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OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OB line... (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Zig!! For great justice!!
Re:OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
errm, wait... well, with the right programming on it, yes.
Re:OB line... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
Russian rubbles vs toilet paper; for the budget conscious, take the rubbles, those with sensitive asses, take the toilet paper.
Re:OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OB line... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OB line... (Score:4, Funny)
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
chown -R you ~/base
-Bill
you know what you doing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:4, Interesting)
Osama could (presumably) read Arabic, a right-to-left language.
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:3, Interesting)
First store on the web selling AYB stuff! Ended up selling over 2,000 shirts.
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:5, Funny)
1) In 2001, War Was Beginning.
2) "Bomb the US, up set somebody"
3) For Great Justice! (the original name for the retaliation was "Infinite Justice" [globalsecurity.org].) 4) The initial attack came from Al Queda, which translates literally to "The Base" [fas.org]
Clearly, not only has somebody set up us the bomb, but programmer of Zero Wing knew what they doing.
What he know and when he know it???
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:5, Insightful)
No way, it's NEVER too late for AYBABTU!!! That was the greatest cultural influence in the past 50 years and I STILL write that all over the place.
Take off every zig! Go zig go!
Re:you know what you doing... (Score:4, Insightful)
For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
*end meme*
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
"Main screen turn on".
I say this to my housemates all the time, if I want to watch TV, but am to lazy to get the remote.
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For great justice... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For great justice... (Score:4, Insightful)
But the favorite, of course, is the AYBABTU.
On Your Way To Destruction (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, Justice now subjugated for purpose of war on Terror.
Didn't you get signal?
Re:For great justice... (Score:5, Informative)
The final phrase "for great justice" appears also to have been adopted by various groups as their slogan, and there is also some adoption of "move 'zig'" (which resembles that of "Let's Roll" - a universal command to action; the "Zig" was the name of the small fighter craft piloted by the player in Zero Wing) and "Somebody set up us the bomb" (basically "uh-oh!")
mising option (Score:5, Insightful)
best base quote ever.. (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, "Make your time" is the one bit of that psychobabble engrish that has stayed in constant use in my vocabulary. When I go to the pet shop for a weekly snake treat the counter girl knows that mouse had better "make your time."
Hell, saying "set us up the bomb" in public is likely to get you shipped to guantanamo these days.
Re:best base quote ever.. (Score:5, Funny)
Next time you're about to toss a hamster into your snake cage, pull him up close to your face, nose to nose... and say...
I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH!
Re:best base quote ever.. (Score:4, Funny)
source [xmission.com]
Bug? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Bug? (Score:4, Funny)
"HA HA HA HA HA!"
Re:Bug? (Score:5, Informative)
I personally prefer... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I personally prefer... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Interesting)
Personally I fall firmly in the latter category, having been too young when the game came out, and not having any friends/family members who would buy me a Genesis...
Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:[ot]Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:[ot]Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Insightful)
If P is true, then P is true.
Well, of course, but that begs the question: is P true?
To use the phrase "begs the question" without specifying which question is being begged is allowed in this context, because from the context we know what "the question" is: P.
However, if we allow that this is an sensible and acceptable use of this phrase, we cannot then deny that it also makes sense, when presented with some other statement, to say "but this begs the question Q" where Q is something else. We specify Q because it's not recursive and obvious from context.
There's really no conceivable syntactic or symantic argument for claiming one of these uses is proper but the other is not. Why would "begging the question" be proper in a context where "the question" is obvious due to the recursive nature of the statement, but not in a context where we must specify which question is being begged?
Someone with a sufficient grasp of English vocabulary and grammar will recognize that either use of this phrase is proper -- only those lacking it will complain about how the other use doesn't fit the use they've attached to the whole phrase without ever properly parsing it.
In short, the original poster was not making a fool out of himself by showing insufficient understanding of the meaning of the phrase. People who get bent out of shape when it's used in anything other than the recursive context, however, do display a lack of understanding.
