Outing the in-jokes: a thread about smilies. :confuoot:

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The Vosgian Beast: Aug 13, 2011; Business is slow

When did "Hanzo Steel" as a joking statement about Katanas become popular on these forums? I realize it's from Kill Bill originally, but when and why did people on these forums start saying it?

# ? Oct 25, 2012 22:48

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:35

Gann Jerrod: Sep 9, 2005; A gun isn't a gun unless it shoots Magic.

I think it's parodying the people who poo poo themselves over getting katanas, and how they think they're simply the perfect weapon. See this guy as an example.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:04

UmbreonMessiah: Nov 1, 2011; ~Hey, I'm grump!~
I'm...yeah, I'm just a grump.

What spawned this? I absolutely love it, especially how the design makes him look like an old school cell phone.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:09

cobalt impurity: Apr 23, 2010; I hope he didn't care about that pizza.

UmbreonMessiah posted:

What spawned this? I absolutely love it, especially how the design makes him look like an old school cell phone.

For he is stiff and robotic, you see.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:15

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

Maremidon posted:

When did "Hanzo Steel" as a joking statement about Katanas become popular on these forums? I realize it's from Kill Bill originally, but when and why did people on these forums start saying it?

It's been around for about 2 years I think. I don't think it came from a particular source, people just got sick of nerds sperging out over their THOUSAND TIMES FOLDED HANZO STEEL and it became a mockery thing.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:26

UmbreonMessiah: Nov 1, 2011; ~Hey, I'm grump!~
I'm...yeah, I'm just a grump.

Moist von Lipwig posted:

It's been around for about 2 years I think. I don't think it came from a particular source, people just got sick of nerds sperging out over their THOUSAND TIMES FOLDED HANZO STEEL and it became a mockery thing.

I thought the technique for this was lost a long time ago :psyduck:

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:28

World War Mammories: Aug 25, 2006

UmbreonMessiah posted:

What spawned this? I absolutely love it, especially how the design makes him look like an old school cell phone.

Some cartoonist caricatured Mitt with that image, the Political Cartoons thread fell in love with it and bought the emoticon.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:28

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

UmbreonMessiah posted:

I thought the technique for this was lost a long time ago

I believe you're thinking of the technique for making Damascus Steel. As far as I know people are still making katanas the traditional way in Japan right now.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:31

Urdnot Fire: Feb 13, 2012

Also keep in mind that said nerds often purchase "authentic" weapons that supposedly are that old for vastly inflated prices.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:34

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Falls Down Stairs posted:

I think he's been surpassed by one of those folks who posted in FYAD once and was given an unending string of 6 hour probations by the IKs.

This is a thing?

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:41

Dr Pepper: Feb 4, 2012; Don't like it? well...

Yup.

The admins eventually deleted the post so he wouldn't be probated for it anymore.

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:54

UmbreonMessiah: Nov 1, 2011; ~Hey, I'm grump!~
I'm...yeah, I'm just a grump.

Zereth posted:

I believe you're thinking of the technique for making Damascus Steel. As far as I know people are still making katanas the traditional way in Japan right now.

Ayup. That would be me being silly :blush:

# ? Oct 25, 2012 23:55

senrath: Nov 4, 2009; Look Professor, a destruct switch!

fivre posted:

This is a thing?

Yup. User name was slowfuse to start. It then got changed to something like DO NOT POST ANYMORE.

# ? Oct 26, 2012 00:18

Farecoal: Oct 15, 2011; There he go

cobalt impurity posted:

For he is stiff and robotic, you see.

I always imagine him saying it in the (old) Cylon voice :psylon:

# ? Oct 26, 2012 00:26

UmbreonMessiah: Nov 1, 2011; ~Hey, I'm grump!~
I'm...yeah, I'm just a grump.

