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Way cool, Dooce!

Here's what we said before all the votes were tallied for the 2005 Bloggies:
And the winner, no matter what happens, is Dooce, which means "to be fired from your job because of the contents of your weblog," for being nominated in four different categories not counting best name for a blog!
Now, the winners are—drumroll—the envelope, please.
  • Dooce for Best American Weblog
  • Dooce for Best Writing of a Weblog
  • Dooce for Most Humorous Weblog
  • Dooce for Best Tagline of a Weblog
    • The winning tagline was "Not your average clenched-cheek sprint to the bathroom" so, you gotta be asking, "How do you pronounce DOOCE and where did that word come from?" Apparently, it's a frequently asked question.
    I wish there were a more interesting story behind the name of this website, and I’ve tried for days to come up with something hipper than the truth, but the unhip truth is that the word DOOCE is a result of my horrible typing and spelling skills. I lived and worked in LA for four years, and people in LA like to say the word dude in casual conversation, in business meetings, and from the pulpit. Everyone in LA dudes. When I worked in an office and instant messaged coworkers, we were always typing “dude, no way” and “awesome, dude!” and then it sort of became “right on, doode” and “oh my god, doooooooode.” But I could never type it right. I was always typing “duce” and “dooce” and half of a thirty minute IM conversation was dominated by me correcting the misspelling, like, “oops, i meant dooce” and even in the corrections I couldn’t type it right. So they all started calling me Dooce. The Dooce. Her Dooceness. Wrapped up like a Dooce!

    Dooce is pronounced like DEUCE, not like douche or like doo-chay or dookie. Please don’t call me dookie, because seriously, given my personal bowel history, that would be entirely inaccurate.
    This year's Bloggies were blinded by the light, wrapped up by the dooce, another blogger in the night.
    Posted by abnu on Monday, March 14, 2005 @ 2:07 PM [ + ]

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