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Avocados posted:Thank god this thread is back. I haven't seen a similar one since before I regged. Previous incarnations of this thread. One of the characters in For Better or For Worse ran into a burning house to get something stupid. The .gif is a fireman's reaction to that.
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Phy posted:Flatten and reinstall. Why flatten and install what? Windows?
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May 16, 2012 02:05
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Avocados posted:Thank god this thread is back. I haven't seen a similar one since before I regged. There was a big thread in GBS a while back photoshopping the comic strip "For Better or For Worse." That smilie is taken from the last panel of this strip when the family's house burned down.  No idea why anyone felt the need to buy it though.
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May 16, 2012 02:07
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Avocados posted:Where is this from? It's from For Better or For Worse, a comic strip discussed in the Comic Strip Megathread (originally the FBoFW thread before diversifying). One of the characters is an author. When his house is burning down, he realizes that his manuscript is still in the building, so he charges back in. One of the firefighters pulls that dumb face and says that line, and entered Comic Strip Megathread history. edit: well, poo poo. 
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May 16, 2012 02:07
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Galewolf posted:Why flatten and install what? Windows? Yes.
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May 16, 2012 02:10
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Phy posted:
Equally,  is from the same series. He's a skeleton pirate with an afro that likes to make jokes about him being just bones/a skeleton.
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May 16, 2012 02:10
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is a dude from an anime about wacky pirates.
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Slightly unrelated, but I never get why some people put smiles between a pair of "v"s, like this: v  vEDIT: VVVVVVVV Hahaha, wow, I always thought they were peace signs or something. Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 02:18 on May 16, 2012 |
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May 16, 2012 02:16
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VisAbsoluta posted:Slightly unrelated, but I never get why some people put smiles between a pair of "v"s, like this: v They're shrugging arms, v  v just like the lowercase superimposed T works as a middle finger.t
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May 16, 2012 02:16
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Avocados posted:Thank god this thread is back. I haven't seen a similar one since before I regged. This is from an old newspaper comics thread. There was a For Better Or For Worse plot in which the house burned down or something, and someone wanted to go back in to grab something, and there was that firefighter, with his thousand mile stare, admonishing us that Some Things Just Aren't Worth Dying For. It was popular enough a smilie was made! e: oh god dammit there's a third page.
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May 16, 2012 02:19
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What on earth is the story behind  ? And what about  ?
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May 16, 2012 02:27
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1858814 Couple pages late, but I think that's the thread that spawned the  thing. It's from '06, so archives. The smiley pops up for the first time on the 12th page, and most of the thread is "ugh gently caress goons" so I can't say it's exactly worth reading in its entirety. Or maybe at all. There was something about a "brown oily substance" and a blow-up doll having its orifices tongued clean of ... chili? mousse? mud? I don't know. That thread made me queasy.
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May 16, 2012 02:34
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Avocados posted:Thank god this thread is back. I haven't seen a similar one since before I regged. It's from the comic strip For Better or Worse, it became a thing in one of the many comic strip megathreads. I'm looking for that strip, but I can't find it. Oh,well! Edit: DAMMIT,I'm slow!
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May 16, 2012 02:42
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The sonia emote is related back to DPPH but I can't remember the specifics, it was before my time. It was so long ago homegrown porn was still allowable. Of course, homegrown always leads to massive drama so it has since been banned. The story goes (if memory serves me right...other old goons can feel free to correct me if I am wrong) one particular goon had a ludicrously hot girlfriend named Sonia. They took some pictures of her (and I think her and him together) and posted it all over DPPH. A massive drama bomb followed. The smiley, as far as I know and as far as the forums proper goes, are all that remains. I have no idea where you would get any pictures or video that exist. They may have been lost to the sands of time but my understanding is that she was, in fact, unbelievably hot.
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May 16, 2012 03:04
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
Sorta beaten on this one. Every year since 04 there has been an emoticon for the newbies coming in. In that specific emoticon the first file is an icon for a registry file or .reg, the other is a .dll. So Regdll or regd11 for the class of '11  The very first "Oh another one of those guys  " The guy doing the felatio is an 05 in case you were wondering I don't get this one  Petty slapfights abound kinda sucked in my opinion you know yow you can look at someone and tell them to get out without actually saying it? That's this guy. they started getting a bit more clever here. regd10 because Dio was loving awesome. RIP Dio   already been explained.Kinda curious what regd12 will be.
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May 16, 2012 03:27
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D is That Guy posted:
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May 16, 2012 03:29
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buttopticor posted:For clarification, it's a dog because "d09" looks like "dog". Also, there's a similar emoticon with actually saying it: dogout: That makes sense too. I just always assumed that those drat 09's should just get lost. Thanks for that.
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May 16, 2012 03:34
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DrBouvenstein posted:And who is Zoro?  It's supposed to imply that someone is a silent badass, or something. In keeping with pirates, I've never understood why  is "corsair".
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May 16, 2012 04:16
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Corsair is a really old goon, I think.
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May 16, 2012 04:20
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Ratspeaker posted:
corsair is a fyad poster the other fyads make fun of for being old
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May 16, 2012 04:20
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I've always been curious why there's a section called "Horrible & retarded poo poo we can't wait to delete". Why not just...delete it? What are they waiting for?
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May 16, 2012 04:23
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gnarlyhotep posted:I've always been curious why there's a section called "Horrible & retarded poo poo we can't wait to delete". Why not just...delete it? What are they waiting for? There's a thing in the info box when you buy a smilie that says that it stays for at least a year, unless it's massively stupid.
