What's up with "FAIL"?

[Freelance Hack]

Maybe this belongs in the "You're getting old" thread, but a couple weeks ago I was reading a column that had "Only one beer stand for the left half of the crowd? FAIL!"

Since then, I've seen it on some other sites and on here.

What's up with this? How did this come about? Where are my pants?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You're so random.

 

[dooley_womack1]

You don't know? EPIC FAIL!

 

[luckyducky]

http://failblog.org/

 

[Moderator1]

It has become one of SJ's most overused words and phrases. I haven't seen it anywhere but here.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Its first use on the board was by Mystery Meat almost 2 years ago, back when it showed how many people had you on iggy. MM said of one poster, "You're at the Baskin-Robbins of fail, getting 31 flavors of GTFO."

 

[Dickens Cider]

 

[Freelance Hack]

It has become one of SJ's most overused words and phrases. I haven't seen it anywhere but here.

For a moment, when I saw Moddy had replied to this thread, I thought he was going to be the one to explain it to me. That would have been like needing Ted Kaczynski to explain DVRs or Wi-Fi to me.

Anyway Moddy, here's where I first came across it. So the virus apparently has broken past quarantine here and has infected pop culture.

 

[luckyducky]

Folks, it's not just an SJ thing.

Think of it as the current version of "duh" or "not!"

 

[dooley_womack1]

I laugh nearly every time I encounter it. I guess there's something abrupt to it that I find humorous.

 

[93Devil]

It has become one of SJ's most overused words and phrases. I haven't seen it anywhere but here.

But, yet, I love the pictures.

At this attempt, you are a FAILure.

 

[Ace]

Anyway Moddy, here's where I first came across it. So the virus apparently has broken past quarantine here and has infected pop culture.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

newest award: SportsJournalists.com FAIL! award given to the post that reeks of the most FAIL!

 

[Diabeetus]

 

[imjustagirl]

See, Freelance, this is what you get when you leave your safe haven of SportsJournalists.com.

Never leave again, and you'll know all the pop culture references.

 

[JakeandElwood]

That Millionaire picture didn't actually happen right?

 

[Diabeetus]

It did. The clip of it is up somewhere on youtube.

 

[Ace]

It did. The clip of it is up somewhere on youtube.

Au contraire

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp

 

[hondo]

It has become one of SJ's most overused words and phrases. I haven't seen it anywhere but here.

Someone, somewhere, thought it would be cute to take a verb and make it a noun. Like the word win, as it "he now has 10 wins."

Not proper. But people write it and editors let it get in.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Had to be the $100 question