Evan Phillips what is up with posting "woot" and what the hell is up with the explosion after a fist bump? i think im getting old already.

‎Mad Mike *deep breath* To start with the latter and move to the former, the fist bump explosion or "Xtreme Knuckles" was born out of necessity during a time of self expression about 2.5 years ago.

As the regular high five had begun to bury itself in the tomes of ancient lore, out of the ashes arose the fist bump. 2 years prior to "Xtreme Knuckles" the original fist bump or "Respect Knuckles" was used to express an overwhelming sense of accomplishment as well as a casual greeting between close friends.

This grew too confusing at times because there are certain situations in which an expression of overwhelming accomplishment was not meant to be shown...such as funerals or divorce hearings.

This meant that the social world needed to define a more specific signature motion to denote a more vibrant display of emotion. Thusly, the "Xtreme Knuckles" was born.

Now on the subject of woot.
Woot is a word that was derived from 2 root words. Those words of course being "Woo Hoo" and "Hoot" (of course nobody was saying the word hoot, merely making a hooting noise).

After time the two words slowly drifted together forming one base word used to encompass certain joy in the face of possible anguish.

For example, when you are barely scraping by a C average in your ancient rome calculus class and the final exam is a make or break for you you will be met with two possible outcomes for a proper response, Woot or Fail! Fail of course being the negative alternative to the previously stated positive Woot.

I hope this clears up any possible confusion.

For further questions feel free to pose them too me on my page.