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We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?'
What we told them: A poke is not much, actually. A friendly way of saying hi, an online method of flirting, or even a prelude to a threat. The problem with pokes is that, five years after Facebook launched, we don't know the proper response. A poke back, and then back again, threatening to evolve into a never-ending poke war? Ignore it and let it fester on our home page? Delete the poke and get on with our life? The best advice is, just confront it head on, and send a message, "Hey, (no) thanks for the poke." We have complicated thoughts on the complex matter, so we took to the streets to see if the New York public could more adequately tell us what exactly the elusive poke was. Check out the video after the break.
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Subscribe to commentsStanley R StewartDec 16th 2009 5:30PM
A " poke " is a bag.
lindaDec 16th 2009 7:00PM
pig in a poke right on
pj4228Dec 17th 2009 4:34PM
Stanley----You are absolutely correct. I was born in West Virginia, and when I grew up, we always said "poke" meaning bag.
rockinchair4099Dec 18th 2009 4:15PM
Stewart is right. My Grandother would say 'Go fetch me a paper poke! or a cloth poke. It is the act of putting something into. or the motion of :. You poke it in a bag, paper sack, bucket;etc. Being 81 years young, I still use the word poke around my kids, Grand kids and Great Grand kids. They laugh and I have to explain what poke means. I think it was derived from the word poker, as used to poke the burning wood in a fire place or outdoor wash pot, when boiling work clothes to get them clean or oiling down hog fat to render the LARD out. As a small boy 8 to 10 years old, that was my job to keep the fires poked under the wash pot and/or add fire wood.
C .P.Dec 18th 2009 6:14PM
again, who cares?
CassieJul 26th 2010 9:37PM
You cared or you wouldn't have opened it to read....
CANDIMIKEDec 16th 2009 7:37PM
Stanley you beat me to it, but to expand, a "poke" is an old world word for bag, and the term to buy a "pig in a poke" that is to buy something without looking first and risk being tricked into buying something worthless comes from the old world trick of doing just that. Dishonest merchants back when would put, back then, realitivly worthless cats in bags, i.e. "pokes" and try to sell them off as pigs. Then try to skip off before getting caught, of course, if the trick didn't work "the cat was let out of the bag".
jon JosephDec 16th 2009 8:07PM
isn't a poke a little black hockey ball they bat around with hockey sticks
RESCUEEIGHTDec 17th 2009 4:35PM
That is a puck, believe I know, state of ice I am, MN.
callgirl235May 7th 2011 11:47AM
LOL that was funny and cute, I bet you knew it is a puck on the ice.......
Geegee DavisJun 1st 2010 2:57PM
No, that is a puck... Can you remember that..?? a PUCK. Or don't you give a flying puck???
RichFromTampaDec 17th 2009 12:08AM
A "poke" was what Gus & the other Lonesome Dove cowboys referred to as Screwing Laurie, the town whore. As in, "How about a poke, Laurie darlin' " RichFromTampa
skrdenverDec 17th 2009 12:56AM
A "poke" is a small grocery bag...at least in W.Va.
Ewinjones1031Dec 17th 2009 3:42AM
A "poke" is either a burlap sack, a jab in the ribs or a wild plant that is kind of like spinach.....all this is according to Southern talk.
bb0507Dec 26th 2009 2:24PM
oh bummer. i thought this article had to do with pokies. when a woman gets cold and just has to say HELLO!
hunkules1Dec 17th 2009 12:25PM
To understand the true definition of the word "Poke", one only has to be familiar with the famous movie series "Lonesome Dove".
Another old definition of "Poke" was the money you had hid away for a rainy day.
Jennifer LopezDec 17th 2009 2:00PM
At the college I went to, it was everyone's understanding that if you poked somebody, that meant that you wanted to have sex with them. I'm not even joking.
joeywheeler5429Dec 18th 2009 11:35AM
a Poke is a Mon
pokemon XD lol rofl lmao
don't flame me i just try to be funny
mooreisenDec 17th 2009 4:16PM
well poke me......
sumersetsamDec 17th 2009 4:16PM
a poke is a poke, if you know what i mean