Hai guise,

Ok, so you QLD'er country folk say 'props' and 'major props' and stuff which we don't say down here in Melb. I'm representing though, and use it in day to day life now. People look at me strange like I'm from the Far North, but I just sn***** at their snide attitude towards our lesser educated friends in Banana-land with their Cane Toad pals.

I was just wondering if 'props' is actually an abbreviation of a full word? I have been thinking about it for a few months and I couldn't work it out.

I prayed at night sometimes that the good Lord would answer with a definition but alas no divine intervention has occurred.

Kind regards,

Pink bits

You start many threads.

I've never used props before.

It's early-mid 90s ebonics. Perhaps it's a meme :(


from urban dictionary

Props, short for Propers, -Don't forget that the entire word "propers" is used in the song "Respect", written by Otis Redding and most famously recorded by Aretha Franklin in 1967. At least, I think it is ("all I'm askin' in return honey is to give me my propers when I get home")-

alright goes back a bit further, but definitly from black america.

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http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010213

The correct phrase is "Mad Propz" and it means I show adoration or respect for your action.

Now replaced by "Gangster as"

Slang term for "accolades", "proper respect", or "just dues". Popularized in the 1980s by rappers who shortened the term "propers" which was in turn being used as an abbreviated version of "proper respect" at least by the 1960s. The increase in this term's usage during the late 1980s and early 1990s coincided with an increasing fascination with the mafia within rap circles. Both communities have traditionally placed great emphasis on the importance of earning and giving respect.

My four-year-old son is the king of Chutes and Ladders, but punk neighbor kids won't give him his props.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=props

I'm not sure this is a word used in verbal communication much, certainly not in FNQ anyway.

last edited by Hogfather at 11:37:08 29/Jan/10

It's short for propulations

mad cainer grat props

You start many threads.

I've never used props before.

Yeah, I do start many threads.

I do computational analysis of structural systems which are often explicitly defined (integrated over time).

Unfortunately this type of analysis is very time-consuming.

In a week I will go quiet for three weeks though, so you'll have a break from me, sparrow :-)

Yeah, I use "mad props" sometimes, usually along with "mad skills" because I often give people with mad skills mad props.

major props?

nah bro, it's "mad props"

asif it's a qld term! :D rinse it out propa!

mad props, demon. mad props. :]

Are you kidding that we don't use it in Vic? Rubbish. Hear it all the time, you just listed to Sandra Sully too much.

http://www.funnyforumpics.com/forums/Youre-Awseome/1/Misc-Mad_Props.jpg

I use it on the internet, i don't use it in daily life, like lol.

sifnt use lol irl

The correct phrase is "Mad Propz" and it means I show adoration or respect for your action. Now replaced by "Gangster as"

which has been replaced with "Epic"

The correct phrase is "Mad Propz" and it means I show adoration or respect for your action.

Now replaced by "Gangster as"

Lol

I can't stand people who say "LOL" as if it's a word. It's an abbreviation describing a physical expression, not onomatopoeia. Sort it out people.

IMO people that say it are inadequately expressing themselves and therefore communicating incorrectly and should go back to body language school. People that say "LOL" whilst laughing out aloud have added an unnecessary redundancy to their communication.

Hehe, way to over-explain a simple phenomenon :-P

"Lol" is only unacceptable IRL

If I heard someone say lol IRL I would smash it over their head.

If I heard someone say lol IRL I would smash it over their head.

No, you wouldn't.

(See what I did thar?)

I can't stand people who say "LOL" as if it's a word. It's an abbreviation describing a physical expression, not onomatopoeia. Sort it out people.

IMO people that say it are inadequately expressing themselves and therefore communicating incorrectly and should go back to body language school. People that say "LOL" whilst laughing out aloud have added an unnecessary redundancy to their communication.

Hehe, way to over-explain a simple phenomenon :-P

You old man. Many words never used to be considered words. As far as I'm concered, Lol is now a word with the meaning of 'amusement' or 'the thing someone else just said was amusing'.

