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I need the help of the Huddle masses. I've been Shibacled!


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Deion Sanders called the Herchel Walker trade a "Shibacle". I need to know what the Huddle masses think the definition of this word should be. After getting enough suggestions, I'll create a poll and let everyone vote on it, so if this word is ever used again in the English language, we will all be in agreement as to what the word means.

In a Thursday night appearance on NFL Network, Deion Sanders compares the trade of Donovan McNabb from the Eagles to the Redskins to the "Herschel Walker shibacle."

Sanders eventually calls the move the "dumbest trade ever."

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/04/09/deion-labels-donovan-deal-dumbest-trade-ever-coins-new-phrase-in-the-process/#comments

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Deion Sanders called the Herchel Walker trade a "Shibacle". I need to know what the Huddle masses think the definition of this word should be. After getting enough suggestions, I'll create a poll and let everyone vote on it, so if this word is ever used again in the English language, we will all be in agreement as to what the word means.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry, I can't be of any help here. I speak English, French, & some coon-ass. Ebonics is way beyond my comprehension.

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Before we get inundated with more bad jokes and mildly racist "a black man said something I don't understand, must be that ebonics stuff Ma told me about" comments, I'll point out that shibacle is a term used in the gaming community for some time now. It is a portmanteau of "sh*t" and "debacle" meaning an extremely messed up and confused situation.

A quick Google search nets me a few results such as this from a gamer board:

Idk much about the company making this (It's not Yukes so Hallelujah) but THQ. Now here is hoping they don't pull that Spore shibacle much less make it so we can't mod the game much less tweak it as we please.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=954089&topic=48820127

Here on page two of YouTube comments:

look i have clared this shibacle up, i like americans, just not america.

Americans = honest people.

America = Over-run government who's meaning of peace is war on a small insergent country who can't protect themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJ5XEAsvBU

And here on a message board of gentlemen involved in possibly illicit gambling:

I dont think that Jimmymacconcrack dude got paid yet. The whole shibacle may be a clandescant faerie tale.

http://www.bookiescorner.com/forum/showthread.php?p=443683

All three of these examples are clearly time stamped well before yesterday, the oldest being from July of last year. Sanders can claim to have coined the phrase, as most people had not heard the term before yesterday, but he did not pull it out of thin air.

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Guest silver82blade

i've heard the word many times. i don't know where it came from or who first used it, but it's hardly new.

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