Farecoal posted:

I always imagine him saying it in the (old) Cylon voice

Our military has less battleships than it did in 1917. :awesomelon:

# ? Oct 26, 2012 00:28

18 Character Limit: Apr 6, 2007; Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!; Nap Ghost

UmbreonMessiah posted:

Our military has less battleships than it did in 1917.

But see, I would elect a centurion over Mitt.

Gold Cylon 2012. The foreign policy would be amazing and megalaser-based.

# ? Oct 26, 2012 03:20

Guesticles: Dec 21, 2009; I AM CURRENTLY JACKING OFF TO PICTURES OF MUTILATED FEMALE CORPSES, IT'S ALL VERY DEEP AND SOPHISTICATED BUT IT'S JUST TOO FUCKING HIGHBROW FOR YOU NON-MISOGYNISTS TO UNDERSTAND

P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT

I'll write in a vote for Golden Centurion. Nader isn't running this year, so megalaser policy sounds as good as any 3rd party candidate.

UmbreonMessiah posted:

Our military has less battleships than it did in 1917.

A sad fact. Never again will entire regiments surrender to unarmed UAVs :911:

# ? Oct 26, 2012 03:32

Buh: May 17, 2008

senrath posted:

Yup. User name was slowfuse to start. It then got changed to something like DO NOT POST ANYMORE.

Aw man, I never noticed that slowfuse/Never Post Again had disappeared. Guess he finally gave up. The effort on both sides was so endearing - both the Idiot Kings making sure to refresh his probation every six hours, and slowfuse posting without fail every time they forgot for an hour.

My favourite was the time when an idiot king spent several days probating him with single-letter probations, so that it would spell out SLOWFUSE. They got as far as the 'O' (working backwards) before angerbot sniped the next probation to make it COWFUSE.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 04:07

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

I've been racking my brains, but can't seem to figure out what :yotj:

is supposed to be.

I know YOTJ means Year Of The Job, but what is the smiley supposed to look like?

# ? Oct 29, 2012 16:45

Oppenheimer: Dec 26, 2011; by Smythe

Isn't it a can of bawls?

# ? Oct 29, 2012 16:48

Splizwarf: Jun 15, 2007; It's like there's a soup can in front of me!

A bottle of, but yes.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 16:53

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

That's a pretty lovely miniature bottle of bawls. The smiley doesn't really make any sense, either.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 17:43

Splizwarf: Jun 15, 2007; It's like there's a soup can in front of me!

KozmoNaut posted:

The smiley doesn't really make any sense, either.

I agree, but this complaint is hardly relevant. Have you seen this thread? :razz:

# ? Oct 29, 2012 17:54

hyperhazard: Dec 4, 2011; I am the one lascivious
With magic potion niveous

When did

show up? I swear I haven't seen it before this week, but that could be because I'm oblivious.

I've used :stare:

and

before, but this combines them into one perfect expression.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:09

dirby: Sep 21, 2004; Helping goons with math

hyperhazard posted:

When did show up? I swear I haven't seen it before this week, but that could be because I'm oblivious.

I think I first saw it like two weeks ago or so?

# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:44

Gloryhold It!: Sep 22, 2008; Fucking
Adorable

I think it's been like a month at least. Unless I'm completely losing my sense of time.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:46

Cruseydr: May 18, 2010; I am not an atomic playboy.

hellopticor posted:

I think I first saw it like two weeks ago or so?

A search for :stonk:

shows it in use at least back in March.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:46

RyokoTK: Feb 12, 2012; I am cool.

Cruseydr posted:

A search for shows it in use at least back in March.

It's been around for about as long as I have, since I remember seeing it the first time I looked at the smilies list and thinking about how great of an emoticon it is. :stonk:

# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:59

UmbreonMessiah: Nov 1, 2011; ~Hey, I'm grump!~
I'm...yeah, I'm just a grump.

RyokoTK posted:

It's been around for about as long as I have, since I remember seeing it the first time I looked at the smilies list and thinking about how great of an emoticon it is.