Mod parent up (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:[ot]Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Funny)
> Slashdot Rule #4:
>
> Thou Shalt Not Made Authoritative and > Condescending Posts,
> for there is a reader somewhere who is smarter,
> more knowledgeable,
> and incited by condescention.
*Made --> Make
*condescention --> condescension
Apparently you're right.
Condescendingly yours...
Re:[ot]Re:Of course, this begs the question... (Score:5, Funny)
One-upsmanshippingly yours...
Zero Wing Line? (Score:5, Interesting)
Cup back to Canada before the NHL implodes! Go Flames!
Re:Zero Wing Line? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, it's no dumber than any of the league's other ideas to get people to watch. Increasing scoring by making the goalies wear smaller pads (hey, why not take away their masks, too, while you're at it) instead of, I don't know, actually calling penalties when the guy with the puck is grabbed on to is positively brilliant. I can't wait until they make the goals 15 feet wide, too.
Re:Zero Wing Line? (Score:5, Insightful)
You are working under the assumption that the goalie's pads are there for protection, which is becoming more and more false. How can the extra three inches of pad on either side of the goalie's leg protect the leg the goalie from injury? Answer: it doesn't, but it sure does protect the net from getting hit by the puck!
It's STILL funny, durnit. (Score:5, Insightful)
Granted, this doesn't mean it was a godlike example of flawless humor in the first place -- but it's not bad enough to rank as a pariah, either.
Funny Once (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes it does. In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein, the main character teaches an AI about humor. He explains, quite insightfully, that there are three kinds of jokes.
A) Funny.
B) Not funny.
C) Funny once.
AYB was Funny Once. After a while the humor of it gets polished off by retelling. This is why "Wassup!" "Yo quiero Taco Bell" and the Budweiser frogs are no longer funny despite being utterly gut-busting when it came out. AYB has had the life flogged out of it by repetition -- especially be people who just don't get that it's not funny anymore. Nothing kills a joke better than the delivery of someone who doesn't realize they're not funny.
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Funny)
Unless by "gut-busting" you mean that they were so un-funny that they gave you intestinal distress.
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Funny)
All your funny are belong to a year and a half ago!
Someone set up us the dead horse!
You have no chance to be funny make your time!
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Insightful)
O, the plagues I am subjected to! Some of them are two decades old.
I think the way it works is this: AYB is not funny. But just how not-funny is it? The key is: is it sufficiently unfunny that it annoys you? Do you give people dirty looks when they say AYB? Do you groan or roll your eyes with fatigue? Do they see this reaction in you? If they do, then it is approaching becoming funny again, not because of its intrinsic jokiness, but because of the soul-withering effect it has. Once you, on the receiving end of this torture, realize what is happening, something else happens: you realize how stupid it is, that you have been manipulated by something that is so stupid. It's ridiculous that something so trivial can have such an effect on you. So ridiculous that you laugh!
Valdrax, all your joke are belong to us.
Two words for you (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Interesting)
The quintessential example of this style of comedy is the Laurel and Hardy movie, County Hospital [imdb.com]. In County Hospital, Ollie is in the hospital and Stan comes to visit him. The camera stays steady on Stan for what seems like an eternity as he slowly peels and eats a hard-boiled egg. At the beginning, it's funny - everybody laughs at this man's attention to his egg. Then one starts wondering why the camera isn't moving, and it gets old. Eventually, as it goes on, it becomes funny again and usually people are laughing uproariously by the time the camera finally moves on.
It only works when it's done by an expert, but it can most certainly work. Watch "County Hospital" for the "hard boiled eggs and nuts" scene.
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Insightful)
Well then, if it was in a SF book, it must be true!
