And yet I use it all the time ... thanks for enlightening me!
The show was really popular in the late 80s and early 90s. But the phrase 'for the win' has taken on a life of its own. It's like the phrase 'jump the shark', which named after a scene in a Happy Days episode.
		The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
	
	
	
	
	
	
			I am so in love with nostalgia reading right now.
	    
	         - 10/05/2011 11:23:54 PM
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			I picked up some nostalgia reading the other day.
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 03:27:53 AM
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			I'm in the same boat with "FTW".  All I can reason is "fuck the world."
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 11:09:08 AM
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			NSSP - not suitable for stupid people. FTW - for the win ...
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 11:23:24 AM
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			'For the Win!' is a line from a cheesy American game show called Hollywood Squares
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 02:04:11 PM
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			I did not know the origin of FTW
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 06:43:03 PM
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	         - 11/05/2011 09:02:22 PM
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			ftw was fuck the world: there was a military blog that had it in the title. don't remember the name. *NM*
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 05:04:54 PM
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			Not exactly nostalgia,but I had a compulsion to start rereading Neil Gaiman last night.
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 05:30:20 PM
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			Harry Potter is the best nostalgia reading.
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 06:44:12 PM
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			I was too old when I started Harry Potter for them to be considered nostalgia reading in my case.
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 09:02:46 PM
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			I think I was 12 when I first read HP.
	    
	         - 13/05/2011 04:27:39 PM
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			I keep getting tempted to read Eddings and then putting it off, because...
	    
	         - 11/05/2011 10:44:46 PM
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