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May 16, 2012 04:36
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So anyone have the story behind  and its various spinoffs?Also, why is  called Neckbeard?
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May 16, 2012 04:43
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gnarlyhotep posted:I've always been curious why there's a section called "Horrible & retarded poo poo we can't wait to delete". Why not just...delete it? What are they waiting for? You never know when we might need lovely byob emotes like  or  .
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May 16, 2012 04:44
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TFF regular here to explain the ones I know Is former great Bills running back Thurman Thomas, from Techmo bowl is Donovan McNabb and his award winning smile is for when a Patriots fan is being insufferable is mocking Peyton Manning's "manningface", generated from a goldmined thread I was a part of: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3465398 I don't know if this started in SAS but posters use it to reference Wade Phillips, because he looks like that didn't start in TFF but is used when referencing the Wildcat formation Is for when Ben Roethlisberger does something stupid (Psyduck with a steeler helmet) Penalty flag while I'm here, what is  from?
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May 16, 2012 04:58
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Febreeze posted:TFF regular here to explain the ones I know There's also  I don't think it started in TFF but it's used whenever Rob Gronkowski does something awesome.
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May 16, 2012 05:01
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D is That Guy posted:
Ah, the good old days. 
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May 16, 2012 05:09
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Febreeze posted:TFF regular here to explain the ones I know is a reference to a goon's catnip store on the SAMart, I think his name is d8? It's good quality herb for you cat, pick some of that poo poo up
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May 16, 2012 05:15
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Benne posted:TVIV has a lot of show-specific ones but Best $30 I ever spent around here. And yeah,  is referring to the condensed awesome that is Jean-Phillipe of Hell's Kitchen. A contestant was throwing a hissy fit, and he started waving a crab at her saying "I found your friend! He's as feisty as you are!" which really began a trend of JP doing awesome stuff on the show like hitting on 12 Hawaiian Tropic models at the same time.
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May 16, 2012 05:32
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 is from the Kerbal Space Program games thread.The game shows you animated portraits of your crew. They react to what's going on around them. The other crew regularly freak out, but Jeb never has anything but that goofy grin on his face, even as stuff's exploding everywhere. So kind of a positive mix of  and
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May 16, 2012 05:43
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Cobalt Chloride posted:I wanna say a mod made that one, because I remember the thread that it was born in (pretty sure it was GBS). I think all the previous reg date emoticons came about organically in the actual year once the trends of those posters emerged, but someone ruined it by making a thread at the end of 2007 saying "hey guys '08 is coming up we'd better make an emoticon" and as usual goons took it too far. So all these different emoticons were cropping up. Then people couldn't agree on which one was the best so everyone was buying different ones in an attempt to beat everyone else, all of them under the same or really similar shortcuts. So while this clusterfuck was going down and everyone was internet yelling at each other whoever's in charge of emoticon business just took all of them down and threw that up instead. 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 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.
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May 16, 2012 06:06
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:What the heck is This has been half-explained, but the "reg" part is a Windows registry file (the icon on the left), and the right is a DLL. They're not the same thing. It's important. Shut up.  I really like  , it's too bad subpixel font smoothing had to kill that.What on earth is  ? The feet are clearly taken from Mega Man, but I have no idea about the top.
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May 16, 2012 06:07
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 is a reference to  I do not know much about except that I probably refers to playing Choose Your Own Adventure games on the forums. is because somehow people kept misspelling  Edit: I think there's more smug variants than there were awesome variants at its peak. Speleothing fucked around with this message at 06:44 on May 16, 2012 |
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May 16, 2012 06:37
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Xenoveritas posted:What on earth is
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May 16, 2012 06:42
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Xenoveritas posted:Does somebody want to explain the relation between Pope Mobile posted:From what I remember, the same guy bought them at the same time and mixed up the names during purchase. Colbert should be crossarms and crossarms should be Colbert.
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May 16, 2012 08:01
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? I've heard an explanation, but it seems like that should be explained somewhere in this thread.
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 is from The Ray Parlour.Stoke City Football Club is a team that, regardless of the quality of player they sign, always play the same type of football. Very defensive, very boring, very physical, and very dependent on throw ins/corner kicks/free kicks. They employ this method so well that they've gone from a newly promoted team to a mediocre mid-table side that has qualified for a European competition. When they execute said technique and pull off a victory from a dead ball situation, it truly is a To be d is to possess the ball for prolonged periods of time, produce absolutely nothing, and then concede a goal to a bunch of cloggers. It is the epitome of being trolled in football.I saw someone use it out of context in an LP thread and I was thoroughly confused. Vinestalk fucked around with this message at 15:15 on May 16, 2012 |
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May 16, 2012 14:31
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Vinestalk posted:
Also,  originates from a great thread that was eventually goldmined. The first post using it, I guess.In short, the OP from that thread posted a series of commentaries on some guy's LiveJournal, which in turn were replied like this: "OH and one last thing... to the person that posted a comment here anonymously two days ago: i hope it makes you feel like a very funny person to make fun of me (over the internet, not to my face) and not even sign your masterstroke!". EDIT: VVVVVV Thanks for letting me know that I'm blind!
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May 16, 2012 15:56
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VisAbsoluta posted:Actually, it originates from a great thread that was eventually goldmined. The first post using it, I guess. You're confusing with , but thanks for telling the tale of where came from.
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May 16, 2012 16:04
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Benne posted:There's also http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=252
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May 16, 2012 18:56
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I've been keeping a list of obscure smilies for a while and while a lot have been covered here already I thought I'd throw a few out that have stumped me.  Edit: checked SAClopedia, found http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=1975   
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:
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