moan moan moan!”
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/6 "2004-06-20T04:55:15Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Um, in my household, “wang” is when a food or drink is really zingy, either spicy or tart or something. Somehow, I’m guessing that isn’t what you mean by wang. 😛
Same here. My dad always referred to the tartness of food by using the word wang.
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### Author:  [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/7 "2004-06-20T05:24:51Z")
But…
does it have any ka in it?
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/8 "2004-06-20T05:29:50Z")
I always wondered… didn’t Wang Computers… have like ONE DAMN GUY… who KNEW English??? Someone who would say… “Hey guys. We can’t use THIS name! Do you KNOW what that means in America???” I mean… do some frickin market research!
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### Author:  [@Kaboodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaboodle)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/9 "2004-06-20T08:00:54Z")
[hijack]
> [@if6was9](#):
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> I always wondered… didn’t Wang Computers… have like ONE DAMN GUY… who KNEW English??? Someone who would say… “Hey guys. We can’t use THIS name! Do you KNOW what that means in America???” I mean… do some frickin market research!
1948 - The Core Memory is invented by [Mr. An Wang](http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/149.html) , an immigrant from Shanghai, studying at Harvard’s Computation Laboratory. Later Mr. Wang will establish WANG Computers.
Mr. Wang received his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1948 so I would think he certainly knew English.
I couldn’t find when WANG Computers was founded but he founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. Was wang common slang back then? Even if it was common, maybe it was pride?
[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/10 "2004-06-20T09:48:04Z")
> [@lel](#):
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> But what if it _does_ have wang in it?
Why don’t you ask it?
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/11 "2004-06-20T10:14:52Z")
A monk travelled to Joshu and asked “Does this website have wang-nature?” and Joshu replied “Mu”…
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/12 "2004-06-20T17:06:32Z")
> [@Kaboodle](#):
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> [hijack]Mr. Wang received his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1948 so I would think he certainly knew English.
> [/hijack]
Hee hee…paging Dr.Wang…Dr.Wang, please report to the vasectomy room, STAT.
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/13 "2004-06-20T17:33:32Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> Hee hee…paging Dr.Wang…Dr.Wang, please report to the vasectomy room, STAT.
He can’t make it right now. He’s stuck right now in gynacology.
😃
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/14 "2004-06-20T18:18:55Z")
Some of their sales reps used to give away buttons and t-shirts that said, “Ask me about my Wang.” So I suspect that Dr. W knew about the double-entendre and did not mind.
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### Author:  [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/15 "2004-06-20T18:50:52Z")
You think thats bad, I was once telling my friend a story and an IM window of a prudish friend popped up without my noticing, so I told the other friend “and we had sex 5 times.” Ever since then that friend has been a bit iffy with me.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/16 "2004-06-20T18:56:31Z")
I beg your pardon?
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### Author:  [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/17 "2004-06-20T23:35:14Z")
This is a bit of a hijack, but I came across [this](http://www.bash.org/?111338) the other day. Concerning Harry Potter, this is what happens if you replace the letter ‘d’ in the word wand with the letter ‘g’.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/18 "2004-06-21T06:57:42Z")
Don’t worry, **Shaolin** , there was no wang in the hay wagon. There weren’t even any snakes in it, which would have at least made unloading _interesting_.
And I’ve gotten much stranger IM messages from complete and total strangers who didn’t even bother to introduce themselves first.
Sweat it not, thou ninja bunny.
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### Author:  [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/19 "2004-06-21T07:19:37Z")
Oh hell, I send people messages like that all the time out of the blue. People often get a laugh out of it, and if they don’t, I do.
Just send a random person a message on your buddy list saying “Why would you hire a mime to shave your ass?”, and follow it up with “Wrong window.” Instant fun!
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-have-any-wang-in-it/251257/20 "2004-06-21T17:39:06Z")
I once complained to the third shift chef at Miller’s Bar, that the pot roast didn’t have enough pot in it. She said the second shift chef smoked it all. 😃
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