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08 Mar 2010, 10:14 am

I've seen it many times, its interesting because it's backwards of wtf.



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08 Mar 2010, 10:17 am

Usually "for the win." Basically "[Thing] ftw!" means "I think [Thing] is awesome."


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08 Mar 2010, 11:01 am

The origin of the phrase comes from the old TV game show Hollywood Squares, a sort of Tic-Tac-Toe played by trying to figure out whether a celebrity's answer to a question is correct or not - if you guess right, your symbol (X or O) goes into that square. One of the show's catchphrases, used when someone was about to try to take the square that would win the game, was, "I'll take <celebrity name> for the win!"


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08 Mar 2010, 6:24 pm

"---- the world" :P


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08 Mar 2010, 8:52 pm

I was thinking that, jawbrodt. Except I put a rude word in instead of dashes.



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08 Mar 2010, 9:13 pm

For The Win!


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08 Mar 2010, 9:36 pm

Moog wrote:
I was thinking that, jawbrodt. Except I put a rude word in instead of dashes.




I didn't put the dashes in there, it happened automatically. It was supposed to be the F-word, but didn't come out that way.LOL


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08 Mar 2010, 10:11 pm

OBJECTION!



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08 Mar 2010, 10:16 pm

Objection desu?


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08 Mar 2010, 10:32 pm

makuranososhi wrote:
Objection desu?


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no just the normal objection
I'm not japanese lol



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08 Mar 2010, 10:35 pm

For the winning.


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08 Mar 2010, 10:43 pm

this thread is made of substantial fail



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08 Mar 2010, 10:52 pm

Kilroy wrote:
makuranososhi wrote:
Objection desu?


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no just the normal objection
I'm not japanese lol


*chuckle* Perhaps I'll go figure out how to best translate "I'll be your huckleberry" into Nihongo tonight...


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08 Mar 2010, 10:56 pm

just say desu desu desu and you'll be understood lol



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08 Mar 2010, 11:03 pm

FTW is the opposite of WTF, both in spelling and (sort of) the meaning. Funny how we just had that discussion this Friday in Philosophy class. (random, ain't it?)


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08 Mar 2010, 11:04 pm

Kilroy wrote:
this thread is made of substantial fail


Would that be "fail the world" then?


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