BIG MOUSE poll

[Lee Johnson]

OK. Chet claims that the classic 1999 "BIG MOUSE" post can't really be described as famous, even among the Qt3 crowd. Is he right? Answer above! Operators are standing by to take your vote!

If your vote is 'no', you may proceed directly from the voting booth to the BIG MOUSE exhibit (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3037241068d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Pine.GSO.4.10.9909241548040.9653-100000%40icarus.cc.uic.edu) in the Google Museum. (some profanity; parents strongly cautioned) :D

[Sharpe]

Lee:

That google archive is flawed! It leaves out the *best* part of the original post. After Sokwoo says "Fuck You!" to the entire newsgroup, he concludes his message by saying "Thank You". That's crucial to the overall message of the Prophet Sokwoo Lee.

Thank You,

Daniel Ban (aka Sharpe)

[Chris Nahr]

Google is true and right, do not listen to heathen forgery! There was NO "Thank you" at the end of the original scripture by the Great Usenet Prophet Sokwoo Lee. Apostates have invented this travesty to turn believers away from their path to enlightenment!

[Xaroc]

Looks like this quote wasn't quite so well known. Only 50% so far have heard of it. I know I hadn't. I think to be famous it would have to be known by practically everyone like the all your base thing.

-- Xaroc

[mlatin]

too bad the options are limited for voting. AFTER reading it, i still don't give a damn about it.

[Supertanker]

Jebus, 14 no and 12 yes so far? You people call yourselves Internet Denizens? There were a few that said they never heard of Derek Smart in another thread! It seems a great tragedy is occuring under our noses -we are raising a generation that is only hip to cultural phenomena they see on TV. I demand that Usenet be taught in the schools!

Remedial homework for all you "no" voters:

Problem 1: Photoshop a picture in the AYBABTU tradition. See http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml

Problem 2: What kinds of robots shove and push, respectively? Hint: view The Terrible Secret of Space: http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/3.0/web/webtsos.html
http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_protected

Problem 3: On what Usenet group will you usually find Old Salt?

[mlatin]

Jebus, 14 no and 12 yes so far? You people call yourselves Internet Denizens? There were a few that said they never heard of Derek Smart in another thread! It seems a great tragedy is occuring under our noses -we are raising a generation that is only hip to cultural phenomena they see on TV. I demand that Usenet be taught in the schools!

Remedial homework for all you "no" voters:

Problem 1: Photoshop a picture in the AYBABTU tradition. See http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml

Problem 2: What kinds of robots shove and push, respectively? Hint: view The Terrible Secret of Space: http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/3.0/web/webtsos.html
http://www.kilna.com/music/terrible_protected

Problem 3: On what Usenet group will you usually find Old Salt?

no, i don't call myself an internet denizen.

1) i don't give a rats ass about photoshopping stupid shit to say AYBABTU!!
2) robots are stupid
3) i don't give a shit

all settled? :twisted:

maybe i'm a minority, but i have better things to do with my time than to troll newsgroups (yawn), MOST message boards/forums (qt3 the exception), download the latest "funny" .exe or shockwave stupid shit (see also: push/shove robots), or anything related to lowtax. which seems to be all of the above. :evil:

[Dave Long]

Google is true and right, do not listen to heathen forgery! There was NO "Thank you" at the end of the original scripture by the Great Usenet Prophet Sokwoo Lee. Apostates have invented this travesty to turn believers away from their path to enlightenment!

Aye Christoph. These words ringeth true! Only those who know the true path of Sokwoo are privy to such truths.

Tom Chick, you owe me DM 90...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=tqn7jssiqb7u70j2tpj2rmkvpjfs9i9pug%404ax.com

Lee and I still paraphrase you when the other recommends a stinker. :)

--Dave

[Lunch of Kong]

There are some events that are so great, one cannot help but remember what one was doing at the time.

Princess Diana's death: I was playing Warbirds.

9/11: I was dreaming that my old Turkish apartment building was collapsing and we were trying to get out.

Big mouth post: I was laughing my guts out for what seemed like half an hour.

[John Many Jars]

Your attention, please.

Today is the 10th anniversary of the famous post by Sokwoo Lee (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic/msg/a5c2cf66221eab17?q=g:thl3037241068d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) in the newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic.

That is all.

[quatoria]

Ten years. I wonder where Sokwoo is today, and who he's screaming at now.

[Dave Perkins]

This tiny thread is #2 in google today, which makes me think that few people care. But those f_cking few people are BIG MOUSE.

[extarbags]

Can't say I really get this.

[Tortilla]

What's there to get? One guy had an epic meltdown. It was funny. People with real old school usenet cred still talk about it and, in unrelated news, would like you to get off their lawn.

