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Shine
Feb 26, 2007

No Muscles For The Majority

DrBouvenstein posted:

Yeah, I've never liked that first way...doesn't make sense. The second one reminds me of comics and such, but what's up with that first one? Why is there the horizontal line?

Because normal spaces don't work and most people don't know about the non-breakable ones, so they use shitloads of underscores.

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DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Shine posted:

Because normal spaces don't work and most people don't know about the non-breakable ones, so they use shitloads of underscores.

Ahh...


Can anyone tell me what this gang-tag is from:


I assume something related to chemistry or maybe atomic physics?

dirby
Sep 21, 2004


Helping goons with math

DrBouvenstein posted:

Can anyone tell me what this gang-tag is from:


I assume something related to chemistry or maybe atomic physics?
It's related to the recent Deus Ex video game.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011

buttopticor posted:

It's related to the recent Deus Ex video game.
Specifically, it was given to people who participated in a Deus Ex dog Photoshop contest thread. You still see some of the images as avatars in Games, and I think it ended up a Photoshop Phriday on the main page.

Knives and Hot Dust
Feb 21, 2010

metal gear??!?
The "h+" stands for "humanity plus", an organization that advocates transhuminism,a theme of the recent Deus Ex game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanity%2B

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Occupation posted:

The second one is when Ozma got drunk or something (???) in TVIV and changed everyone who didn't have an av on the last page of the King of the Hill thread to that dummy picture, which was a character on KotH.

I don't think he was drunk, there was just a big expanse of avatar-free posters in the thread & he was feeling generous.

Content:
:qqsay: is :qq: + :goonsay:, created for Leperflesh in a Diplomacy game. He made a ton of long-winded whiny posts (which were very entertaining!) about how everyone was against him & backstabbing only him and he didn't have any reason to keep playing.

:russo: is wrestling writer Vince Russo gleefully penning yet another swerve into his storyline. It's terrible, but at least we didn't see it coming!

M as in Mancy
Apr 21, 2011

by Y Kant Ozma Post
is based off of this. That's all I know, though.

TL
Jan 16, 2006

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

Fallen Rib
Anyone happen to know the story behind :holymoley: ? I've never seen it used but it always makes me laugh when I see it on the smilies page and I have no idea of the context of it.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
`

TL posted:

Anyone happen to know the story behind :holymoley: ? I've never seen it used but it always makes me laugh when I see it on the smilies page and I have no idea of the context of it.

I always thought it was Andy Milonakis, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

I always thought it was Andy Milonakis, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.

I think it's Tucker Carlson. He wore bowties as a trademark when he was new and trying to be taken seriously.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012
FYAD's description says "As you can see your kid is fully sick already and is using the skull of his dead twin as a bong."

There's a story here and I'd like to hear it.

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

These are amazing.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

BROS SUN PRAISER posted:

Hey so I was the guy who made :pcgaming:

I bought an av for a friend based on the Brain Machine guy, and he liked PC gaming

then I made a frog of it and someone bought it

I made a lot of frogs back then.




















A few others from that era, not sure who did them:







Ah, classic YCS.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

gooby on rails posted:

A few others from that era, not sure who did them:







Ah, classic YCS.

I did the last one there, no idea about the other two.

Smart Car
Mar 31, 2011

In addition to what a couple of posters already mentioned, there's an extra joke in that picture. It's "augmented", and contains a soundfile as well that programs like winamp can play.

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

Smart Car posted:

In addition to what a couple of posters already mentioned, there's an extra joke in that picture. It's "augmented", and contains a soundfile as well that programs like winamp can play.
:aaaaa: This just blew my mind.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

Smart Car posted:

In addition to what a couple of posters already mentioned, there's an extra joke in that picture. It's "augmented", and contains a soundfile as well that programs like winamp can play.

I can't check it out on this machine--can you spoil it for me? I did ask for this.

builds character
Jan 16, 2008

Keep at it.

gooby on rails posted:

A few others from that era, not sure who did them:







Ah, classic YCS.

PYF Frog: I love you

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Dr Pepper posted:

Monocle Frog is a thing of beauty.

:monocle: Monocle smileys are the best smileys. :wotwot:

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

I can't check it out on this machine--can you spoil it for me? I did ask for this.

What a shame.

Grim Up North
Dec 12, 2011

Smart Car posted:

In addition to what a couple of posters already mentioned, there's an extra joke in that picture. It's "augmented", and contains a soundfile as well that programs like winamp can play.

:aaaaa:

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

I can't check it out on this machine--can you spoil it for me? I did ask for this.


Title : What a shame... Artist : MC Denton
Album : Deus Ex' s Greatest Hits Year : 2000
Comment : What a rotten way to die. Genre : Techno-Industrial



Should bring memories back if you've played the first Deus Ex.

VodeAndreas
Apr 30, 2009

Grim Up North posted:

:aaaaa:



Title : What a shame... Artist : MC Denton
Album : Deus Ex' s Greatest Hits Year : 2000
Comment : What a rotten way to die. Genre : Techno-Industrial



Should bring memories back if you've played the first Deus Ex.

Oh my god MC, a song.

That's amazing, Foobar doesn't seem to be able to pick up the music component though :(

Toast Museum
Dec 3, 2005

30% Iron Chef

VodeAndreas posted:

Oh my god MC, a song.

That's amazing, Foobar doesn't seem to be able to pick up the music component though :(

Rename it to .mp3

The Cubelodyte
Sep 1, 2006

Practicing Hypnolaw since 1990
Grimey Drawer

Ovo posted:

If I remember correctly BYOB posters bought that emote as a prank on GBS since they spent ages arguing over what it should be. BYOB got so excited about their prank that they accidently bought 2 or 3 versions of :regd08: and another version of it that was just the word gently caress written in MSpaint. Some admin eventually deleted the others and made the current one the emote.

