spam, grrr

[jwgh]

Subject: Are you sure your site listed in Google?

Pretty sure. How else would jerkstove spammers like you have found me?

Comments

[fredfred.livejournal.com]

> jerkstove

There's a strange word. Four google hits. What does it mean?

[jwgh]

It's just a sort of generic insult. I believe it was coined here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/msg/d93f56080e017ba2

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Yes, but what does it mean? Is it a kind of jerk or a kind of stove? Or a kind of tove, maybe?

[jwgh]

I think 'jerkstove' bears the same relationship to 'jerk' and 'stove' that 'doughnut' has to 'dough' and 'nut'.

nut=knot

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

(My ancestors reputedly tied them in knots so they'd flip themselves over in the oil, like crullers.)

So, stove=? Stoat? Stuffer? Stoat stuffer?

Personally, I always pictured a jerkstove as somebody petulantly tugging on a potbellied stove as though it would have some useful result.

[jwgh]

... except that the Something Awful use appears to predate the USENET article I linked to by six months or so, so I guess it started there.

Another, more severe, made-up insult word is 'fuckknocker', which is a good comedy word because it contains many letter 'k's. I'm not sure where it came from.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Didja mean here? And didja mean 'about four and a half months'?

The only year I see on that page is 2004, but it does indeed appear to be from 2002.

Very oddly enough, though, that appears to be the only instance of the word's use in Something Awful, and indeed the only usage in the Google web catalog or groups archive that is not in ark.

Where 'jerkstove' was hiding during those four and a half months, no one seems to know.

[jwgh]

I think it might have been lurking in wait on ArkMOO -- I remember that Ben Allard and Daniel Buettner both liked to use it a lot there (and still do on the somewhat rare occasions that they hang out there).

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Those jerkstoves!

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I don't know; I prefer 'fucknaut'. Although not okay for mixed company, I guess.
Ah, SA. How I used to care about thee.

Did that article's number change?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Or just get mistyped?

I completely forgot that it was my Birthday Word! (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1054)

Re: Did that article's number change?

[jwgh]

I screwed it up somehow. Doctroid located the correct entry at http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1054 .