What's up with "FAIL"?

[pallister]

It was funny at first when MM introduced it, but like every other word, phrase or joke around here it's been run into the ground repeatedly by unimaginative posters.

 

[farmerjerome]

At our place, I think it started when we decided that half the coaches in the area failed at life. It seems to happen more often when we get to spring sports.

 

[Diabeetus]

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

Au contraire

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

Good call, Ace. I was thinking of this lady:

 

[Diabeetus]

It was funny at first when MM introduced it, but like every other word, phrase or joke around here it's been run into the ground repeatedly by unimaginative posters.

Fail isn't something that originated here. It's pretty common internet lexicon.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

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

Au contraire

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

Good call, Ace. I was thinking of this lady:

Here's a better one.

 

[pallister]

Fail isn't something that originated here. It's pretty common internet lexicon.

That's why I said introduced instead of invented. And there are plenty of things that originate somewhere else, then get run into the ground elsewhere.

 

[Tom Petty]

It was funny at first when MM introduced it, but like every other word, phrase or joke around here it's been run into the ground repeatedly by unimaginative posters.

Fail isn't something that originated here. It's pretty common internet lexicon.

buuuut, the word lexicon isn't common any where.


fail.

 

[mike311gd]

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

Au contraire

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

Good call, Ace. I was thinking of this lady:

Heck of a post on that clip: "Lmfao everyone watching TV was probably like WTF???"

That's why I love YouTube.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

It's become very overused, but the Bob Barker photo is pretty good.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

There's two popular uses: fail as a common noun (this soup tastes like stale okra and fail), and fail as a one-word declaritive in the lolcat vein. It's the latter that has weaved it's way into intrawebs immortality. But all things go the way of the O RLY? owl.

 

[imjustagirl]

There's two popular uses: fail as a common noun (this soup tastes like stale okra and fail)

It was this usage, only of the word "win" that was my favorite. You wrote about how something was made of cherries and win or something and it made me giggle really hard.

 

[zeke12]

FAIL even has a blog now, so you know it's hip and on the cutting edge.

http://failblog.org/

 

[Gutter]

http://failblog.org/

FAIL even has a blog now, so you know it's hip and on the cutting edge.

http://failblog.org/

FAIL....

 

[Matt1735]

This portion of this message board is Full of FAIL!

 

[imjustagirl]

OK, I'm not going to lie...I just laughed MUCH harder at this than I should have.

 

[luckyducky]

http://failblog.org/

FAIL even has a blog now, so you know it's hip and on the cutting edge.

http://failblog.org/

FAIL....

Thanks, Gutter. I was starting to think I was invisible. ;D

 

[imjustagirl]

My latest example of fail.

I just looked online to find someplace around me that delivers pizza (love the New Haven style of pizza) and decided to get some boneless wings and save the small pizza to warm up later and tomorrow. What gets delivered but like four chicken tenderloins cut into strips and drowned in sauce.

THOSE. ARE. NOT. BONELESS. WINGS.