Cabbaging is a game in which players, known as Cabbagers, attempt to reach the oldest page on a website in a given number of clicks from a predefined starting point.
History
Cabbaging was first played by five people sharing an office in Peebles , Scotland who used it as a way to decide who should eat the "spare" Tunnock's Tea Cakes from a pack of six. The game was brought to public attention by Judy Cabbages on 9 August 2005 by writing the following letter to the BBC News Online Magazine Monitor, an online daily publication:
In our office of five people, the six pack of Tunnocks Tea Cakes does no (sic) divide very well; so we have a contest. The person who can go back in time to the oldest article on the BBC News site in only five clicks from the start page, gets the sixth tea cake for themselves. Today, I read through nature to cats to pandas and in 5 clicks, got to 25 April 1998. Reaching 1997 is a real achievement.
Judy Cabbages,
Peebles, Scotland
Readers of the Magazine Monitor began playing the game themselves and the name "Cabbaging" was suggested three days later in honour of Judy Cabbages. The name "backlogging" was also suggested, but did not catch on. On 19 August 2005 a set of rules written by Monitor reader Matt Wainwright was published.
- Judy Cabbages' original letter
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4131118.stm#debt
- Matt Wainwright's Cabbaging rules
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4152338.stm#cabbaging
Cabbaging was first played by five people sharing an office in Peebles , Scotland who used it as a way to decide who should eat the "spare" Tunnock's Tea Cakes from a pack of six. The game was brought to public attention by Judy Cabbages on 9 August 2005 by writing the following letter to the BBC News Online Magazine Monitor, an online daily publication:
In our office of five people, the six pack of Tunnocks Tea Cakes does no (sic) divide very well; so we have a contest. The person who can go back in time to the oldest article on the BBC News site in only five clicks from the start page, gets the sixth tea cake for themselves. Today, I read through nature to cats to pandas and in 5 clicks, got to 25 April 1998. Reaching 1997 is a real achievement.
Judy Cabbages,
Peebles, Scotland
Readers of the Magazine Monitor began playing the game themselves and the name "Cabbaging" was suggested three days later in honour of Judy Cabbages. The name "backlogging" was also suggested, but did not catch on. On 19 August 2005 a set of rules written by Monitor reader Matt Wainwright was published.
- Judy Cabbages' original letter
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4131118.stm#debt
- Matt Wainwright's Cabbaging rules
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4152338.stm#cabbaging
by email6311494 October 02, 2007
A dismissive term used to stop a superfluous avenue of conversation, or that the current discussion goes without saying.
A dismissive term is used to curtail a digressive conversation.
It can mean: "let's move on, we can discuss that later".
It also mean: "we've had this discussion before, and I still agree with you"
Often used when it's clearly established that the parties in the conversation agree with each other anyway.
A dismissive term is used to curtail a digressive conversation.
It can mean: "let's move on, we can discuss that later".
It also mean: "we've had this discussion before, and I still agree with you"
Often used when it's clearly established that the parties in the conversation agree with each other anyway.
A: Isn't the government awful
B: Yes that new policy sucks
A: I'm still annoyed at that one last year..
B: *cutting in* cabbages, cabbages...
A: hmmmm...
B: Yes that new policy sucks
A: I'm still annoyed at that one last year..
B: *cutting in* cabbages, cabbages...
A: hmmmm...
by _puddles October 07, 2021
When you take everything out of someones bag, turn it inside out, put everything back in and then zip it up. Usually also done to thing inside the bag like a pencil case. When this is turned inside out it is called Sprouting.
"I left my bag by the lunch hall i hope no-one has been cabbaging today..."
Dude one: Oh No my bags been cabbaged! I'm gonna have to carry it to class like this and sort it out then or i'll be late!
Dude Two: Yeh and everyone will take the piss as you go along the corridor!
Dude one: Oh No my bags been cabbaged! I'm gonna have to carry it to class like this and sort it out then or i'll be late!
Dude Two: Yeh and everyone will take the piss as you go along the corridor!
by alex thorpe December 08, 2007
by BO$$ PLAYAZ May 27, 2011
The word cabbaged originated in Belfast Northern Ireland:
The meaning of this term is - wiped off your tree, maybe consuming too many extacy pills or other drugs to be in state where you are unable to move ie cabbaged...
It can also mean to be exasperated due to the result of being stoned to the ballix ie consuming too much cannibus...
The meaning of this term is - wiped off your tree, maybe consuming too many extacy pills or other drugs to be in state where you are unable to move ie cabbaged...
It can also mean to be exasperated due to the result of being stoned to the ballix ie consuming too much cannibus...
Phil was cabbbaged on the sofa...
Phil was cabbaged as he consumed to many drugs...
Phil looks like a cabbage...
Phil was cabbaged as he consumed to many drugs...
Phil looks like a cabbage...
by Gerry Mac August 29, 2006
by outlaw pr October 14, 2010
by The wise plumbus November 30, 2018