Question of the day

[CatmanV2]

Couldn't resist looking it up. Great question and answer.

I was amazed

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Don't remember that at all. Crappy movie, though.

OMG is thought of as an initialism of the internet age but it transpires it's rather a lot older than that.

To whom was the first recorded use of OMG sent? And when?

C

The bloke Wolverine and Sabretooth fight on top of the power station tower with the laser beam eyes and sealed shut mouth is Wade Wilson mutated into Deadpool.





When the mutated version of Wade Wilson appears. Wolverine says something like "Wade is that you ? I guess they finally figured out how to keep your mouth shut."

 

[CatmanV2]

Fair enough!

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Don't remember that at all. Crappy movie, though.

OMG is thought of as an initialism of the internet age but it transpires it's rather a lot older than that.

To whom was the first recorded use of OMG sent? And when?

C

I didnt know so i looked it up. Thats quite amazing. There is a image of the message sent containing the OMG phrase. The strange thing is that the sender then typed Oh My God in brackets afterwards to explain the initials. Making the OMG a little pointless.

Great question.

 

[CatmanV2]

I didnt know so i looked it up. Thats quite amazing. There is a image of the message sent containing the OMG phrase. The strange thing is that the sender then typed Oh My God in brackets afterwards to explain the initials. Making the OMG a little pointless.

Great question.

Indeed. Given you are the uber QM, are we running the two questions concurrently or shall we wait for one to get an answer. Although I suspect mine might need clues

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Just run them both. Im sure MLC will appear at some point with some context or clues to his question as well.

 

[allandwf]

The youngsters at work also see the @ as new! First recorded in 1536, and used on keyboards since 1971.

 

[CatmanV2]

The youngsters at work also see the @ as new! First recorded in 1536, and used on keyboards since 1971.

1536? Wow!

So clue: The recipient was not at the time, but later became PM

C

 

[Navcorr]

1536? Wow!

So clue: The recipient was not at the time, but later became PM

C

Obviously this significantly reduces the number of possible candidates - but not necessarily the timeframe if @ is anything to go by.
A wild stab in the dark then - Clement @lee ?

 

[CatmanV2]

Obviously this significantly reduces the number of possible candidates - but not necessarily the timeframe if @ is anything to go by.
A wild stab in the dark then - Clement @lee ?

Very close

C

 

[MarkMas]

Harold AppleMacMillan?

 

[BennyD]

I doubt it but most likely some other Labour tw@.

 

[CatmanV2]

Not to both of you

C

 

[MarkMas]

Margaret Th@cher?

 

[MarkMas]

&drew Bonar Law?

 

[CatmanV2]

No and no

Too early and too late

C

 

[Navcorr]

Very close

C

I'd guess then it would have to be Churchill.
Seeing as Attlee's tenure was sandwiched by Sir Winston.
No idea when though.

 

[CatmanV2]

I'd guess then it would have to be Churchill.
Seeing as Attlee's tenure was sandwiched by Sir Winston.
No idea when though.

Lord Fisher to Winston Churchill in 1917

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/29...ation-found-in-a-letter-to-winston-churchill/

Over to you, sir

C

 

[MarkMas]

Lord Fisher to Winston Churchill in 1917

Jacky Fisher was not using OMG in the modern sense of adding an 'I am amazed/appalled' status to something, I think, but making a joke about the Order of St Michael & St George, where people say that CMG stands for 'Call Me God', KCMG for 'Kindly Call Me God' and GCMG for 'God Calls Me God'.

 

[CatmanV2]

Interesting reading of it, but I rather disagree. And the QM's decision is final

(although it's possibly valid)

C