Lady Doom ([info]lithera) wrote in [info]seattle,
2009-12-23 10:57:00
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Snowpocalypse and the awesomeness of this comm

From The New York Times: "“Snowpocalypse” appears to have made its way into the vernacular; ABC News even used the term in a Web headline on Saturday. However, the word might be more familiar to those in the Pacific Northwest. Urban Dictionary suggests the term emerged in Seattle in late 2008 to describe a Dec. 20 blizzard. But the term seems a bit older than that. While we make no claims achieving Safire standards here, our adventure in Google etymology yielded uses of the term in 2007 and even 2006 – both those years apparently referring to northern Washington State storms as well."

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[info]frogger414

December 23 2009, 19:22:52 UTC 2 years ago

Thanks for posting this, I think we should take credit for speading the phrase as we are full of win and awesome :)

[info]bork

December 23 2009, 19:28:28 UTC 2 years ago

Oh yes. I agree.

[info]lithera

December 23 2009, 19:28:38 UTC 2 years ago

Just sharing the love.

[info]animimi

December 23 2009, 19:50:25 UTC 2 years ago

I agree too!

[info]gkr

December 23 2009, 19:36:23 UTC 2 years ago

Best of my knowledge it was the sea-goths who invented the term in 2004 or 2005.

[info]lithera

December 23 2009, 19:37:10 UTC 2 years ago

Huh. Interesting.

[info]gkr

December 23 2009, 19:39:24 UTC 2 years ago

Or earlier. Lotta them are on this community though and brought it here. Y'all can still take credit for spreading it.

[info]rosebranch

December 23 2009, 20:57:23 UTC 2 years ago

Pics or it didn't happen. ;)

[info]martygreene

December 24 2009, 01:55:26 UTC 2 years ago

the "crackboard' as it were got annihilated more than once by ezboard's fuckups, and then yuku and it's asshattery. There are many things I wish we still had the archives of that place for, this included.

[info]gkr

December 24 2009, 02:41:54 UTC 2 years ago

A picture from 2005. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattleforge/69725718/

[info]rosebranch

December 24 2009, 15:49:50 UTC 2 years ago

Based on the '03 mention in DC and the '00 mention in the northeast, we may not have originated the term but merely been the first region to start using it regularly. I'm ok with that.

[info]gkr

December 24 2009, 02:53:22 UTC 2 years ago

ANd here's a use of it in 2003 on someone's DC blog.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:FvZG70a1Gm0J:www.chrisafer.com/2003_02_01_blog_archive.html+snowpocalypse+-2009&cd=27&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[info]gkr

December 24 2009, 02:57:07 UTC 2 years ago

and here's a post to Seattle Metblogs by Colleen (a sea gother) from 2005.

http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/28/that-time-of-year-again/

[info]rjl20

December 24 2009, 04:16:58 UTC 2 years ago

Here's someone in the Northeast using it in 2000.

[info]my_poison_apple

December 23 2009, 23:24:08 UTC 2 years ago

My sheer awesomeness never fails to astound.

[info]martygreene

December 24 2009, 01:56:03 UTC 2 years ago

I remember it from when I lived here last, and that was '03.

[info]gkr

December 24 2009, 02:15:05 UTC 2 years ago

Yeah, after I posted the previous comment I remembered that Sea-goth more or less died by 2004-2005, so it hadda been earlier.

[info]martygreene

December 24 2009, 06:48:01 UTC 2 years ago

Yeah, the last of the seagoth sushi's was shortly after I moved away in '03.

[info]satchmo128

December 23 2009, 19:39:29 UTC 2 years ago

This made me smile :)

[info]frogger414

December 23 2009, 19:51:45 UTC 2 years ago

Now if only "sark" would catch on, but then it's also one of our super cool phrases so IDK

[info]mcfnord

December 23 2009, 22:05:52 UTC 2 years ago



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[info]tiff_seattle

December 24 2009, 05:00:45 UTC 2 years ago

cough cough..

http://tiff-seattle.livejournal.com/113375.html
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