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Isn't spaz terribly rude? Am I missing something?
In my head it is referring to Band Candy and Snyder's quote.
It has also become Deathmatch Culture for a superior quote being beaten by an inferior one.
ETA: Due to the demise of the Snyder quote.
Well, in the context of Quotables it means a quote has been robbed of its rightful OTQ status ... got spazzed.
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Ah. I was just going with short for "spastic." Which ain't so pretty, sans context (and even then ....)
I really like spaz in the context, but even dictionary.com labels it as "Offensive Slang" (as opposed to just Slang.) So I got to vote against it.
how about more quote context? Like, "Summers still drives like a spaz" or something. Or, more obscurely, "Istanbul got spazzed!"
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
I like this.
"Istanbul got spazzed!"
Love that.
ETA: I did go to dictionary.com after reading Wolfram's post to enter a bunch of other words that I thought were more or less on the same level of insult, but nary a one of them except for spaz got the offensive slang callout. So, I guess I learned something today.