All your base (was Re: New Member With Questions)

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:33:18PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > > I am a giver-uperrer.
> > >
> > > Indeed.  And interestingly, pronouns are more restricted.  Like, "I gave
> > > it up", but not *"I gave up it"
> >
> > Unless, of course, someone set you up the bomb.
> >
> > (If this is obscure, see http://www.brogdon.org/ayb.swf or, if that
> > fails, look for "Japanese video game parody" or somesuch on
> > http://www.engrish.com).
>
> Yes! YES! Yes, yes yes! Thank you! I've been a major proponent of All
> Your Base Are Belong to Us for a long time now.
It's amazing that this in-joke has been around for a few years now, but only
just started exploding into pop culture a month or so ago.

> A pet peeve of mine, though, it's "Someone set up us the bomb", not
> "Someone set us up the bomb." Or maybe I'm just excessively pedantic.
And obviously in context, that's what Yoon Ha *meant* to type. Oh well. I
just wish I had had the chance to type it sooner. As soon as I saw '*"I gave
up it"' I knew I had to type it, but it was too late. Oh, bother.

> Check out http://amiallyourbaseornot.com/, it's something else.
I'm not too crazy about this site. I like to see the pictures, but I don't
want to have to rate them. And sometimes it shows the same picture more than
once, so how is it fair to rate it multiple times? Also, sometimes the
picture doesn't come up at all. How do I rate that?

Anyway, for something at least SLIGHTLY conlang-relevant:
Tô sôs base son pertanesce a nois. (Lainesco)

--
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo

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