I remember that. I remember being irritated at the time because I really liked what GBS had been cooking up before BYOB (or was it FYAD?) poo poo in their cornflakes.

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fade5
May 31, 2012

by exmarx
What's the story behind this: :george:

Also, the :spergin: and :allears: get quite a bit of use in the LP subforums, with :allears: being used to show admiration of something amazing that happened.

No Hephaestus
Aug 7, 2010

im fucking furious.

Segmentation Fault posted:

FYAD's description says "As you can see your kid is fully sick already and is using the skull of his dead twin as a bong."

There's a story here and I'd like to hear it.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3485357&pagenumber=21&perpage=40#post404391140

Toast Museum
Dec 3, 2005

30% Iron Chef

fade5 posted:

What's the story behind this: :george:

Gorgeous George

Edit: the entry isn't clear on this point, but, if I recall correctly, many of the prank calls to his show were just toilet flushing sounds.

Toast Museum has a new favorite as of 20:45 on Jun 21, 2012

Debbie Metallica
Jun 7, 2001

oldskool posted:

I don't think he was drunk, there was just a big expanse of avatar-free posters in the thread & he was feeling generous.

People must think I'm drunk every day or something. Very interesting.

It's what you said, I was in a good mood and wanted to be generous so I gave a bunch of people with no avatars a king of the hill avatar.

fork bomb
Apr 26, 2010

:shroom::shroom:

I think it's fun when you do av/namechange threads. The figuring out of who's who in the aftermath is half the fun.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler


Need to get that cat on benzos dude

Kilo147
Apr 14, 2007

You remind me of the boss
What boss?
The boss with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who-doo?
You do.
Do what?
Remind me of the Boss.

What's the story behind :krad: and Mystic Order of the 219?

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

7thBatallion posted:

What's the story behind :krad: and Mystic Order of the 219?

Mystic Order of the 219 is from the YOSPOS buttcoin thread. 219 is the forumid for YOSPOS.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3435153

e: check out how the tag looks on a black background

Test Pilot Monkey
Apr 27, 2003

I've seen Westerns, I know how to speak cowboy.

7thBatallion posted:

What's the story behind :krad:

:krad: has been around for longer than I have. I'm surprised it's in the "Horrible & retarded poo poo we can't wait to delete" section, because it was around from before you could buy smilies.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012
That's great, thanks!

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Test Pilot Monkey posted:

:krad: has been around for longer than I have. I'm surprised it's in the "Horrible & retarded poo poo we can't wait to delete" section, because it was around from before you could buy smilies.

It's still horrible and retarded, but it's almost unheard of for the admins to actually delete smileys off the forum. There's always a huge outcry from someone somewhere.

fork bomb
Apr 26, 2010

:shroom::shroom:

7thBatallion posted:

What's the story behind :krad: and Mystic Order of the 219?

These tags were handed out during the peak of comedic bitcoinery as an appreciation gift by Star War Sex Parrot.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


TL posted:

Anyone happen to know the story behind :holymoley: ? I've never seen it used but it always makes me laugh when I see it on the smilies page and I have no idea of the context of it.

It's a player in knifeback mountain who somehow ended up getting his facebook page looked at because he'd left it public. Following that a lot of the knifeback illuminati then made a thread in gbs called something like "HEY THERES THIS DORK IN THE ALDI CATALOGUE LETS PHOTOSHOP HIM" involving a particulary funny picture they'd pulled from said facebook and managed to keep it going for a couple of pages. As I recall the thread didn't really go very far and got gassed pretty quickly becuase it was lovely, especially after some people who went to aldi a lot said that they'd never seen this at all ever. At any rate, one of the knifeback dudes then made that, I think it was hambeef or synthy but i'm not actually sure.

tl;dr it's an EU TF2 group injoke.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


fork bomb posted:

These tags were handed out during the peak of comedic bitcoinery as an appreciation gift by Star War Sex Parrot.

Yes, and I lost mine after someone I know in LoL bought me a LoL themed avatar after he won a contest in the LP forum. Pretty much anyone who braved the elements to post in the bitcoin forums or followed it at all got one basically.

Honey Im Homme
Sep 3, 2009

Drone_Fragger posted:

It's a player in knifeback mountain who somehow ended up getting his facebook page looked at because he'd left it public. Following that a lot of the knifeback illuminati then made a thread in gbs called something like "HEY THERES THIS DORK IN THE ALDI CATALOGUE LETS PHOTOSHOP HIM" involving a particulary funny picture they'd pulled from said facebook and managed to keep it going for a couple of pages. As I recall the thread didn't really go very far and got gassed pretty quickly becuase it was lovely, especially after some people who went to aldi a lot said that they'd never seen this at all ever. At any rate, one of the knifeback dudes then made that, I think it was hambeef or synthy but i'm not actually sure.

tl;dr it's an EU TF2 group injoke.

wrong

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Funky Britches
Aug 22, 2009

Drone_Fragger posted:

It's a player in knifeback mountain who somehow ended up getting his facebook page looked at because he'd left it public. Following that a lot of the knifeback illuminati then made a thread in gbs called something like "HEY THERES THIS DORK IN THE ALDI CATALOGUE LETS PHOTOSHOP HIM" involving a particulary funny picture they'd pulled from said facebook and managed to keep it going for a couple of pages. As I recall the thread didn't really go very far and got gassed pretty quickly becuase it was lovely, especially after some people who went to aldi a lot said that they'd never seen this at all ever. At any rate, one of the knifeback dudes then made that, I think it was hambeef or synthy but i'm not actually sure.

tl;dr it's an EU TF2 group injoke.

None of this is correct.

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