who is still around that knows?
I put this question to the remaining Bigweek folks. Their responses thus far:
Fidd: "Server priviledges on AW were known as "bwana powers" from the Swahili. Only
a guess, but it may have evolved from that if Mage et al were using it to
laugh at the (non-bwana) players?"
Tex: "it would be on the data from the GEnie forums. I'm not sure they
survive though."
Grizzly: "I believe it was BigWeek, or at least the denizens of it. As I remember,
BWAHAHA (perhaps more accurately BUAHAHA) was supposed to represent a
sheep doing the MUAHAHA laugh by adding a BAAA sound prefix. I'm not
sure but if I had to guess I would say it was DeadDuck's doing."
Dipsy: "I'd respectfully call on me learned friend to prdouce the said Duck so
that he may offer an opinion on the subject as it remains the people's
conjecture that there was no sheep-related subcontect to the BWAHAHA.
I'd further suggest that it was just a variation on the evil laugh:
specifically an evil laugh that didn't have time to generate an
introductary "M" and had to leap to the explosive "B" because the
response to whatever ridiculous post had inspired it, had to be that
much more immediate.
I could be wrong of course. I've been wrong before."
- oldman