OK, I’m having one of those ‘Durr’ moments and I need someone to answer my question in small simple words I can easily understand. :smack:
What’s with all the “wooshing” on the SDMB? To woosh? Being wooshed?
Is it referring to those “woosh and the info went straight over my head and I missed the technical/obsure/injoke” scenarios?
Is there other meanings or some kind of Grand Unifying Theory of Wooshness?
It does mean going over someones head.
For example, if I were to read a thread about physics, I would be incredibly wooshed.
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Oh OK, thanks for for the reply. I’ve seen it used in some slightly different contexts and wanted to know if I was reading on the same page as everyone else, so to speak.
Thanks Aslan of Narnia, since my question is answered, the mods are free to delete this thread.
Uh, Aslan’s explanation is only partially correct. On messageboards, it means where, say, the OP makes a tongue-in-cheek statement, which is not quite understood as such by the next poster, who responds in a serious fashion. The second poster has effectively been “whooshed” (from the sound a joke can make when it goes over the head at speed – usually before it hits the wall. )
Hmm. Maybe th’ hamsters don’t like talk of “whooshing.” I put my reply through earlier, and it nearly got eaten. Oh, well. 
Yeah, it’s not simply something you don’t know about - like Aslan’s physics - but rather an inside joke, subtle irony, that sort of thing, that it’s recognizable at first glance for everyone.
Does it have its origins in color commentary from American baseball? I always assumed it started there. One of the things Chris Berman of ESPN was known for was saying “The whoosh” whenever a batsman would take a huge swing at a pitch but completely and utterly miss the ball.
Which gives a pretty good explanation of the meaning of being wooshed. You went and made an attempt to get someone’s post but completely and utterly failed to grasp the point of it.
Hey, thanks for the elaboration people!