FalloutGod Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 What does *BUMP* mean when someone puts it under a post?
Camus Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by FalloutGod What does *BUMP* mean when someone puts it under a post? *bump* is what you do when your thread is dying and you want it pot back at the top so more people can see it...
obi Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 It means they "bump" or "knock" a thread to the top of the page. A new reply does this to a thread. edit- Darn you Camus! I shall have my revenge
Camus Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by obi-wan13 edit- Darn you Camus! I shall have my revenge lol I dont think so... Im just really really fast... ~smakes Obi around in the chat room~
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Well if I understand it correctly, it's to keep a thread alive instead watching it disappear to the pages no one goes to. It's in no form innuendo. *edit Well I was the slowest
Darklighter Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Well, it is to keep a thread alive when it is dying...you do this by posting in the selected thread you'd like to go to the top of the list... Hehe, thought I was seriously being really slow, didn't ya?:Dlol
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 bump v. bumped, bump·ing, bumps v. tr. To strike or collide with. To cause to knock against an obstacle. To knock to a new position; shift: bumped the crate out of the way. To shake up and down; jolt: bumped the child on her knee; was bumped about on a rough flight. To displace from a position within a group or organization. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking. To raise; boost: bump up the price of gasoline. Sports. To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms. v. intr. To hit or knock against something. To proceed with jerks and jolts: bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain. Sports. To bump a volleyball. n. A blow, collision, or jolt. The sound of something bumping: heard a loud bump in the dark. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge. A slight swelling or lump. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump. A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment. One of the natural protuberances on the human skull, considered to have significance in phrenology. A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease. Sports. A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together. Slang. A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser. Phrasal Verbs: bump into To meet by chance: I often bump into him at the supermarket. bump off Slang To murder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [imitative.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Just in case you REALLY didn't know what bump meant
teutonicknight Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 A bump is when a person wants there thread to the top of the page so that it doesn't fall into the dark depths of Page 2. Im Reallllllllllllly slow.
MaulerZ Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by SivyB bump v. bumped, bump·ing, bumps v. tr. To strike or collide with. To cause to knock against an obstacle. To knock to a new position; shift: bumped the crate out of the way. To shake up and down; jolt: bumped the child on her knee; was bumped about on a rough flight. To displace from a position within a group or organization. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking. To raise; boost: bump up the price of gasoline. Sports. To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms. v. intr. To hit or knock against something. To proceed with jerks and jolts: bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain. Sports. To bump a volleyball. n. A blow, collision, or jolt. The sound of something bumping: heard a loud bump in the dark. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge. A slight swelling or lump. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump. A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment. One of the natural protuberances on the human skull, considered to have significance in phrenology. A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease. Sports. A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together. Slang. A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser. Phrasal Verbs: bump into To meet by chance: I often bump into him at the supermarket. bump off Slang To murder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [imitative.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Just in case you REALLY didn't know what bump meant LOL
Cal_da_Darth Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by SivyB bump v. bumped, bump·ing, bumps v. tr. To strike or collide with. To cause to knock against an obstacle. To knock to a new position; shift: bumped the crate out of the way. To shake up and down; jolt: bumped the child on her knee; was bumped about on a rough flight. To displace from a position within a group or organization. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking. To raise; boost: bump up the price of gasoline. Sports. To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms. v. intr. To hit or knock against something. To proceed with jerks and jolts: bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain. Sports. To bump a volleyball. n. A blow, collision, or jolt. The sound of something bumping: heard a loud bump in the dark. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge. A slight swelling or lump. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump. A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment. One of the natural protuberances on the human skull, considered to have significance in phrenology. A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease. Sports. A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together. Slang. A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser. Phrasal Verbs: bump into To meet by chance: I often bump into him at the supermarket. bump off Slang To murder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [imitative.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Just in case you REALLY didn't know what bump meant Ooo...a walking dictionary and/or librarian...
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by Cal_da_Darth Ooo...a walking dictionary and/or librarian... Actually I was sitting down at the time
Cal_da_Darth Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by SivyB Actually I was sitting down at the time Ooo...a sitting dictionary and/or librarian...
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by Cal_da_Darth Ooo...a sitting dictionary and/or librarian... that's better
obi Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by SivyB bump v. bumped, bump·ing, bumps v. tr. To strike or collide with. To cause to knock against an obstacle. To knock to a new position; shift: bumped the crate out of the way. To shake up and down; jolt: bumped the child on her knee; was bumped about on a rough flight. To displace from a position within a group or organization. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking. To raise; boost: bump up the price of gasoline. Sports. To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms. v. intr. To hit or knock against something. To proceed with jerks and jolts: bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain. Sports. To bump a volleyball. n. A blow, collision, or jolt. The sound of something bumping: heard a loud bump in the dark. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge. A slight swelling or lump. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump. A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment. One of the natural protuberances on the human skull, considered to have significance in phrenology. A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease. Sports. A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together. Slang. A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser. Phrasal Verbs: bump into To meet by chance: I often bump into him at the supermarket. bump off Slang To murder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [imitative.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Just in case you REALLY didn't know what bump meant Thank you, Commander Data.
MaulerZ Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by obi-wan13 Thank you, Commander Data. OMG lol
BCanr2d2 Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 I thought it meant Boring Useless Meaningless Post After all, isn't this the reason why it needs to be bumped?!! But then I could be mistaken...
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by BCanr2d2 I thought it meant Boring Useless Meaningless Post useless \Use"less\, a. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. --Milton. Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual. Usage: Useless, Fruitless, Ineffectual. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded. Useless are all words Till you have writ ``performance'' with your swords. The other is for waiving. --Beau. & Fl. Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. --Waterland. Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Use\"less*ly, adv. -- Use\"less*ness, n. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. Nope, bump doesn't mean useless
BCanr2d2 Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 It's all a matter of perspective as to whether a bump is useless or not. It may be useful to those who want to keep the thread alive, but it is useless to those who see it as something not worth posting to........
Sivy Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 scare v. scared, scar·ing, scares v. tr. To strike with sudden fear; alarm. See Synonyms at frighten. v. intr. To become frightened: a child who scares easily. n. A condition or sensation of sudden fear. A general state of alarm; a panic: a bomb scare that necessitated evacuating the building. adj. Serving or intended to frighten people: scare stories; scare tactics. Phrasal Verb: scare up Informal To gather or prepare with considerable effort or ingenuity: managed to scare up some folding chairs for the unexpected crowd. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Middle English skerren, scaren, from Old Norse skirra, from skjarr, timid.] You asked for that one!
Darklighter Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Originally posted by lexx supercalifragilisticexpialadotious LOL:DTry to work that one out Mr Genius;)hehe
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