"Oh, snap"? WTF?

Wobbie
Wobbie Posts: 31,410
edited October 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I all my many years, I had never heard this expression until the PIT. Is it a regional thing? Do people actually say it? Like when you hit your thumb with a hammer? :p

It reminds me of the Mormon "oh my heck." I'm assuming "oh, snap" translates to "well, fuck me" :confused:
If I had known then what I know now...

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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    imalive wrote:
    I all my many years, I had never heard this expression until the PIT. Is it a regional thing? Do people actually say it? Like when you hit your thumb with a hammer? :p

    It reminds me of the Mormon "oh my heck." I'm assuming "oh, snap" translates to "well, fuck me" :confused:

    Here 'oh snap' would mean 'I have the same', 'me too' or 'I agree'

    From the card game 'Snap' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(card_game)
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Actually, "Oh, Snap!" is more like "Oh no you didn't?!?!"
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    BinFrog wrote:
    Actually, "Oh, Snap!" is more like "Oh no you didn't?!?!"

    Yeah sorta like "Oh, shiiiiitttt, that's crazy"
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,410
    So.... it means different things on different sides of the Atlantic? :confused:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Yeah sorta like "Oh, shiiiiitttt, that's crazy"


    Yeah or a "I can't believe you just went there!!" meant more in joking shock than disbelief.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    My fiance's 5 year old son said that a few weeks ago and I told him "I'll sell you to Turkey if you ever acted gangsta in this house mister!" :D
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    petrocs wrote:
    My fiance's 5 year old son said that a few weeks ago and I told him "I'll sell you to Turkey if you ever acted gangsta in this house mister!" :D


    "Oh snap" is about the farthest thing from gangster on the planet.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    My kids used that term about 4-5 years ago.....
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Lizard wrote:
    My kids used that term about 4-5 years ago.....
    hahaha I was going to say that this was popular about 6 years ago...and that now when it is used in Typed Form...it's actually tongue in cheek...

    Oh Snap! is like Holy Shit! in incredulousness...
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  • Riverrunner
    Riverrunner Posts: 2,419
    I never heard the phrase until I watched My Name is Earl.
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  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    I remember saying that when I was into Pokémon cards in 2000 or 2001. Shit's so outdated. "Oh snap!" is too.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Yeah sorta like "Oh, shiiiiitttt, that's crazy"
    thats what it means in NY :]
  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    I guess the first time I heard it was back in the day with Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" song:

    "So I came to her room and opened the door
    Oh, snap! guess what I saw?"

    I immediately translated it into meaning "gadzooks" or being the cool pre-teen that I was at the time, "holy shit!"
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    The commercial for House on USA has Hugh Laurie saying it. Fucking obnoxious ad. Fucking obnoxious phrase.
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    I first saw it on that horrible "That's So Raven" show.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • E.K
    E.K New South Wales, Australia Posts: 7,726
    I always thought "Oh, Snap!" meant "Gotcha!" or something like that. :confused:
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Riverrunner wrote:
    I never heard the phrase until I watched My Name is Earl.


    I hadn't heard until then either... so I just figured trashy people used it :p and then I read it on the pit one day and when I saw who posted it, well that only confirmed what I learned from My Name is Earl. :D;)
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    small town beck wrote:
    I hadn't heard until then either... so I just figured trashy people used it :p and then I read it on the pit one day and when I saw who posted it, well that only confirmed what I learned from My Name is Earl. :D;)
    Some kids in the mid-90s were still using it eventhough it wasn't "hip" to say the phrase anymore. :o

    I think the most popular slang was "bad boy" when I was growing up. It's kinda like the word "fuck" but cleaner...you can use "bad boy" with any sentence.
    i.e. "Tiger Woods is a bad boy" = Tiger Woods is a great golfer.
    "Lets get this bad boy started" = Lets get this (party/car/homework/ect...) started.
    "Man, look at those bad boys on her" = Man, that chick has a nice rack.
    ...and so forth.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I learned it from Biz Markie.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    All I hear is Joy on My Name is Earl.

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