# The Flavor of Love: what the fuck did I just see?!!11one1! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654 "2006-08-07T05:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/21 "2006-08-07T23:55:43Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > beamed down a shatner You’re a God. Or something equally awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/22 "2006-08-08T02:21:41Z")
I don’t know how it goes for contestants on Flava Flav’s sad little enterprise, but my wife, who follows the Runway reality show competition for would-be fashion designers, tells me that many of the contestants – perhaps all of them – get a serious boost to their careers as a result of being on Runway. Even those who get booted out early have been shown in followups to have found some very nice design gigs. Of course, Runway is several notches above Flava Flav, since it deals with people who are actually capable of doing difficult things well, and focusses on how they do it as well as what kind of people they are. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/23 "2006-08-08T03:19:47Z")
> [@pesch](#): > > Cluricaun, just wanted to let you know that reading > > > [@Cluricaun](#): > > > > “The crazy dude who beamed down a shatner on Flavor Flav’s stairs” > > is bringing tears to my eyes. Same here–I’m having to choke my hysterical giggles back to keep from waking the kids up! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/24 "2006-08-08T04:04:00Z")
According to her video interview on the VH1 website, her stomach had been rumbly all day, but nothing serious. Then, they rounded them up for the Elimination (Hee!) Ceremony and started taping. But Flav took over an hour to come down the stairs, and everybody had to stay put while waiting for him. She said, she felt like she would be able to hold it until the end of the ceremony. And from what I could tell, she did make it to the end, but headed up the stairs before they stopped taping. And incase you missed the show, they didn’t show anything on the foor. And according to her it was just liquid, no shatners, deuces, or turds. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/25 "2006-08-08T04:21:47Z")
I thought the shit was supposed to hit the fan. I guess her aim was off. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/26 "2006-08-08T05:40:55Z")
This is analgous to the “NASCAR Corrolary”: > [@](#): > > People mainly watch NASCAR in anticipation of a crash or wreck. Reality programming has an appeal, similar to that of rubbernecking at a crime scene or traffic accident (or public suicide): _people want to see the wreckage_. It’s also a matter of quasi-schadenfreude: people want to see people more fucked-up than they are: people want to see the human equivalent of fatal car wrecks. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/27 "2006-08-08T12:59:58Z")
> [@Batsinma Belfry](#): > > And incase you missed the show, they didn’t show anything on the foor. And according to her it was just liquid, no shatners, deuces, or turds. If was your stairs that this happened on, would composition make any real differance to you, or would you freely admit “She pooped on my stairs”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/28 "2006-08-08T17:27:15Z")
No, it’s just as bad. I just didn’t want anybody to think they missed out on seeing a big steamy turd, lying on the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/29 "2006-08-08T17:58:16Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > I’m SO glad someone else started this thread so I didn’t have to and in the process admit that I actually watch this show. And enjoy it for its sheer trashiness. 😃 Which is what I’m doing anyway by posting now…err, nevermind. > > Well, now that reality tv has lowered the bar by showing someone _shitting on the floor_ on-camera, I can’t imagine where the bar rests now. Somewhere between contestants being armed and allowed to shoot each other and an execution performed live on tv, I suppose. Actually, either of those things would _raise_ the bar, since they be doing us a service by cleaning up the gene pool. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/30 "2006-08-08T18:21:35Z")
> [@Blanche](#): > > That “!!!111one1” stuff is getting very very old. It got old a long time ago. I’ve been googling “11one1” and searching Urban Dictionary for it but can’t find it. What does it mean? Everyone? It strikes me as very middle schoolish. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/31 "2006-08-08T18:33:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve been googling “11one1” and searching Urban Dictionary for it but can’t find it. > > What does it mean? Everyone? > > It strikes me as very middle schoolish. Come on, it’s a pretty straightforward gag. It’s not “11one1”, it’s “!!!1111one” . Now figure it out. Now what’s middle school is the old “I don’t get it, but I’ll make a really bad guess at it and then disparage it based on my explanation” trick. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/32 "2006-08-08T18:35:39Z")
It’s just what it seems. Some excitable people use a lot of exclamation points while posting on teh interweb. And if you fail to hold down the shift key completely while entering those !'s, some of them will turn to 1’s. So some interweb wits mock this by purposefully entering “one” amidst a string of !'s and 1’s. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/33 "2006-08-08T20:24:22Z")
> [@Batsinma Belfry](#): > > No, it’s just as bad. I just didn’t want anybody to think they missed out on seeing a big steamy turd, lying on the stairs. Now I’m disturbed thinking that there might be people somewhere who do feel as though they’ve missed out. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/34 "2006-08-08T20:41:15Z")
