<p>Woo-hoo! And a touching moment. We all rejoice with you.</p>
<p>Congrats to the mootson grad (formerly known as TSFH) and his hard-working, long-suffering mootmom!</p>
<p>Let me echo those congrats to both Mootson and the grad.</p>
<p>I may have a candidate for TSFH. He’s a soph now and shows no sign of interest in anything that involves work. He’s a pessimist - lazy - fill in the blanks…yet he is also incredibly affectionate and loving, but that can change quickly too. Our last argument stemmed from the fact that I wouldn’t let him stay in our house alone with a friend or two from school while I picked up younger d (they would have to go with me). He took that to mean that he and his friends were liars and d*****bags (his words), he then proceeded to call his friend to tell him that he couldn’t come over b/c I thought he was untrustworthy. Oh brother. </p>
<p>DH says the world will always need ditch-diggers, and s says that’s too hard. Sigh.</p>
<p>Congratulations, mootmom! Now mootson will matriculate into TFFH!</p>
<p>Kids. (sigh) ;)</p>
<p>Yaaaay mootie!!! Way to go!! Echoing the congrats!! Enjoy the day!</p>
<p>All righty, then. No house wine for mootie today. It’s too whiney. (post #6933). </p>
<p>Champagne for the 'rents. Cancel the standing appointments with the masseur - no more stress for them. </p>
<p>Is he driving the motorcycle cross-country for the college move-in 
? Will you be making custom curtains for it ;)?</p>
<p>Ok-- WARNING!! Mathmom has called dibs on post # 6969 (although for the life of me I don’t know why she’d want to lay claim to THAT one!!). But alas, she said she might be out EXERCISING! (or was that yesterday??) At any rate, we may have to take a pause on all the congrats to mootie’s TSFH and celebratory partying 'til after mathmom checks in.(Well, we can keep drinking, just not posting). Oh mathmom… where are you???.. </p>
<p>Anyone want to put dibs on post # 7000, rapidly approaching?? I’ve already been called a post hog 
by mathmom so will defer… Besides, I am not a hog – THIS is a hog <a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html[/url]”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html</a></p>
<p>That was yesterday, I’ve actually been to PA and back in the meantime. (Younger son went to older camper’s weekend at his summer camp - we spent the night in Frenchtown on the NJ side of the Delaware River and had a nice dinner, leaving Mathson home alone for the first time ever.)</p>
<p>And to make it 6969 I’m posting again! Woot! Woot! Should I be doing something SEXY with it? :)</p>
<p>Yay!!! Ding ding!! <<< bells, whistles, streamers…>>> Congrats, mathmom!</p>
<p>technically, it’s “w00t”. :)</p>
<p>lower case with zeros.</p>
<p>It’s like UNIX - case sensitive and a nerd thing (lol).</p>
<p>p2n-
I think you have too much free time on your hands … :)</p>
<p>and please educate us-- why is it w00t??</p>
<p>Sheesh. Perform a public service and suddenly I’m a layabout (see [Andy</a> Capp](<a href=“http://www.toonopedia.com/andycapp.htm]Andy”>Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Andy Capp)). :)</p>
<p>“w00t” comes from Leet or 1337 speak: <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet</a></p>
<p>w00+ I5 a Ph0RM 0Ph L33T-$p3@k</p>
<p>Try this: [Leet</a> translator](<a href=“http://www.kfdev.com/development/javascript/leettrans.htm]Leet”>http://www.kfdev.com/development/javascript/leettrans.htm)</p>
<p>Oh, that leet stuff again. Picky,picky,picky…</p>
<p>How 'bout if I just pour ya a sloe gin fizz…</p>
<p>Well, it’s early, but sure. It’s got to be 5:00 somewhere… :)</p>
<p>LOL. I always wondered where the term came from. Maybe I’ll just say Huzzah! Huzzah! Make mine a margarita.</p>
<p>Go Mootie! Go mootgrad! It is a lovely day here in the Bay Area. I imagine that mootgrad’s curls fluttered in the breeze. If I remember, he is quite tall, so was easy to see amongst the other grads. Ah. Savor the moment. And mootie, just think! Some day you will have daughters-in-law begging you for your cookbook and just wishing they could fill your shoes.</p>
<p>Champagne - from somewhere in the Santa Cruz mountains if that is possible.</p>
<p>Hey, p2n,
I still don’t totally get that woot thing, but no matter.
My DH often wears logo shirts from vendors (IBM, storagetek, etc) but it always cracks me up, capital letters or no capital letters, when he wears his SAP stuff. You tecchies know it as S-A-P, but to us non-geeks, it just looks like he’s calling himself a sap! :)</p>
<p>When I was in college, I visited a friend who went to Brown, and I bought a t-shirt in the college store. It was a standard looking tshirt with the word “BROWN” in the upper right-hand area of the shirt. I didn’t think much about it 'til I was wearing it at school one day, and one of my guy friends came up to me and asked “what color is the other one?” :eek:</p>
<p>Lol! That’s a good one! He knew you were a gator, obviously. (;))</p>
<p>sap? what’s that? we call those shirts “gimmies” (like in “I want one…gimmie!”)</p>
<p>woohoo, alum-mom (:)) it’s “sparkling wine”. You’ll get it fer sure calling it “Champagne”.</p>
<p>no, no, no P2N. This was WAY before grad school. This was undergrad.
But I got this very same “friend” back (he also shouted across the green, when I was tossing a piece of fruit up in the air that I’d brought from the dining hall… “what a pear!!”) </p>
<p>I had a photo of him wearing the college t-shirt (with VASSAR in BIG letters across the chest) with a man-tailored shirt (open, unbuttoned) over it. He was holding a beer in one hand and smiling, giving the “thumbs up”… Well, I found the photo and enlarged it to an 8 1/2 X 11" photo when we were visiting him and his family a few years ago. The open shirt nicely covered the first letter “v” on one side and “ar” on the other, so all you could see were the middle three letters A-S-S across his chest. Great picture!</p>