Talk:gangbanger

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: &mdash; Hippietrail 11:40, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * gang-banger: comp.sys.ibm.pc - Sep 17 1987, 5:20 pm by Erik Lindberg
 * I don't deal with byte order here, but that should only be a concern if you are doing word-wide programming on a gang-banger (in which case, just swap the devices in their sockets, if necessary :-)
 * gang banger: rec.music.misc - before Jul 13 1989, 4:01 pm by Sean A. Starke
 * When NWA raps about a posse gettin' ill in Compton, or when Ice T raps about a gang banger getting his head blown off, people recoil and protest.
 * gang bangers: alt.drugs - May 10 1990, 6:19 am by leo%
 * But patrol officers have routinely stopped and frisked suspected "gang bangers" - a process that singles out minority kids.
 * gang-bangers: soc.singles - Jul 24 1990, 3:37 am by Bob Forsythe
 * It may not be the same as growing up around "gang-bangers", but hey, it's the best I can do.
 * gangbangers: rec.arts.sf-lovers - May 28 1991, 10:45 pm by Dan'l DanehyOakes
 * This, by the way, is *literally* true; the only vague attempt made to excuse it, and very lame it is indeed, is that he was gentler about it than the rest of the gangbangers.
 * gangbanger: bit.listserv.words-l - Jan 31 1992, 11:35 am by Happy POETS
 * Royko's column is very good and applicable to this discussion -- about a fourteen year-old 'gangbanger.
 * GangBanger: soc.culture.african.american - Jun 4 1992, 9:18 am by Steven Stovall
 * And it appears that Larry Kasdan's "Grand Canyon" between have and have-not Los Angeles is persisting, despite media infatuation with GangBanger culture, and despite the efforts of people like Danny Bakwell and Maxine Waters.
 * gangbanger's (is): alt.parents-teens - Jun 10 1992, 7:56 am by Wm. L. Ranck
 * The gangbanger's now going to say something like, "I didn't like the way she looked at me. If she hadn't looked at me I wouldn't have shot her."
 * gangbanger's (possessive): rec.arts.books - Sep 2 1992, 12:12 pm by John McCarthy
 * She was apparently trying to explain a gangbanger's mentality to a talk show host.
 * gang banger's: sci.space.shuttle - Mar 14 1994, 9:31 pm by Ken Hayashida
 * Have you ever dug bullets out of a gang banger's belly or sewen up the head of a drunk?
 * gang-banger's (at linebreak): alt.radio.scanner - Jul 27 1994, 1:46 pm by Lola Cosworth
 * It's common to hear them call in the plate on a car that looks like it might be a druggie's or gang-banger's car.
 * gang-banga: alt.sex - Mar 5 1995, 12:39 am by gearup
 * When it comes to sexual arousal, however, give me a dark skinned, nappy headed gang-banga!!!
 * gang-banger's: alt.bigfoot - Nov 19 1995, 3:10 pm by The Werewolf of London
 * Or the "click-click" of a gang-banger's pistola.... ;)
 * gang banga: rec.music.hip-hop - Aug 5 1996, 1:50 am by Abdou Kama
 * Cube kicks knowledge: he gives different perspectives of street life from the eyes of a hustler, a pimp, a thief, a gang banga, political activist.
 * gangbanga: alt.music.alternative - Feb 4 1997, 11:23 pm by Todd M. Pinarchick
 * Lots of hip-hop and rap, as you can see -- my "suburban gangbanga" period, I think it all ended when Snoop Doggy Dogg came on the scene and made me want to vomit.
 * gang bangas: rec.arts.bodyart - May 20 1997, 2:12 pm by abraxas
 * ... and pop a cap in his ass to impress the REAL gang bangas down on the south side so they can keep their heroin flowin into their little 16 year old freakin forearms ...
 * gangbangas: or.politics - before Jun 23 1997, 9:54 pm by wbg
 * Which in part accounts for the popularity of the Glock line amongst law enforcement, gangbangas, and discerning citizens employing concealed carry :-)
 * gang-banga's­ (sic: apostrophe in plural): co.politics - Oct 23 1998, 12:38 pm by Chris
 * Bunch of gang-banga's, huh?
 * gang-bangas: alt.tv.xena - Nov 10 2000, 6:59 pm by Aethelrede
 * IIRC the Florida killing was back when gang-bangas were killing a lot of people in rural and suburban Florida and a lot of people were seriously scared.
 * gang banga's (sic: apostrophe in plural): alt.games.video.xbox - Jan 14, 12:40 am by GT4 KickAss
 * Atleast it won't have rappas and gang banga's in it.

Computer/electronics sense?
From looking for the first uses in Usenet, I noticed that the first couple of uses seem to be referring to sime kind of tool or such used by electronics people. Does anybody know anything about this? &mdash; Hippietrail 11:42, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)