I want an option between "I detest that term" and "I use that term all the time". I mean, I'm fine with the term, but I don't believe I've ever used it. Where *did* it come from?

it's lame. i hate these spelling nightmare words like phat.

I've never heard of phat - does this mean I've missed yet another culturally significant item by not watching tv???

whenever I encounter the term "phat", all I can think of is this chicken in the Sony Playstation game "Parrappa the Rapper"...the chicken has this cooking show, and at one point, in the most affected white- bred voice she says "dope phat"...It was stuck in my head for days, DAYS I tell you...

I don't know where the term came from, but I don't have much use for it. For that matter I don't use much slang in generally.

We all have the phat-nature and the not-phat-nature within us. (I checked everything.)

My opinion of a person immediately drops a few notches if they "phat" or "beotch" in non-satirical context.

Yo, I'm all that and more

I've read all the comments, but I'm still in the same place : what ***** is PHAT?

Jaime - "phat" is a slang term that was probably created by minority inner-city kids and/or "rappers" (the music form). It's an indication of something being good. I doubt any of us here really knows much about it (we being almost completely white suburban types).

I use that term sometimes, when I think something is really cool. I actually don't know where it came from. I can tell from the percentage stats that I'll probably get flamed for this survey. I came very close to not doing it.
JAIME "PHAT" is a term some people use to expand an item or anything really. Instead of saying, "That show was really awesome/good/great/yadda/yadda/yadda." One could say:"That show was really PHAT!"

Check out:http://www.phat.com

I'm aphraid I don't pheel much about it one way or another.

You know, love you all dearly as I do, I can't wait til it's discovered that moderate TV watching is the only way to become resistant to the recombinant Marburg virus that will decimate 80% of humanity in the year. .. oh wait. . I've said too much. This is who we are.

Dave: darling, if your'e going to flame me with statistics, at least name your sources :) (oh, I suppose I should name my sources. . .but then they'd kill me.)

Dave: oh.

Dave: actually, my usage is correct. take 80% of the population, then reduce that portion by decimating them (to 1/10th)) So there. Nyaah.

**Atzilut: So 8% of the populace is going to die? Guess I'd better get cable...
**Atzilut: I wasn't questioning the lethality of the Marburg virus (although 80% is probably assuming little medical treatment or a vicious new strain ; I was questioning the misuse of "decimate". It's such as precise word; I'd like to preserve its original meaning.
**Atzilut: Sorry, no. The 1/10th meaning of decimate is to reduce by one tenth, not to one tenth. The Romans used to do this as a means of punishing a military unit that performed poorly. I suspect that this type of confusion is what has led to the more recent meaning of the word. Perhaps it's time for another obscure words survey?

pink hands allaying terrorism .... pine hats and tennis ... pelted handles arriving torn ... pretty hot and tantalizing

Why do people think that mispelling a word not only makes it cool but makes the new and sperate meaning somehow cyptic due to it being associated with a commonly used word? That word is lame. why dedicate an entire survey to it?

The Phat Farm clothing store in Soho is pretty "PHAT"