PWNED! (19-April)

Post by **Mae Dean** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:44 am

WCH, dude, LET IT GO. Seriously.

Philippe Gaboury · Post by **Philippe Gaboury** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:32 am

Honestly, I had no clue where pwned came from. I figured out what it meant based on the contexts I'd seen it in but it's nice to finally see it spelled out. Informative and funny. Great strip.

Am I the only one on the web that doesn't get l33t speak?

Gremmy · Post by **Gremmy** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:50 am

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Philippe Gaboury · Post by **Philippe Gaboury** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:58 pm

Actually I have to reconsider my earlier post.

Although I figured that PWND! was something akin to OWNED! I always thought of it as a vowel-less PAWNED! as in:

We came into this competition on equal footing but now that I have clearly demonstrated my superiority it is a fair statement to say that I am your king and you are my pawn. I have effectively PAWNED you.

What does anyone else think?

Also: civil smack-talk turns me on

Felan · Post by **Felan** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:58 pm

Wow, now we know where PWNED comes from. I feel soo enlightened. Who knew that back in the 80s where they used their 486s to play cops and robbers where the word would come from!

Gremmy · Post by **Gremmy** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:08 pm

We came into this competition on equal footing but now that I have clearly demonstrated my superiority it is a fair statement to say that I am your king and you are my pawn. I have effectively PAWNED you.

May I use this without fearing some legal action taken against me? Cause I like this one a lot.

Philippe Gaboury · Post by **Philippe Gaboury** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:42 pm

[quote="Gremmy";p="483046"]May I use this without fearing some legal action taken against me? Cause I like this one a lot.

[/quote]

Use it to your heart's delight my friend!

StarRaptor · Post by **StarRaptor** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:14 pm

Might we see a PWNED shirt in the store?

Zantar Black · Post by **Zantar Black** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:09 pm

I have a shirt that says "I 0wn3d j00".

And yes, I verbalize "Pwned" every now and then, and I'm not ashamed of it.

Scarf · Post by **Scarf** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:12 pm

[quote="Zantar Black";p="483276"]And yes, I verbalize "Pwned" every now and then, and I'm not ashamed of it.[/quote]But how do you verbalize it? I do to, and for me it sounds like "Puh-whoaned".

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:30 pm

"Poned" like "Phoned" with a hard P instead of an F sound. I usually just say "owned" though...the P is implied.

soniXX · Post by **soniXX** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:01 am

I say pooned.But then again, I'm Australian and weird.

Miki42 · Post by **Miki42** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:14 pm

What I've reasoned and been told that pwned comes from something like "power owned" or maybe just a degredation of own or the typo justified with power owned. So I would pronounce it with the p sound of power followed by own.

Scotty · Post by **Scotty** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:09 am

i found the meaning in urbandictionary.com Pwned is actually a typo, the "creator" was making a Warcraft campaign and when typing out the defeat message instead of "<player> has been owned!" he accidently put "<player> has be pwned" and so anyone who played that campaign saw the typo and it stuck

OldSchoolUltima · Post by **OldSchoolUltima** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:51 am

Who can remember the first time they ever saw someone type pwned?

The first time I ever encountered it was in UO during a guild pvp tourney ... my roommate pwned our guildmaster.

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