What does WHET stand for?

It means you're all whet 🙄

WEHT is the acronym you are seeking.

It is a DL stand against conformity. Rage against the machine. It means What Ever Happened To (WEHT) but someone once misspelled the abbreviation and it is now the official accepted shorthand. Just like the proper way to announce a death, DEAD TO ME. I hope that is correct or I will be properly and deservedly berated.

Kudos to r3

Some of these original typos reign supreme [WHET, Lens (Dunham)], because they were funny and caught the collective imagination. Others are like 'fetch,' i.e., they aren't going to happen, no matter how hard the tryhards try, e.g., "bearking news."

When I first stumbled onto DL a few years ago, one of the first threads I read was a WHET thread. I posted to it and attempted to correct WHET to WEHT and felt very superior. I was torn to shreds.

Not torn enough

[quote]Just like the proper way to announce a death, DEAD TO ME.

Or the proper way to announce an impending death or someone just looking ill: SAD LAST DAYS.

I thought BEARKING had legs but that died a quick death.

pron

WHET shows the ignorant are prevailing.

When was the last time you heard cak or graxy?

It shows you're illiterate and can't read the language of Data Lounge, r11.

R12, I just saw a cak reference the other day.

R13 - Who's Illiterate?

R9 BEARKING NEWS: BEARKING is still very much alive.

THICC - don't forget me and my beautiful thighs!

Thank you, r14, I find that comforting.

Ask Jackie On Assistance.

I don't think Shits Fired is going away soon.

Illiterate? I actually think “What happened ever to” has a certain poetic lilt to it, almost Shakespearean.

I made a cak reference recently while defending New Hamster.

r16 I think a lot of people are actually misreading BEARKING as BREAKING so they think it's died out when it hasn't. It's only obvious when accompanied by its designated emojis 🐻👑. Without the emojis, it's likely easily missed.

[quote] What does WHET stand for?

“What Hever Eppened To?”

Will He Ever Tell?

I'm trying to come up with a jokey new topic to post about "Amtrak Trans" but no luck so far.

R27 - Seriously?

What’s graxy?

Fags!

R29 Gravy

Let's not forget Jackie On Assistance.

r19 didn't, r32.

R32 & R33 - R4 didn't forget either.

Girls. Girls. You're all annoying.

^ I have a solution

The number of times I've been corrected for "Walla, all of a sudden" astounds me.

In the old days, I assumed someone was riffing when I saw something so silly. Not anymore.

Thank you all for pointing out my failure to read this thread closely re Jackie O(A). There's really nothing left for me to do but...

[quote]Just like the proper way to announce a death, DEAD TO ME.

Newbies insist that this his the rule, but it's not and never has been. It was just a few years ago when someone had an epic hissy fit and started using sockpuppets to FF anyone who did not use "dead to me," making their threads go gray and disappear.

DL doesn't have rules for things like that. There are memes but not rules. Unfortunately, in the last few years there has been an increase in posters with personality disorders freaking out if they think you've broken a "rule."

Anne He He

There was a time some years back when the full phrase was, "DEAD TO ME! DEAD, I Tell You!" I rather liked that extra histrionic flourish.

[quote]DL doesn't have rules for things like that. There are memes but not rules.

Although I generally agree that the DL is a backroom gangbang where everyone is on meth with no real rules - at a certain point social norms become "rules."

I mean, there's no "rule" that a woman cannot wear white to another woman's wedding, but you get universal censure if you do it. There's no rule that you have to let your trick shower afterwards, but it's polite to let him if he asks.

But what if you only have one towel and are not running a bed and breakfast R42?

[quote]The number of times I've been corrected for "Walla, all of a sudden" astounds me.

R37 You mean "voilà" which could be pronounced "walla"? This is the only conclusion I can draw.

Just saw "Tao glasses of wine" posted.

This needs to be a new one!

[quote][R37] You mean "voilà" which could be pronounced "walla"? This is the only conclusion I can draw.

QED.

No, like so many malaprops and weird idiosyncracies on DL, there was a period a while back after someone got "oh, dear"-ed for writing "Walla, all of sudden" that people frequently wrote it in lieu of "voila."