John Brown wrote: I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... I find it a bit offensive that you use terms like "wikipedia", "MEMES" etc etc... for your little descriptions or whatever in the land of cyberspace. I myself do not have special needs, nor am I an internet stud like Dave Hardy, but I feel sensitivity for people with special needs as I am especially needy, and my Girlfriend is pursuing her masters in the field. These terms although I'm preety sure are not even real words, are obviously meant to resemble the words used to describe people with webbed fingers and artificial testicles, and it appears that they are used on these boards in a joking sense which, as I view it, makes light of people who are internetually challenged. It just dosen't seem right to me, thats all. I know that it's not my message board, and that noone forces me to post here, but all the same, some things are wrong when they really don't need to be.
Applause. Well done, sir!
In reply to jrw1621: Ever since I joined the forum I've wondered what those words meant to the regulars. It was never clear in the text what they meant. I could guess at Berkeley but no idea on the others. I haven't had a good laugh in days and I needed one.
Can we find the "new phrase" that I think I may have just created?
internetually challenged?
What do I win? 
John Brown deserves a golf clap. That was brilliant. 
EvanB wrote: internetually challenged? What do I win?
A FREE POST!
HOORAY!
I thought JB would have taken offense to the following sentence on wiki:
Several thousand posts per user is not rare, and are often racked up in less than a year.
It sort of trivialize the (post whore) accomplishments of The Brown One by implying that in just 9 short years the average person could catch up to his post count.
Only IF I stopped posting... Increasing beyond my pace would be futile, as most people actually WORK when they are punched in.
Actually, aircooled, flounder IS based loosely on Animal House. When I introduced it, I was thinking about flounder in the sense of "fail", but I also had this dialogue running through my head:
"From now on... your name is flounder"
"Why Flounder?"
"WHY NOT?"
Plus the picture always seems appropriate.
And I'm also on the list of folks who've written bits of the wiki page, but nearly as entertainingly as Sarah.
So, bets on when Wikipedia removes the fun stuff from the entry and/or adds a whole bunch of these:
Oh, man, they REALLY don't want to do a "Citation needed" with this crowd, and 40,000 board topics to use as source material.
I love that most of the GRM staff is as geeky as most of the forum members.
You guys should check out the wiki history on Flowmaster Exhausts and get back with me. Wiki ended up blocking the IP of the call center after that incident. Potentially NSFW, BTW.
Tim Baxter wrote: Oh, man, they REALLY don't want to do a "Citation needed" with this crowd, and 40,000 board topics to use as source material.
Can you imagine each term having 20 external links to GRM for citation purposes? 
Derick Freese wrote: You guys should check out the wiki history on Flowmaster Exhausts and get back with me. Wiki ended up blocking the IP of the call center after that incident. Potentially NSFW, BTW.
That's kind of funny (and yes, NSFW)
Tom Suddard wrote: She's my cousin and Margie's niece.http://www.jklakshmi.com/order_online.asp?product=cement
*hot-linked, of course
I had no Idea Flowmaster was HQed in West Sac.
Derick Freese wrote: I love that most of the GRM staff is as geeky as most of the forum members. You guys should check out the wiki history on Flowmaster Exhausts and get back with me. Wiki ended up blocking the IP of the call center after that incident. Potentially NSFW, BTW.
All I really saw was you being a 13 year old!
Graefin10 wrote: In reply to jrw1621: Ever since I joined the forum I've wondered what those words meant to the regulars. It was never clear in the text what they meant. I could guess at Berkeley but no idea on the others. I haven't had a good laugh in days and I needed one.
Yeah, if you actually write the "bad" word, the filters automatically drop in the substitutes. I've seen it done on a lot of forums, but never as humorously as it's done here. IIRC, the patio jokes stem from when Margie was having a new one built, and threatened one of us miscreants with burial there (a la Jimmy Hoffa at Giants Stadium) if we didn't behave. Don't know how we got started using "canoe" for a spam post, tho..I just saw everyone else doing it and chimed in.
canoe on spam supposedly came from Family Guy. There is a scene (linked below) where Peter and Lois are about to engage in some activity of the...S&M variety. The safety word was Canoe.
friedgreencorrado wrote: Don't know how we got started using "canoe" for a spam post, tho..I just saw everyone else doing it and chimed in.
I've heard tell that back in the olden days, when we didn't have '!' buttons, the webmaster instructed users to use the word - which normally would not appear on this site - when they saw spam. The webmaster would then find all the spam by searching for the word....
In reply to Osterkraut:
I didn't write it, the guy that sat next to me did. He was the consistent winner of "meow" and "the repeater".
JoeyM wrote:friedgreencorrado wrote: Don't know how we got started using "canoe" for a spam post, tho..I just saw everyone else doing it and chimed in.I've heard tell that back in the olden days, when we didn't have '!' buttons, the webmaster instructed users to use the word - which normally would not appear on this site - when they saw spam. The webmaster would then find all the spam by searching for the word....
Well, also becuase at the time, Per was the webmaster and the board survived an assault of russian spammers offering nekkik Brittney Pix and wang pills. So Canoe provided an odd word that he could search every morning and delete the threads.
Per was also the originator of the "Dork" ranking. I believe he refered to us as "Dorktards" after some stunt or other we pulled. It may have the yard sale AT-AT he passed on his way to work, and while he debating going back for it, JG beat him to, he found out when he saw it later on JGs desk or some such. I think we laid into him pretty bad about that.
