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Gaming Investors Say "W00t"
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/255f9634-b700-481d-90d6-f87cd27c8b63/26850FBF-E53A-4645-B6EB-70C2D8850185/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/12/14/gaming-investors-say-w00t.aspx" href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/12/14/gaming-investors-say-w00t.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fool.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/12/14/gaming-investors-say-w00t.aspx"><P> I'm sure some people would say there wasn't that much to cheer about in 2007, but Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year goes against the grain -- the word in question is "w00t." (Yes, those <EM> are</EM> zeroes, in case you were wondering.) </p> <P> According to the dictionary publisher, the word, which emerged from gamer culture, is defined as: "expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word 'yay'." It's also supposedly derived from the phrase, "We owned the other team."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/26850FBF-E53A-4645-B6EB-70C2D8850185/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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