P(a)wned

Remove any suspicion staleaponia doesn't abdicate using the term pwned, sounding phonetically like (p'owned). How is this term pronounced with a P and sound like owned, the base word? Makws lttle sence. The meaning of the term pwned is even more distorted. The term Pwned and the the word owned are completely different. Pwned, if a distinct memory serves correctly, derives from pawn. Not to pawn something as to sell it under dire circumstance. Is that what all the PWNED nullness is about>>>what just was "PWNED" was really pawned at the pawn shop?What would be sould at the PWNED SHOP? PWNAGE?

Pwnage (nounage) can be argued to have a very implicit chess etomology, too. To pwn one or oneself is to send them to the least powerful (individually) chess peice. The pwned one is now that of a pawn, which would mean the pronounciation of the term pwned, pwnage, and so forth is with a soft a inbetween P and W. Pawning someone or something would be, if chess is concerned, the opposite of knighting.

In that spirit, staleapawners, let's take a look at this classic chess game between gm's, if the ranking system was available then, Marmaduke Wyvill and Adolf Anderssen from the London (Chess) Tournament of 1851, and see some stalea-pawning!

1. c4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Be2 Bb4 5. Bh5+ g6 6. Be2 O-O 7. f4 c5 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 b6 11. a4 Bb7 12. Qc2 Qc7 13. Ng5 h6 14. Nh3 Rae8 15. Bf3 Re7 16. d4 Rg7 17. Ba3 Na5 18. Bxb7 Nxb7 19. Rad1 g5 20. g3 Nd6 21. fxg5 hxg5 22. Qd3 Nde4 23. d5 Qe5 24. Kg2 Rh7 25. Ng1 Rxh2+ 26. Kxh2 Qxg3+ 27. Kh1 Kg7 0-1

shniz! Did you SEE THT! Rook at h8 came through and busted all over white's king! The Queen would have all tearing up if not for the resignation. Yeah, props go to Anderssen, some pawnage.  

For awesome archives of chess games through history: don't get pawned.