# What does !!!!1111one mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656 "2005-03-28T20:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/1 "2005-03-28T20:12:17Z")
Searched the web, but just found lots of uses for it, but never a definition of what it means. Anyone know? OMG!!!1111one ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/2 "2005-03-28T20:21:18Z")
Well, the “!!!” part is plain enough, and the “1111” is “!!!” without the shift key, and the “one” is “1” spelled out. AFAICT, the whole thing is a slap at Internet dweebs, their enthusiasm for exclamation points, and their sloppy keyboarding. Unless, of course, there’s an actual dweeb somewhere who typed out the “one” unironically, in which case I’m baffled. ---
**Author:** ![Iacob\_Matthew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Iacob\_Matthew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iacob_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/3 "2005-03-28T20:29:23Z")
Other variations include adding an “eleven” on to the ends of the string of ones. This serves the same purpose (which **Nametag** nailed), but is a bit more amusing the first time you see it. Oh, dear… I just ruined that, didn’t I? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/4 "2005-03-28T20:30:40Z")
Yep. It’s basically saying “I am so excited that I have lost the ability to type clearly, if, in fact, I ever possessed it at all!!!11one!” ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/5 "2005-03-28T20:40:29Z")
**Nametag** ’s got it – it’s making fun of the l33t-speak kids with their chatrooms and their MMORPGs and their oral sex and their poor typing, specifically the fact that when excited they’ll add a bunch of exclamation points but remove their finger from the shift key before their other finger is off of the 1 key. Of course, the l33t kids themselves may have started using the joke as well by this point, not just us crochety old geezers who get together to talk about the good old days of mainframe Zork. (Indeed, they l33t kids do apparently use “teh” on purpose, making fun of the fact that they themselves misspell “the” more often than they get it right.) If some dweeb did, in fact, type the “one” unironically, he would truly be TEH SUXXORS!!!111 _lol_ –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/6 "2005-03-28T20:43:51Z")
Cliffy pwned this one. He r0xx0r5!!!111 😃 Jammer ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/7 "2005-03-28T20:56:38Z")
There’s even a poster who is making it his life’s mission to get “!!!11111111twentyfive!!!11111” to become all the rage. I support him, although I’m to lazy to find teh linxor. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/8 "2005-03-28T21:04:56Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > **Nametag** ’s got it – it’s making fun of the l33t-speak kids with their chatrooms and their MMORPGs and their oral sex and their poor typing, specifically the fact that when excited they’ll add a bunch of exclamation points but remove their finger from the shift key before their other finger is off of the 1 key. I can see how !!!11111 would be making fun of this behavior, but what is the purpose of the “one”? Wouldn’t enough people realize what “!!!11111” was making fun of, that someone had to add “one” to the end of that, just to make sure every idiot got it? On the other hand !!!1111one seems much more surreal and stands out much more than the simple !!!1111, so maybe adding the “one” was a touch of genius !!!111one ---
**Author:** ![PeeQueue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@PeeQueue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeeQueue)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/9 "2005-03-28T21:37:23Z")
You guys are behind the times. I’ve already seen uses beyond the piddly inclusion of “one”, such as: OMG!!!111!!1one!!@!!@1!!atsign!! ---
**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:** [March 28, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/10 "2005-03-28T21:46:22Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > Wouldn’t enough people realize what “!!!11111” was making fun of, that someone had to add “one” to the end of that, just to make sure every idiot got it? no… the doofuses actually use “!!!1111” in all seriousness. They aren’t making fun of anything. Other people really do add “one” to the end, just to make sure we get that they’re kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/11 "2005-03-29T01:33:33Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > \*\*and their oral sex \*\* > –Cliffy Bolding mine of course. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/12 "2005-03-29T02:14:51Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Bolding mine of course. 😕 Well geez, you know **Chariman** , the kids these days…why back in my day…those damn kids with their “internet” and their “hop-hip music…” Why I used to have to walk eight miles through the driving snow to get _my_ pornography…grumble grumble grumble… ::absent–mindedly scratches eight hundred year old huntin’ dog while refilling pipe and leaning back in chair:: ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/13 "2005-03-29T03:11:13Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Bolding mine of course. 😕 L337 0|24L -\> talking as if they’ve ever seen a woman naked, much less done anything with her. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/14 "2005-03-29T03:16:55Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > **Nametag** ’s got it – it’s making fun of the l33t-speak kids with their chatrooms and their MMORPGs and their oral sex and their poor typing, Crazy kids with their oral sex. Damn them anyway. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/15 "2005-03-29T05:38:48Z")
Maybe the ones are their age in binary ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/16 "2005-03-29T12:59:05Z")
I don’t speak l33t, but, really, this meaning is obvious. Hasn’t anyone noticed that there are four ones? In other words, it looks like 1111one = four one one = 411, the number you dial to get Information. In other words, it’s saying (after the exclamation points): “Get a clue!” ---
**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:** [March 29, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/17 "2005-03-29T13:45:21Z")
That’s me! [As quoted here in the O\_o thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5979001&highlight=twenty-five#post5979001) The minute I see this happening on a message board or blog or advertisement to which I have no direct connection, I will begin my plan for world domination. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/18 "2005-03-29T13:47:02Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s even a poster who is making it his life’s mission to get “!!!11111111twentyfive!!!11111” to become all the rage. > > I support him, although I’m to lazy to find teh linxor. I was, of course, referring to this post by **Casey 1505.** Come on, now. You all want to do it. Get in on the ground floor with your man **Scrappy.** ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/19 "2005-03-29T13:53:21Z")
> [@Jammer](#): > > Cliffy pwned this one. He r0xx0r5!!!111 😃 > > Jammer I’d go so far as to say he pwn3d it. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656/20 "2005-03-29T16:02:55Z")
Slight sidetrack–how do you pronounces this leetspeak garbage? Is “suxxors” pronounced “sucks” or “sucksors”? Is “pwned” pronounced “owned” or “pwinned”? Do they just spell funny or do they talk funny, too? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-1111one-mean/296656.md?page=2)