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  • noun Internet, slang An utter, total failure.

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  • This is what I feel like today.

    April 19, 2008

  • But no! It can't be! It must be all of those people who came to your office to die.

    April 19, 2008

  • Cool people say "epic phail."

    April 19, 2008

  • What kind of people don't say either?

    April 19, 2008

  • Mute people?

    April 21, 2008

  • Well, I'm not mute, and I don't say epic fail or epic phail. And this would mark the first time I've typed them.

    April 21, 2008

  • I say "epic fail" all the time. :) I'm also cool. Ergo...

    Actually I think spoonyalchemist must have meant "Cool people type 'epic phail,'" since there's no audible way to differentiate between the two spellings.

    July 15, 2008

  • Only spoony knows for sure.

    July 22, 2008

  • Goodbye, Schadenfreude; Hello, Fail - Slate.com

    October 17, 2008

  • Regularly linked in my mind with Alan Greenspan these days.

    October 29, 2008

  • And not with libertarianism?

    October 29, 2008