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Old 12-10-2003 | 02:56 AM
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Who the heck made up the term "you got owned" or "I owned you" or "xxx owned you" ???

Please someone tell me so I can smack them silly. I think that is one of the stupidest terms ever concocted by ricers (one can only assume ricers made it up), because it IS just, that, stupid.

Whoever made up that term just got OWNED by me.

What the heck???

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Old 12-10-2003 | 02:59 AM
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I think they thought "rules" was suddenly uncool, had to come up with an alternative, and the alternative is lame (or is "lame" suddenly uncool?....).
Old 12-10-2003 | 03:10 AM
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i dunno, my friends and I, as an inside thing use the term owns, but never in the context of you got owned. Its just one of those things your group of friends say, annoying or not. If someone would come up with a good idea, I might say, that owns! or if you like something, lets say, a cell phone. "My cell phone owns." just a weird thing about my friends and i... Have been saying it for years... no relation to the OWNED negative conotation.
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Old 12-10-2003 | 04:07 AM
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I want to smack the ppl who call electonic music electronica!!
GOD DAMN I HATE THAT
Old 12-10-2003 | 04:26 AM
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Also, I want to smack all these people who think all these new rap songs are original in any way whatsoever!
Old 12-10-2003 | 08:20 AM
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I don't think Ricers came up with the term, for that you must look deeper on the internet archives and you'll find that the first people that used it were actually computer nerds...
Old 12-10-2003 | 08:22 AM
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Definately nerd created. It's in the L33T dictionary somewhere.
Old 12-10-2003 | 10:57 AM
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L33T! Argh!!! I hate when people use such abbreviations!

7urb0 is NOT Turbo (It's Seven-urb-Zero). Like brrt50cal stated, people who use the term 'owned' also have a tendancy to mix numbers and letters to form words: seems like regular English is too boring for them.

Some day when they grow up and start looking for jobs, they won't understand why people simply throw out their applications, due to the fact that they cannot spell for beans! Who's OWNED then?!?

-Z-man.
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:13 AM
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and i thought i was the ONLY one that was bothered by that...
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:17 AM
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I think it's "Hick" terminology.
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:20 AM
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That is one of the expressions I hate, some Swedish punks has actually started using it translated it to Swedish.
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:21 AM
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Agree with Matt. I'm also annoyed by the terms "kewl" and "prolly."
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:33 AM
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Ken - I'm with you on that one! Are you kewl with that? Um...prolly not! OWNED.

J/K, I cant standt any of it.
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Old 12-10-2003 | 11:56 AM
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W0w, 1 gu3ss th@t n0n3 0f y0u @r3 c0mput3r guys. 1f y0u w3r3 th3n y0u w0uld kn0w th@t r3pl@c1ng l3tt3rs w1th Numb3rs 0r sp3c1@l ch@r@cht3rs 1s a w@y 0f cr3@t1ng st0ng p@ssw0rds using c0mm0n w0rds th@t ar3 3@sy t0 r3m3b3r.

Translation: Wow, I guess that none of you are computer guys. If you were then you would know that replacing letters with numbers or special charagchters is a way of creating stron passwords using common words that are easy to remember.
Old 12-10-2003 | 11:57 AM
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Oh, that has absolutely nothing to do with Own3d as far as I know. No idea where the term came from. But I think that the term is "Rufus"!


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