# What's the biggest trend that has been started on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522 "2002-12-18T11:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/61 "2002-12-20T03:17:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Maybe I haven’t been looking at the correct pop-culture trends, but I can’t remember seeing “X makes the baby Jesus cry” used in the same way other than on the Board before. \*\* “Lies make Baby Jesus cry” is a line from The Simpsons. Haj ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/62 "2002-12-20T03:21:46Z")
I heard it in IRC from **tiggeril**. It had nothing to do, as far as I’m aware (though tigg may say differently), with anything besides the fact that we felt like poking fun at the Pit poster’s constant use of “og” instead of “of.” So go ask tigg. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/63 "2002-12-20T03:24:00Z")
Ok, my last post was obviously directed towards the “og” discussion. I could’ve sworn I’d hit “quote,” not just “submit reply.” By the way, **Crunchy Frog** , you’re not the only one who remembers the virtual marriages. That’s how I met my fiance, silly as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/64 "2002-12-20T03:31:47Z")
Paging **tiggeril** , come in **tiggeril**. If **tigs** says she made it up herself, what will your conclusion be, **hajario**? ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/65 "2002-12-20T03:35:58Z")
Considering that I still have no idea how to use Usenet and I’ve never been to slashdot, it’d be rather difficult for me to have picked the OG SMASH thing elsewhere. How unfortunate that I’m not as original as I thought. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/66 "2002-12-20T03:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*“Lies make Baby Jesus cry” is a line from The Simpsons. > > Haj \*\* :smack: :smack: :smack: Rod and Tod! I knew they had to be guilty of _something_! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/67 "2002-12-20T03:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*Paging **tiggeril** , come in **tiggeril**. > > If **tigs** says she made it up herself, what will your conclusion be, **hajario**? \*\* Either she heard about it and forgot and it remained in her subconscious or she came up with it independently. Either way it didn’t start here. That’s all I ever said. It predates the SDMB. In fact, it predates the web. All I know is that when I first saw it here, I remembered having seen it years before. It’s not that big a deal. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/68 "2002-12-20T03:48:07Z")
I didn’t mean to sound attacking. If I did, I’m sorry. Just because something similar was around, I don’t think we need to say that **racin** and **tigs** didn’t come up with it. And that’s definitely what it was: something similar. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/69 "2002-12-20T03:49:10Z")
God forbid two similar-but-not-identical things spring up at completely different times under completely different circumstances without one being ripped off of the other. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/70 "2002-12-20T03:56:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*God forbid two similar-but-not-identical things spring up at completely different times under completely different circumstances without one being ripped off of the other. \*\* Who said that that you ripped it off? Get a grip. Haj ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/71 "2002-12-20T04:01:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*I didn’t mean to sound attacking. If I did, I’m sorry. > > Just because something similar was around, I don’t think we need to say that **racin** and **tigs** didn’t come up with it. And that’s definitely what it was: something similar. \*\* No need to apologize. Yes, it was something similar. I think we can agree that it was invented independently. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/72 "2002-12-20T11:00:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flymaster \* > \*\*Actually, it originated in the August, 1997 DNRC Newsletter #17 Excuse me but using [http://groups.google.com](http://groups.google.com) you can find people using cow-orkers as early as [1989](http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&q=+%22cow+orker%22&btnG=Google+Search&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1989) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/73 "2002-12-20T11:15:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > **… virtual marriages … I don’t know if this is the only place that did them …** Nah, they were pretty popular back when I chatted in 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522/74 "2002-12-21T04:07:48Z")
While the term “pubbies” is not native to the SDMB, appearing [**666** times in the google database](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=pubbies), the SDMB does appear to be instrumental in popularizing the slang. Since its first use by Freedom on 11-18-2000, pubbie(s) has been used 92 times in SDMB threads. It’s getting more popular over time, with 79 of the threads clustered in just the past year. A quick look at the google results shows the word dating back to only ~1998. A few Google search results (hits): pubbie 657 pubby 1450 (Used to mean: resembling a pub or bar) pubbies 666 pubbys 17 pubby + republican 12 pubbie + republican 172 \<-- correct spelling of the singular form. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-biggest-trend-that-has-been-started-on-the-sdmb/143522.md?page=3)