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

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Pick posted:

Why is it a box? What does its boxness communicate?

Speleothing posted:

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.

"Go left" became a catchphrase in Microwave's MS Paint game threads. The smiley is supposed to be reminiscent of his style.

# ¿ May 17, 2012 06:28

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m2pt5 posted:

Do these () actually get used?

There's a poker subforum, so I'd imagine so.

# ¿ May 17, 2012 18:42

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Nunez posted:

SAclopedia entry

# ¿ May 17, 2012 23:21

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Augster posted:

is the happiest smiley dude. Where'd it come from?

Another BYOB poster's avatar.

Edit: still is

# ¿ May 18, 2012 00:06

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ThatPazuzu posted:

I don't want and to go away.

Most of the smilies in that category have been there for years, so I wouldn't worry too much.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 03:16

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ToxicSlurpee posted:

I'm pretty sure those actually predate BYOB. has been around for quite some time and as well as its variation showed up on forums set up for goons that played EVE in various flavors before BYOB. is also really, really old.

and

are definitely BYOB smilies for Buddy and Shivadas, respectively.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 17:03

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Edit: found it

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# ¿ May 19, 2012 05:03

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Lance Streetman posted:

?

Pretty sure someone earlier said it was another BYOB vanity smilie.

# ¿ May 21, 2012 00:51

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OneEightHundred posted:

If you mouse over it in the smileys lookup, the tooltip says "FLIEZ"

No, it says :filez:, though there used to be a :fliez: as well.

# ¿ May 31, 2012 22:19

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KnifeWrench posted:

Their comment confused me at first, too. They mean the mouseover on this page.

I didn't realize the mouseovers there were different.

# ¿ May 31, 2012 23:22

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Trot_to_Trotsky posted:

I may be reaching, but isn't the snaggletooth bottom of : wink : a joke based on a single image of a model from some magazine in Australia that DPPH was obsessed with?

As I remember it, the picture featured a red haired woman, in a tight belly shirt, and a skirt, sitting in a car, blowing a huge bubble with some bubblegum, which obscured most of her face. Goons thought she was unbelievably hot and were desperate to find more images of her and hopefully one showing her face or some nudity.

Then, months or years later someone found a picture of her face, and it turned out she was a monster. Hence the ugly bottom half of .

This happened years ago, so my memory may be failing me. Regardless, it's a good story!

Katherine.jpg

# ¿ Jun 12, 2012 04:17

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QuickbreathFinisher posted:

I think this is what you meant.

Also, what's doing? It looks like it's drinking a bottle of vodka, which makes sense with the party hat, but what does YOTJ mean?

Might be Year of the Job from SH/SC. If so, I'm going to guess it's drinking Bawls.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2012 02:40

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Mike Tysons CARFAX posted:

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this but what does it mean when people do this in a post?

____________/

I can't think of/show any examples off the top of my head but I swear I've seen it more than once. Does it have something to do with this

The line of text above that is being said by whatever's in the image below it.

This is an example.
___________/

I prefer using non-breakable spaces instead of underscores.

Like this.
/

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# ¿ Jun 19, 2012 03:45

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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

# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 13:09

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fade5 posted:

What's the story behind this:

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.

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# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 19:43

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Benny the Snake posted:

Can somebody explain the signifigance behind the badge?

Game of Thrones-related. It's the name of another series the author is involved with. The badge was given out in threads from the years between the last two books.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2012 23:28

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The real pros have seen the rest of that photo set. And the gif.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2012 11:16

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Airconswitch posted:

What's the origin of that corgi one sees in YOSPOS all the drat time?

The MS Paint one? It is/was someone's avatar, but I don't remember whose. If I recall correctly, they were basically the YOSPOS whipping boy despite not being a particularly bad poster.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 01:44

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Met posted:

Cock sauce.

What's up with Christmas Argh?

Judging by the name, I'm assume it comes from the secret Santa thread. Presumably the :argh:

is about people failing to send gifts.

Edit: beaten on that one.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2012 16:32

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Not sure if you were kidding, but it's because he mostly (exclusively?) posted in the coupons/discounts forum, not his username.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 13:24

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bowser posted:

Why are the codes for and colbert and crossarms, respectively?

To gently caress with whoever was planning to buy them the other way around, basically.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2012 03:20

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Leavemywife posted:

Can someone tell me where came from?

I skimmed the SAclopedia entry on it, and it says it's an imaginary cult, and that the cowbell is gray, but I don't see any information on the smiley.

Am I just missing something in there?

It was a Habbo Hotel griefing thing goons did. Their avatars were all as drab and grey as possible. They'd block block doorways and corner people, then go on about how "the path is grey."

Edit: I see SAclopedia says as much, and there's not much more to it. Think of them as the Neutral Planet dudes on Futurama with some added cult flavor.

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# ¿ Sep 22, 2012 06:17

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Splizwarf posted:

Flags?

Don't know about that particular image, but here's the SAclopedia article on FYAD flags.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2012 16:30

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# ¿ Nov 16, 2025 15:41

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LateToTheParty posted:

So who is Hannah and why is bacon being thrown at her?

It's from an incredibly bad story written by someone Anoxia was tutoring. Here's a sample:

quote:

I picked up my phone. It woz Shanty.

"Im in outside ur houze."

At my windysill she was throwing bakon at me.

"REPENT BITCH REPENT."

"STOP THROWING BAKON AT ME."

My curtainses were closed and I hid in my room. The bakon was hoonting me.

LateToTheParty posted:

What is an axe maniac?

He's a mod for the games forum. Don't know why the smiley is what it is, but I assume it's a game reference.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2012 18:27

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