FTW??

I knew I shouldn’t have picked the busiest month of my year to attempt a writing challenge.  I blinked and missed a whole week.  But if I’m not mistaken (and I never am *), I pretty much promised I’d fail at this.

Anyway.

From an understandably confused reader of the comments:

“Please explain ‘trunk wuzzle’”.

This will come as a shock to many of you, but I’m not always up to date on the latest slang.  I fake it better than most, but more often than not I’m just hoping I’m using it right.  Basically, I wouldn’t be able to function in social settings without context clues.

Case in point – we all know what WTF stands for.  It’s a little rude, but mostly universally known.  Suddenly, some new version of it showed up on the internet.  I started seeing people proclaim “FTW!!!!”

Come to find out, it means For The Win.  For instance, let’s say I do something awesome.  You know, the usual.  I could do said awesomeness and then might shout, “Jason for the win!”

Embarrassing fact:  For the longest time I had no idea what it meant…  So I started saying fut the whuck when I was confused by something.  I knew it was wrong, but it was funny to me.

In an email chain between me and two friends I shared this story and a few other possibilities that I considered it might mean.

For the women!
Found the water!
Felt the wombat!
Fled the weather!

And my favorite…

Fugly Trunk Wuzzles!!!

I’ll leave you to Google Wuzzles.  And fugly for that matter.  If it bothers you, fuzzy is an acceptable substitute.

Some inside jokes are best left indoors.

- J

* going to admit it

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