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Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 3, 2011 at 6:37pm

What does "woot", ":dream", ":pop", ":yeah:" and ":woot:" mean?

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on February 3, 2011 at 7:26pm

Sounds like an alka seltzer commercial to me.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 3, 2011 at 7:42pm

You make me laugh!

Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on February 4, 2011 at 6:27am

Sounds like happiness to me.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on February 4, 2011 at 2:10pm

I like that observation. How to write whimsically in black and white?

Permalink Reply by Robert Kenealy on February 4, 2011 at 2:18pm

In online speak, woot was popularized within MMO's; prior to that it was a sub slang along side the much more popular "uber" which you'll recognize as German for "super". Uber came about from Wolfenstein's "Das Uber Soldat" - the Super Soldier. Thus anything really good was uber. And to celebrate getting uber items, Woot came into play - which was progressing from D&D tabletop (woot loot!) now into the realms of the online culture as the more stylish "whoohoo" or "yay" (note - its also slang for root.)

Pop refers to his transition within the "dream" of being at the Stonehenge archeology site.
similar to "poof".

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on February 4, 2011 at 4:42pm

Actually, it was around in FPS's, long before MMO's got big.  I heard it in the original Counterstrike and Starsiege: Tribes, way back in the day, a little before 2000.

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