Our ranking system was intitially based on a level or "Tard." Then the first offering of "The PC Phrase" was made in all seriousness;
I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... I find it a bit offensive that you use terms like "Tard", "Dorktard, Powertard" etc etc... for your little descriptions or whatever in the land of cyberspace. I myself do not have special needs, nor am I am I mentally challenged, but I feel sensitivity for people with special needs as I am especially needy, and my Girlfriend is pursuing her masters in the field.... These terms although I'm pretty sure are not even real words, are obviously meant to resemble the words used to describe who are mentally challenged, and it appears that they are used on these boards in a joking sense which, as I view it, makes light of people who are internetually challenged. It just dosen't seem right to me, thats all. I know that it's not my message board, and that no one forces me to post here, but all the same, some things are wrong when they really don't need to be.
Thats pretty close to how it went. Per wisely changed it to a "Dork" ranking system, but the irreverant pack of clown we are, took that phrase and abused it like Hongers do a case of Natty Light.
Right about that time they also decided the board was a bit blue in the launage department. Tim had just bought a Berkley which became three Berkley's within a week (Some believe this was the origins of the Patio contruction threat. The intial quote was from Queen Dork herself and mentioned you bury peaple upright under patio pilings so they can't be found)
(This pic was taken shorty after she dispatched The Boss Honger, but before it "caught" fire)
Hence, Berkley became the word for, well Berkley
The other raging debate centered around the GRM crew recently ditching the E30 M3 project for an E36 M3 project. There was some debate that the mag was getting to "uppity," as E36s were still kinda pricey at the time (for this pack of sandwichpockets anyway). So E36 became synonomus with Poo.
Somewhere there was Mother's Father's Chinese Dentist for the vulgar verson of folks who copulate with MILF's and I think Shiney Happy Peaple was Per being punch drunk after rebuilding this board for the 80th time prior to the appiontment of the current Website Overlord.
Bob Costas showed up after Queen Dork mentioned she simply hated him sometime in 08. We agreed, and that year Guido the Clown got an autographed picture of him at the Challenge.
At least thats how I remember it.
Mental wrote:JoeyM wrote:Well, also becuase at the time, Per was the webmaster and the board survived an assault of russian spammers offering nekkik Brittney Pix and wang pills. So Canoe provided an odd word that he could search every morning and delete the threads. Per was also the originator of the "Dork" ranking. I believe he refered to us as "Dorktards" after some stunt or other we pulled. It may have the yard sale AT-AT he passed on his way to work, and while he debating going back for it, JG beat him to, he found out when he saw it later on JGs desk or some such. I think we laid into him pretty bad about that. Our ranking system was intitially based on a level or "Tard." Then the first offering of "The PC Phrase" was made in all seriousness;friedgreencorrado wrote: Don't know how we got started using "canoe" for a spam post, tho..I just saw everyone else doing it and chimed in.I've heard tell that back in the olden days, when we didn't have '!' buttons, the webmaster instructed users to use the word - which normally would not appear on this site - when they saw spam. The webmaster would then find all the spam by searching for the word....I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... I find it a bit offensive that you use terms like "Tard", "Dorktard, Powertard" etc etc... for your little descriptions or whatever in the land of cyberspace. I myself do not have special needs, nor am I am I mentally challenged, but I feel sensitivity for people with special needs as I am especially needy, and my Girlfriend is pursuing her masters in the field.... These terms although I'm pretty sure are not even real words, are obviously meant to resemble the words used to describe who are mentally challenged, and it appears that they are used on these boards in a joking sense which, as I view it, makes light of people who are internetually challenged. It just dosen't seem right to me, thats all. I know that it's not my message board, and that no one forces me to post here, but all the same, some things are wrong when they really don't need to be. Thats pretty close to how it went. Per wisely changed it to a "Dork" ranking system, but the irreverant pack of clown we are, took that phrase and abused it like Hongers do a case of Natty Light. Right about that time they also decided the board was a bit blue in the launage department. Tim had just bought a Berkley which became three Berkley's within a week (Some believe this was the origins of the Patio contruction threat. The intial quote was from Queen Dork herself and mentioned you bury peaple upright under patio pilings so they can't be found)(This pic was taken shorty after she dispatched The Boss Honger, but before it "caught" fire) Hence, Berkley became the word for, well Berkley The other raging debate centered around the GRM crew recently ditching the E30 M3 project for an E36 M3 project. There was some debate that the mag was getting to "uppity," as E36s were still kinda pricey at the time (for this pack of sandwichpockets anyway). So E36 became synonomus with Poo. Somewhere there was Mother's Father's Chinese Dentist for the vulgar verson of folks who copulate with MILF's and I think Shiney Happy Peaple was Per being punch drunk after rebuilding this board for the 80th time prior to the appiontment of the current Website Overlord. Bob Costas showed up after Queen Dork mentioned she simply hated him sometime in 08. We agreed, and that year Guido the Clown got an autographed picture of him at the Challenge. At least thats how I remember it.
The AT-AT was absolutely Per sniping me. Well, not so much sniping, but I came back from lunch having seen this thing at a yard sale down the street from our old office. I'm sitting there fuming over why I didn't just stop and buy it, and just as I leap up from my chair to rush back to claim my treasure, Per walks in with it in his hand, proudly claiming "Hey, look what I found at a yard sale down the street!"
"Mother Father Chinese Dentist" has it's origins with the greatest sketch show of all time.
And "Canoe" was just us misremembering the Family Guy quote. Someone said "Canoe" and that instantly became the way we all remember the scene going. To the point where the next time I saw that episode I thought Fox had messed something up.
jg
Nice synopsis, Mental. Pretty much the way I remember it. I voted you up.
a euphemism for the foul language, automatically replaced in discussion board postings,
All this time I've been typing "E36 M3" and didn't need to?!
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