ZOT

[stpalm]

What does that stupid acronym mean, anyway?

[Renew Deal]

1. It means freeper idiot.

Cause that's the only place I have ever seen it.

[Redstone]

2. It's not an acronym,

it's an onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like a sound).

Redstone

[JimmyJazz]

3. I don't think it's an acronym - I think it represents a

lightning bolt from heaven coming down to strike us down - but I could be wrong.

[Archae]

4. Used to be a comic book

Video-game themed comic book during the 1980's.

[DrWeird]

5. Do they sell zots anywhere anymore?

They were one of my childhood favorites.

[SeanQuinn]

6. ZOT = Freeper-slang for BAN

I have a good friend on FR and I was joining as a "conservative" which actually gained 5,000+ views and I asked him what it meant. It has to do with some evil kitty and one getting banned,.

[VOX]

7. Terrific 1960s comic strip, "B.C.", by Johnny Hart, had an anteater in it.

When his tongue came down to snatch a bug, the onomatopoetic sound "Zot!" accompanied it.

AFAIK, that's the origin of "Zot."

UC Irvine, which was founded in 1964, I believe, took the Anteater as their mascot from the popular comic strip.

On edit: Apparently the strip's creator, Johnny Hart, became a fundie-freeper somewhere along the line, and began to insert "Christian" messages into the strip. :puke: