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Occasionally, ppl will start posting about something and I won't have a clue what they're on about. This happened about a year ago with BLING BLING. I askes what BLING BLING was on a thread and was relieved to be given the answer!

So I can see how in-jokes, slang and experiences from past FAPs ect ect might be off-putting (esp to newbies) so I say:

If there is anything that's mystified you about ILx - ask it here!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

...and some kindly soul will supply the answer (I hope).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not really ilx slang but Marcello, what does "ill-lit skip" mean? Does it mean "gloomy rubbish receptacle" or am I missing something?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i want to know what blog is. i gather it is a net site???
not very 'up' with net lingo here :-(

― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

cool, this would be a good time for me to ask just what do the following phrases in older hip hop mean?

1. lick shots (this has been asked before but there was a satisfactory answer)?

2. buck whylin'

3. cold lampin' (somethin sex related i suspect...?)

― blueski, Friday, 4 October 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

er, that jerry the nipper stuff on the 'where do you all come from?' thread.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Donna 'blog' is short for 'web log' and it is a kind of online diary where ppl tell us what they've been doing lately share their thoughts with everyone on everything under the sun. There are various sites you can go to in order to set up a blog. Popular ones include Diaryland and Blogspot.

Blogs don't have to be set up by individuals. Sometimes they're set up by groups with a common interest, eg one of my faves is Pumpkin Publog where ppl, some of them contributors to this board, review the pubs they visit and discuss pub related things like quizzes and the etiquette of buying rounds.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

my understanding:
to lick shots is to fire rounds from a gun
to be buck whylin is to be behaving wildly
cold lampin? i always thought it was like chilling out, but more towards maxin and having your game tight. but i dont know where i've heard the phrase

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rubbish receptacles. Expression derived from Lewisham Council road sign: "DRIVERS: Beware of ill-lit skips" - much quoted on his radio show by Danny Baker, which is where I got it from.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 4 October 2002 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

flava flav was big on cold lampin. i never found out what it was though. see also: cold lampin' cereal, which as everybody knows, you can't eat withot making a mess.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"rim-shot" ???

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

g-kit, people col' lamp, not "cold". Just like you buckwhyle and don't "buckwild".

― Lek Dukagjin, Friday, 4 October 2002 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"rim-shot" ???

Historically this meant hitting a snare drum in such a way that as well as the tip of the stick hitting the skin the middle of the stick would hit the metal rim of the drum. This gives the hit a distinctive hard sound as well as being somewhat louder. Before drums were mic'ed up drummers used to use rimshots to make themselves a little more audible. Listen to something like 'Tired of Waiting' by the Kinks - I think that has snare rolls on it using the technique. Oh and early Who or probably lots of beat stuff from that period.

But the meaning seems to have changed now so that it's interchangeable with 'side stick' - placing the drum stick horizontally across the snare drum and striking the rim alone (used on ballads/quiet verses, '70s reggae, and a lot of hip hop).

― David (David), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone else said cold, why pick on me? and i distinctly remember a D on the cereal packet, so ner.

so anyways....

what does HEIN mean?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

HEIN = French for EH?

― Emma, Friday, 4 October 2002 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

... and is sometimes pronounced 'hine'.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

as in crieky hein liek manouevre

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

From the Rap Dictionary(!)
Lamp
1) (v) To hang out next to a streetlamp. "I'm on the street, cold lampin'" -- Public Enemy (Cold lampin' with Flavor).
2) (v) To relax while others panic.

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to be confused w/ "LAMP IT!"

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

or "JED CLAMPITT"

― gazza, Friday, 4 October 2002 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

where did the word 'boo' come from? as in "even when i'm with my boo..." etc.

― dave k, Friday, 4 October 2002 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

boo=beau (french)

adj: handsome, beautiful etc.

beau=boyfriend, in english at least?

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

and belle = sebastien's answer to spacestation pongo

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i had the guts. i asked the question. i want an answer.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

So what does Rim-shot mean when someone randomly shouts it on a message board etc?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

it means they should wash their mouth out.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

rim - shot!

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the soap and water.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

rim - shot!

