Internet Verbiage?

[priceyfatprude]

I'm not sure how to start this thread. I want you to share a word or term that you use, that has made other people turn their head & ask you to clarify.

C'mon, try it, you'll like it!



Original Definition:

pounce ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pouns)
v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es
v. intr.

To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: a cat that pounced on a mouse; watched the falcon pounce on the baby rabbit.

To attack suddenly: irregular troops who pounced on the convoy at a narrow pass; a colleague who pounced on me because of a mistake in my report.

To seize something swiftly and eagerly: pounce on an opportunity.


PFP Definition:

Pouncer: A person who is on IM at all times, and has severe diarrhea of the fingers. As soon as they see you have signed in, they IM you. And keep IMing you. If you should dare check your email, get up to get a drink or go pee, etc, they will ask what you are doing, or say 'you must be busy' etc.

You can talk to the Pouncer on IM or on the phone the day before. You can have absolutely nothing new to say. IT DOES NOT MATTER TO THE POUNCER. They see you log in & POUNCE!!!! Hence the sentence, "I had to block ***** on IM, he's a pouncer."


Before anyone here who IM's me gets a complex, ***** is the one who is a pouncer, not any of you.


Now it is your turn. Share with us a word that you have made your own.

[trisherina]

"Overweening modem geek"

A term suggesting someone who feels personal ego is at stake based on what they or others say via text in an online forum.

[priceyfatprude]

I would like to take this moment, to say I want to marry Mrs Rat.

[rapscalious rob]

denizen of the internet: anyone who is a member of a number of web, bbs, or other internet communities of some sort and has been for a several years is a denizen of the internet.

[Coffee]

Originally posted by rapscalious rob
denizen of the internet: blah blah blah.. and has been for a several years is a denizen of the internet.

whew...I have at least a year or two to go before I qualify.

[zenbabe]

lurker --- one who reads an email list or a message board but does not participate in the discussion.


flamer --- one who 'flames'; To rant on about some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility towards a particular person or group of people

[trisherina]

"troll"

Online persona who incites riot, then pulls up the proverbial lawn chair.

gasp, peef, this is so sudden

[dinzdale]

Bunch of wankers (col.noun)

An internet message board run by part-time janitor Mr Frank Zed.

usage:
What are you doing Dinz?
I'm going on line to talk bollocks to a "bunch of wankers"

[zero]

http://images.urbandictionary.com/view/large/1930.jpg


attention whore (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=attention+whore&r=f)

[Clytie]

asterisking

Using the star-shaped figure (*) to indicate behaviors, gestures, or any other action online [ie *cartwheels*]

[funkytuba]

so the asterisking term for astrisking itself would be:

****

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[Spicy Jack]

astastic astrification.

[Willow Sylph]

Stealth mode
When you're online, on the board, on yims and aim's, but are hidden.


Stealth bomb bid
When you wait until the very last minute of an ebay auction to jump in and bid, so that no one else has time to outbid you or try to jack up the bid (unless they're even sneakier than you).