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{appy Hamper

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pwned
« on: April 11, 2007, 07:34:05 PM »
someone please explain what exactly "pwned" means (as opposed to just "owned"), and also why some people are obsessed with saying it.

Spook

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Re: pwned
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2007, 07:36:31 PM »
probably started out as just a typo

TinMan

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Re: pwned
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2007, 07:38:23 PM »
no, just like ROGL it isn't a typo. I pwnd your mother.

Anarchy

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Re: pwned
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2007, 07:43:38 PM »
probably started out as just a typo

supposedly, a respected Quake player kept making a typo and it caught on. or in the last level of warcraft I it said pwned instead of owned. both are rumors. who really knows....

TinMan

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Re: pwned
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2007, 07:52:23 PM »
wow, um...it's been around way longer than WC I.
ROGL was started by someone who insisted that the well known expression was "Rolling On Ground Laughing"

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Pwn_%28disambiguation%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

I personally believe in the either unintentional typo that caught on in some game, or the Phreaking phrenzy where a lot of letters were mysteriously changed to P's. Did you just own that dude's 'puter, or did you pwn it!?!??1111 DIAL-UP HAX111!!!1!!!///ichi

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Re: pwned
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2007, 07:54:55 PM »

nightryder

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Re: pwned
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2007, 08:01:57 PM »
like when people type omgz or lolz

BLONDIE

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Re: pwned
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2007, 08:42:59 PM »
ZoMG!

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Re: pwned
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2007, 08:10:28 AM »

JOE

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Re: pwned
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2007, 08:16:52 AM »
on kind of a side note with the word pwned, ive been hearing a LOT of people like saying it and excrement  around school and its kinda of annoying.  I was also in gamestop the other day and they had and xbox case that said pwned on the side of it... last week i even saw a licence plate  that said pwned.  wtf is going on here dont people have lifes?

jitspoe

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Re: pwned
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2007, 02:30:46 PM »
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last week i even saw a licence plate  that said pwned
Hehe, I saw a license plate that said PWN-1457 (don't remember what the number was), but I'm pretty sure it was just random chance, as all the license plates around here are 3 alphas, 4 digits.  It would be funny to get one that said PWN-1337, though, just to see if anybody noticed it.

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Re: pwned
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2007, 02:32:16 PM »
Hehe, I saw a license plate that said PWN-1457 (don't remember what the number was), but I'm pretty sure it was just random chance, as all the license plates around here are 3 alphas, 4 digits.  It would be funny to get one that said PWN-1337, though, just to see if anybody noticed it.

Last night I saw 666-FTX, so close to FTW  :-\

Silly

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Re: pwned
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2007, 02:33:58 PM »
L33T  lmao!
that woluld be funny