Origins of mysterious ILX type things

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Okay, here's one:
http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/photography/arthistory_leonardnimoy.html

Now, could someone explain to me wtf "excelsior" is all about?

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Take credit/blame for ILXisms

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

It means you are "on the money" quite literally.

http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/new_york_coppers/1787_ny_excelsior_eagle_left_obv.jpg

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

That is pretty fucking awesome. Thank you!

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't really (see linked thread for 'explanation').

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

My son learned to shout "EXCELSIOR!" from some cartoon, if only I could explain why I roff so.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what does that Leonard Nimoy site have to do with ILX?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

On the left: nude. Then on the right, is Spock.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

My son learned to shout "EXCELSIOR!" from some cartoon, if only I could explain why I roff so.

The Simpson?

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F07.html

Bart: What is this place?
Nerd 1: The refuge of the damned.
Martin: [gleeful] A place where we can work on our extra-credit
assignments without fear of reprisal.
Nerd 2: Come! You must be tired from the chase. Oliver! [claps]
Bring our friend a hard-boiled egg and some prune juice.
Martin: Finally, Bart's one of us!
Everyone: Excelsior!
-- Bart joins the nerd club, "The Last Temptation of Homer"

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Now, could someone explain to me wtf "excelsior" is all about?

The "excelsior" threads were originally called "posts that made you laugh out loud". Then, if I remember correctly, someone started one of those threads with the word "EXCELSIOR" in the title, and for some reason that expression stuck, while the "laugh out loud" part of the title was eventually dropped off, and now "excelsior" even functions as an ILE verb.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah that's what i always think of. (xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I remember that, but it was actually some Nickelodeon cartoon that got him saying it.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

OLYMPIA!
http://publish.uwo.ca/~asuksi/mighty_herc.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

excelsior: state motto of new york!

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it also an old-fashioned packing material? Pre-dating peanuts?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

ILX = nerd club, and we pat ourselves on the back by saying excelsior. A screen shot from that simposons' episode really should be the top of each excelsior thread.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

OLYMPIA!
[mighty_herc.jpg]

That's exactly what I was thinking of...

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It's also the name of the refridgerator in Gomer Pyle where Gomer's uncle gives him the emblem as a confidence builder (cuz Gome didn't know it came offa fridge) and now repeat this out loud (in a Gomer Pyle voice) "ex-SELL-SEE-YORE".

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1557836000.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

However Shepherd got it from this guy...

http://www.ehistorybuff.com/sk/longfellow_aqs%20copy.jpg

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

"excelsior, you meathead!: the art and enigma of archie bunker"

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Stevem went 'EXCELSIOR!' in the first post of the second laugh out loud thread, put it in the title of the third thread as an offhand joke, and then it kind of ran from there.

I have no idea where 'fuck washing a hat' came from - maybe I'd find it funny if I did.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I am pwned by the meaning of "pwned"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Author Topic: Cleaning hats?
posted April 25, 2004 03:06 PM
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I need a way to clean a fitted without fucking it up.

posted April 25, 2004 03:11 PM
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Wet rag & Oxy Clean shit's good as new. Cold water tho.

posted April 25, 2004 03:57 PM
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yo i put a flexfit kangol through the dishwasher with one of those platic hat cages and the shit never was the same
dont be a cheap ass, just buy a new fucking hat and have more than one favorite hat, you got to switch your style up, that way you always looking fresh
fuck washing a hat

-- LC (2lk34j2;lk34...), April 27th, 2004 6:02 AM. (link)

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I still die laughing evertime I read that

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "Excelsior!" a Stan Lee thing?

― J (Jay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed it was the poem - Longfellow? illustrated by Thurbur, anyhow - that inspired it, and I believe Ned was the guy who first used it

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Now I find it funny!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, as long as I've known Ned, he's never washed a hat. Very outspoken about it.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

oh, "nude spock", ahaha i get it.

uh, no.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

guys, we're not that mysterious. we could do better.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

as much as i'm only doing this perversely - this one's for gear
http://static.flickr.com/78/186819640_a0017f45cf_o.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

everyone realizes that my couch is in fact blue, right
-- gear (speed.to.roa...), April 14th, 2006.

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sure, NOW it is
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if jaymc says it's white, i see no reason to believe you over him over the state of your own couch, mister.
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― gear (gear), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

exactly.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "Excelsior!" a Stan Lee thing?

yeah he used to say it at the end of every Spiderman and his Amazing Friends cartoon. He signed his little spiels in the back of comic books that way too iirc

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Despite Ned being an English major, I still think he got "Excelsior!" from Stan Lee.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

But but... Stevem went 'EXCELSIOR!' in the first post of the second laugh out loud thread, put it in the title of the third thread as an offhand joke, and then it kind of ran from there.

Isnt that where it came from in ILXs case?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:07 (twenty years ago)

He totally stole it from Ned. I know this because I said so.

DAMMIT JUST LET ME BUILD A MYTHOLOGY, OK?????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't figured out where "how do I shot X" comes from. Does it have anything to do with "shot all the people who like them" from the RHCP thread?

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Hahah Dan :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

"how do I shot" is from that "how do I shot web" spiderman thing - but I dunno where that is from. Fark or somewhere I guess?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

It comes from a Spider-Man gif that says "How do I shot web?". Why is it spelled like that, I have no idea.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

x-post

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

haha good to know.

the funny thing is that if I saw that gif I'd assume it was an ILX reference!

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "how do i shot" etc. a videogame reference, originally? Like some guy in a videogame w/ chat that didn't know the controls kept asking "how do I shot" instead of "how do I shoot" in some online game?

― Marmot 4-Tay: You are beautiful, and you are alone. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:16 (twenty years ago)

God, is the InterWeb responsible for making geekery cool?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

No. Geekery still isn't cool ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Exactly, I mean look at us lot.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it just making fun of "all your base are belong to us" as in: "I don't know how to use the internet (web)?"

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

How do I shot web
Phrase started by Natural Selection players; in NS, one of the alien races can actually shoot spider webs as a weapon. One day, some goons were playing NS when a lot of newbies and clueless people were on the server, and "how do i shot web" was one of the questions that kept coming up. Someone took a screenshot, posted it to FYAD, and it went from there. Most commonly seen on /b/ as an image macro, featuring Spider-Man holding out his arms in an "I dunno..." gesture; this later inspired a series of shopped images, including one with a Japanese newscaster holding out his arms in the same gesture (along with Spider-Man and a number of anime characters), and a meme where a picture of a falling person is shopped to say "Hey Spider-Man, how do I shot web?" (with Spider-Man replying "dunno, lol"). See also "¯\(º_o)/¯" (below).

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I'm below!

― ¯\(º_o)/¯ (Chris Piuma), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

'Excelsior' is from Stan lee via The Simpsons (for me). I think it should be dropped from future LOL thread titles though. So lame!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

i find the word excelsior completely offensive. it makes me cringe more than any curse word ever could.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to get Excelsior tattooed on my back in Gothic type like that sublime guy

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I like it. My friend Nellie's dad makes us cheer EXCELSIOR! every time we travel on Excelsior Boulevard in Minneapolis, and he is older than Stan Lee if not TIME itself (and he does it in posh English old man voice, even better). And my dad was born in Excelsior. So ner.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

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