Around these parts, a weird language known as “leet speak” is spoken, with “pwned” being one of the most common. Certain Grodsters like to yell it a lot at every opportunity. According to one of the entries on Urban Dictionary, it means:

A corruption of the word “Owned.” This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled “owned.” When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so “has been owned.”

Instead, it said, so-and-so “has been pwned.”

It basically means “to own” or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s have a look at Fred Phelps, the nasty so-called “Christian” pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Wichita, Kansas. You know the guy, the one whose “church” and its members cause howls of outrage — and rightly so — for his and his idiot family’s anti-gay tirades, as well as picketing of the funerals of dead soldiers and victims of gay hate crimes, and thanking God for the 9-11 terrorist attacks because it was God’s way of telling America they are doomed. Or something. Because of their mephitic, hateful anti-gay message and condemnation of Catholics, Jews and even, bizarrely, Sweden, Phelps and his “church” has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League.

A truely hateful, revolting group led by an equally hateful, revolting bigot and non-Christian.

Thus, it was to my delight this morning when I started my working day by looking at favourite websites instead of working, that I saw the nefarious Fred Phelps get totally PWNED!!!