ILX memes you never quite understood.

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"Boxcar".

That picture of Mase.

FTW.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

blood diamonds

remy bean, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that too.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think FTW = For The Win?

Hen Fap

Banning Louis Jagger

People getting banned from the noise board

Oh .......paws

Luckily, I think I got in quick enough to know who or what the hell Marissa Marchant is, but not soon enough to have enjoyed any of those threads in real time.

mehlt, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

LZBC

wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

ftw = wtf backwards? like fuck the what?

blood diamonds and boxcar were DC things originally. boxcar is from the comic strip for better or for worse and blood diamonds just means GOOD or GREAT

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe something to do with LeZBians?

I saw those Marissa Marchant threads back then, but I didn't want to contribute to them, the whole thing seemed to creepy to me.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

(x-post)

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

FTW will always be associated with that mid-90s movie where it stood for Fuck The World.

oh.....paws is associated with Wrinklepaws, a former (and...well maybe current, who the fuck knows any longer) poster who would say things and would get the response, "oh wrinklepaws". just sort of funny.

the table is the table, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i meant the FTW thing for me, not everyone

the table is the table, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

I thought FTW was WTF backwards too, but For The Win sounds like a better explanation, given the way it's used.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

i never got '8080'

r|t|c, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

That had something to do with the URL ILX had after the move, which had "8080" in it.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

8080 means OTM, another DC thing - it was part of the URL for some of the sandbox pages

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i never got '8080'

r|t|c, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the 90s movie was SFW (So Fucking What) - was there a whole slew of terrible acronym-based movies around that time?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FTW

I've never thought of it as anything but for the win (possibly because I spend my life surrounded by gaming geeks), but that there link has it as an intentional misspelling of WTF.

ailsa, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas being "clueless"

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's another 90s movie.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

LZBC = Lazy Zingin' Britpop Curmudgeons, or thereabouts

blueski, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

i had to look up QFT earlier this year

blueski, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe something to do with LeZBians?

chngbl srnms plz

Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

jess as mase is one of the greatest memes of all time.

did boxcar come from that 'for better or worse' comic? that is what i always assumed/hoped.

bnw, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

ya i never got the thing about tuomas not understanding things.

s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

boxcar is from the comic strip for better or for worse

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks to 69 for that one. He really sold us on it.

I DIED, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

yo b my parents are taking me to hook for my birthday BLOOD DIAMONDS

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

GREAT saves a lot more time typing than BLOOD DIAMONDS.

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/5/12/26/f_diamondstm_8ee5d98.jpg

I DIED, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

BLOOD DIAMONDS is always GREAT, but GREAT is not always BLOOD DIAMONDS

I DIED, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

whatever suck my dick "pleasant plains"

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

That shirt ftw

HI DERE, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ideally that shirt will be produced with a 3D foam hand extending from it holding a glass.

I DIED, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

cafepress has not been very flexible about this.

I DIED, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Other phrases to go along with BLOOD DIAMONDS.

GREY DALMATIANS - having a :-/ day.
INSANE REFRIGERATOR - fair-to-middlin'
SUCK A DICK PLEASANT PLAINS - The housing market slump will spread from metropolitan coasts to the rest of the country due to prime-lenders moving flexible interest rate loans to unreliable consumers.

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

GREY DALMATIANS - having a :-/ day.
INSANE REFRIGERATOR - fair-to-middlin'

i like these

Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

But what if we wish to discuss genuinely insane refrigerators? This would surely confuse the issue needleessly.

Aimless, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

SFW

i tended to believe that stood for "sisters fith woices" :/

t**t, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Safe for Work

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

SUCK A DICK PLEASANT PLAINS - The housing market slump will spread from metropolitan coasts to the rest of the country due to prime-lenders moving flexible interest rate loans to unreliable consumers.

damn dog thats what i talk about at work ALL THE TIIIIIIIIME

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Is "gree hee hee" the new LOL? Or does it have something to do with gr8080?

Wrinklepaws, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

gree hee hee is the sound of scooby-doo laughing

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a leprauchan, gree hee hee hee!

carne asada, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

SFW is right. FTW was the name of a punk band's song... i think it might have been Boston's The Unseen, when they were still in high school and not some bad joke of a political punk band.

the table is the table, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

no it's laurel the leprechaun

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

i don't fully get the gree hee hee story but it makes me laff to beat the band

gff, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

ohhh right i forgot about the leprechaun :#

69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

- thread asks people to imitate the poster directly above them
- Laurel posts
- n/a follows with "I'm a leprechaun, gree hee hee"

this is funny in part because Laurel is not a leprechaun

nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 174 for "scottish leprechaun". (0.25 seconds)

nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

FTW = Originally, "fuck the world", and should still be. However, because of game show culture creeping into idiot video gamer culture, it's "for the win" now.

