Prepare for the decline of: The Black Kids

[azaghal1981]

So what came first?
 
 
 The word hijack or "jack" used to mean to take w/o permission or steal as in "My bastard roomate jacked that last piece of cake I was saving for later so I'll have to get him back by taking a leak on his face as he sleeps tonight."?
 
 
 I'm thinking that use of "jack" was adopted after "hijack" became part of the English language but am not totally sure.

[Vas Deferens]

from wiki:
 
 There are two folk etymologies:
 
 That it arose from someone wanting a lift on a truck calling "Hi, Jack" (the exclamation plus the name), until this was used often as a trick by robbers.
 
 That it comes from seamen who were robbed by prostitutes in former centuries in London. Prostitutes would call out "Hi, Jack" to passing sailors. Instead of receiving the services they expected, some sailors were instead robbed by an accomplice.

[Vas Deferens]

their shows are being moved to smaller venues
 
 Metro Chicago -> Abbey Pub
 The Fillmore SF -> Great American Music Hall
 
 it's pitchfork's fault!   :p

[Relaxer]

Not many people know it, but the origin of the word pitchfork goes back to 1931 when Amos T. Scuttlebrow took the mound of a community baseball game in Auburn Smash, Idaho. Lacking a proper baseball -- this was the depression after all -- he used the only available tool he could find, which was a fork. He threw it, and it skewered Thomas U. Dinklefwat in the upper abdomen. Dinklefwat became so enraged that he went to his barn and got this weird looking tool and then proceeded to chase Scuttlebrow around the yard with it. Later, someone asked Dinklefwat what that weird looking tool was and he said "It's a pitchfork."