It gets exceptional use in the mock thread whenever the people there stumble upon something that horrifies them to an extreme extent.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 19:05

SporkOfTruth: Sep 1, 2006; this kid walked up to me and was like man schmitty your stache is ghetto and I was like whatever man your 3b look like a dishrag.

he was like damn.

Fairly certain :stonk:

was bought by SAS during the initial phases of the Jerry Sandusky case, which was over a year ago.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 19:47

Febreeze: Oct 24, 2011; I want to care, butt I dont

SporkOfTruth posted:

Fairly certain was bought by SAS during the initial phases of the Jerry Sandusky case, which was over a year ago.

Yeah I've seen :stonk:

around TFF and SAS for what feels like a year. It's not new.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 19:53

cyberia: Jun 24, 2011; Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

KozmoNaut posted:

That's a pretty lovely miniature bottle of bawls. The smiley doesn't really make any sense, either.

It's used in the IT threads because IT guys drink a lot of energy drinks? So when you are working a terrible job and you get good news you celebrate by taking a slug of bawls instead of :toot:

# ? Oct 29, 2012 21:26

McGlockenshire: Dec 16, 2005; GOLLOCKS!

Given that the running joke in the IT threads is about alcohol, it's much more likely that that's a blue booze bottle, possibly Skyy or something.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 21:39

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

cyberia posted:

It's used in the IT threads because IT guys drink a lot of energy drinks? So when you are working a terrible job and you get good news you celebrate by taking a slug of bawls instead of

Which obviously makes a musical toot :confused:

# ? Oct 29, 2012 21:41

Splizwarf: Jun 15, 2007; It's like there's a soup can in front of me!

Probably worth just looking back through this thread, I think we've covered the Bawls one a couple times. IIRC SH/SC goons bought it.

# ? Oct 29, 2012 21:47

fork bomb: Apr 26, 2010

SporkOfTruth posted:

Fairly certain was bought by SAS during the initial phases of the Jerry Sandusky case, which was over a year ago.

I thought

came from YOSPOS. I remember someone asking in a thread what it should be called (because they were going to buy it).

# ? Oct 30, 2012 03:12

StupidSexyMothman: Aug 9, 2010

TheModernAmerican posted:

One that is pretty simple, but I know the origin of is . It's and put together.

It came from a TFF N/V thread where everyone was talking about last season's Bears/Seahawks game where Bears wide receiver Johnny Knox was folded in half unless you want to see a man's shoulder blade touch his butt.

I don't know who bought it, but a Dolphins fan made it (I think).

"last season" is December 2011, so it's almost a year old.

# ? Oct 30, 2012 04:01

toby: Dec 4, 2002

fork bomb posted:

I thought came from YOSPOS. I remember someone asking in a thread what it should be called (because they were going to buy it).

That conversation definitely happened, yes.

# ? Oct 30, 2012 05:38

MrGreenShirt: Mar 14, 2005; Hell of a book. It's about bunnies!

Suitaru posted:

Some cartoonist caricatured Mitt with that image, the Political Cartoons thread fell in love with it and bought the emoticon.

# ? Oct 30, 2012 06:19

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plainswalker75: Feb 22, 2003; Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles; Hair Elf

Splizwarf posted:

Probably worth just looking back through this thread, I think we've covered the Bawls one a couple times. IIRC SH/SC goons bought it.

"Year of the Job" was one of the running themes of the "A ticket came in . . . " thread two years ago, when several long-suffering IT goons quit their soul-crushing low-pay jobs for soul-crushing medium-pay jobs; the notable exception being Dick Trauma, who somehow managed to get hired at Shangri-la.

Given the amount of alcohol the average IT worker consumes, a LOT, it's reasonable to assume :yotj:

is downing a fifth of Skyy vodka.

Edit: The music note is just leftover from the original :toot:

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# ? Oct 30, 2012 07:03

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