Alex Trebek: "A hilarious caption 'shopped onna funny kitty pic", for the win.
Contestant: Lolcat?

libcrypt, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

About 1/3 of "ILX memes" are really general Internet memes, I've noticed.

libcrypt, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe half.

libcrypt, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

i feel like blood diamonds also took on sort of a "respect." connotation, at least in ny.

tehresa, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

whenever I explain blood diamonds to people it's strictly as a respek knuckles replacement

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

yes

tehresa, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

tombot 8080

John Justen, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

The fact that DOGTITS hasn't been brought up by now just shows how poorly it fared ;_;

John Justen, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

lzbc = lol zing britpop crew

electricsound, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

Alex Trebek: "A hilarious caption 'shopped onna funny kitty pic", for the win.
Contestant: Lolcat?
Alex Trebek: I'm sorry, that was not in the form of a question.
Contestant: :/

Edward III, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

About 1/3 of "ILX memes" are really general Internet memes, I've noticed.

no, just a lot of people are asking about stuff on this thread that they don't realize got bitten from SA/4chan/et al.

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

Man, zinged 2x in one thread. I'm really off my game today.

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

oh that's not even a zing

but yeah just because something confuses tuomas doesn't mean it's an ILX meme

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago)

OK, zinged once and sonned once.

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

References to someone named Ethan, especially when Anticon comes up.

Sense ILM seems to have of itself as favoring pop when Indie Rock albums seem to glut the majority of posters' Year End lists.

Someone posting the same picture 300 times in a row.

mulla atari, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

I gotta say this, tho: True ILX memes are def. higher-quality than 99% of idiot 4chan/SA memes.

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

those three atari asked about are all lifted directly from Slashdot

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

FARK memes too. FARK sucks.

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

blood diamonds and boxcar were DC things originally. boxcar is from the comic strip for better or for worse

BOXCAR arose during battle allyzay/dr morbius. someone compared morbs to the grandfather from fbofw and then mods on noize board started changing everything morbs posted there to BOXCAR. I think even I got BOXCAR'd in the ensuing fracas. ah, the good old days.

Edward III, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago)

Finally, BOXCAR explained!

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:39 (seventeen years ago)

the only thing 4chan/Fark/SA has produced with staying power is "how do I shot x." Too bad for Tay Zonday

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

I would post a link to the YouTube Tay Zonday BK or whatever commercial, but you've seen it I'm sure and it doesn't mean he doesn't get swirlies still.

libcrypt, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago)

they aren't playing "dragostea din tei" on the radio anymore, is all I'm saying

El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago)

"blood diamonds" at least partially inspired by excellence of same-name movie, no?

m coleman, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

actually boxcar fun happened when all the dc thread posters were made noize mods for a brief window of time during a morbs throwdown

pretzel walrus, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

"blood diamonds" originally copyright a non-ilx awesome bro. movie was out at the time, though none of us had (or ever have, i think) seen it.

pretzel walrus, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

References to someone named Ethan, especially when Anticon comes up.

Famed Anticon stan Eth@n P@dgett, aka ILX poster "and what".

The Reverend, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:24 (seventeen years ago)

Is "gree hee hee" the new LOL? Or does it have something to do with gr8080?

-- Wrinklepaws, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:16 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

gree hee hee is the only one on this thread i didn't understand.

gr8080, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago)

hunter age 3 to thread.

blood diamonds!

daria-g, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago)

Explain the difference between yoga flame and yoga fire to me. I know they are Dhalsim moves but beyond that I'm clueless.

abanana, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago)

ILM was all-too-briefly blessed with a poster named Tynan Delong who was blessed with an enthusiasm for music that could out-jagger louis himself and and unique slang all his own.

at one point he used the phrase "that shit is yoga flame for all time!" to praise a record/band/song he was fond of.

handy tynan reference:

submitted for your consideration (TYNAN APPRECIATION THREAD)

gr8080, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

FTW - Fuck The World
John Doe tattoos some dude with it in Decline of Western Civilization, though I'm guessing the SA/4Chan kiddies didn't pick it up from there

never got 'grebt' or k- something. I think they date from the ILE Era of the Britishes

milo z, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

has there ever been a thread on the Americanization of ILX and how the Queen's Subjects feel about this?

milo z, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago)

just constant whinging

remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

lol blueski

gershy, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

"pwned", "teh", etc.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

References to someone named Ethan, especially when Anticon comes up.

looooooool

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

Could someone post the boxcar comic here so we'd understand what the joke is about?

