1996 May 5, Robbie Bettison, “Premier league”, in alt.sports.soccer.european.uk[1] (Usenet):
Can't wait until the summer to see how many unloyal 'players' jump ship (spoilt, money grabbing, unpassionate, W-ANCHORS).
1998 May 29, Jonathan Horniblow, “Re: Eskimo hunters”, in alt.humor.puns[2] (Usenet):
Pardon me for sticking my oar in, but I sea that you've been sinking to new depths with y-oar puns. Now take a bow, and stop being a w-anchor.
1999 November 28, mutialte_Brian, “Re: Telewest cable modems - Dates??”, in uk.media.tv.cable[3] (Usenet):
allegedly Jan 2k. price? - they don't even seem to know! testing is already done and complete, last year. they are just being w-anchors with the roll out.
2005 April 22, Tim Streater, “Re: Security Update 2005-004”, in uk.comp.sys.mac[4] (Usenet):
Agreed. It's when the response is "and please don't top post", without explanation, as if the poor poster has farted in the lift, that I am inclined to think, "what a w-anchor".
2005 October 21, Anthony Cunningham, “Re: Dabs”, in ed.general[5] (Usenet):
Do the Distance Selling regs apply to business accounts? If they do then you can return in 14 days for any reason. If not, then you may well be stuffed. This is Dabs we're talking about here and it's hard to find a more useless bunch of clueless wanchors in business today.
2008 February 11, Danie Ware 📚🎲🇪🇺💙⚜️ (@Danacea), Twitter[6]:
