"Man, this place is going ballzers."

"TCY HI5" is definitely the new "LOL." Why this hasn't caught on completely all over the internet is beyond rational explanation as far as I'm concerned. The meaning has been debated for centuries. Modern scholars currently contend that "TCY" is actually an acronym, much in the same vein as the prestigious, yet horribly cliched "LOL." Our understanding of the phrase is limited.

In May 1905, Austrian telegraphical entrepreneur Hans Kolstein first coined the acronym to mean, "Take Care of Yourself," after being prompted by friend and colleague, Danish engineer Alfred "The Cheese Strudel" Nobel with the acronym, "HSUA" or as it was more properly known at the time, "Hand Slap from Up Above." At this point, the two began signing off from every telegraphed message with the simple acronymed phrase and reply, providing a small amount of momentum for our young internet phrase upstart of the future.

The next month, an American by the name of Thomas Bell attempted to patent the phrase, "TCY HSA" under extraordinarily dubious grounds. He did this after receiving a cryptic message from Hans concerning the use of strychnine as a floor disinfectent. Unable to understand the contents therein and absolutely perplexed by the "TCY" signoff, Thomas inquired further and was given a full account of Alfred and Hans' glorious inception of the complete phraseology. His patent attempt ultimately failed, but the publicity of the move, which caused a remarkable furor on the streets of Biloxi, Mississippi placed the "TCY" revolution into the forefront of a very hungry American public of telegraph users.

The advent of the telephone as a major form of telecommunication ultimately destroyed the "TCY HSA" movement within these United States. But internet visionary and pioneer, Scott Button, set about to bring about a renaissance for the inglorious phrase and sought a revolution against the inisipid popular acronyms that began to overwhelm instant message speak. He first learned of the phrase after coming across the very original telegraph that coined the phrase. He found it amongst the miscellaneous objects strewn about a common antique store in the simple burgh of Parma, Ohio. After a fastidious amount of complicated and back-breaking research, young Mr. Button became very well versed in this simple phrase's long and illustrious history.

Scott consulted his brother Jonathan, and the pair sought to update the phrase for modern times. With a very limited understanding of the nature of popular culture, the pair right away recognied that "HSA" could be modified to "High-five." Realizing that "HF" could mean any number of things, the two brothers spent countless hours ruminating over potential improvements. On May 8, 1998, they both ingested a severe amount of caffeine and after hours of furious instant messaging between themselves, they came to a glorious epiphany: "Hi5."

The project seemed doomed from the start once they launched "TCY Hi5" back into everyday usage. "TCY" still referred to "Take Care of Yourself," and the pair was unable to find a fruitful replacement. With the public ultimately confused by what "Take Care of Yourself" actually means, thinking that it was merely a form of "good-bye," the initial momentum of the launch lost much steam, and the phrase was dead in the water.

Whilst in Australia seven years later, Jonathan would come across a talking koala after completing a walkabout through the torturous desert. The koala tended to Jonathan's wounds and offered many a eucalyptus leaf in order to quench the young man's extreme thirst and hunger. Jonathan soon came back to health. The pair quickly became excellent companions. Jonathan soon learned that the koala was named Beth. Ironically, the term of endearment amongst this particularly breed of koala sounds rather intimidating to the untrained ear and is irreproducible in written form. The sound has the effect of driving away menacing predators from those that the koala loves. Jonathan's response to the noise after such an incident was a simple, "Totally Cool, Yo." Immediately, he realized that he was sitting on an internet cash cow. With no other form of communication available to him at a severely remote locale, Jonathan telegraphed that fateful phrase to his brother...and an Internet Revolution was born.


TCY HI5 Jonathan and Scott....TCY HI5!!!

Learn the phrases and love them.