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"Oh, snap"? WTF?

WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,467
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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  • chimechime 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)
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    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!"
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    BinFrog wrote:
    Actually, "Oh, Snap!" is more like "Oh no you didn't?!?!"

    Yeah sorta like "Oh, shiiiiitttt, that's crazy"
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,467
    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
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    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!"
  • petrocspetrocs 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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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    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!"
  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    My kids used that term about 4-5 years ago.....
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  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone 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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  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    I never heard the phrase until I watched My Name is Earl.
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  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy 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.
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Yeah sorta like "Oh, shiiiiitttt, that's crazy"
    thats what it means in NY :]
  • LineOneMightyFineLineOneMightyFine 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!"
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    The commercial for House on USA has Hugh Laurie saying it. Fucking obnoxious ad. Fucking obnoxious phrase.
  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    I first saw it on that horrible "That's So Raven" show.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

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

  • E.KE.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 becksmall 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;)
  • LONGRDLONGRD 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.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I learned it from Biz Markie.
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    All I hear is Joy on My Name is Earl.
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    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:

    i say this alot. its way old school though so i do it on purpose cuz people get annoyed! :D for me its equivilent to HOLY COW!!!!!
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    haha i have friends who say this :D
    they think they're gangstarrs though :rolleyes:
    i could pop any of those fools
    "OHH SNAP!!" :p
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  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    BinFrog wrote:
    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.

    I would've said the same thing until I started reading people's example of where they've heard "oh snap!"

    *My Name is Earl
    *House
    *That's So Raven
    *Biz Markie (as much as I love the Biz, he's no gangsta)

    Selling a 5-year old kid to Turkey is pretty gangsta though, I suppose.
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    that's a nineties saying isn't it? that and sike.
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,299
    aNiMaL wrote:
    All I hear is Joy on My Name is Earl.

    Hahaha! Was going to say the same thing!

    That's when I first started hearing it, now it seems to be everywhere!
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,409
    angie76 wrote:
    that's a nineties saying isn't it? that and sike.
    back a bit farther than that
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  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    angie76 wrote:
    that's a nineties saying isn't it? that and sike.

    Sike (psych) is from the mid-80's. Snap has to be like '89-'91.
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    Sike (psych) is from the mid-80's. Snap has to be like '89-'91.

    eh..I don't I think sike/psych was from the mid 80's. I remember people saying it when I was in High School. But then again I have problems remembering what I did yesterday..lol
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    South of Seattle wrote:
    I learned it from Biz Markie.
    but he said she was just a friend!!!
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