02-17-2004, 01:23 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
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valentine's joke
Somebody sent me this poem he found on Slashdot:
Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF chown -R you ~/base And the translation: 'Roses are red Violets are blue All my base are belong to you.' And he said, "You still have to be a geek to understand the translation. Sorry." Can somebody explain why this is funny?
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02-17-2004, 01:30 PM | #2 (permalink) |
Thats MR. Muffin Face now
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Wow, very geeky.. First you have to understand the phenom. of "all your base" which I cant really explain in a short paragraph..
Im as geeky as they get and its not TOO funny. don't worry, you aren't missing much
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02-17-2004, 02:37 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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The easy part was the red and blue as #FF0000 and #0000FF, in case you missed that one.
And, the short answer of the "base" part was that a few years ago, a bunch of people became obsessed over an old, badly-translated Japanese videogame. The signature phrase from the introduction was "All your base are belong to us". I, for one, laughed pretty hard when I saw this poem. But, I'm a geek.
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02-17-2004, 02:41 PM | #5 (permalink) |
I'm a family man - I run a family business.
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The first two lines have hexidecimal codes for colors used in HTML in them.
The last line is using programming language to make fun of a videogame that had a HORRID translation. one of the lines was "all your base are belong to us." The leader of the bad guys was trying to say "All of your bases belong to us now" or the like. the "base" quote became popular because of its over-the-top crappy translation. can't explain it any better than that
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02-17-2004, 08:11 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
Americow, the Beautiful
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Wow! That IS funny! (I guess I'm an under-experienced geek.) Thanks for the explanations...
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02-17-2004, 10:57 PM | #8 (permalink) | |
In Your Dreams
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http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml |
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03-04-2004, 08:03 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
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03-04-2004, 11:50 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2004, 10:05 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Location: land of the merry
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We get signal! Main screen turn on.
What happen! Someone set up us the bomb! How are you gentleman. You have no chance to survive make your time. Take off every zig. You know what you doing. Move zig. For great justice. *sighs*If only the Academy could appreciate such humor. |
03-13-2004, 08:04 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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Location: RI
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chown is a Linux command to change the ownership of a file/folder ~/ is the persons home directory so ~/base is his base and the -R means everything in the folder base. The "you" part changes the file/folders owner to you.
Hope that is accurate and it helps. |
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