Serious!Question

[abigailnus <abigailnus@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Jen Faulkner <jfaulkne at s...> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Heidi Tandy wrote:
> 
> > It's a practise the fandom adopted from anime. The exclamation point
> > means "one who is", pretty much, and if you pronounce it, it's
> > pronounced "bang".

I have no idea if this is true, but I always assumed the practice came 
from Barbies and other dolls.  You know, Malibu!Barbie, Nurse!Barbie, 
and so on.

Or it could just be my fevered imagination.  Like Heidi, I've been seeing 
the ! since the mid-90s, mostly in X-Files fandom.

Abigail