Exclamation Marx posted:

Why:

haveblue posted:

"drat Guy" is pro wrestler Ron Simmons.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Why did Lowtax name this website Something Awful? Is there any meaning to the name other than the most obvious?

Silva posted:

Where did the name "Something Awful" come from? Is there any history as to how you named your website?

formr CAT STEVENS posted:

i think it was from back when lowtax was working at planet quake and they would play this game with dinosaurs and the t-rex made this horrible screeching noise and somebody said that game sure is "something awful". something like that.

Lowtax posted:

Yeah, it was Pharcyde who played some dinosaur game in the office with Radium and I.

Ishamael posted:

Yeah I still don't know what I am supposed to be seeing there. I know it's a duck or something, but I can't see it.

prefect posted:

YOSPOS has a thing about boats?

Smythe posted:

I would just like to chime in here with a small note pertaining to the boat smiley: im the IK of YOSPOS and ive never seen it, nor heard of it. The Bitcoin thread is a vile island, infested with a virulent strain of leprosy.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It's the SomethingAwful secret. Each and every one of us is the worst poster on the forums.

BBJoey posted:

there was also a terrorist attack on 9/11. this is also part of the joke.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

So what's a Greenwater?

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Also, what's this cute smilie of?

Lamprey Cannon posted:

So did the goonboot designs ever actually go into production? I can't seem to track down the end of the story.

quote:

The Parable of the Sheepherder's Fence Post

Three teenage boys named Aeser, User, and Osser were walking out in the fields. User was excited to hang out with the two older boys, though he was nervous because he knew the two were notorious for causing trouble. His heart started to beat a little faster when they turned to trespass into a farmer's land. As they passed through a field of spelt, Aeser noticed that the farmer had left his tractor out. He whispered to Osser, and as they arrived at the vehicle, the two jumped into the cart currently hitched to it.

"The key is in the ignition!" Aeser told User, "Now give us a ride!"

Though he was filled with guilt, he gave in to the pressure and started the tractor up. Their act did not go unnoticed for long, for soon the farmer was yelling and chasing after the trio as they fled through the fields. In the commotion and panic, User did not look where he was going and crashed the tractor right into a fence post of a sheepherder’s pen, breaking it in half and ending their little caper.

At the next meeting of the village council, the fate of the three was decided. The farmer was not particularly upset about the joy ride and asked for no retribution, so the sheepherder's fence post became the crux of the matter. Aeser and Osser already had prior records of trouble-making, so they were required to work for the sheepherder in order to pay for this damaged fence post.

Though he was driving the tractor and caused the damage, the third boy had no history of misbehavior. The village council decided to go easy on him and

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

quote:

PROBATION 01/26/12 03:02pm Melaneus BETTER NATE THAN LEVER. User loses posting privileges for 6 hours. Eggplant Wizard Eggplant Wizard

hackbunny posted:

lol did he actually report his own post to give it a punchline?

Android Bicyclist posted:

Speaking of mods, I noticed some of them have different signifier symbols in the upper left.

When did this come about, and what do the other mods have?

Android Bicyclist posted:

I thought you have that because you're one of those red pill MRA's.

Or a member of The Capsules biker gang.

Choco1980 posted:

Because PATRIOTISM!!

AdorableStar posted:

AdorableStar posted:

Is loosechanj the one who posted comments on dating sides or something I dont remember

Solice Kirsk posted:

There was that one kid that was super disappointed they weren't going to the broccoli farm. Why wasn't he a meme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7yMZGA2lzg

HookedOnChthonics posted:

I mean, it's not like anyone's getting confused; the two connotations are... pretty discernible extremes

Bhodi posted:

I want to say it started in PYF?

Pierzak posted:

Explain?

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I stopped posting for a while and recently started reading the forums again, and somewhere in between oldpainless became a meme. Sorry, I mean "more like oldmemeless"

how/when/why

Subjunctive posted:

Thanks! I've always wondered why the soccer threads are immune to the rules against racism, but I will probably never understand.

Hemingway To Go! posted:

LordSaturn posted:

One of the people who bought the smiley said his wife had complained to him that he was wasting money on that "stupid internet club" again, leading to the gang tag.

Subjunctive posted:

Why does the system need downtime? A few seconds is a lot of computer time!

cock hero flux posted:

at some point some kind of little protomarsupial tried to go eat some delicious fruit and was bullied and, filled with the greatest possible case of sour grapes, decided it was going to instead only eat the poison-filled leaves of a tree that explodes sometimes

millions of years later their distant offspring now comfortably fills the ecological niche of being total fuckheads

Pentaro posted:

I'm sure it didn't originate there, but that chef was part of the clipart library in MS Office in the late 90's/early 2000's. Maybe he's still there!

Snowy posted:

loving racists

D. Ebdrup posted:

And I guarentee you that's only the absolute top of the iceberg, it goes deep.

syscall girl posted:

there is a ridiculous history of stealing goon made images and putting watermarks on them

Vavrek posted:

The Something Awful Propaganda thread is amazing, but I'm not widely steeped in Goon Lore, so some of the references go past me.

What's the story being referenced here?