Snarkiest T.V. Guide article ever.

I just had to share this with someone... EVERYONE.

I finally after years of searching saw the word "Snark" used in a real world setting.

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>"Even the snarkiest fans are thinking nice thoughts according to Joshua Griffin, co-owner of TheForce.net" </DIV></DIV>

anyone else besides me catch this phrase?

/me wonders if someone visits the pit on occasion

it could be some variant of nark, a nark being someone that complains all the time. i.e, the narky bitch with pmt

fishy said:
it could be some variant of nark, a nark being someone that complains all the time. i.e, the narky bitch with pmt

hmm, maybe.

Nark was a slang word we used in the 80's.. It was a designation for a tattle tale, or a snitch.. someone who told on you when you did something wrong.

Funny how words spelled the same, have different meaning across the globe :smile:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=102313&dict=CALD

Definition

snarky [Show phonetics]
adjective INFORMAL
criticizing someone in an annoyed way and trying to hurt their feelings:
example: There was some idiot at the back of the hall making snarky comments.

Also Dug this up..

<SPAN class=artcopy><SPAN>The Snark was an air force program begun in 1945 to produce a subsonic (600-mile-per-hour) cruise missile capable of delivering a 2,000-pound atomic or conventional warhead to a range of 5,000 miles, with a CEP of less than 1.75 miles. Initially, the Snark used a turbojet engine and an inertial navigation system, with a complementary stellar navigation monitor to provide intercontinental range. ?</SPAN></SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>And this at Dictionary.com</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>Snark</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>[Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1. A system
failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get
the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!"</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening
event on a computer (especially if it might be a boojum).
Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might
indicate an attempted security violation. See snivitz.</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Hacker
Jargon File versions 2...</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>[Jargon File]</SPAN>

<SPAN class=artcopy>Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, ? 1993-2004 Denis Howe </SPAN>

Definitions of Snark on the Web:

[*] The
Northrop SM-62 Snark was a specialised intercontinental missile with a
nuclear warhead briefly operated by the US Strategic Air Command from
1958 until 1961.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_(missile)</li>[*] The
eponymous snark in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark is a
fictional animal, the quarry for a hunting party comprising some highly
unlikely characters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_(Lewis_Carroll)</li>[*] In graph theory, a snark is a connected, bridgeless cubic graph with chromatic index equal to four.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_(graph_theory)</li>[*] Snark
refers to a pejorative style of speech or writing. It could loosely be
described as irritable or "snidely derisive"; hence, 'snarkish',
'snarky', 'to snark at somebody'. It could less politely be described
as 'bitchy'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_(speech)</li>

Thank you Google!

My goodness Moneyshot, is the snarkpit the ONLY good thing to come out of the word? :wink:

some interesting tidbits there though, my thanx.

First I have to say.. HA Ha HA.. I beat you to it Morphine :eek:

Then I Have to say I think so Orph.. But with that def. wouldn't the Snark Pit be the BitchingPit?or the Snide remark pit.. hold up that could explain alot.. lol just kidding.

MoneyShot said:
First I have to say.. HA Ha HA.. I beat you to it Morphine :eek:

Then I Have to say I think so Orph.. But with that def. wouldn't the Snark Pit be the BitchingPit?or the Snide remark pit.. hold up that could explain alot.. lol just kidding.

/me was thinking the same thing, but not ballsy enough to type it.

/me always wondered why a UK based site had so many UK members who... notices glares and stops typing

MoneyShot, you're quick on the draw. I concede that fact :biggrin:

I wonder if anyone could dig up a description of Lewis Caroll's snark?

i posted the whole poem here before, but it got locked, and slid into obscurity.

[edit] http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=1&topic=2335&highlight=/me,votes,sticky

fishy said:
i posted the whole poem here before, but it got locked, and slid into obscurity.

[edit] http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=1&topic=2335&highlight=/me,votes,sticky

threads auto-lock if they are not replied to in 4 or more months.

sadly, we had to do that because some people feel compelled to dig up something from 8 years ago. this wouldn't be a bad thing, if the topic warranted it, but sometimes it was just to reply to a post... that was old. :sad:

i know about the auto lock, but it was that bad Lep man that done it this time.

So this is "the annoying bastard pit"?

Those snarks sure are annoying bastards.

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Snark/Snark_missile-pictures.htm

And my favorite quote:

So many Snarks were
fired down the Atlantic Ocean Test Firing Range that the crews
referred to them as "Snark Infested Waters."

Sorry to revive this 10 day old thread but... I found another reference to Snark.

Apparently the original name for the ship in the movie "Alien" was going to be Snark. Thought that was interesting.

"The
ship at the centre of the story was originally named the <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Snark</b>,
after the legendary creature being sought in Lewis Carroll's poem
The Hunting of the <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Snark</b>. Its next name was Leviathan - a reference
to its enormous size - before Scott eventually settled on Nostromo,
the title of a novel by Joseph Conrad, a quotation from whom opens
the screenplay: "We live as we dream - alone.""

Source: http://www.thestudentzone.com/articles/film-alien.html

Orpheus said:
<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting fishy</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>it could be some variant of nark, a nark being someone that complains all the time. i.e, the narky bitch with pmt

hmm, maybe.

Nark was a slang word we used in the 80's.. It was a designation for a tattle tale, or a snitch.. someone who told on you when you did something wrong.

</div></div>You sure you aren't thinking of a liberal use of the word "narc"? Short for narcotics officer, they hit it big time in the 80's what with 21 Jump Street, the D.A.R.E. campaign, and their fantabulously awful disguises.

We as children used the word to define someone who snitched on us. How it was spelled, I dunno. I always assumed that we got it from TV cause they always called them the same name, for the same reason, and it had nothing to do with drugs.

shrugs