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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?
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Oct 25, 2012 21:48
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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.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:04
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 What spawned this? I absolutely love it, especially how the design makes him look like an old school cell phone.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:09
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UmbreonMessiah posted:
For he is stiff and robotic, you see.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:15
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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.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:26
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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 
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Oct 25, 2012 22:28
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UmbreonMessiah posted:
Some cartoonist caricatured Mitt with that image, the Political Cartoons thread fell in love with it and bought the emoticon.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:28
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UmbreonMessiah posted:I thought the technique for this was lost a long time ago
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Oct 25, 2012 22:31
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Also keep in mind that said nerds often purchase "authentic" weapons that supposedly are that old for vastly inflated prices.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:34
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Falls Down Stairs posted:
This is a thing?
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Oct 25, 2012 22:41
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Yup. The admins eventually deleted the post so he wouldn't be probated for it anymore.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:54
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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 
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Oct 25, 2012 22:55
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fivre posted:This is a thing? Yup. User name was slowfuse to start. It then got changed to something like DO NOT POST ANYMORE.
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Oct 25, 2012 23:18
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cobalt impurity posted:For he is stiff and robotic, you see. I always imagine him saying it in the (old) Cylon voice 
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Oct 25, 2012 23:26
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Farecoal posted:I always imagine him saying it in the (old) Cylon voice  Our military has less battleships than it did in 1917.
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Oct 25, 2012 23:28
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UmbreonMessiah posted:
But see, I would elect a centurion over Mitt. Gold Cylon 2012. The foreign policy would be amazing and megalaser-based.
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Oct 26, 2012 02:20
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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:
A sad fact. Never again will entire regiments surrender to unarmed UAVs 
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Oct 26, 2012 02:32
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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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.
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Oct 29, 2012 03:07
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I've been racking my brains, but can't seem to figure out what  is supposed to be.I know YOTJ means Year Of The Job, but what is the smiley supposed to look like?
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Oct 29, 2012 15:45
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Isn't it a can of bawls?
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Oct 29, 2012 15:48
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A bottle of, but yes.
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Oct 29, 2012 15:53
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That's a pretty lovely miniature bottle of bawls. The smiley doesn't really make any sense, either.
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Oct 29, 2012 16:43
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KozmoNaut posted:The smiley doesn't really make any sense, either. I agree, but this complaint is hardly relevant. Have you seen this thread? 
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Oct 29, 2012 16:54
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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  and  before, but this combines them into one perfect expression.
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Oct 29, 2012 17:09
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hyperhazard posted:When did
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Oct 29, 2012 17:44
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I think it's been like a month at least. Unless I'm completely losing my sense of time.
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Oct 29, 2012 17:46
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hellopticor posted:I think I first saw it like two weeks ago or so? shows it in use at least back in March.
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Oct 29, 2012 17:46
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Cruseydr posted:A search for 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.
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Oct 29, 2012 17:59
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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.
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Oct 29, 2012 18:05
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Fairly certain was bought by SAS during the initial phases of the Jerry Sandusky case, which was over a year ago.
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Oct 29, 2012 18:47
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SporkOfTruth posted:Fairly certain Yeah I've seen around TFF and SAS for what feels like a year. It's not new.
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Oct 29, 2012 18:53
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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 
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Oct 29, 2012 20:26
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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.
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Oct 29, 2012 20:39
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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 
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Oct 29, 2012 20:41
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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.
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Oct 29, 2012 20:47
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SporkOfTruth posted:Fairly certain I thought came from YOSPOS. I remember someone asking in a thread what it should be called (because they were going to buy it).
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Oct 30, 2012 02:12
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TheModernAmerican posted:One that is pretty simple, but I know the origin of is "last season" is December 2011, so it's almost a year old.
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Oct 30, 2012 03:01
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unless you want to see a man's shoulder blade touch his butt.
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fork bomb posted:I thought
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Oct 30, 2012 04:38
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Suitaru posted:Some cartoonist caricatured Mitt with that image, the Political Cartoons thread fell in love with it and bought the emoticon. 
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Oct 30, 2012 05:19
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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 is downing a fifth of Skyy vodka. Edit: The music note is just leftover from the original
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