Marley23, whether through causation or correlation, was the main participant in an epic SDMB moment. Not much seems to have come from it other than a few hours of massive productivity, some nervous reflection of people’s posts (why was I banned?), and a blip of humour. Most everyone knows what I’m referring to now, but in a month or two? Want to refer to it in a year but can’t think of an apt descriptor? Well, we need a name. In fact, per** Marley23**:
I’m partial to Marloutage, with, thanks to** Capitaine Zombie**, a Frenchesque pronunciation: mar-low-TAGE (or however a silly French accent is affected).
But I’m of the low-humour and creativity ilk, and am sure Dopers can come up with something better. Anyone?
I don’t know why - you always want that vague threat hanging over everyone’s heads like the raised back hand and the menacing “I swear to god, I’ll…” look.
I mean, look, no one wanted Uncle Cranley to come to the family reunion and get drunk and slap the kids around when they got rowdy, but since he did - well, when we got out of line again all it took was one “We *can *call Uncle Cranley back over, ya know.” And there was peace.
Yeah, from now on, on the darkest corners of the internet, where trolls and spammers gather to prepare their nefarious deeds, the whisper will sometime be heard “that Marley23 is really hardcore, he once banned ALL the posters in the MB, just for looking at him funny”
