# Vanity Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641 "2002-12-14T00:01:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/101 "2002-12-16T18:53:23Z")
The funny thing about being _whooshed_ is that the more you agonize over it, the more _whooshed_ you become. The joke went over your head, Karma. You may have heard it fly past you, though. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/102 "2002-12-16T18:54:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarmaComa \* > \*\*I still want to know what this :::WHOOSH::: crap is all about, but I’m sure I’d be disappointed. \*\* Means you didn’t get the joke. Feel “in” yet? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/103 "2002-12-16T18:56:28Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, we have just witnessed a tsunami of ::WHOOSH:: ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/104 "2002-12-16T18:58:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Wooo we got one begging for it… I just don’t have the energy when I have to go into it explaining the meaning of _:::whoosh:::_. **ultress** , have I told you lately how sexy you are? ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/105 "2002-12-16T19:00:22Z")
I don’t buy it. I think you’re just making excuses for yourselves by saying it was a joke I didn’t get. Easy defense. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/106 "2002-12-16T19:05:07Z")
It’s only easy because you’re making it that easy. A quick search on the phrase that irritates might illuminate the dark corners of your mind. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/107 "2002-12-16T19:13:21Z")
Oh gosh, **Diane** , thanks so much. It must be this new shade of eyeshadow. or wait, maybe it’s that little twitch of the hip that catches your eye, then again maybe it’s my perky white bosoms. But thank you from the bottom of my heart. All the rest of you jealous whiney doper wimen can just eat ya hearts out. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/108 "2002-12-16T19:13:21Z")
Hoooooooo boy, you’re on to us now, damnit! We’ve all been conspiring behind your back with the secret “Whoosh” excuse. Wadda think guys, should we break out the make-believe “bling-bling” argument? ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/109 "2002-12-16T19:14:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarmaComa \* > \*\*I don’t buy it. I think you’re just making excuses for yourselves by saying it was a joke I didn’t get. Easy defense. \*\* I didn’t participate in the joke, and _I_ got it. But you don’t _have_ to admit you were in error. You can keep irritating everyone over your own failure to understand some subtle humor, look like fleshy-headed cuttlefish, and perhaps even earn a thread of your very own. Is it your intention to storm off with flurry of obscenities, or stick it out until your name is synonymous with clay-brained idiocy? ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/110 "2002-12-16T19:15:19Z")
A quick search on the phrase brings up \> 100 threads that contain it, not threads that explain it. :rolleyes: Though it’s pretty self-explanatory. I just thought it was more of an in-joke, rather than the printed version of an onomatopoetic expression which is usually accompanied by a hand gesture. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/111 "2002-12-16T19:18:14Z")
And regardless of whether you were wooshed or not, do you not see any sort of difference between a girl saying “Gosh I’m hot and no one says it to me enough” and someone paying a compliment to someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/112 "2002-12-16T19:18:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I still want to know what this :::WHOOSH::: crap is all about, but I’m sure I’d be disappointed. The sound the air makes as the joke hurtles past, right over your head. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/113 "2002-12-16T19:23:12Z")
> [@](#): > > The sound the air makes as the joke hurtles past, right over your head. Or in some cases, in one ear and out the other with little interference. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/114 "2002-12-16T19:25:18Z")
Thanks Maeglin, the explanation was a WHOMP the first four times I got it. jarbaby, the examples that I quoted are so far from the other, obviously ironic fawning that were they in with the joke, it would suggest a subtlety what would leave your (plural) other “you’re so pretty” statements seem incredibly heavy-handed. I don’t buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/115 "2002-12-16T19:33:11Z")
Karma, you’re purdy, but stupid as all fuck. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/116 "2002-12-16T19:41:00Z")
Maybe some coprophagy would help him out. ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/117 "2002-12-16T19:43:03Z")
**Vixenation** Maybe they’re saying this shit because you’re continually prattling on about how blonde your hair is, or how big your tits are or whatever. :rolleyes: Maybe it’s time to go out and buy myself a push-up bra. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/118 "2002-12-16T19:45:40Z")
Isn’t anyone concerned that he ‘a’ key on my keyboard seems to be malfunctioning? It’s becoming quite problem. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/119 "2002-12-16T19:49:58Z")
he ‘a’ is not the concern. Seems that the ‘t’ should be. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/120 "2002-12-16T20:23:30Z")
I for one am fucking tired of people saying 1. **You’re so pretty.** - Look, the jokes over, asshat. I KNOW I’m practically a cross between an X-men reject (sans a superpower) and a dead cow. WHY CANT YOU PEOPLE SEE THAT?!?! 2. **You’re not that big.** - Ooh, this one really gets my goat. Hello?! You can see my ass in three cardinal directions. Wtf is WRONG WITH YOU FUCKWICKETS?! 3. **You’ve got amazing eyes.** _buzzer_ Wrong again, doltmonkey. They’re GREEN! Green like mold and moss and erm…umm… and mold. GREENIE MOLDIE MOLD! I mean really… just because the rest of you are secure enough in your own aesthetic characteristics, doesnt mean you need to take out your pleasantness on me. GET OVER IT! _huff huff huff_ :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641.md?page=7)