How did the term "$HITTING BRICKS" originate?
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The easiest way to get this answer is to look up the root word, "$hit" on the web page below. If you read down, it should list all the literary references to the different phrases. Good luck.
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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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how about you do your own research and homework.\n\nHere's my answer: 1 brick at a time until it's done.
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The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the phrase has been used for about 300 years to refer to measurements that are based on experience instead of exact science.\n\nThe "wife-beating" definition was made up by a feminist sometime in the 1970s.
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Squash derives from the games loosely known as Rackets during the 19th century. Rackets itself came from a strange source. Sports involving hitting a ball with a racket of sorts had become increasingly popular at that time and one version developed in London's Fleet prison where debtor inmates got their exercise by whacking a ball against the prison's many walls. \n\nBy some weird and wonderful twist of fate the idea was taken up at Harrow public school, where it was noticed it was more interesting and physically demanding to play with a ball that  'squashed' on impact with the wall rather than bouncing straight back. Squash was officially founded when the school had four courts purpose built for the new sport.
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maybe it got coined from how wrenching it feels when one discovers they were irrefutably wrong.\n\nsorry, typo
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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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Crack is wack.\n[/80s slogan]
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During the 'brown period' (betweeen 11 BC and 9 BC), caves were filled with shit and puke. Man tried everything including cooking, which cured the shits for good. BTW, that was also the origin of the word "BINGO!"
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The first time I heard the term was when I was a mechanic in a tune up shop. A really rich guy came and bought the whole thing form the franchise that was running it. One day he sent me with his car to the car wash. If your familiar with them they have guy's that dry your car after the wash. When the guy was done with the car I used some of the bosses money to tip the dryer dude, they don't get paid by the car wash only tips. Anyway when I got back I told the boss what I did due to the fact the tip didn't show on the receipt. He said"That's ok I don't want you to be a ham and eggs about it" . so yes I would be insulted about it. By the way the whole episode pissed me off and I quit the very next week. The dude was a total a$$hole. but to this day I still use the term.
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The battering ram was founded so people could get inside castles, or other buildings. Usually in war times and the intruders were usually trying to get inside the building to attack.
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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in some old time score books, a line was drawn for each strike on a batter and within the box for each batter when three strikes were recorded, those lines loosely resembled what looks like a K.  scorebooiks have been changed and modified several times over the years and there are multiple versions in use today, but that is how the term K first came into being.
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Inner city rough and poor neighborhoods were referred to as the "Ghetto".    Used alot in the 60's and 70's really.   I think today we have extended the word to mean things that are distasteful.....I noticed young people using it that way.....I see even on this site referring to this and that as ghetto.\nSo there you go....the meaning has changed over the generations.
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I've used that phrase too and have had quite a few funny looks.\nAs quoted from Ubran Dictionary:\nButt Load \n The international phrase for a "large amount," of anything being described.\nThe my boss dumped a Butt Load of work on my desk for me to finish. After that I quit.\n--\n A term used to define a finite sum of something. Generally accepted as an amount somewhere between a lot and a shit-ton. Often noted when speaking in hyperboly and used for extreme emphasis or exaggeration.\n\nman i've got a butt load of homework to do!\n---\n \n the scientific term for a great quantity, usually prolific or copious in nature, occasionally verging on infinity in some cases\n\nBuilding the Hoover Dam required a butt load of cement.\n----\n a copious quantity of anything frustrating particularly in academia. \n\nI have a butt load of lousy history papers to grade \n---\n Butt Load was offically assigned a quantity of 18 by the Avionics Technicians of VFA-147 while deployed to the Persian Gulf on the USS Nimitz in 1993. (It gets boreing at sea sometimes LOL)\n\nGuys, we have 2 Butt Loads (36) of gripes to work off tonite so turn off the movie.\n\n----\n Noun, An amount of money, usually large, approximately enough to buy a jetski with.\n\n"Thats A Buttload of money, enough to buy a jetski with!"
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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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Think it was called "Getting by"\n\nCould be wrong tho.  Check the link provided.