The 411 (Salmon-Flava)

I’m new – will someone have pity on me and tell me what PNW’ed means? What do the letters stand for?

Hi Beth,

I will tell you. I don’t know how much you know or what part of the country/world you live in, so I will step way back.

I live in Seattle. As you may know, this region is called the “Pacific Northwest,” and is often shortened to PNW. Every region has its weird little cultural things that make it unique, right? The PNW has salmon, pine trees, and the people here seem nuts for fleece. My sister and I have a joke about things “getting PNW’ed,” so we make bad jokes about salmon hot dogs or Paris Hilton wearing fleece.

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Update! 10:42 am

Beth and I emailed further and she brought up the gamer slang “pwned.” It also relates to that. I say “pee-en-double-you’ed,” but my sister always says “puh-nowed!” when she is having a PNW moment. It’s kind of like pwning or getting pwned, Northwest style. We frequently get puh-nowed by the, um, unique local driving style.

14 thoughts on “The 411 (Salmon-Flava)

  1. Do you people see what I have to put up with here?

    I get PNW’ed every fucking day.

    Is that you, Mark Trail?

  2. Mark Trail. HAHAHAHA!! Yer killin’ me.
    So, btw, thanks for the wikipedia link, that was hilarious. My gamer son enjoyed it, too.

  3. Firs? You’re busting her for first? I suggest everyone stepping off with the details and just enjoying the hilarious cartoon.

  4. I’m curious, where would you live if you had your druthers?

    I’m PNW’d by joint custody too, but I think I’d prolly chewz to be a Seattelite anyway, despite the bleakass bleakcoldwetdrizzliness round here.

  5. PWN also comes from gaming subculture, it is a misspelling of OWN, as in, “OMG I OWN YOU!”

    It became I PWN JOO, in gamerspeek. I’ve never heard the PacNW variety, but I know a lot of computer geeks who use pwned quite frequently in daily context.

  6. “PWN also comes from gaming subculture, it is a misspelling of OWN, as in, ‘OMG I OWN YOU!'”

    the above is correct. it started as a typo. look down at your keyboard and see who the O’s neighbor is.

    over the years it has morphed into other variations on message boards and chat rooms, for example: “pwn3d”.

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