[datter]

If you google "Sokwoo Lee" this thread comes up second.

[Jakub]

Which shows what a limited effect he had.

[azzl]

Really, Jakub? So in your view we are still all fucking big mouse? I think his impact was larger than you think.

[Acid]

I wish the ReverendDoctorPoopyPants was here to chime in.

[Munky]

I never had sexual relations with that big mouse *wags finger*

[Rywill]

Biggest letdown ever. If this is the funniest thing you can come up with in ten years of internet, we should just shut the whole thing down. The fact that mlatin edited his post seven years after originally making it is like twenty times as funny as the underlying subject.

[Bad Neighbor]

You're right, that shit is pretty damn funny.

[Funkula]

And like six months before the thread got bumped. Very odd.

[Creole Ned]

I just realized I voted on a 7-year old poll.

Proof that democracy endures! Or something.

[Hanacker]

And like six months before the thread got bumped. Very odd.

He edited two posts simultaneously. It seems more like a weird glitch than something intentional.

[Lloyd Heilbrunn]

I just realized I voted on a 7-year old poll.

Proof that democracy endures! Or something.


Me too

[Ben Sones]

Biggest letdown ever. If this is the funniest thing you can come up with in ten years of internet, we should just shut the whole thing down.

Well, you know the old saying: "NOBody scares shit to avoid, but they avoid because its f_cking dirty."

Amen, Sokwoo Lee. Amen.

Pre-seven-year edit: Also, even funnier than that is the fact that despite his apparent disappointment, Ry originally voted "no" in this poll.

[Aszurom]

fuck you big mouse

Respectfully,

Krise Madsen

[Rimbo]

What's there to get? One guy had an epic meltdown. It was funny. People with real old school usenet cred still talk about it and, in unrelated news, would like you to get off their lawn.

"Old school USENET cred"... is 1999?

Where does Kibo rank in this reckoning, then?

Geez. 1999. You were probably using the internet with a modem whose speed was measured in bps rather than baud then, son. You probably don't even know what that means. You can "Goggle" it or whatever the kids call it nowadays.

You are making me feel real fuckin' old now.

<-- wonders, since the days of BBSes, how many posts he's written, total.

Oh, and by the way, the first time I ever went "online" was with a phone coupling modem capable of 110 baud and 300 baud. With a rotary-dial phone.

Young fuckers. Get the fuck off of my lawn.

[marxeil]

I also voted no. I suppose that if we keep this thread alive the yes / no ratio will tilt heavily towards no.

[Nellie]

Another No, even thinking back to 1999 I don't recall it at all.

[Omniscia]

Yeah. I don't remember it, either, and in 1999 I basically lived on IRC and (to a lesser extent, but still quite a bit) Usenet. Something like that should have filtered through.

[red guy]

I voted Yes, before seeing how old it is.

I know it only from references on QT3, the most awesome (or, dare I say, legen-

wait for it!

dary) of them being:
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?p=1308119#post1308119

[Timemaster Tim]

My goodness. I read comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic back in the day. I also remember that post. I guess that makes me some sort of old fogey. I was also there when Battlecruiser 3000 AD was released and ignited one of the longest running flamewars of Usenet.

[Tortilla]

"Old school USENET cred"... is 1999?


I hate to break this to you gramps but at this point anyone who has used usenet for any purpose aside from downloading binaries has old school usenet cred ;-)

[John Many Jars]

Look, fuck the poll. The point is, BIG FUCKING MOUSE. And it's even more true today.

[Rimbo]

I hate to break this to you gramps but at this point anyone who has used usenet for any purpose aside from downloading binaries has old school usenet cred ;-)

there is "old school," which is USENET, and there is "old school USENET," which is "I am James Parry."

lawn. off. now.

[Jakub]

Nono, there's usenet, and then there's AOL opens the floodgates.

[Rimbo]

Nono, there's usenet, and then there's AOL opens the floodgates.

The September That Never Ended. Ahhh, I remember it well.

edit; egads, I just made a "me too" post.

[Ben Sones]

If you say "usenet" to kids today, they just say "You mean, like, Google Groups?" And then I beat them to death with my cane.

[Rimbo]

"What is it?"

"It's your father's shell prompt. This is the tool of a Guru. Not as clumsy or random as a GUI; an elegant interface for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Gurus were the guardians of peace and justice in USENET. Before the dark times... before the Web."

"How did USENET die?"

"A young program named AOL, who was a pupil of mine until it turned to evil, helped the lamers hunt down and destroy the command line. It betrayed and murdered USENET. Now the Gurus are all but extinct. AOL was seduced by the dark side of the internet. "