Seriously, though, ever heard of "Nostalga"? Things that were old can become, well not really "new again", more like they can develop a self-referential quality which is new. This allows people to think of them as cool, funny, or whatever without directly saying that the old thing itself has those qualities. It's more like the memory of the thing has those qualities. I think that may be what's happening with AYB: people are starting to say "hey, remember that thing that was so funny back then..." and getting a little laugh out of it. It's like laughing about "that one time when you and Bob got drunk and..." You may have developed negative associations about it at the time, but now you can just laugh at it.
Of course, they can also be new to some people (e.g. "That's a spicy meat-a-ball!", which probably predates most SlashDotters). It's a shame when people are so negative about something old (think Disco or tie dye), when people who weren't around at the time might just honestly like that thing if they had a chance to be exposed to it without all those negative judgements attached.
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Insightful)
"Hey, don't I even get a chumba-wumba song?"
"...Argh. Fine." (Flute Whistle)
"Chumba-Wumba Gobble-de-" *SMACK*
"Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss... Ahhh... SSsss..."
Family guy was good at taking something that was funny, killing it with repeats, then continuing to use it until, miraculously, it was funny again.
~Will
It's Called The Rule of Three and Seven (Score:5, Informative)
The basic concept is that most things are funny once they happen three times. After they happen three times it becomes stupid and lame, until it happens seven times. Then it's funny again.
My sister's boyfriend makes a living off of comedy. He does improv with a few different troupes, and is working on stand up routines. He explained it to me a few months back, and now that I know of this "rule" I find it everywhere.
Re:Funny Once (Score:5, Insightful)
a) can be broken down into categories such as: Completely random. Waste of time. Engrish. The first lends from monty python. The second was relatively original as far as flash. The third is just giggling funny. Put them together and you have a classic. Classics don't age very quickly.
b) can be broken down into: Original music. Many photoshops (big hit for first timers). Captions (it's a must). For me this was really my first exposure to photoshops. The music is relatively high quality for a product which most assuredly has a budget of a few cans of soda and a bag of cheetos. The captions not only reinforce the old-game feel but also add a tint of 1337ness with the extra puncuation marks. Again, this sums to a classic, and classics age slowly.
This being said I never did see AYB as a joke but instead something to be in awe of. In the same way we're in awe of any piece of art despite (or enhanced by) its age, AYB is sweet.
1999 called... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1999 called... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1999 called... (Score:5, Funny)
Someone set up us the bomb. Were you not paying attention?
Re:1999 called... (Score:4, Funny)
1999 called again... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1999 called again... (Score:5, Funny)
Tell 'em if they'll apologize for the dot-com bust, we'll consider it.
SB
I for one (Score:5, Funny)
What it's about (Score:5, Informative)
Official Site [planettribes.com]
Oh and it's not karma whoring if you don't need the karma, people!
Link to screenshots w/ quotes (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Link to screenshots w/ quotes (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Link to screenshots w/ quotes (Score:4, Interesting)
Uhh, reminds me about something MYSTERIOUS! (Score:3, Interesting)
Take "Somebody set up us the bomb" and rewind the words. Then it will say: "Bomb the US, upset somebody!"
That's kinda cool
Re:Uhh, reminds me about something MYSTERIOUS! (Score:5, Funny)
And now they've resorted to putting submiliminal messages into videogames!
I've got to collect all Chinpokomon! I've got to collect them all so I can become World Crown Chinpoko-Master! Oh! Bomb the harbor!
Flash Animation (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Flash Animation (Score:4, Insightful)
oh why will it not die (Score:5, Funny)
Main screen turn on (Score:5, Funny)
Last week I was in a staff meeting, everyone was upset about some corporate politics. The meeting mediator was fiddling with the projector trying to get it to run and someone casually said, "Main screen turn on." The few of us that got the joke had such a good laugh that it immediately heighted the mood of everyone in the meeting. The rest of the day was much more pleasurable.
Re:Main screen turn on (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Main screen turn on (Score:4, Funny)
Poem to get your geek lover in the mood (Score:4, Funny)
Violets are blue
All my base
Are belong to you.
