# Knock it off with OMG, this is teh bad!!11!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 24, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604 "2006-11-24T02:30:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/1 "2006-11-24T02:30:33Z")
Can we all agree that “repeating back the other guy’s opinion with bad grammar and spelling, typos, AOL-style acronyms, the non-word ‘teh’, and 11’s in place of exclamation points” is an ineffective argument, and too trite to be funny? Thanks. - Walter ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/2 "2006-11-24T02:33:31Z")
But we R L33t! 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/3 "2006-11-24T03:03:09Z")
I find it really annoying, too, but can you provide a cite for the behaviour? I don’t think I’ve seen it on the boards recently… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/4 "2006-11-24T03:32:20Z")
Now that **Brutus** isn’t around the usage has dropped quite a bit, but it still pops up now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/5 "2006-11-24T03:36:22Z")
I [agree completely](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5877073&postcount=30) ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/6 "2006-11-24T03:40:18Z")
Aren’t you preaching to the choir here? Could you have picked a more articulate board to post this on? Terrible pitting, and the complaints on this style of typing are as tired as the style itself. I give this rant a -1. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/7 "2006-11-24T03:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] Aren’t you preaching to the choir here? Could you have picked a more articulate board to post this on? Terrible pitting, and the complaints on this style of typing are as tired as the style itself. I give this rant a -1. [/QUOTE] Goddamn French judges. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/8 "2006-11-24T04:05:27Z")
**wAl7ER W1nch1Ll** is the SUx0R2!11! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/9 "2006-11-24T04:16:41Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] Goddamn French judges. [/QUOTE] You shoulda offered them something better than Velveeta, dummy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/10 "2006-11-24T04:16:55Z")
You misspelled “teh,” Lev. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/11 "2006-11-24T06:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] Goddamn French judges. [/QUOTE] Now Now **Walter** , it’s not that I’m hard on you because I don’t believe in you - in fact quite the contrary, I’m hard on you precisely because I _do_ believe in you. I know your next rant will be a significant improvement. Shoot for a 2 or 3. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/12 "2006-11-24T06:21:13Z")
Sure you want to ban OMG! First, they take God out of our schools, then out of the pledge, and then…the acronyms! They’ll stop at nothing! ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/13 "2006-11-24T12:25:14Z")
I think it’s about as cute as the inevitable “why do you hate America?” that pops up in every anti-Bush thread. I don’t think we’re going to see the end of either any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/14 "2006-11-24T15:19:35Z")
The correct usage is “!!!twenty-five!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/15 "2006-11-24T15:23:04Z")
… and when they came for my l33t speech, I was all, “dude, sif.” ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/16 "2006-11-24T18:06:21Z")
Here, **Walter** , you forgot your teeth. Should I yell at the kids to get off the lawn, now? ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/17 "2006-11-24T18:46:53Z")
This is a small part of why I stopped visiting the WoW forums–in addition you get rampant ASCII art (at least until they cracked down on it), every stupid cliche known to man (and a few known to orcs), and, my personal un-favorite, mis-quoting someone and adding the words ‘Fixed it for you’. Most of these ‘jokes’ weren’t funny when they started. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/18 "2006-11-24T21:32:07Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Sure you want to ban OMG! First, they take God out of our schools, then out of the pledge, and then…the acronyms! They’ll stop at nothing! [/QUOTE] Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/19 "2006-11-24T22:01:23Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG. 😃 [/QUOTE] **Clothahump** FTW. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604/20 "2006-11-24T22:04:20Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG. 😃 [/QUOTE] I have not seen OMFG in several years. The last I remember seeing it is shortly before I first observed the appearance of ZOMG. It was my understanding, since I see ZOMG being used as a more “intense” version of OMG, that ZOMG had simply usurped OMFG in popular usage. Or, is there some finer nuance between the two onto which I have not yet caught? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-it-off-with-omg-this-is-teh-bad-11/381604.md?page=2)