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Rim-shot is surely like a drum sound at the end of a bad gag.
Like "Take my wife, No please - take her [ba-dum-tshhhhh]"

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why you little...

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

or when basil brush says BOOM BOOM!!

or when mark s says DO YOU SEE!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael - as I understand it Jerry the Nipper was previously another well known poster on IL*. It would be bad form for me to say exactly who as they may have good reason for changing their ID.

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to know what board Mike Ro(bott) was reffering to when he said:
"think the devil, another word for tar, a utensil.... "
I've been thinking about it for days... I would ask on the thread it's in but I'm intellectually intimidated.

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

What's the origin of "DOES ANYONE IN THIS BITCH [etc]"?

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

simeon, i think you're right. what i want to know is whether it's an 'in-joke' that i have no business knowing or whether it's a big giggle that i'm missing out on.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

DOES ANYONE IN THIS BITCH LIKE ICP

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks Graham!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

haha korrekt and you beat me to it, but when did it become BEEYOTCH?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The secret origins of injokes!

Where was 12ft lizards from? David Icke?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

No, they are real.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but where are you *from*?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

After the online berrating I got, after making some casual (and I thought intensely amusing) remarks I made about the London Indie Scene being run by a secret elite conspiracy, and Steven Drew and Sean Price both being 12 foot lizards from outer space, I better watch what I say.

I have never considered any members of the London dronerock scene in any way shape or form involving "jazz-solo-ing" (OK, jazz cigarettes, maybe, but jazz solo-ing, no) and I love my boyfriend very much, and I am a nice girl and never go to peepshows, indeed.

::digs own grave even deeper::

-- masonic boom (ktstclaire@hotmail.com), May 30th, 2001 3:00 AM. (admin)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

...is the earliest mention i can find on ilm

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I presumed you'd all read that Jon Ronson book, when I started that thread about my annoying Chomsky class in April or May I think you began mentioning it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

by you I mean mark s, and began regularly mentioning it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't read books ronan i only watch TV and then argue with Momus viz:

"Race" and "class" are big fuck-off concepts which everyone believes they'll be CAUGHT OUT on: make the wrong assertion and HA! So you're a nazi!! (viz. David Icke with his Lizard-People-Rule-the-World theory being picketed by straight-faced anti-racist activists). The step from "race" (= bogus 19th century science) to , er, "Ethno-Cultural Identity" (or any term-shift by which you CAN generalise about, say, the diffs between Germans and Austrians) evades the problem w/o removing it, of course: cuz it either hardwires Absolute Cultural Relativism or somewhere sneaks racism-in-sheep's-clothing back thru some other door.

-- mark s (mark@evazev.demon.co.uk), May 8th, 2001.

haha "Absolute Cultural Relativism" => *sarcasm device explodes*

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I rarely have the guts to ask what mark s is on about.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i rarely have the guts to tell

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the origin of "its this thing"?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

also: where do babies come from?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

origin of "it's this thing" = rainy & maryann posting to each other even though sitting next to each other!! = major ile double-act meme-sters = cf also "(do not read if you hate us)"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

ha, you cant fool us mark, everyone knows there's no such thing as babies

― steve, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It started just as it ended mark p. Someone asked what something marainyann had mentioned was (a cooky glass?) and marainyann said 'it's this thing' because she could not be bothered to explain.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I was at a bar that my friend was DJ'ing at and the bar owner came up to him and introduced himself and his friend. He said his friends name was Dr. Vick!!! mark s has bandied this name about and I must know what this means! Please?

― lawrence kansas, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

oh right, yeah... what's meme?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr Vick = real life friend of Mark S (part of the 'rub mob')

"I larfed non-stop and so did dr vick" = Mark S' response to all five then-running Royal Tenenbaums threads.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Meme is not an ILE thing. It's a word Richard Dawkins came up with for an idea that catches on. Like a gene, but in the sphere of culture rather than bodies. Then the word 'meme' became a successful meme of its own.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

was it the karaoke bar in angel, lawrence?

dr vick is my bonebreaking pirate robot friend from plymouth who understands lacan and casn interpret dreams but ph345rs mathematics

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Cleveland Ohio, mark s!!!

― lawrence kansas, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

ps Dr Vick = technically speaking *not* part of the Rub Mob (= T. and her boyf and the Ridiculous Nacho)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Why the 'k' thing in front of certain other slangwords ?
eg k-rowr, k-grebt, k-roxor

Is it a maximum abbreviation thingy : 'fuckin' -> 'kin' -> 'k' ?
As in ' it was 'kin brillirant!! '

(I think I prefer that mistype)

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

maximum abbreviation - Ultravox's shortest song

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

k = kilo = x1000

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

That's t-brillirant!

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

what is moomin?

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 4 October 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

(and can we eat it?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.tampere.fi/muumi/images/kirjakuva1.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought meme was from Marvin Minsky. (I could be wrong though.)

Marvin Minsky, Marvin Minsky, Marvin Minsky.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 4 October 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Spacestation Pongo a real, live meerkat? I mean Sarah and Tom talk about him as if he is alive and she showed a picture of a live meerkat to show what he looks like but I thought she mentioned he is from Amazon and I just can't believe that you are permitted to domesticate a meerkat in Britain.

I know it's a dumb question but I have been totally wondering. Serious answer, please.

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 5 October 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Is "noone/no one" the new "alot/a lot"? And was it first mentioned by Ethan in the ICP thread?

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to know what board Mike Ro(bott) was reffering to when he said:
"think the devil, another word for tar, a utensil.... "

~~tar~~ pitch + ~~utensil~~ fork = pitchforkmedia.com

― ron (ron), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

felecity, it's a meerkat puppet!...there is a thread with pictures of similar puppets, somewhere.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 October 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

she, felicity.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 6 October 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

From what depths (or heights) did "Oh NO! [stuff]! Oh NO!" come?

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 6 October 2002 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s' on no! FITE! oh NO! thread was the first (wasn't it)

― ron (ron), Sunday, 6 October 2002 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks jel and Grrraham

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 6 October 2002 06:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Something I don’t yet understand (apologies if it’s already been explained somewhere) is this ‘x0r’ business.

― Rex, Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

haXoR translator

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

one word:

BANGBUS

what was that all about?

― erik, Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

how recent was the coinage of "can it be a bit about hats?" or "it's about the hats"? thank you

― Alan (Alan), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

ok but can it still be a bit about hats?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoa! Why did the board just turn psychedelic on me? Colors and motion. . .

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

nate: oh no!

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fritz's is still my favourite response btw

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

rockist: special modifications to board as requested by martin s. This is the thread where you SHOUT FOR THE MODERATOR!

― ron (ron), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway, tell me more about chickenbear.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

nath should feel so honored to be hosting that fite picture

― ron (ron), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

what colours?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

chickenbear = Chicken Bear!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jel - click on my link then click on grahams - i found i had to do it in ie to see the dancing colors

haha "board=1&martin=yeah"

― ron (ron), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks ron!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

what does cf mean

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

it's an abbreviation for "compare" or "see this" unless it has some weird ilx meaning that i can't help with.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the origin of the 'can we eat it' thing?

― dave k, Monday, 7 October 2002 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ILM posters' quirks - i asked the same question. there are some other ilxisms decoded on that thread too, i think...

― ron (ron), Monday, 7 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

p.s. sorry about that 'innit' thing

― ron (ron), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

FAP?
FITE?
suXor?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yes I still sometimes wonder about the cooky glass thing, but really I would rather not know (if it is even possible for me or anyone to know)

― spectra, Monday, 7 October 2002 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

FAP = fancy a pint = ILx meet ups. Fite, I think originated on ILM in which bands/singles were pitted against one another. suXor is just haXor speak.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

no really, what is the difference between a trope and a meme? And can we eat them?

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

A trope is a theme, a meme is a thing. On ilxor, usually a funny fill in the blank line or -ism.

Fite is: Me vs. GURLS

These should go in the FAQ.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Please explain Momus.

― Miss Laura, Monday, 7 October 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, no can do!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe I can't figure this out, but what is a jumper?? It's obviously some sort of clothing staple, but is it PANTS or SHIRT or T-SHIRT or what? the word isn't used in the states but i keep envisioning a jumpsuit, which is a, uh, i'm not sure what that is either. a tracksuit or something.

― Aaron A., Monday, 7 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

jumper = sweater.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread makes me feel all warm inside

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry, that was my microwave beams

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Best thread ever. I always wanted to know what k- was, but was afraid to ask. The inclusive spirit of the nu-ile make me k-happy!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Is "noone/no one" the new "alot/a lot"?

It is just there for me to make Peter Noone jokes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Can i get a concise relatively unmentalist synopsis of this Molesworth malarky?

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It's some stupid posho book thing also beloved of aging northern teenagers.

http://www.simonbarne.com/oddsandends/molesworth.html

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

But I thought Tom was a soft posh southerner.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant starry.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Molesworth is to public school what "The Office" is to an office.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

ie nothing like mine both times

haha the skool dog!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, I mean, who'd call a skool dog haha?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm new and there's something that I've been wondering. Is N. evil? Does he have special powers?

Some of the other posters seem to hint at a darker side and I was wondering whether I'd been inveigled by murky means as he seems perfectly charming to me.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

You have been paying too much attention to Nicole and Pete. I am v.good.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost too good.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Suspiciously so.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Laura, is that really your email address?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

His arrogance has been temptered somewhat but his blue writing powers and encyclopaedic knowledge of ILx threads makes him too dangerous to potentially fall into the wrong hands.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Er....look over there!

*runs away*

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh Ptee N. is a weapon of mass destruction)

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Laura, I was just wondering about the real laura@hotmail.com getting kind of pissed off if people try to email you. Better to use a pretend domain name too if you don't want your email here. Or set up a crappy dummy webmail one that you never use

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

No. Annoying the other Laura would suit me just fine because to this day, I am still mad that she copped it first.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah we've had angry hotmail users turn up before. DONT PUT HOTMAIL.COM IF YOURE MAKING UP A FAKE ADDRESS KIDS! That should be in the FAQ I think.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually it's only really a problem if you set the 'send replies' button to on.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You have to verify your address first if you want to get replies, so that shouldn't be a problem (though they will get sent a verification code).

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Nu-ILE wins again!

[I still think it's a bit mean if people take the time to write you an email and it just winds up annoying someone else]

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you become a FAP "steerer"? Who are the steerers and ask they self-appointed?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

They are self-appointed.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

um what exactly is pigfuck and what are the term's origins please?

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was fucking a pig. Do people say this a lot?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

(N. - i've run across it here a lot lately - that vice thread, mark's noise piece etc - it's punk-scene related but i don't know which scene/era or why)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I say 'pigfucker' more than I should, and I really do mean someone who seems rather more likely to engage in intercourse with a pig than the rest of the population.

Dammit, I'm not nearly as punk as I should be.

― luna.c (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

What does "It's your fremme neppa venette" mean?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"Venette" = "vignette" obviously
"Fremme" and "Neppa" both sound like odd European soft drinks to me, Fremme having some kind of foamy milky texture like Yoo-Hoo, and Neppa being lighter, carbonated, and slightly lemony.
Ergo, "It's your fremme neppa venette" = "This short, descriptive literary sketch of two fictional yet refreshing European beverages belongs to you."
This admittedly doesn't make much sense on its own, but in the context of "Is it worth it/Let me work it/Put my thing down flip it and reverse it," everything suddenly becomes clearer.

― Nick A., Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

* tapping fingers and becoming more helplessly square with each passing minute*

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Pigfuck

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

No one’s explained ‘cockfarmer’ yet – possibly because I’m the only person who doesn’t already know what it means.

― Rex, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks Tracer - guess I only searched ILE. (no offense to mark's term-origin suggestion in the noise piece either btw... I ~~don't read the yellow pages cover-to-cover either~~ must have missed it)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

One who farms cocks.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:55 (twenty-three years ago)

What's "Eep"? Just a noise or does it stand for sumfink?

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 17 October 2002 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Where does "honour the fire" come from? It seems to mean something like "respect the rockist passion" or something, though I don't think I've seen it used unironically yet.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It comes from when the Killing Jokes fans arrived en masse on an ILM thread to tell us we were fules for not appreciating the power of the Joke. One of them actually did say 'HONOUR THE FIRE'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you all know what he meant? So it's kind of like Internet Connection Sharing, then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

so if English people calle garter belts suspenders, and suspenders braces, what do English people call braces? The answer came to me in a dream but now that I'm awake, I've forgotten.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

We call braces 'braces', of course. The fact that you call them 'suspenders' causes great confusion - "send a girl up to my room. I want her in suspenders. While you're at it, send up twenty fags."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Braces are things you wear on your teeth, surely?

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

we call those caps

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Which we also wear on our heads, but only oop north.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

what about grebt and grate?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 21 October 2002 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

grebt--even though I don't know emma or anyone else involved: I remember reading an explanation and it was about a TXT MSG to her from an 'acquaintance' with a spelling mistake in. and a compliment?

grate--I've seen elsewhere and also read somewhere [else] that slade fans used to use it for a fun way to spell. it.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 21 October 2002 06:11 (twenty-three years ago)

what is this 'duck in a noose' stuff

― ron (ron), Friday, 25 October 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had this entire thread with Starry in about 15 minutes at glastonbury.

Cockfarmer is the work of DV.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 25 October 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

revive!

of course these days its obvious what bling is. it's what Busta Rhymes says before he gets sucked down the toilet innit.

Now I want to know what the franks are.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf are digestives? i can infer that they are some sort of cracker/cookie thing but what do they taste like? and how did they get such a repulsive name? ugh!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

they are cookies. they are sweet and nice and moreish and sometimes have a thin layer of milk or plain chocolate on one side. They usually have minute holes in them. Surely indigestive biscuits would be a far more repulsive name and besides Readers Digest is an American invention, so ner.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

franks = Frank's APA = fanzine done by DV and Carsmile (heh) and lots of other folks.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

cheers Sarah, it gets surprisingly few hits on google and those that it does find seem to only mention it in passing. Can't quite figure what the subject matter is and it seems to be a traditional printed thing rather than a webby one.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

What is an APA? Frank's is different only in that the members send their zines (and some money) once to the Central Mailer, who does all the photocopying.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

is stockholmcindy actually from stockholm?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY DO YOU KEEP REVIVING YOUR OWN BORING THREDS

― RANDOM, Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'duck in a noose'?!

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

its a pun. stockolm cindrome. took me forever to get taht joke.

― :| (....), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

crossppost.

― :| (....), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY DO YOU KEEP REVIVING YOUR OWN BORING THREDS

COZ I'M HARDCORE

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it took me ages to work out that Mojo journalist and friend Martin Aston's moniker was a pen-name, ie Aston Martin. I felt both clever and then very, very stupid when i worked that one out.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Cold lampin = leaning up against a lamp post smoking a cigarette at night?

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

until a certain little lady comes by.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, Stockholm Cindy is Jody Beth.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, thanks for that.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I know what white toast is now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the origin of 'roffle'? I find it quite irritating.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

rofl = rolling on the floor laughing => turned into the semi-ironic and cartoony phonetic spelling 'roffle'.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

While this thread is active, does anybody know if "TEH SUCK" originated on ILx? Because I saw it on an episode of Sealab 2021 recently.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Roffle Raffle, trying saying it quickly.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason I assumed roffle was a phonetic representation of a chuckle or guffaw. It's less annoying now I know the true meaning.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://dealing-with-a-passive-aggressive.blogspot.com

― wclay, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.markaelrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/spam02.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

Also, if that's your webpage, you come across pretty passive-aggressive. Hilariously enough.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

R.I.P. 2002

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

Spammer's site is pretty lul-tastic. Apparently he's part of the International Centre for Awareness Studies. Guess how many results that brings up when you Google it?

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

I think he was just here to flame.

http://members.allstream.net/icons/pictures/flame.gif http://members.allstream.net/icons/pictures/flame.gif http://members.allstream.net/icons/pictures/flame.gif

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

Passive-aggressive behaviour is the bomb diggedy.

― Bodrick III, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Not here to flame. Just here to add a lulastic link on Monday, January 21, 2008 7:18 PM

― wclay, Thursday, 20 August 2009 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

Er...lultastic

― wclay, Thursday, 20 August 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

When someone refers to "vital skull custard" are they talking about snot or about brains?

