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Ridonkulous
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10/22/04 06:59 AM EST
posted by Blearns email web |
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The first place this word has been proven to be used online is alt.fan.backstreet.boys?
Now that's ridonkulous.
At least "PurpleSquiggleDebs" had fun using it...
And I can't figure how her double-jointed hips would work...
And doing a bit of math, it seems PSD would be in her sophomore year at college by now, I wonder if this posting is a huge embarassment now, or if she still loves the Backstreet Boys as much as she ever did? |
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| I was so using ridonkulous pre 1998. It dates at least back to 1997 at the Pi Kappa Phi house at Miami University. |
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| Wait, did you have 8th graders at those parties? Maybe that's where "PurpleSquiggleDebs" picked it up from... |
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| I did, and 4th graders too. |
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10/22/04 03:16 PM EST
posted by Grant Barrett web |
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| It's only the earliest I could find, not the earliest guaranteed ever first use of the word. If you can find it in print earlier, let me know. |
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| And I believe that this is how the web is supposed to work, unlike some threads... |
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Well, this post succeeded in bringing together word origin researchers for historical analysis while other threads are simply a magnet for douchebags.
A place for everything and everything in its place... |
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| Perhaps more research needs to be done on douchebag magnets, if we create the perfect page it may keep spammers so busy that they won't have time to create more spam... |
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| Every spammer in the world would be focussed on bouncing between just two pages on Shiny Donkey... would be so sweet. |
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07/29/09 10:16 PM EST
posted by Jeremy |
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| my aunt claims she'd bin using ridonkulous forever the first time i heard it was from her and got excited and told all my freinds about it but like a month l8r it came on icarly and then bolt thats my story |
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07/24/10 09:44 PM EST
posted by tiger |
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actually, my great-great grandfather first used the term over a card game in Wyoming in 1897.
there. glad that's finally settled.
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