Bomb - where the term originated?

[wild-t]

I read the post on acronyms. But I've heard the term used by the younger croud for many years now... . and they were not talking about vehicles. As in 'dats the bomb baby' on anything they thought was cool (to use a term from my generation).



Seems like words were made up to make 'bomb' into an acronym after the fact.



Any of you younger dudes feel free to 'hip this square cat straight'.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

The term was coined by TDR member scott1 . Searching through the archives here is the first post I can find using the term - https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43954

 

[Joe G.]

If I remember correctly, Scott1 came up with BOM when we were still on the old DieselRam forum. He added the final B shortly after that.

 

[wild-t]

Very good... thanks guys!

 

[WHIFF]

As I understand it, Scott1 is also the name behind the ScottyII (formerly psychotty) intake system.