I love reading Slashdot at -1 but I honestly don’t know the source of the various jokes used in the low moderated posts.
Where does the…
It comes, I think, from Pinky and the Brain and the underpants gnomes. In fact, I make allusions to the UGs all the time in real life. No one ever gets it. I need to find a higher class of friend.
I just realized that the UGs may be a reference to some earlier joke, but this is the association I make.
The first is a South Park reference, from the episode with the Underpants Gnomes. It’s their rationale for stealing underpants:
Popular since it pretty much sums up the business plan of most of the failed dot-coms.
That’s right, Southpark. Not Pinky and the Brain. Excuse my brain fart there.
The Russia line comes from Yakov Smirnov, although I think it became popular lately because it was parodied on a somewhat recent (at least, more recent than Smirnov’s career) episode of the Simpsons.
The “Hi Opal” phenomenon is because of a poster on the board named “OpalCat.” Legend has it that she would have two items, and then add a third saying something like “I don’t like lists with only two items” or something to that effect. So traditionally, the “Hi Opal” is the third item in a list.
Actually, she had a rant about people who make numbered lists with only two items, so people started making lists with two items and Hi Opal! as number three. I’m pretty sure it’s a convention limited only to this board. At least, I hope it is…
I believe raisinbread was not asking about the origin of “Hi Opal!” but was in fact inserting it into his list as is the norm around here.
–Cliffy
Hey, you may not get the jokes Raisinbread but you’re one step ahead of me in knowing how that weird type of message board works. I’ve been reading /. for years and I still don’t know what’s up with thresholds and moderated posts and scores…etc.
Why does it only show a certain number of posts (“Read more…223 of 341 comments”)? Why do the same posts show up several times on the page? The world may never know…I HATE those types of messageboards.
I already knew that “Hi Opal” was meant to mess up when she was searching the site or something. I was just playing along because it fit so well into my example.
And [color=“black”]Cisco[/color] you see 223 of 341 comments because the “missing” 118 posts are brilliant with occasional links to a WORLD FAMOUS website where a certain gentleman opens himself up.[/color]
I would post a link but I got yelled at the last time I posted it here. I think I could rot-13 the url though.
Cisco -
It is pronounced “Goatsex” (no, I won’t give out the url either), and is a “gentleman” who is, uh, spreading his uh, well, he has a really big, uh…
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<twitch><shudder>
Must…get…visual…out…of…head!!!
OK, I’m still a little confused but I think I’ve seen the website you’re talking about. Are you saying that that gets posted dozens of times in every single thread? And then the moderators go through and delete them? Is that it?
Slashdot doesn’t delete posts. They just get modded down. I’ll obscure it with the following absurd sentence.
Going Over A Trellis Sam Eats Cats and Xylophones