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Old Codger

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6. Glad for you

Reply to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 10:26 AM

Jan 2014

That your wife gets frisky, the idiocy involved in the on line here has gone way over the edge... Just put the word and any ways of "spelling" it in my trashcan list...

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Please pardon me as a totally clueless old fudd, but... [View all] MarianJack Jan 2014 OP

It is just another stupid internet fad word that needs to go away as soon as possible quinnox Jan 2014 #1

Thanks, quinnox! MarianJack Jan 2014 #3

When people believe stuff that is offbeat treestar Jan 2014 #2

Thanks, treestar! MarianJack Jan 2014 #4

Woo is a term used among skeptical writers to describe pseudoscientific explanations that have snooper2 Jan 2014 #5

Thanks, snooper2! MarianJack Jan 2014 #8

Some liken "woo-woo-woo" to the cheesy sound effects in old sci-fi movies. Eleanors38 Jan 2014 #21

Everything is pseudoscience until it's not whatchamacallit Jan 2014 #22

Glad for you Old Codger Jan 2014 #6

Thanks, Old Codger! MarianJack Jan 2014 #11

"woo" == pseudo-science. bemildred Jan 2014 #7

Science to market BS? MarianJack Jan 2014 #15

Very common these days, a favorite. bemildred Jan 2014 #16

Pseudo-Science. Iggo Jan 2014 #9

Thanks! MarianJack Jan 2014 #13

Thanks! MarianJack Jan 2014 #14

MarianJack, please join me in not giving a flying fuck Greybnk48 Jan 2014 #10

Ok, but I do want to know what I don't give a rat's patoot about! MarianJack Jan 2014 #12

K & R for total ignorance of WOO meow2u3 Jan 2014 #17

Thanks! MarianJack Jan 2014 #19

K&R for you and your wife. NCTraveler Jan 2014 #18

THANK YOU! MarianJack Jan 2014 #20