What's the origin of the phrase "OMG ponies"?
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On April 1st, 2006, slashdot.org change the theme of their website to be entirely pink and replaced the quote "News for Nerds" with the phrase "OMG!! Ponies!!".\n\nI believe they got the idea for doing this from cuteoverload.com
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I used to be a server and we used to say that all the time but I had no idea where it came from.  So...  I tried to find some info and this is a website I found.  I hope it answers your questions.  I found it interesting.  \n\nhttp://www.dinermuseum.org/culture/culture-slang.php
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They are sort of a play on words, combined with a humorous attempt at replacing a swearword or blasphemy with something harmless.\n\nWhen you start to say "Oh my God!" you catch yourself at the 'g' and change it to "oh my Giddy aunt!"\n\nWith "God!" again you stop at the 'g' but change it to "Gordon Bennett!"\n\nAnd of course you might be about to say "F**king heck!" (or something similar,) when you sense your Grandmother breathing down your neck, so you catch yourself at the 'f' and say "Flipping Nora!"
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It's from "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. \n\nIt's out of copyright now so maybe you can look through the text http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CarGlas.html :)\n\nThat's also where "Jabberwocky" comes from, and the Duchess' Lullaby \n\nSpeak roughly to your little boy,\nAnd beat him when he sneezes:\nHe only does it to annoy,\nBecause he knows it teases.\n\n:)
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lol I have got laugh at the way you asked your question (its cute)       lol\nmy teen boy say it all the time to their girl friends just over anything.\nthen of course my teen girl chime in with GROSS.!!!\n\nI don't know where the saying came from sorry .
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It's Tempest in a Teacup and it came from Shakespeare, I think.  It means something that's been blown out of proportion.
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actually this question was AOL's home page the other day I believe. The saying came from the horse racing track. People would offer a tip and a horse that would win and if was an insider ( jockey, trainer, ect)  or reliable tip they would say it came "straight from the horses mouth"
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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There's a couple of different theories on this. When hackers had achieved "root access" on a target, they would shout "root", eventually as mistyping and slang took over, this became "woot". The other is an acronym in team-based gameplay, meaning: We Owned Other Team. Another is from D&D, where "Wow! Loot!" was shortened to Woot. Some people also think "w00t" derives from the german word "Wut", which means the same as "anger" and is often used in computer matches to emphasize ones own rage. So pick your favorite and go with that, I guess it's too shrouded in obscurity to know for sure.
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It is a slang term. Did a little research on it, and really cannot seem to find the origin of the word at all.\n\nplural noun hoot·ers  \n \nDefinition: \n  \noffensive term: an offensive term for a woman's breasts, especially when large ( slang )
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The term you're thinking about it 'goolies'. I really don't know where it comes from, but it refers to the testes, rather than the penis
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This expression, meaning "be very careful to behave correctly",\nhas been in use from the 17th century on.  Theories include:  an\nadmonishment to children learning to write; an admonishment to\ntypesetters (who had to look at the letters reversed); an\nadmonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with\ntheir tarred "queues" (pigtails); "mind your pints and quarts";\n"mind your prices and quality"; "mind your pieds and queues"\n(either feet and pigtails, or two dancing figures that had to be\naccurately performed); the substitution of /p/ for "qu" /kw/ in the\nspeech of uneducated ancient Romans; or the confusion by students\nlearning both Latin and Ancient Greek of such cognates as _pente_\nand _quintus_.  And yes, we've heard the joke about the instruction\nto new sextons:  "Mind your keys and pews."
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When I have heard this expression the person was talking about a child with very blonde hair. I am not sure where the term came from.
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There are several theories for the expression's origins. All are heavily debated. Like many expressions it is almost impossible to fully trace its origins unless there are some sort of identifying markers found in derived Latin expressions. The below are some of the most popular origins for the expression, but cannot be conclusively proven.\n\nTraditional Theory\n\nIn the U.K., the most common idea of origin for the expression comes from tradition. Historians know from the time of King James I and Shakespeare's King's Men that actors would on occasion receive tips on top of their salaries. Rather than receiving tips directly from the company or theatre, tipping was left to the audience. During the final bows or curtain call, audiences would throw money, usually coins, onto the stage depending on how well they enjoyed the performance. In some bad performances they would throw rotten vegetables, but in the good cases, money. Actors would then 'take a knee', effectively breaking their leg line, on stage and pick up the money. As a result when you wishs someone to 'break a leg' it refers to wishing them success in their performance so in end they would have to kneel down and collect a welcoming tip. Theatre evolved and the tradition of tipping changed. This tradition led to the tradition of throwing flowers on stage, as well as presenting flowers. The expression continued through theatre as it was still applicable and later became tradition.\n\nAntonym Theory\n\nBreaking one's leg is not a good thing to hope for - therefore by some superstition, if "good luck" causes bad luck, then the perceived bad luck of breaking one's leg causes good.\n\nBowing\n\nThis theory is thought to be an extension of the Traditional Theory. For the curtain call, when actors bow or curtsy, they place one foot behind the other and bend at the knee, 'breaking' the line of the leg. In theatre, pleased audiences may applaud in which time encore bows sometimes occur. On Broadway this is considered the highest compliment to an actor. In wishing someone to 'break a leg' you are ultimately wishing them to bow many times effectively causing them to 'break a leg'. A continuation of this theory is joke where you wish someone to bow too many times that they 'break a leg'.\n\nGreek Origin\n\nIn the time of Ancient Greece, people didn’t applaud. Instead, they stomped for their appreciation and if they stomped long enough, they would break a leg. Or, some would have it that the term originated during Elizabethan times when, instead of applause the audience would stomp their chairs – and if they liked it enough, the leg of the chair would break. [1]\n\n\nLincoln Theory\n\nPopular etymology derives the phrase from the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth, the actor turned assassin, leapt to the stage of Ford's Theatre after the murder, breaking his leg in the process. The logical connection with good luck is none too clear, but such is folklore.
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not so sure of the origin and history behind the phrase but if you find it ranining cat's and dogs be careful not to step in a poodle... i looked it up for you and yu can find the answer at the link below
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I think it's a euphemism for "jacksh-t"\nSo now the question is, where did THAT phrase come from?
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The name "Pom" is said to derive from Australia's origins as a convict colony. Each unfortunate transported down under from Britain for his or her (mostly) petty crime was said to be a "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or POHM, later simplified to POM.  \n\nHowever, there is an alternative explanation as  Pom was around a few years before Word War II.  In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England.  It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told."  Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children.  The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on."  Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century.  It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation.