Wibble .. a definition

[WhatSharp?]

wibble
[UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in "VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early 1990s"]

1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling again".

2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to humma <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/h/humma.html>.

3. One of the preferred metasyntactic variable <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/m/metasyntactic_variable.html>s in the UK, forming a series with wobble, wubble, and flob (attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder").

4. A pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www. foo <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html>.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare dub dub dub <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/d/dub_dub_dub.html>).

The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My brain is packing it in now. I give up. Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!"

 

[Dave Payn]

wibble
[UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in "VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early 1990s"]

1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling again".

2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to humma <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/h/humma.html>.

3. One of the preferred metasyntactic variable <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/m/metasyntactic_variable.html>s in the UK, forming a series with wobble, wubble, and flob (attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder").

4. A pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www. foo <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html>.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare dub dub dub <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/d/dub_dub_dub.html>).

The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My brain is packing it in now. I give up. Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!"

Help! Wibble! ;-)

 

[PeterBale]

I'd have said wibble was what happened when dwips of water fall fwom your mouff :shock: :wink:

 

[Will the Sec]

Hmmmm.

When did Blackadder Goes Fourth first air?

 

[Jo Elson]

Those stick men on the old bt adverts and the posters were in phone boxs, they say the word 'wibble' which highly amuses me everytime i pass one!

 

[lynchie]

yep definition five i think

the appropriate response of someone mad enough to use a different phone company than bt (apparently)

 

[Okiedokie of Oz]

never heard of wibble. Must be a UK term, much similar to my father's "huskenayagidagidagida".....a big word for "whosibopper" or "whatever"

 

[akwarose]

u lot worry me sometimes. bless...
is it something to do with being a brass player? am i headed the same way???

maybe its not too late to save myself!!!

wibble

 

[lynchie]

nope, you're a gonner... enjoy the rest of your sanity while it lasts... you'll be joining us in our pit of meandering foolery soon! mwahahahahahahahahaha :twisted: :twisted:

 

[PeterBale]

maybe its not too late to save myself!!!

wibble

You're alright, 'cos

Wibbles wobble but they don't fall down :wink: :lol: