The EXCELSIOR challenge

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A thread for those of us who don't know in what context to use EXCELSIOR on ILE. Ready....set...go!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

So we should post things that aren't funny?

bomb alerts and stuff

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Excelsior threads are for things that made us laugh on ILX.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

EXCELISIOR is an anagram for "ILX Wets My Pants"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Huk! Mystery solved.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

This mountain is getting her!

argh

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

What is that about? That title is annoying.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha. Before I just looked at that thread title quizzically, and now it reads so completely absurd I am convinced it must be intentionally so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I love how "scirrp ridd" started the thread and then just vanished.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

This mountain is getting her!

Yeah, I don't get that at all. Someone explain that joke to me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

If I had to explain it, you wouldn't understand.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

It is a complex joke, based on the old saying "the mountain labored and begot a mouse".

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

That's not an old saying. You guys are all crazy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

The Mountain is very camp. It is saying "ooh, get her", because it is bitching about another mountain. The sight of two camp mountains having a bitch fight is making us laugh.

That's how I understand it, anyway.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Crazy? Isn't that a prerequisite for all Ilx members?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

No, it's not.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

haha noodle??

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

i think mark s cracked it for reals:

(isn't "her" a typo for "higher"?)
-- mark s (mar...), June 28th, 2005.

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(that still doesn't help) (me, anyway)
-- David R. (quoteidio...), June 28th, 2005.

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excelsior means higher!!
-- mark s (mar...), June 28th, 2005.

but see, this explanation turns it into a lame quasi-sub-pun "joke," instead of a baffling and impenetrable string of text. i like noodle's take better!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

The "higher" thing made me start wondering if the thread-starter thought "excelsior" was pronounced in such a way that it rhymed with "higher" (ex-cel-sigher).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

the
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which belongs to
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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't sure if scrip ridd was a heironymous regular doing a joke I wasn't getting or a thick visitor doing a joke nobody was getting. Or a former pretending to be a latter. Or a farmer pretending to be a hatter.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I think a mod should change this thread title to "The EXCELSIOR challenge (which twin has the Toni?)" and we should make it the new roffles thread.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

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