# Street talk?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 21, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280 "2001-02-21T00:35:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![cykrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@cykrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cykrider)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280/1 "2001-02-21T00:35:40Z")

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\*\*All your base are belong to us. \*\*

What does this mean, and where did it come from? And just to make sure this is pointless…I like red silo cups more than the blue ones.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280/2 "2001-02-21T01:26:13Z")

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WAG – from doing a Google search, all I came up with was it comes from a scene in a video game called _Zero Wing_. Those who don’t have English as a first language found it hilarious, apparently. Some scene where the alien says to the starship captain “All your base are belong to us.” Yeah. A million laughs. :rolleyes:

And zillions of message boards are infected with the phrase. Including this one now. Someone call Disease Control quick!

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**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280/3 "2001-02-21T02:18:58Z")

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Zero Wing was a side-scrolling space-shooter for the Sega Genesis. The programmer in charge of translating the original Japanese for the American release had a very poor grasp of the English language… the resultant game-opening sequence has recently acquired a cult-like following.

[http://www.nulldevice.net/nuke/html/article.php?sid=89](http://www.nulldevice.net/nuke/html/article.php?sid=89)  
[http://www.nulldevice.net/images/AYB.swf](http://www.nulldevice.net/images/AYB.swf)

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-talk/55280/4 "2001-02-22T05:07:57Z")

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Thank you for explaining this.  
Really.