(Shamelessly lifted form bash.org)
Re:Poem to get your geek lover in the mood (Score:5, Funny)
Violets are blue
In Soviet Russia
Poems write YOU!
(also shamelessly lifted but I can't remember where from)
How are you gentlemen!! (Score:5, Funny)
The obligatory poll description... (Score:5, Funny)
What happen?:
What is it that has just occurred on our ship?
Somebody set up us the bomb:
An explosive device has just detonated in the vicinity! It must be the work of the enemy!
We get signal:
Our communications channel is receiving an incoming transmission.
Take off every 'Zig'!!:
Every pilot of a ship with the designation Zig is immediately ordered to the launch bay.
How are you gentlemen !!:
I wish to inquire as to your collective disposition.
All your base are belong to us.:
Even though you or your government previously held title to a number of lunar facilities and space stations, I regret to inform you that we have taken control of them. In the case where we haven't taken control of said facility, we still claim it as our own. In other words, you are hereby denied all access to the aforementioned sovereignties.
What you say!!:
I do not grasp the fundamental nature of your words. Please restate them so that I may better comprehend their meaning. Or, if I have understood them, I am still in disbelief about their content.
HA HA HA HA:
I laugh maniacally at your vexation. I giggle gregariously as you scramble to launch your Zigs. I must fulfill this duty so that I can satisfy the role of evil final boss, so you may defeat me and wipe that smirk off my face. That is, if you have enough quarters.
Re:The obligatory poll description... (Score:5, Funny)
See Sig (Score:3, Funny)
I think people are taking this a bit too seriously (Score:5, Insightful)
yes, it got overused to all hell.
yes, it even made an appearance in "Fox Trot"
(I dont konw if that counts as mainstream media)
Mainstream media got ahold of it.
It no longer was "cool."
Who fucking CARES if something is "cool" or not.
People overrepeated it. It got unfunny, just like when people now say: "I'm Rick James, bitch! [xmission.com]"
I guarantee you, even if you got sick of the hype, a person tossing one of these phrases out at the right time is going to be funny to most people.
However, just like the Three Stooges, its an unfortunate shame that not everyone gets it.
all you *nix (Score:4, Funny)
crap. not again. (Score:4, Insightful)
Didn't we put this shit to rest once already?
-transiit
Woo (Score:5, Funny)
Elect Marmaduke
For Great Justice
All your vote are belong to Marmaduke. Make your time.
See a jpg of our wonderful slashdotesque poster:
http://home.att.net/~psychofarmer0/marmgreatjusti
The mighty Wind (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How about none? (Score:5, Funny)
Chewbacca Ate My Balls hands down. Although Mr. T Ate My Balls would be a close second.
Oh wait, you were being sarcastic. Damn your devious intellect!
Triple play! (Score:5, Funny)
> > Chewbacca Ate My Balls hands down. Although Mr. T Ate My Balls would be a close second. Oh wait, you were being sarcastic. Damn your devious intellect!
>
> or both... [angelfire.com]
In Soviet Russia, all your us are eat by balls!
Keep reading, kid. (Score:5, Informative)
Missing option: What is Zero Wing
Zero Wing is a video game from the late 80's which had some very badly translated English dialogue. The prelude to the game (in the form of "All Your Base Are Belong to us") got picked up on the Internet 1998 and a phenomenon was born. You can find more information about the whole thing here at wikipedia (English version) [wikipedia.org].
What happen? (Score:5, Funny)
What you say?
2001 just called... (Score:5, Funny)
Re: "Me, too.". (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose the real question to ask is how many people get introduced to old Internet memes/phenomena at any arbitrary time after the meme/phenomenon has "died."
I'm waiting for the hamster dance poll.
Re:Zero Who? (Score:4, Insightful)
A flash movie based on the intro hit the net big in 2001. It contained various photoshopped images with the phrase "All your base are belong to us" added to them.
Re:AYBABTU: What it reall y means (Score:4, Informative)