I don’t know if this has been asked before, but what’s with the inordinately high number of references to ‘1920s Style Death-Ray’ around these parts. Here I am, a paying member and all and no one has let me in on this particular bit of secretive Dope-speak. Please, for the love of all that is young and beautiful, tell me what it means before I get zapped by one of those rays.
And while you are at it, also kindly dispel my ignorance on the meaning of YMMV.
Confounded acronyms. And cryptic references. They should all be banned I tell you. Unless I know what they are about.
This question comes up from time to time, and should probably be in the FAQ (if it isn’t). Here is a link to the original thread. A poster made a wisecrack about 1920’s style death rays and inadvertantly triple-posted. From there the rest of the thread devolved into a train wreck and the phrase became part of SDMB folklore.
I was deep-sea fishing, and accidentally dropped it into the “Challenger Deep” of the Marianas trench, the deepest trench in the world. Strangely, I only stopped to fish that spot for twenty minutes. :mad:
Damn, I remember that scalar weapons thread…and now I remember reading the whole death ray thing on it for the first time. But I thought it already was an ‘in joke’ by that time. Oh well, learn something new everyday.
Now I have the laborious and unenviable task of going through all the other SDMB ‘in’ stuff you guys posted. Why, oh why do you do things like that :mad: .If my head explodes from it, all y’all are going to hell.
What a bunch of nerds.
The real danger is if you are looking in someone’s casket, they could zap you with a 1920’s death ray and it would look like their corpse was saying "Gotcha ya!
The Rio by Duran Duran joke is from a thread requesting help naming an 80’s song. Within the span of something like 3 minutes there were a bunch of responses with the same answer of Rio by Duran Duran.
The joke about goggles doing nothing is a Simpsons reference. Rainer Wolfcastle is in the Radioactive Man movie, and supposed to be wearing protective glasses. When a vat of acid is dumped in a scene, it is revealed that the goggles Wolfcastle is wearing, in fact, do nothing.