Best. Headline. Ever.

[elfs]

MSNBC's blog about blogs had this headline about the LJ outage: It's as if a million bloggers cried out all at once..... and became silent.

Comments

[talisker.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that title was mooched from /. or vice-versa :)

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

RTFA. It's a quote from a LiveJournal user, though I'm sure they were far from the only one to come up with it.

[talisker.livejournal.com]

dude, chill.

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

While it links to an LJ post, that post then links to a slashdot article. It has comments in it which include that quote. I think that's the original source.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I think they snarfed it from the LJ thread on /., yeah.

[brannonb.livejournal.com]

When did snarf become a verb? :-)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was introduced as a verb in the old "sniglets" routine by the otherwise singularly unfunny Rich Hall. What it meant then was "to ask someone a question when their mouth is full." But I've seen other people use it as a verb meaning "to copy" since then.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Snarf - The act of expelling something from ones nasal cavity following a joke.

Alternate: to swipe and use material for one's own purposes.

Snarf: A dog-like creature from Thundercats comic.

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

When I was a wee-lad, we used the word "scarf" to refer to swiping and using material.

A set of the alternative definitions is here.

I would guess that the word evolved from "snort + scarf": an imitative sound added to scarf. From there, an easy jump to the Internet.

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

BTW, you might want to change your link to:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6836203/#050117

Otherwise it's just a general link to the blog. Curse them for not having proper permalinks. That'll last a bit longer at least, though.