What exactly is a "whoosh"?

[Illuminatiprimus]

I’ve seen this term used a few times with reference to the SDMB but can’t work out what it means. Anyone care to enlighten me?

[Santo_Rugger]

@Illuminatiprimus

I’ve seen this term used a few times with reference to the SDMB but can’t work out what it means. Anyone care to enlighten me?

I’d tell you, but it’s above your head.

[twickster]

Scroll down in the glossary of terms in About This Message Board.

[brewha]

Basically, it’s an inside joke that you don’t get. Like if I were to say something dumb like:

1. Mercury

2. Venus

3. Hi Opal!

Then you say, " Hey, 3 should be Earth!"

Then I say " Whoosh!"

[Illuminatiprimus]

Great, thanks guys.

[pulykamell]

@brewha

Basically, it’s an inside joke that you don’t get.

It doesn’t have to be an inside joke, just any joke/sarcasm/parody/etc that you failed to understand (and I would say that usually it appears in a more straightforward context, rather than an inside joke).

[Ludovic]

@pulykamell

It doesn’t have to be an inside joke, just any joke/sarcasm/parody/etc that you failed to understand (and I would say that usually it appears in a more straightforward context, rather than an inside joke).

As a matter of fact, it only appeared as an inside joke once.

[pulykamell]

@Ludovic

As a matter of fact, it only appeared as an inside joke once.

OK. I get the feeling that I’m getting whooshed now. Was brewha’s post one giant metawhoosh?

[Bryan_Ekers]

Whooshes are becoming endangered, though, because it’s increasingly difficult to sarcastically say something outrageous and not have been long-ago beaten by someone who said virtually the same thing, but was perfectly serious.

[shijinn]

i always imagined ‘whooosh’ as something that you didn’t get. if you don’t get it, it goes flying over your head.

[Anaamika]

@Bryan Ekers

Whooshes are becoming endangered, though, because it’s increasingly difficult to sarcastically say something outrageous and not have been long-ago beaten by someone who said virtually the same thing, but was perfectly serious.

Not to mention, there is a whole contingent of Dopers who seem not even to understand sarcasm. I admit to having been whooshed once in a while, and even in public, but most of the time if I am unsure I try and keep my damn mouth shut until I am sure! Mainly because I was whooshed once really badly.

But there have been threads recently where the whooshing was blindingly obvious and still someone comes along and gets all in a huff.

[brewha]

@pulykamell

OK. I get the feeling that I’m getting whooshed now. Was brewha’s post one giant metawhoosh?

I was close - real close to coming in after you elaborated on my definition with a giant:
WHOOOOOOSH!
But I refrained. I don’t want the OP to think I am that clever.

[Ephemera]

@pulykamell

OK. I get the feeling that I’m getting whooshed now. Was brewha’s post one giant metawhoosh?

I’m guessing it was another inside joke. The Marianas Trench one.

[twickster]

@Aesiron

I’m guessing it was another inside joke. The Marianas Trench one.

Too deep for me, man.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@twickster

Too deep for me, man.

Maybe you need a depth raise.

[twickster]

@Bryan Ekers

Maybe you need a depth raise.

Owie!

[stolichnaya]

@Bryan Ekers

Maybe you need a depth raise.

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[Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup]

The best explanation can be found here.

[Johnny_L.A]

I like ‘trapeze act’.

It’s over your head.

[Gfactor]

Moved from General Questions to About This Message Board. Or am I missing something?

Gfactor
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