So my boss, after a few weeks of staring at and puzzling over my new liscence plates, trying to figure out the meaning by himself, finally comes up to me the other day and asks …
What’s a Euty?
And I have to explain the whole thing. But this it occurs to me. Y’know, this could become the next big internet catchphrase. And you, dear TMs would be in the know … on the bottom floor of the whole thing so to speak. It could be huge! Bigger than “All your base…” Bigger even than Mahir! We could have everyone on the net wondering what the hell that damn phrase means. Use it as a sig! ‘PS’ it on all your outgoing e-mail! Drop the phrase as a non-sequiter in chat rooms!
I’m going to use ‘Euty’ in kinda the same way the Smurfs used the word ‘smurf’.
A few examples…
[ul]
[li]Hey, that’s a real Euty dress you have! Where did you get it?[/li][li]You got a raise and a promotion!?! That’s so Euty!!![/li][li]Mmmm, Mom, you make the most Euty-rific pancakes ever![/li][li]Ah, Euty, I can’t believe they canceled my favorite show. Those Euty-humpin’ bastards.[/li][/ul]
One guess would be that a Euty is two-fifths of a Eutychus55. But that’s hopelessy anal, and it frankly sucks as an explanation.
Another guess, considering that you are a moderator, would be that it could be a unit of SDMB-misbehavior that could get a moderator’s attention in the wrong way. In short, it can be a standardized unit of Internet misbehavior.
Zero Eutys - totally inoffensive post
Five Eutys - enough to rate an Official Moderator Warning[sup]TM[/sup]
Ten Eutys - troll, sock puppet, or repeated instance of assholery; banning imminent
Fifty Eutys - anything by He Who Shall Not Be Named
I thought it was a nickname for a monetary unit which was perceived as being rare, so everybody hoarded them and you never see them in circulation any more, and now they actually are kinda valuable, but nobody’ll take them because they don’t recognize them. Sort of a Suzie for the 90’s.
*Ice Wolf : Is this where we talk commission per usage, Euty, or are you just ridin’ on our love and adoration, here? *
Just ridin’ the wave! Hell, there’s probably nothing in it for me as well, and I’m only about 3/4 serious about it. I was actually more curious that if I did start something like this how long it would take to get back around to me.
It’s not the answer that’s important, although I like some of the one’s that have come up so far. It’s getting people just to ask the question and repeat the catch phrase. Just think … when the next Ayn Rand comes along, instead of asking “Who is John Galt?” they’d be asking “What’s a Euty?”