Tuomas, Thursday, 27 December 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.tugboatonline.com/c1103c38f71875fe71044e39f3d4a0a6adfa37d8.gif

electricsound, Thursday, 27 December 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

MUST...RESIST...URGE...TO START...PARODY THREAD...

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 27 December 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

ILX has never been 'Americanized'

blueski, Thursday, 27 December 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

by the last poets

n/a, Thursday, 27 December 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago)

i mean the UK:US balance in 02 was maybe only 60/40 and now it's the exact opposite probably, nothing greater. greater cultural shift in that time tho yeh.

blueski, Thursday, 27 December 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

Can someone please explain what an "excelsior post" is?

B.L.A.M., Friday, 28 December 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

What's a "meme"?

I know, right?, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

what's an "ILX"?

grimly fiendish, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

This is all one big Tuomas joke, isn't it

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/porter/philosopher.gif

What is understanding?

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

References to someone named Ethan, especially when Anticon comes up.

Oh for the days of changable usernames...

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

references to someone named dom, especially when fat girls come up

and what, Friday, 28 December 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

FTW - Fuck The World
John Doe tattoos some dude with it in Decline of Western Civilization, though I'm guessing the SA/4Chan kiddies didn't pick it up from there

it doesn't actually mean that any more - it means "for the win" now, causing confusion among old dudes like you & me

J0hn D., Friday, 28 December 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

never got 'grebt' or k- something. I think they date from the ILE Era of the Britishes

"grebt" was a typo that caught on from way back, like 2002-3 era I think, don't remember the first thread it appeared in though.

"k-<word>" is really old usenet/irc/bbs hacker shit. see:
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-New-Hacker-s-Dictionary-version-4-21.html

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

grebt comes from a story that emma (i think) told about how some guy txted her to say she gave 'grebt head'

and what, Friday, 28 December 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

I remember that boxcar, 8080 and blood diamonds all seemed to happen around the same time and that was the point where I kinda felt like running jokes weren't happening organically on ILX anymore, and now anything that's funny in one thread just gets repeated out of context until it reaches meme status. Might sound like me being a humorless dick as usual, but I do love ILX when it feels spontaneously funny, not like a self-generating Snorg tee quote machine.

Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

moratorium on sarcastic use of "good thread" and "great thread" should be greenlit any day now

blueski, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

also calling out a thread as shitty inside of the first 25 posts

remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

good post

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

I boxcar/8080/blood diamonds are all from when DC ruled the sandbox with a ruthless drunken fist

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

i think i've worked out who pc user is

blueski, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

second GIS result for "lol" is from ilx

(if you have moderate safe search on)

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

i think i've worked out who pc user is

-- blueski, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:26

yeh u reckon, blud?

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

what is 'hen fap'?

DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

RIP mickey

remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

then again

blueski, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

all this detective work is more exciting than NCIS!

DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

what is 'hen fap'?

-- DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:27 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

1) what kanye says in golddigger
2) easy on the tongue
3) whatever is necessary; i.e. shmoolike
4) a nonsequitur with longer legs than I thought.
5) a reference to a random onion article birthed over at the late aja/dante
6) apparently an excellent way to really make people upset which is very odd as Hen Fap is most decidedly:
7) pure, unadorned love

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

what is 'shmoolike'?

DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

8) meaningless incantation repeated exclusively by dorks

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

8)

gr8080, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

boxcar/8080/blood diamonds are all from when DC ruled the sandbox with a ruthless drunken fist

So true. We were a booze-soaked hegemony.

Boxcar is still my absolute favorite.

B.L.A.M., Friday, 28 December 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

Shmoo - like, adj.: like a Shmoo

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

what is 'nabisco'?

DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

NAtional
BIScuit
COmpany

nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

what is a biscuit, lol

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

pretending you don't know anything

and pretending you get irritated by above

ken c, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

OMG XPOST

ken c, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

what does "lol" mean?

