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Edited by GastonRabbit on May 29th 2023 at 9:30:10 AM
HGW XX/7
The amount of pure snark on a lot of the Useful Notes pages on Britain pages is terrific.
edited 30th Jan '13 3:07:11 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
We, as a nation, are very prone to snarking.
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3 microphones forever
From Trust Password:
- There was a website many years ago (it's long since dead) that was touted as a "time-traveler's support network." Meeting places and times in various cities were designated where a "volunteer" from the project would wait for someone to say a one-time use passphrase and render aid. The database of locations, times, and phrases was said to exist in a sealed document held by a law firm which would be turned over to any time-travel project in the future.
- It may be long since dead now, but if you're going back in time that shouldn't really be a problem.
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I encourage anyone to look up the Some Call Me "Tim" trope and skip to the Real Life folder.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
The Merry Monarch of Darkness
From Real Life, on revolutionary Marxism:
"...is limited to a few far-left fringe parties, mostly in ex-communist countries and on college campuses."
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Most entries in Voodoo Shark is pretty amusingly sarcastic, but this one made me laugh.
I mean, what?
edited 31st Jan '13 10:45:44 AM by dRoy
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Drop-Dead Cynical
The entirety of FunWithAcronyms.Real Life is a riot, but special mention goes to this one:
- Following a poll on their site to decide what to name the new ISS module ending up with the name 'Colbert' winning (through write-in votes, no less), NASA instead chose to name a new zero-g exercise machine for use on the ISS the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.
- NASA, like many American federal agencies, is practically made of this trope. For example, there's a flight control position known as SPARTAN. The "N" stands for "coNtrol."
- There's more than just SPARTAN. Witness:
- Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighting Systems Engineer, responsible for the shuttle's electrical systems.
- Flight Dynamics Officer, responsible for the flight path of the shuttle, pronounced FIDO.
- Mechanical, Maintenance, Arm, and Crew Systems, responsible for the shuttle's mechanical systems. (Sound it out.)
- The ISS gets in on the action, too:
- Onboard, Data, Interfaces and Networks, responsible for communications systems.
- Power, Heating, Articulation, Lighting Control Officer, responsible for the station's electrical systems.
- Thermal Operations and Resources, responsible for maintaining the station's heat radiators.
- During slow days, the last three are collected with some other stations under the monikers Atmosphere, Thermal, Lighting and Articulation Specialist, and Telemetry, Information Transfer, and Attitude Navigation.
- Witness the Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office, also known as See-Threepio...
edited 31st Jan '13 10:52:12 AM by JackAlsworth
The description of Gilneas' weather in World Of Warcraft:
Oh lord, the image on the page for one Mr. Cory Monteith is seriously... Adorkable and unexpected.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
From Badass Native real life section:
Even the Native Americans hated Nazis.
A great many Harry Potter fanfics have Harry ditch his glasses, replaced by contacts or repaired by magic, lasers, genetic engineering, surgery... pretty much anything. This usually coincides with the introduction of a Mary Sue and/or Harry's first steps to becoming a worse villain than Voldemort.
Two-bit blockhead
From the page for the best Star Wars film:
edited 4th Feb '13 12:51:24 AM by DrFurball
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
does the pitcher count on this topic? If so I would like to bring up Yaoi Fan Girl because in the picture the subtitles make it look like censored is the verb.
edited 4th Feb '13 10:48:19 AM by HeroShepherd
Reymmã
That picture is hard to interpret if you haven't seen the show. It's funny if you have, but I'm hoping someone can come up with a better way of showcasing the moment. It's outrage over someone getting the targets of her lust wrong.
From the real life folder of the Occult Detective page:
No. Really?
Just awesome like that
Our Chick Tracts page might possibly be our greatest triumph. The way that it actively treats its controversial subject with some degree of neutrality (if also including some hilarious descriptions as if it were an actual 'verse) is admirable...and then you see all the batfreak insanity of the examples, including...
- Artistic License – History: The Vatican caused the Holocaust and is the enemy of Israel.
- America DOESN'T support Israel!
- And Britain was one of the nations that "especially" hated the jews. And where did the land that is now Israel come from?
- Britain "double-crossed Israel" in some unspecified way, so God took away their empire and let Muslims take over their country.
- And Britain was one of the nations that "especially" hated the jews. And where did the land that is now Israel come from?
- The Irish just got up one day and decided to kill a bunch of Protestants for no reason. (They were rebelling against English settlers, who just happened to be Protestant. It supposedly had nothing to do with religion.)
- From the same tract: The Inquisition never ended until the 19th Century. It was targeted towards the Jews and Muslims. Martin Luther (who is described as having "saved our necks") was virulently antisemitic.
- America DOESN'T support Israel!
cannot into space
Just awesome like that
You kidding? They're the funniest things ever. Ever read his scathing and shocking criticism of Rock & Roll?
cannot into space
Eh.
I know I SHOULD find it funny, but I have been to churches that actually hand those out.
And that really, really depresses me.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Just awesome like that
Ah. I'm terribly sorry then.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
cannot into space
Oh no, not like that.
It doesn't bother me that much.
I don't mind.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Just awesome like that
Oh, no, I know what you mean.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
cannot into space
I wish I had a good "BROFIST" macro.
But I don't.
So pretend one is here.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Just awesome like that
BROFIST
FISTING YOUR BROTHER
...wait...
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
Ah, Yoshitaka Amano. The way to tell his men and women apart from each other is that the men usually wear darker lipstick. Oh, and the men are usually in more dynamic poses, instead of just lounging/floating around.