Explain to me SUXXOR and BUMP

[Henry]

I stand corrected. Although I still submit that the one everyone's actually heard does not say w00t there it is...

It doesn't say "whoop" either... Anyway, nobody will know for sure - but it's one theory among several...

 

[Allanon]

I get that (do it all the time). But how did it come to be an intensifier (i.e. "very")

Wikipedia has a small article about it here. They refer to Jeff K. a fictitious update writer for the popular website Something Awful which probably popularized it. The Wikipedia article about Jeff K. can be found here, an article about Something Awful can be found here.

Hope this answer all your questions about the teh .

 

[BOZ]

simple, when you use it interchangably with "the".

"you're the man" as opposed to "you're a man"
"that's the bomb" as opposed to "that's a bomb"

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I get that (do it all the time). But how did it come to be an intensifier (i.e. "very")

I don't know the exact history behind it, but I understand the usage. When one sucks so much that they are the very definition of suckitude, they are The Suck, or "teh suck".

 

[BOZ]

that too.

 

[James Heard]

D00dZ, th1s thr34d 1s t3h b0mb

Strangely enough I remember all of these same 'what the?' sorts of questions on FidoNet back in 90 even. Luckily back then it was usually just really, really bad typing.