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

what does "pc" mean?

ken c, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

ban gabbneb

DG, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

ban gabbneb

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

don't forget to tip your server

gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

what is "tip"

Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

is QFT quit fucking talking or quoted for truth or wut

gff, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

quote for truth

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

quoteD

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

STFU

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

what does:

Yeah
The Sonny Cheeba he be sippin Armaretta
The Geechy Gracious he be sippin Armaretta
The Joe King he be sippin Armaretta
The Chaquita Kid he be sippin Armaretta
We got high stakes for mine Kiwa Armaretta
And then my man Ill Will sip Armaretta
And then my man Cab in the tray sippin that
We slide through the Tri-State with the hi-hat
And then I float side-to-side in my Coolie High
And then I peep the sunset with this Spanish Fly
Yeah
And then I float down south with the Boogie Flats
And then I slide up in-between a ziggy
And all of that gibs

mean?

pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

why did i think quelle fucking true?

jergïns, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

that is a little creepy, pc user

remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

Guess where I’m shaving

Close to the skin

That’s where I like to sail

Close to the wind

My middle name is danger

And I’m sure that you can see

That I’m the best of the best

And you’d rather be me…..

Guess what I’m using

Aftershave

For ‘tis the lotion

Of the strong and the brave

My chin is sleekly manly

And far more worthy than yours

‘Cos you’re a scruffy bastard

Who just won’t obey my laws…..

Oh for a white beard, lanky, sheepskin white beard

Oh for an old beard, I would give my ears

My ears, my ears, my ears,

My foam-encrusted ears……

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

let's all vote BNP, it's time for a change.

-- max r, Wednesday, October 3, 2007 10:08 AM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know and I don't care. See you around, dude.

TOMBOT, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

whatever just happened on this thread is an ILX meme that i never quite understood

John Justen, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

pc user is such a tiresome moron that he couldn't troll any better than to post links to some "unfished business" so I banned his ass and deleted the posts

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

*applause*

elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

i was about to go post to mod requests about that

remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

after heave ho finally got the old heave ho you'd think even the dimmest trolls would get the hint about digging up weird shit on regulars. or he just wanted to get banned, in which case, cheers.

El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

wait what

gr8080, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.seattlechoralcompany.org/Images/applause.jpg

Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

ftw

gr8080, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

where did "its sad he was a..." come from, and is it still a funny/socially acceptable usage as of Aug. 2011?

why delonge face? (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

all the stupid "_______s i have ________ed"

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:49 (fourteen years ago)

where did "its sad he was a..." come from

Random googler popped up on a Pantera thread and said about Dimebag Darrell "its sad he was a guitarist".

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

frogbs otm

schmendrick lamar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

thanks chap!

why delonge face? (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

not a random googler iirc

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

Sock puppet?

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

I'm always very dense about sock puppets/multiple identities.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

ANIMAL

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

maracas

dan m, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

Oh good, thank you for the answer re "it's sad, he was a _____" FINALLY!!

weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

i had no idea most of these were ilx memes, kmt

lex pretend, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:07 (fourteen years ago)

lex pretend

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:08 (fourteen years ago)

http://thetangential.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cosby6.gif

¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

its realy sad, he was a guitarist
― animal, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

great guitaris i mean
― animal, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:20 (5 years ago)

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

Maracas was a jpg that Blueski posted in response to an epic Marcello hissy fit/"I'm out of here forever"-type post (swiftly followed by an "oops wrong thread" iirc). Think that was in the wake of the 7/7 attacks and the Menezes shooting, emotions were running pretty high.

NickB, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

OK - so by accident or design, we've reached this point.

I've been posting on ILx for over six years primarily to have fun and to relieve the inevitable tedium which comes from having a day job which I do perhaps too well and leave myself too much time to think and ponder. In times of crisis it has proved a lifeline; even through my own well-documented ups-and-downs (including substantial hateful behaviour on my part in the past; I admit it and the reasons behind it are well known), other people here have proved invaluable, whether admonitory (cutting me down to size when I deserved it) or reassuring (boosting my self-esteem when I needed it), and the most important of them have become close, long-term friends. Some here will argue that ILx is not a substitute psychotherapist's couch, and I would agree with that; it isn't really the kind of place for long-form exhaustive arguments or treatises since blogs and FT serve that purpose better.

But "barred" is an unwarranted slap, and since I have not participated in mass revivals of any ILx poster's threads I can only assume that there are long-standing personal reasons behind this. And when certain moderators seem to make it their business to wage an continuing, obscure and tedious psychological war against me, to the extent that they are driven to "bar" me from an entire message board, then there doesn't seem any point in my staying around here, and I feel it would be much less pain and hassle to take my thoughts and views elsewhere, so that's what I'm going to concentrate on doing in future. If nothing else, it just isn't fun here anymore. My life is good at the moment and there's no room in it for these kinds of mind games.

