woot? OK, I give up. I've searched for 'woot' and read all the threads into the middle of the night, but can't, to save my silly life, figure out what 'woot' means (rubs aching head.) I'll know I'll be embarressed to pieces when I find out. Will someone explain, please?
Ok. so if you don't want to read through all the stuff on the link that josh put in, it basically means woohoo, far easier if you ask me......
Thanks, and I'm not embarressed after all . I never played D&D, don't pay much attention to sports, and have always avoided the shoot-em-up games (and so on, et cetera and ad nauseum .) Boy, is my life dull or what! Nothing to woot! about except my trip to London next week. Now there's a woot! x 10!
I had to wait until my two kids were grown up. As you have already discovered, kids cost a whole lot more than the tax deduction allowed for them . Now I'm saving my pennies for traveling. And no kidding, London's going to take a LOT of my pennies. My ultimate goal is to have my assets exactly equal to my liabilities when the time comes to hand in the dinner pail, and seeing as much of the world as possible is how I'm going to do it. If you stop in at my web page (see signature) there are a couple of pictures from our trip to Egypt last fall . (In case you haven't guessed already, I am a bean counter by trade.)
As far as I knew w00t/woot was kind of the 1337 (leet) way of spelling woohoo. Much like pwn'd is to owned.
You left me way behind in the dust with that one SolidSnake. 1337 (leetconfused: pwn'd I read the reference given by ManagerJosh. Fascinating stuff. Some years ago (at least 10) I read some books about the origins of writing. Most of the evidence comes down on the side of the Egyptians as the inventors of writing. Some evidence suggests the Sumerians (think cuneiform). Either way, people drew pictures first, the pictures became stylized (representing ideas as well as objects), then evolved to become representations of sound. This is an extremely superficial summary of a process that took thousands of years. Language scholars (my daughter is one of them) can translate a system that represents the sound of the spoken word. (With dead languages they need something like the Rosetta Stone.) Now this may be hard to believe, but they often can't translate the much older writing done using only pictures. A picture is "a thousand words." It can mean just about anything. What were they telling each other about the mountain when they drew a picture of it? Good for logging? Hunting? Hiding from invasions? Some people post stuff (to this forum and to the Sims2 BBS) that doesn't represent a sound, but rather something more like a picture. \0/ for example. I'm probably wrong, but 1337 looks like a picture of 'leet,' whatever that means. Then, of course, there are the smilies . And Bill Gates' Windows puts a PICTURE OF A TRASH CAN on my computer screen, for pete's sake. Doesn't anyone think that's goofy as can be? The way I see it, all the abreviations and shorthand isn't a move forward to a more efficient means of communication. It's a move backwards. Like the earliest Egyptians and Sumerians who communicated through pictures, "you had to be there" to know what they were talking about. Fortunately, internet software still relies more on language than pictures, so we haven't stepped too far into the past. And the smilies seem benign enough . OK, guys, that's my soapbox event for the day. Back to work. .
Sorry. Wish I could. I'd love to spend more than a week in England. But doesn't Mirelly live somewhere around there? Could we pass the baton, so to speak? :bandit: (glances at clock--12:30 am! Tiptoes off to bed.)
No you can't! p: I have already had to postpone my house move twice and now I find that I've been scheduled to interview a whole pile of nurses next week. Why can't everyone just stop in the same job and quit bothering me!
Sorry. I don't even know what the "baton" is, if it's anything at all. I was just taking a wild guess that the mystery mission involved some 'object.' More likely, it's a "you-are-there" photo op occuring this week and only this week, since my being there the following week doesn't work. Good luck with those nurses and your house move. I really hate moving.
I won't tell you what Hubby some nurses, Mirelly. It isn't nice. LOL And I know that moving is a major pain in the hiney, so you have my sympathies.
