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> Or named their tweets "toots". It's like they want it to fail. Why?

• naavis 8y ago
  It's a slang word for farts.
  • progval 8y ago
    I know, but it does not keep people away. Or maybe just "too serious" people
  • Twisol 8y ago
    It's also used in more musical contexts, as with horns and trumpets -- for instance, "to toot one's own horn". (Animals with large trunks, like elphants and mastodons, would be considered to trumpet.) The fact that a fart makes a sound like that of a trumpet merely makes it a convenient bowdlerization.