r/whoosh

15K archived posts · Mar 2011 – Sep 2026

Missed jokes

r/whoosh

Private in protest of the new API policy. Whoosh: Single word exclamation, accompanied by a gesture where the hand is swept palm down over the head from [front to back] with about three inches [clearance]. Indicates that the joke just told was too sophisticated for the listener and has gone "way over their head".

Created Feb 27, 2010

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A place to post all the things that go over a persons head.

r/whoosh is proud to associate with the following similarly themed subs:

r/confidentlyincorrect - For those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer

r/iamverybadass - People trying too hard to appear tough, strong, brave, heroic.

r/woooosh - WUT R JOKES? WAT IZ DA SETYRE? ME DUMDUM REDDITER!

r/OopsDidntMeanTo - People doing stuff intentionally then pretending it was not on purpose (hacked/accident/friend did it/joke/drunk/satire/etc.) Also allowed: people taking credit for something that's obviously accidental.

r/facepalm - A gallery of inexplicable stupidity

r/screenshots - r/screenshots is the place for screenshots and pictures of text.

r/AteTheOnion - All posts must be satirical news being taken seriously. Any satirical news site is allowed, not just The Onion.

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