Is 'pingfuckit' an original of yours? Earliest I can find offhand is your usage of it here... http://tinyurl.com/4e49bf From this list, http://groups.google.ie/groups?q=pingfuckit&start=60&sa=N&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8& -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "It's a moron working with power tools. How much more suspenseful can you get?" - House
Regarding the original topic: I have the idea that I heard the word, or one very like it, before the internet became the Internet. Maybe round 1981 near Glasgow. I you cared, you might like to track down a Jimmy (formally James) Pinkerton of that ilk who I am pretty certain introduced me to the word. As I recall he had rather a remarkable memory and may well be able to offer further bullsh1t^w information, even now. If that is he is not long dead of course. More on topic, he had a Phil Read replica Honda 750 as his first bike. Well after a week or so on a 125 to pass the test.
I think I was the first person to use it in a forum. I heard it from a mechanic in the early-mid 1990s.
Damn, I hoped I was in at the start of a new one, as I am fairly sure I was present at the inception of 'numpty'. As Bod43 says, it has a ring of pithy Clydesider about it. <Bod43 wrote:> @I have the idea that I heard the word, or one very like it, @before the internet became the Internet. Maybe round 1981 @near Glasgow. I you cared, you might like to track down a @Jimmy (formally James) Pinkerton of that ilk who I am @pretty certain introduced me to the word. I too, recall hearing something like it, but it wasn't that actual word. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "It's a moron working with power tools. How much more suspenseful can you get?" - House
