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hootinholler

(26,449 posts) Sun Jan 5, 2014, 06:42 PM Jan 2014

Once upon a time Woo meant an attempt at romance :D

Personally, I would kind of like to preserve that.

The reality is that using the new age broad based definition, it is a dismissive term with ill defined boundaries.

How repeatable does something have to be to become not woo? What the hell is the antonym of the new woo?

Anyway, can I woo you back to the older definition?

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Once upon a time Woo meant an attempt at romance :D (Original Post) hootinholler Jan 2014 OP

There's a new definition for 'woo'? SummerSnow Jan 2014 #1

Did you know that 'hoot' can mean 'the sound an owl makes' AND 'something fun'? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #2

I never considered a Hoot war hootinholler Jan 2014 #5

When a woo-er goes a woo-ing.... Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #3

Excellent point! Woo are wight on! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #4

eeeew Niceguy1 Jan 2014 #6

Love it. Pitching woo? longship Jan 2014 #7

Once upon a time making love meant that, instead of the more recent meaning of sexual intercourse JVS Jan 2014 #8

You can't say sexwool here! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #10

I'm sure the science guys can explain love scientifically...but Shakespeare did it better. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2014 #9

In the Sims games, it means sex. n/t Jamastiene Jan 2014 #11

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

1. There's a new definition for 'woo'?

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 06:58 PM

Jan 2014

muriel_volestrangler

(101,318 posts)

2. Did you know that 'hoot' can mean 'the sound an owl makes' AND 'something fun'?

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:01 PM

Jan 2014

Isn't that amazing?

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)

5. I never considered a Hoot war

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:10 PM

Jan 2014

Hmmmm...

I have to think about that.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

3. When a woo-er goes a woo-ing....

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:01 PM

Jan 2014

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

4. Excellent point! Woo are wight on!

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:07 PM

Jan 2014

(No owls were harmed in the making of this post.)

Niceguy1

(2,467 posts)

6. eeeew

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:16 PM

Jan 2014

Romance is sexist and so 19th century and sometimes leads to rape or even porn!

longship

(40,416 posts)

7. Love it. Pitching woo?

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 10:17 PM

Jan 2014

R&K

But technically the new term "woo" is a shortened form of James Randi's original "woo-woo", which is a thing nobody would want to pitch. Regrettably there is a memetic and rhetorical collision here.