Also, it is not acceptable IRL, as Agent 99 stated.

I say lol, rofl, pwned, all that s***... that's the language of my culture


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agent 99 ur hot as

You can make someone give you proxy props if they post a thread on qgl about something you emailed to them and it is well received on the forumz.

I say Lawl when someone say's a terrible joke. I know its sad, but its a sarcastic way of telling the person their joke sucked ass.

I say lol, rofl, pwned, all that s***... that's the language of my culture

Do you pronounce pwned as 'owned' or 'poaned'?

I can handle 'owned' but 'poaned' makes me want to end lives.

You old man.

:'(

spaz, don't be like that. I'm cool, I'm hip, I'm with it! I'm 'a cold chillin' with a 40 and a blunt, ya dig?

(Übersetzen: I am leisurely enjoying a forty ounce bottle of malt liquor and a marijuana cigarette, what do you think about that?)

I say lol, rofl, pwned, all that s***... that's the language of my culture

And you hate on internet memes? Someone jump in here, is that real irony or Alanis irony?

definitely irony hoggy.

THOSE AREN'T MEMES a****** THAT WAS MY POINT IN THE OTHER THREAD

I think his choice of adding (int)32 to all of his ASCII characters implies that he is irate.

Haha, he deleted the post. Now it shall live on forever in mine...muahaha

Hogfather, thank you for demonstrating you understood absolutely nothing of the meme thread.

So, is thermite the new Hunter, or is he just Hunter with a new nick?

The term "props" is played out. Don't be a toy 90s motherf***er.

oh no I had a disagreement with someone, better accuse that person of being hunter....

^ i'll take that as a yes

Hunter sounds like a friendly guy.

I like thermite. I think he's funny. You should change your nick on Steam though from Dr.Fail to thermite because it's confusing.

You can make someone give you proxy props if they post a thread on qgl about something you emailed to them and it is well received on the forumz.

i disagree

if a tree falls in the woods, with nobody around, does it make a sound?

thermite is teen

if a tree falls in the woods, with nobody around, does it make a sound?

yes. schrödinger's cat is dead man, it's dead.

i disagree if a tree falls in the woods, with nobody around, does it make a sound?

You still owe me a lot of proxy props you mofo.

I can handle 'owned' but 'poaned' makes me want to end lives.

It's worse when they pronounce it 'pooned'. Feel like killing everyone in the room when I hear it.

pwned

Feel like killing everyone in the room when I hear it.

see computer games do make people violent.

I've never used props in real life and the only time I use kain is in terms of speed or pain, i.e. I was kaining along not looking at my speedo and wouldn't you know it the popo shows up. Needless to say I cbf stopping so legged it but they shot me in the ass, man that kained.

p.s. that story didn't really happen so don't ask to see pictures of a bullet hole in my ass, or any other pictures of my ass.

I can handle 'owned' but 'poaned' makes me want to end lives.


It's worse when they pronounce it 'pooned'. Feel like killing everyone in the room when I hear it.

if anyone says prawned to me I seriously murder their entire family.

At least you take it seriously, it would be kind of insulting to be frivolously murdered.

Police don't take murders seriously if there's balloons and party poppers everywhere.

malibu is my favourite gladiator of all time

people say what they say.


if that sparks curiosity on a personal level then you're getting somewhere.


if that's 'just annoying' then you're a pawn in a b-grade internet meme

kudos to those props

and there are no vowel sounds in the pronunciation of 'pwn'

and there are no vowel sounds in the pronunciation of 'pwn'

What about in the pronunciation of "noob"?

if youre pronouncing noob without the o's then youre a f***ing noob.

who cares what the f*** props means - why are you using the word cainer and why has some random f*** i don't know adopted it? i toats blame alan for making it celebrity sellout

grouse...


I heard someone use /10char the other day during one of those awkward moments....

You're all propsmosexuals... or fagmopropsumals

Also, minimal > 0