I, evidently, am very trendy

""w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary."

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1256278120071212?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Since we have been using that phrase for a long, long time, and in fact, have matching shirts:


for my husband and our dog, and have for a long time, this must mean we are really ahead of the times. (And dorks for buying a shirt for the dog.)

More words of the year:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/wordoftheyear-w00ts-the-winner/2007/12/12/1197135531275.html

Many of which are um, not new. I would post something about them being hypocritical charlatans, but I'm too apathetic to deal with the blamestorm it would bring of bring to my normally non-quixotic blog.