Blogs Jan 16, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Snowpacolypse 2008

Dan Savage
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Or they forgot it even happened.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:01 PM Report this
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And I want credit for the term "Holofraust" but it ain't happening.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:09 PM Report this
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* My boyfriend wants credit for coining the term "snowpacolypse." He used it in a posting on his—eesh—FaceBook page. Mudede read it, used the term in a Slog post, and then it was everywhere.

I first saw the term when Wil Wheaton used it in a Twitter from SeaTac as he was flying out. But maybe he got it from Charles.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:12 PM Report this
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I think it's actually "snowpocalypse".
on January 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM Report this
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Or maybe.

Just maybe.

Cause they hold the meetings during the day while most people are working or in class.

Nah, that couldn't be it.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM Report this
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I was seeing "snowpocalypse" used to mock snow that didn't happen. By the time the snow actually got here, all the cool kids had switched to "snowmageddon" or "winterdammerung".

...okay, almost no one used those.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM Report this
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@5: Nope, that wasn't it because the meetings were at 6:30 - 8:00pm.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:25 PM Report this
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No, it's because like me people need to work extra hours this month to make up for the numerous hours we're all short from December because THE MAYOR CANNOT UNDERSTAND WEATHER FORECASTS AND MAINTAIN THE BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF A NORTHERN CITY...
on January 16, 2009 at 4:27 PM Report this
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@8: And that's not it, either.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:29 PM Report this
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We were using Snowpcalypse long before this storm.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM Report this
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"Snowpocalypse" has been used to describe many, many previous snowstorms. My wife, too, thought she had coined the phrase in her blog during the snowstorm that hit commute time in 2006 - no dice, it had been around since before then...
on January 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM Report this
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I think it might be a sense that nothing we say is going to change anything. I am happy we got the tunnel, but it's proof positive that no one in local government gives a f-ck about what the people think.

They may also be frustrated from their ridiculous experiences with Grace Crunican who fell over herself praising the piss poor response.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:45 PM Report this
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I will alert the boyfriend that not to expect royalties.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:46 PM Report this
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I'm also tired of hearing how little effect it had on everyone from the Snowmosexuals on the Hill... did I coin that term?
on January 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM Report this
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One of my friends tried to give me props on my Facebook use of Snowpocalypse...

I didn't correct him...but I can't remember exactly where I saw/heard the term first. I figure the term formed in the cloud of our mass consciousness.

(...and I saw others trying to use Snowmageddon and the even more tortured Dysnowpia--gahhhh!--but I stuck with my fellow Snowpac'-ies due to the connection with the great Patton Oswalt bit...)

...but I'll credit Terry if you'd like, Dan.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM Report this
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Maybe its because we're trying to tell the city to get the fuck over it and start doing real work again.
on January 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM Report this
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SNOW JUST KEEPS FALLING ALL OVER
on January 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM Report this
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5 and 8 tied FTW.
I wanted to attend at least one of these meetings, but I don't have the luxury to take time off of work. Especially so, as I lost four days of income last month and had several hundred dollars' worth of damage to my car, thanks to the city's inability to clear giant ice chunks from a major Seattle arterial.
I am still feeling the pich big-time from Snowpocalypse - I've let the city know via a letter, for whatever it's worth.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:03 PM Report this
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Want to buy a Tunnel?
on January 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM Report this
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*Pinch, that is.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM Report this
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sorry, snowpocalypse is much older. here's one from aught-five

http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/28/t…
on January 16, 2009 at 5:09 PM Report this
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Thawmageddon. There, I said it. First.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:16 PM Report this
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Anyway, who the hell reads and quotes Charles? Come on!
on January 16, 2009 at 5:29 PM Report this
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@5, go ahead, try to help Dan with his spelling. But I'll tell you, as someone who was long ago charged with the crucial task of making sure The Stranger's sex columnist had enough "n"s in cunnilingus, it's a Sisyphean task. Or Augean, I forget which.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM Report this
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Of course, the people up here are lazy armchair liberals. Remember when Slog endlessly defended the incompetent Nichols for not using salt and then Nichols said he would use it and their wasn't a word about it. Dan and ECB are paid by special interest groups and that's why Dan lives in some nice house and has a blast when it snows. But people like me use public transportation, you know Dan, you always talk about it but dont ride it, and we hate it. Fuck off yuppie scum.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM Report this
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#14 - that might allude to something else.
on January 16, 2009 at 5:48 PM Report this
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I like Snow/11.
on January 16, 2009 at 6:23 PM Report this
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ahhh... #5 beat me to it. spelling errors bug me, ESPECIALLY in made-up words.

not the way lack of proper capitalization does, but maybe that's the german stock fighting with the irish. within.
on January 16, 2009 at 6:23 PM Report this
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Y KANT @25 REED
on January 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM Report this
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Snowpocalypse was being used on the Sea-Goth message board well before 2005 (the metblog post is by a sea-gother).

In other words, y'all borrowing from the goth scene. Huzzah!

on January 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM Report this
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King Rat beat me to it. We would also like to take credit for associating Jim "Our Dark Lord of Danger" Forman with said Snowpocalypse.
on January 17, 2009 at 3:39 AM Report this

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