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It happened yet again! I am in the middle of making a post on the board, and I got knocked off-line. Since the first time this happened to me in chat, it was always referred to as a "Moof". In chat, we joke that "the Moofie got you" or that "you were dancing with a Moofie".
Are moof and moofie terms that are universally known? Are they terms used in MSN chat, but different in AOL or another network? What do you call it when you are kicked off-line?
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What do you call it when you are kicked off-line?
1. A pain in the A**? 
2. Time to go a) home b) to bed or c) both
But never too seriously, at work you'll often hear people saying "Is the internet cactus?" I've never heard of moof. Is it an acronym or abbreviation of something?
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Are moof and moofie terms that are universally known?
Rumour has it that Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography will be called "A Man and his Moofies".
Disclaimer: not originally my joke.
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I've certainly never heard of a moof or a moofie. And in SA it is uncomfortably close to the Afrikaans word "moffie" (often used by English speakers too) which is a slang term for a male homosexual especially one who is very effeminate. I guess "fairy" or "poof" would be near equivalents - in the UK at least. Rumour has it that Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography will be called "A Man and his Moofies". Unless Arnie wants no end of ribbing I would advise him against that book title, if he intends marketing here in SA.  PS This spelling checker is wonderfully serendipitous: it suggests I replace Schwarzenegger with Schweitzer!! 
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I've never heard of "moofs" or "moofies." On Yahoo, at least in the games rooms, they speak of being "Yahoooooed," and on a chat room I visit we say that someone has been "booted."
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sparteye: booted
I've seen "booted" used, but with a different meaning: one is "booted" when a chat-room host deliberately kicks him/her out of the chat room. A "boot" is for a short cooling-off period (allowing re-entry immediately or within a few minutes or an hour); if longer it is a "ban".
This is the usage I've seen in MSN chats; I suspect the terminology may differ elsewhere.
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I searched in Yahoo for "Virus Moofie" and got a half dozen sites that suggest some hackers are causing a nuisance. Maybe you need a firewall. Have you run your virus softrware?
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MAX, WHERE ARE YOU?
You were wondering a week or so ago where all the boks were? Now we have one, at last.
WELCOME, PHYLLISSTEIN !!!
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