So well done, chaps - you've got what you wanted. I hope it makes you feel better, and happier.

To everyone else - have a nice life, and goodbye.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:03 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o.m.g.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:07 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/courtneykaehler/maracas.jpg

― blueski, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:08 (4 years ago) Bookmark

oop wrong thread sorry

― blueski, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:08 (4 years ago) Bookmark

NickB, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

all the stupid "_______s i have ________ed"

since you're posting this on the "ilx memes I never quite understood" thread & presumably you couldn't be so stupid as to not understand what the thread's actually for, I'll explain this one to you. I started one called "underrated aerosmith albums I have loved" and to the left of the parens put album titles that might have been aerosmith albums - "in which we apologize for sobering up" was an early one. later I lost access to the account that would have reset that one so I changed it to "underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned" which is the same deal only it was a second version of the same construction. thing described in parens on the right, exemplar of the thing on the left. various people did variations on this, I think because the "____ I have _____ed" construction is kind of funny-sounding. (yes whiney I know not to you but you hate everything so that's kind of a given.) I know that before a sterling dn like "frogbs" even the gods tremble, but we mortals do our best.

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://thetangential.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cosby6.gif

feel like this should be on the "show me old men that look like lesbians" thread

satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

"underrated bitchy diatribes I have posted"

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

its hard out here for a frog

dougie instructor (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/MichiganJFrog.png/150px-MichiganJFrog.png

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/VVdv4.gif

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

if having something explained to you is a "bitchy diatribe", maybe reflect on your life a little. those teachers in high school, were they so bad? etc.

goole, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

a simple "i invented it" would have sufficed, I think

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/Bad_boy_p_diddy.jpg/220px-Bad_boy_p_diddy.jpg

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

--frog b.s.

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

if having something explained to you is a "bitchy diatribe", maybe reflect on your life a little. those teachers in high school, were they so bad? etc.

http://mos.totalfilm.com/images/s/steve-oedekerk-writing-stretch-armstrong-00-420-75.jpg

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.illuminatephotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/by-jove-300x237.jpg

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

08/24/11 never forget, the day I actually agreed with frogbs in an aero/frogbs beef.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

stan

challops

I guess I missed those meetings, but perhaps the minutes can be found online

Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:28 (fourteen years ago)

challops --> Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/UDDHr.gif

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

stan is short for afghanistan, so when you support something, you "stan" for it, it came fro how the us has supported freedom in the aforementioned country

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

ah ok, it's an abbreviation of challenging opinions, well that makes sense

Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

*from

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

challops is just internet slang, not ilx-specific

iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

I don't really use the rest of the internet, except for chase.com, which I only use because I have to

Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

I used to think ffs = fuck fuck shit

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

stan is short for afghanistan, so when you support something, you "stan" for it, it came fro how the us has supported freedom in the aforementioned country

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:30 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^^if that saves just one person from having to listen to a shitty, totally overrated and unfathomably ubiquitous Eminem song, the world will be a better place

satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

challops is just internet slang, not ilx-specific

― iatee, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:30 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

jesus is that true? i thought it was a dom-ism

goole, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

fyi it's pronounced "stahn"

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

challops is just internet slang, not ilx-specific

― iatee, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

'lops, on the other hand,

*steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

roxy had the first use of challops on ilx (i think she wrote "chall-ops").

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

does anyone else call the B-52's the "bee'fs"

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

stan is common slang

i don't think that challops is

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

okay maybe I'm wrong about that actually? I verified the thought in my head w/ urbandictionary but google results look pretty ilx-specific. swear I've seen it elsewhere.

iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

yeah "challops" is all us

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.yelp.com/biz/challop-roger-md-new-york

iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

a legacy to be proud of

dougie instructor (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know if I could take medical advice from Dr Challop

Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

holla atcha llop

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

challopecia

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

no ya i thought iatee was 'taking the piss' lol

*steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

no I think I just blurred ilx and non-ilx in my head, I'm bad at internet history

iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

wtf does lj have to do with 'llops

― roxymuzak

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

L-R: underrated aero, frogbs

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/089/816/128950569137.gif?1293229950

Ad hom . . . in em's cock? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

there's plenty of plain-ol internet stuff that i encountered on ilx first. like, image macros were "funny shit jon w. posts" for a long time.

goole, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

holy shit xp

*steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:49 (fourteen years ago)

where is jon

Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:50 (fourteen years ago)

Also I wish people still said "[verb x] one [noun x]" like "listen to one Faust" or "eat one sope". That was a good meme.

Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

That Phil D thing is probably the greatest thing I've seen on the internet in months.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

where is jon

― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/

Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

a Brooklyn-based artist with a background in formal computer science, film studies & Afro-Cuban percussion.

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:56 (fourteen years ago)

bring back the wizard imo

bnw, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

That Phil D thing is probably the greatest thing I've seen on the internet in months.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:51 PM (31 minutes ago)

L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

fyi it's pronounced "stahn"

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:32 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

& long live unsolicited snow clones i have spawned

(using no way as way) (schlump), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

ILX's use of the term "RIP" diverges from the rest of the universe's use in ways I still don't fully comprehend.

dubplates and monster munch (seandalai), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

RIP in ILXese = 'let's all sneer at', I think.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

Except if they're, you know, actually dead.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

not at all imo

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

rip chap

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

Joke's on you, I'm actually dead.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

you don't understand your own "meme"?

sarahel, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

that was 4 chap

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

It's a meme he made and likes

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

well played

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

hahahahaha buzzaaaaaaaaaa

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

markers made a meme and he liked it

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

joke's on sarahel, turns out he does understand his own "meme"

puerile fantasies (Matt P), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

the taste of hopp's cherry chapstoick

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

markers made a meme of musical missing

buzza, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

rip "I miss you"—it's sad he was a song

alright, in a sort of a limited way, for an off-night (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

rip aerosmith bootlegs—it's sad they were underrated

alright, in a sort of a limited way, for an off-night (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

markers how my meme taste

hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

rip aerosmith, heaven needed a meme patiently explained to it

alright, in a sort of a limited way, for an off-night (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

LA meme shows

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

markers makes meme

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)

mmm

*steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

RIP in ILXese = 'let's all sneer at', I think.

this is not accurate I don't think - I think ilx's use of RIP is actually one of its more complex & impressive feats, actually explaining its various uses is pretty difficult imo

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

'hard luck, old man'

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

rip explaining things

iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

also in re the voice inside moy ead

Summary
A forced meme is a meme that came to be through incessant posting of the meme by the creator, in an attempt to gain popularity for the meme. Almost all forced memes are not actually memes, as they with the intention of doing so, while true memes pop spontaneously. People rarely understand forced memes, they are simply just there. Most forced memes get completely dumped into the dark corners of the internet, though some actually become famous. Prime examples of forced memes are "F YEAH SEAKING!!!" and Milhouse.
Origins
Forced memes normally come from image boards like /b/ and /v/.
Current status
There are still forced memes out there on the internet, and they are still not funny.
Facts
They are often bounced between being memes and not being memes.
They are rarely funny

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

could've sworn blind that "I miss you" isn't even a markers orig but fuck setting sail on that choppy ocean

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

ilx's use of RIP is actually one of its more complex & impressive feats, actually explaining its various uses is pretty difficult imo

otm

goole, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

rip explaining things

― iatee, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:24 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

*steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

rip ilx's use of rip

The Reverend, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

really don't understand this one Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

aspies gonna asp

schmendrick lamar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

bitches gonna bitch

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

it's sad it was a music board

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

she left me new memes by the stairs
surprises let me know she cares

beth (crüt), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

say it ain't so

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

liked markers' meme on fb

4chap (cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

Hey, you can button it NV. Maybe if you'd signed up we might have got to see the end of the Tunes poll. :(

NickB, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

that poll is sub judice atm sorry

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)

apparently i shd have included 5 sub-polls in the same thread

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

here is some meme you just can't understand
i could just kill a man

bnw, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

sub aqua

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

will be starting a "Favourite MC Tunes Ball: L/R" poll next month tho

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

Sub jodeci morelike

NickB, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

In memes I talk to you
In memes you're mine all of the time
We're together in memes, in memes

some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

Together in eclectic memes

NickB, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

I've got a woman meme as she can be

Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

Oh my life is changing everyday
Every possible way
Though my memes, it’s never quite as it seems
’cause you’re a meme to me
Meme to me

beth (crüt), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

meme meme meme, meme meme meme
meme meme meme, memememememememe
meme meme meme, memememe meme meme
meme meme meme meme meme meme memememememe
meme meme meme HUNGGRAAAYAAAYYYYYYYY

dougie instructor (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

i lolled

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh

markers, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

you think it's all about you you you
But's baby it's all about mememe

Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)


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