Bee has the honor of choosing today’s prompt, “zoomie.”
I had to head to the dictionary to figure what it means, and they had nothing, either.
They did, however, have a definition for “zoomies“: “Members of the U.S. Air Force. (A nickname used by the Army. Persian Gulf War.)”
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what Bee had in mind, but that’s what I’m going with.
And now this word from Macleans toothpaste. Ask your dentist, ask a friend!
I never heard of that word and not sure what it means but I take it you are thinking, “zoom”.
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Zoom would have been relatively easy, but she specifically said zoomie.
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Confused, you will be!
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Confused I am!
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Huh. I’ve never heard the term Zoomies and I lived near a USAF base during the time of the Persian Gulf War. The things you learn.
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If you lived near an Army base, you might have heard it (it was the Army nickname for the Air Force), but maybe it was just used “in country,” as they say.
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Ahh. That explains it.
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I thought it must be a typing error for loonies or goonies but it seems not. I think I shall give this one a miss as I’m busy uploading my latest children’s book to Amazon.
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My dog gets a daily attack of the zoomies… the unstopable need to speed everywhere at what seems like mach2! 😀
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We have cats, so they get the “crazy cats”.
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Hi all, I was thinking of the dog zoomies but learned that term is used for airforce people too. Hat surprised me lot. Enjoyed your post enormously 😁
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Had not hat sigh
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I did not post on it today as I was late getting home and had no clue what it meant, nor did I have the desire today for research. Great job on your post.
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Thanks!
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Oh good grief! Y’all are so…whatever. It’s a ring knocker, zoomies could do no wrong. USAF Academy grads. No research required. Think ‘privileged.’
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I had never heard the term. I thought it was a German word at first.
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Oh yeah, I know what zoomies are. And jarheads, squids, nasty boys, grunts… all of em, I done heard em all. Military life, yo. 😛
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In the IT world, there are gearheads, wireheads, coneheads, etc. I think every profession has names for its practitioners.
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Agreed
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