> [@Batsinma Belfry](#): > > No, it’s just as bad. I just didn’t want anybody to think they missed out on seeing a big steamy turd, lying on the stairs. Well I know I wouldn’t want too miss that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/35 "2006-08-08T21:23:01Z")
Geez, and I thought the catfight at the end of the first season was too good to be topped. Season 2 had a worse catfight in the first episode, and now this apparently. My dad once saw Flavor Flav and Bridgitte Neilsen (I’m sure I’ve spelled that incorrectly) on television and assumed that she was attending a benefit for the homeless. I had to explain that Flavor Flav is not in fact a homeless man, he’s a famous rapper with a mansion and his own TV show. I think he still doesn’t believe me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/36 "2006-08-08T21:40:24Z")
[rambling] Flava FLAV! I’m not even sure the show is comparable to any other competitive reality series (let alone _American Idol_). The retarded nicknames, the ever-increasing clock sizes. It’s like they took every _Blind Date_ contestant that was deemed a liability and let 'em at each other. This second season [cat fight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkp_Hr5rN4) over a bed says it all. As for 15 minutes of fame, while I may never forget New York, that’s because I’d cross the street if I saw her coming. And last season one of the girls’ mothers revealed that her daughter had been on several other reality shows (which got her booted). [/rambling] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/37 "2006-08-08T23:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Come on, it’s a pretty straightforward gag. It’s not “11one1”, it’s “!!!1111one” . Now figure it out. > > Now what’s middle school is the old “I don’t get it, but I’ll make a really bad guess at it and then disparage it based on my explanation” trick. Actually, this was completely obscure to me, until I read **Lemur866** ’s explanation. To me, it’s not “straightforward” or “just what it seems”. And I don’t think I’m more than normally dense. I suspect it’s the kind of thing that;s obvious if you already know it. But I’ve never seen any sort of post where somebody used a huge run of exclamation points, but didn’t hold the shift key down the whole time. I’ve certainly not seen anyone extend the error into a joke by spelling out “one”. If you haven’t seen that, you won’t get the joke. No disparaging trick needed. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/38 "2006-08-08T23:13:26Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > As for 15 minutes of fame, while I may never forget New York, that’s because I’d cross the street if I saw her coming. And last season one of the girls’ mothers revealed that her daughter had been on several other reality shows (which got her booted) Is it just me, or do most of these girls look like cast offs from the moonlight bunny ranch? ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/39 "2006-08-09T00:37:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I suspect it’s the kind of thing that;s obvious if you already know it. But I’ve never seen any sort of post where somebody used a huge run of exclamation points, but didn’t hold the shift key down the whole time. I’ve certainly not seen anyone extend the error into a joke by spelling out “one”. If you haven’t seen that, you won’t get the joke. If I hadn’t seen the joke before, I wouldn’t get the joke? FTR, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309154) is where I first saw the gag; in a post where someone was asking for an explanation of it. Even from the title it was pretty obvious, since I was familiar with the concept of typos and common internet usage of superfluous exclamation points. Notice that deeper in the thread, even after it’s been explained, the OP still doesn’t get it. I guess it’s just dependent on the sense of humor you have, because I thought it was pretty clever the first time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654/40 "2006-08-09T01:52:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve been googling “11one1” and searching Urban Dictionary for it but can’t find it. > > What does it mean? Everyone? > > It strikes me as very middle schoolish. You guessed right. I’m pretty sure the “111one1” joke dates back to app. 1999 on [somethingawful.com](http://somethingawful.com). There was a character called “Jeff K” that was a parody of the idiot 12-15 year olds that frequented computer and gaming-related forums and chat rooms. The humor was that he usually came across as mildly retarded and wrote in almost unreadable AOL-speak, but occasionally he’d say something clever. The character was very excitable and frequently ended sentences with strings of exclamation marks interspersed with 1s. Jeff K articles were funny and very popular, but they also appealed to a rather dumb crowd that wasn’t any smarter than the kids being parodied (kinda like the Beavis and Butthead fans who are missing a layer of irony but still dig the show). Jeff K was HEAVILY imitated until all his old fans were sick of that style of humor, and I think it was eventually a bannable offense to imitate Jeff K on the [somethingawful.com](http://somethingawful.com) forums. This was all about 5-6 years ago and you fortunately don’t see much of it anymore, but occasionally you’ll get people intentiionally spelling “like” as “liek”, referring to their friend Jerry and the railgun they are building in the creek, or doing the “!!!@!!!111one1!!” thing, and it dredges up painful memories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flavor-of-love-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-see-11one1/367654.md?page=3)