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Oh, it's been used for a long ass time (1992):

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/lappy/

I just happen to agree with the commenter there:

OMG I hate that pseudo-word. It it supposed to be cute? Clever? Geek-chic?

Same number of syllables - just say "laptop".

by Xenedar 29 Sep 06, 0944 GMT

To save others from looking around ...

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A320ADE94F0E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

THE SYSTEM: "IT SERVES NO PURPOSE EXCEPT TO CONSUME ITSELF."

Source: Tim Weiner, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU

The United States is on the verge of building a Star Wars missile defense system. But the project's in-house critics say it has become a "feeding frenzy" of contractors building an expensive system of questionable worth. After nine years of research and $30 billion, with little to show for the time and money, Congress has ordered the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) to build something: an elaborate system of missiles, radars, command

Published on March 23, 1992, Page A01, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/self_licking_ice_cream_cone/

self-licking ice cream cone n. a process, department, institution, or other thing that offers few benefits and exists primarily to justify or perpetuate its own existence. Also in the form self-licking lollipop.

The guy's name is "Johnny Zit-train." Sounds like a character out of a Clearasil commercial.

Google is trying to promote knol as a new buzzword meaning "a unit of knowledge."

I wonder how many knol's Slashdot is worth?

The story of woot, as we know it, is simple. There were two similar songs on the charts that year. In April "Whoot There It Is" by 95 South (Ichiban Records) was the number seven best-selling song in Central Florida, according, to the Orlando Sentinel. "Whoomp! (There It Is)," by Tag Team (Life Records) out of Atlanta showed up at number 15 on Billboard's R&B singles 27 May 1993 and stayed for 45 weeks on the Billboard top 100, where it reached number 2. It was the more popular of the two songs.

Elsewhere woot is claimed to come from root, the user name given in Unix-based operating systems to the administrator's account. This lacks any supporting evidence at all, except for dubious claims of "I remember," and is rebuffed here for the sake of completeness.

Wasn't there a hacker group known as w00t around that time frame as well? Whatever happened to them?

- SR

'The Lexicographer's Rules' has some comments on the etymology: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/the_real_history_and_origin_of_woot_and_w00t/

oblig link on w00t

Finally I will be able to know wtf happens during my blackouts and hth do I manage to get home with no cash!

You have not heard of the mythical beer chariot? The powerful have been trying to conceal its very existence but some people remember.

This new device will help those of us with periodic memory loss that seems only to occur on Friday nights. Perhaps we will see conclusive proof that the beer chariot exists after all!

The term email bankruptcy dates as far back as 1999, though the written record only shows it as far back as 2002.

In English, taking extraordinary measures toward achieving maximum fuel efficiency in an automobile is known as hypermiling [self-link].

My goodness, you're right.

Is there *nothing* that Google can't find an answer for?

Definition of data Valdez, via a self-link.

Definition of 'mouth breather'

(justfuckinggoogleit)

No, sheesh.

AP == Access point
WAP == Wireless Application Protocol
WAP Browsing == Looking at womens Waps

For those interested, here's a definition of mugu. It's a self-link.

For those interested, here's a definition of mugu. It's a self-link.

• I'm no cultural anthropologist,

You're either seriously misinformed, too lazy to look up the real facts or just trolling actually. While Japan is certainly far from perfect, this is a totally unfair attack.

• but something must be seriously fucked up with a nation that produces millions of locked-away teenagers,

It's called Hikikomori so you can look up more info on it. Yes there are a million teens who have this problem, but there are many millions who don't. The problem isn't considered a disease (at least not yet), and the problems that trigger it are problems that occur elsewhere as well. From this site: "For reasons ranging from bullying to exam failure, some young people are shutting themselves away in their rooms and having as little direct contact with the outside world as possible. Many are suicidal, but lack the will to make good their morbid fantasies." From what I've read (in the past, can't find the exact links right now) it's a combination that generally causes it. It's not just bad grades or bullying, but a combination of those and/or other factors. Faced with that kind of pressure kids in any country are going to have trouble dealing with it. In fact, China and Korea have problems with high teen suicide rates (just like Japan) largely due to all three placing such importance on doing well on school. If China and Korea aren't seeing problems similiar to Hikikomori yet, they will in the future.

As for why the US doesn't, well kids here by and large don't give a damn if they do well in school so that's one less pressure to trigger something like this. But we do have bullying in schools, in spades in fact, and we have nothing to be proud of in the results it can cause, remember Columbine? What's sad is we didn't really learn anything from that tragedy, the initial response was to ban wearing black trenchcoats and to target teens with similar interests to the two instigators for further scrutiny. What needs to be done is to focus on the kids who are the bullys and punish them for bullying others. Until bullying, which is the root problem, is addressed other incidents like Columbine are likely to happen. I hope I'm wrong there, but I doubt it.

• unending streams of paedophilic tentacle rape comics

On please, you know absolutely nothing about manga. Yeah there is tentacle rape stuff, but it's just a drop in the sea. Japan produces comics for all ages, and they're quite popular. It's everywhere, and most of it is decidedly NOT pedophilic or tentacle rape. And of the stuff that is, as another pointed out it's not necessarily pedophilic, it's cultural issues that lead to the creation of it. (And BTW, the US has some blame in that, we're the ones who applied the first anti-obscenity laws to Japan post WWII.)

• and expensive robots to keep its elderly people sane.

At least they're trying to do something about the problem, exacly what are we doing here in the US? At best we're building more nursing homes to stuff the elderly into so we can forget them. Hardly a higher moral ground.

• Say what you want about the bloated corpulence of USofAia, but I'd take physical problems over crippling psychological problems and abandonment of the elderly.

What say you buck the general American trend of presuming you know everything about a country you've not even been to and stop acting all high and mighty when you're clueless. While Japan isn't perfect, neither is the US and in the grand scheme of things the US probably has more to be ashamed of. We also have our share of crippling psychological problems, you just don't appear to be aware of them either. (Do you even watch/read the news?) Depression is becoming epidemic and one of the top prescription drugs people get busted for having is Xanax. Xanax isn't a narcotic, it's an anti-anxiety medication.

And frankly when it comes t