― Aimless, Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

Passive-aggressive behaviour is the bomb diggedy.

― Bodrick III

― velko, Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:16 (sixteen years ago)

awww, how cute:

i want to know what blog is. i gather it is a net site???
not very 'up' with net lingo here :-(
― donna (donna), Friday, October 4, 2002 8:08 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

― scott seward, Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

i want to know what blog is. i want you to show me???

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

tbh i have heard this pronounced "bee-log."

― ian, Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

you hear a lot of craazzzzzzy things working customer service @ barnes & noble.

― ian, Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:43 (sixteen years ago)

Why are there so many people here who go by Mark (initial)?

― Tom Pagnozzi (Z S), Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

It took me several months to muster up the courage to ask that one

― Tom Pagnozzi (Z S), Thursday, 20 August 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

What's an Aja/Dante board?

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:21 (sixteen years ago)

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/589/pingintl7.gif

― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=63&threadid=259

― velko, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:31 (sixteen years ago)

Will you accept the nomads of Aja/Dante?

― velko, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:31 (sixteen years ago)

But what was it? Why did it come into being? And if someone suggested I might need one, should I feel flattered, embarrassed, or humiliated?

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:35 (sixteen years ago)

it was created by some (apparently) teenage crepe (dante) to crepe onto another alleged slightly younger female teenager (aja) on the board. they were rumbled when aja's father happened across the board. then esteban buttez discovered it and the rest is history. former ilx bigwig andrew nf thought it would be hilarious to make the board pink and every dividing line into the aquaplaning penguin. both features of the board would come to be loved by all. it got deleted at some point but i don't remember why.

― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:42 (sixteen years ago)

so ... definitely embarrassed.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:42 (sixteen years ago)

the sarahel/lj board

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

is this what I get for trying to be nice?

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

you'll grow out of that..

― ian, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:48 (sixteen years ago)

; )

― permanent response lopp (harbl), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:48 (sixteen years ago)

I am 100 percent sure I once saw Aja and her mom on the subway. I thought of the penguin.

― svend, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:50 (sixteen years ago)

i'm honestly embarrassed now ...

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:50 (sixteen years ago)

It's not so bad as you'd think. I was just saying it bcz you & LJ get so chatty. Not any crepeland but just that it could justify its own board. meant as a gentle joke. Also: panguins.

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

man this thread should make yall ashamed of makin fun of tuomas

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

never be ashamed of making fun of tuomas

― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

I may regret this. What is "Hen Fap"?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

this will be good

― carne asada, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

what is NAGL?

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

why is society structured how it is? can I find satisfaction? why is Randy Newman so awesome? will someone buy me a beer?

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

I may regret this. What is "Hen Fap"?
The talk page for wikipedia's existentialism entry is an entry in iteslf

― velko, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

pure, unadulterated love

― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

i will buy you a beer xxp

― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 August 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

Abbott NAGL = Not A Good Look

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 20 August 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

As near as I can make out, "hen fap" is just a piece of meaningless jargon, concocted so its user may appear to be in the know, while secretly snickering at anyone who plays along and pretends it means something.

Annoyingly enough, there is an outdated use of "hen" as a modifier that denotes a women-only affair, similar to "stag" for men, so that a "hen fap" would simply be a gathering of ILX women who Fancy A Pint together. But those who use "hen fap" do not appear familiar with this usage.

― Aimless, Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

there is an outdated use of "hen" as a modifier that denotes a women-only affair, similar to "stag" for men, so that a "hen fap" would simply be a gathering of ILX women who Fancy A Pint together.
that's what I thought it referred to, or was a joke based on ... some sort of masculinity-challenging thing.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

hen fap is from a picture in an onion article and ppl on ilx use it now as a nonsense word iirc

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

it's something that you need to have

― chronicles of paranoimia (sic), Friday, 21 August 2009 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

can someone explain the bear meme to me?

― cogito, ergo some dude (dyao), Monday, 18 January 2010 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

this is pretty scary

― cogito, ergo some dude (dyao), Monday, 18 January 2010 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

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