Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions

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.

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.

Check out http://amiallyourbaseornot.com/, it's something else.

If the link YHL gave doesn't work,
http://amiallyourbaseornot.com/ayb.swf

--
Robert

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