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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)

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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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