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Thread #107012   Message #2215138
Posted By: Azizi
14-Dec-07 - 07:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama Wins Debate Moment With Hillary
Subject: RE: BS: Obama Wins Debate Moment With Hillary
That YouTube video clip whose link I provided has 174 viewer comments at this time [though every time I go back to that site the number of viewer comments increases].

Many of these commentors wrote that Hillary had gotten pawned or owned by Obama:

"HRC wuz pwned!!"
-rockgolf

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"owned"
-swimdock333

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"Hillary just got pwnz0red."
-eXcommunicate1979

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"one day we'll look up that term in the video dictionary and this will be the clip that pops up."
-trevormail

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Also, see this comment:
"This race is still a toss up, but you know if Obama wins, we will be looking back on this moment like we did with Reagan's "there you go again..."
-thestranger1996

-snip-

Here's a comment about the word "pawned" from urban dictionary:

"Pawned   

Many people attack "pawned" as a misspelling of "pwned", but it has, in fact, become an acceptable spelling. The original origin of the word "pwn" was a typo, probably from a high-speed chat, of the word "own". Think how "the" is now "teh" in traditional l337 internet slang. In any case, looking at the origins of the word "own," one could deduce that it implies some dominance over something or someone. When "own" and "owned" became "pwn", "pwned" and "pwnage", the words came to mean the same thing; dominance and superiority. The new word "pawn" is very simmilar in the sense; its plain definition is to belittle or reduce someone or something to pawn status, essentially, "owning" them.

1. I pawned you! All your bases now belong to us!
2. Drake pawned Dopple in Warcraft III. You cannot stop the Orcish Hordes!"
- Drake Christopher Dragon Apr

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