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On the Origin of :Awesome:
2008-05-12, 1:06 AM #1
http://driph.com/words/2008/04/origin-of-awesome/
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2008-05-12, 1:19 AM #2
Interesting... in a very uninteresting way
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2008-05-12, 2:57 AM #3
Quote:
schild: some guy on something awful made it
schild: some guy on 4chan made it BIGGER


This describes the origins of almost all internet memes.
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2008-05-12, 5:04 AM #4
That's funny something like :awesome: caught on like wildfire when people are actually paid to "make" new smilies.

Still I don't understand what the hell :smith: is, must be a SA thing too.

Funny, I JUST realized :downs: and :) are actually different on Massassi due to the very small distances of the eyes.
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2008-05-12, 5:27 AM #5
On the subject of smilies... can anyone remember the origin of .( and the others?
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2008-05-12, 5:42 AM #6
I believe .( is of Massassian origin, hoping the one-eyed wonder would "catch on." Something like that, ultimately it didn't.
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2008-05-12, 5:51 AM #7
:psyduck:
2008-05-12, 5:55 AM #8
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
I believe .( is of Massassian origin, hoping the one-eyed wonder would "catch on." Something like that, ultimately it didn't.


Cool Matty tried to start that. .(
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2008-05-12, 9:44 AM #9
What about :v:? It's awesome.

[EDIT: Oh wait. Pacman. Hurr. :downswords:]
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2008-05-12, 9:47 AM #10
I guess it could also be the South Park canadian laughing smilie.

OOOH TERRANCE I FARTED! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA :v:
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2008-05-12, 10:41 AM #11
[http://i25.tinypic.com/nlym2u.gif]
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2008-05-12, 10:45 AM #12
[http://i25.tinypic.com/2nlw7k.jpg]
:master::master::master:
2008-05-12, 10:47 AM #13
CM started the .(

I think gbk had something to do with it.
2008-05-12, 12:15 PM #14
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Still I don't understand what the hell :smith: is, must be a SA thing too.


Yep, there was a series of MSpaint drawings about the life of Smith, and that's what he looked like. It's goldmined: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1548543

Also, my friend has what I've deemed an awesomefrog to hold brillo pads by the sink:

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/Pictures/awesomefrog.jpg]
Stuff
2008-05-12, 12:25 PM #15
Originally posted by kyle90:
Yep, there was a series of MSpaint drawings about the life of Smith, and that's what he looked like. It's goldmined: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1548543

Also, my friend has what I've deemed an awesomefrog to hold brillo pads by the sink:

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/Pictures/awesomefrog.jpg]

I -almost- replied with "That is ****ing awesome" without realizing the pun.

:awesome:
2008-05-12, 2:50 PM #16
Originally posted by kyle90:
Yep, there was a series of MSpaint drawings about the life of Smith, and that's what he looked like. It's goldmined: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1548543


i always thought it was from this commercial, haha

gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-05-12, 3:10 PM #17
Originally posted by Emon:
http://driph.com/words/2008/04/origin-of-awesome/


I was actually wondering about this. Thanks!
I'm just a little boy.
2008-05-12, 3:28 PM #18
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Funny, I JUST realized :downs: and :) are actually different on Massassi due to the very small distances of the eyes.


:downs:
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2008-05-12, 3:30 PM #19
The new SA :awesome: is crap.
2008-05-12, 4:09 PM #20
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Attachment: 19284/Awesome cat.jpg (50,209 bytes)
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2008-05-12, 4:11 PM #21
THAT needs to made a smiley.
2008-05-12, 4:38 PM #22
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Funny, I JUST realized :downs: and :) are actually different on Massassi due to the very small distances of the eyes.


That's why you're :downs:, the rest of us are :awesome: and everything you say makes us :suicide: and :mad:.

:colbert:
:master::master::master:
2008-05-12, 4:41 PM #23
Personally, I like ECHOMAN despite his all-caps name.
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2008-05-12, 4:56 PM #24
The one-eyed smilies will take over, someday... [http://etc.sorrowind.net/smilies/psyoneeye.gif]
2008-05-12, 5:28 PM #25
I suggest you delete all smilies and replace them with one-eyes varients.
It's the only way.
2008-05-12, 5:46 PM #26
Originally posted by Anovis:
CM started the .(

Sorry, can't take credit for that. There are lots of horrible things in this world that I can take credit for, no doubt, but thats not one of them. :(
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2008-05-12, 5:51 PM #27
Originally posted by gbk:
Sorry, can't take credit for that. There are lots of horrible things in this world that I can take credit for, no doubt, but thats not one of them. :(


.(
2008-05-12, 6:32 PM #28
:gbk: would seem more appropriate.

edit: also what happened to awesomedog?
Back again
2008-05-12, 6:32 PM #29
[http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4719/awesomedoggb6.png]
I'm just a little boy.
2008-05-13, 1:57 AM #30
[http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/681/1206525872474copymt8.gif]
2008-05-13, 2:27 AM #31
:gbk: is the essence of massassi
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2008-05-13, 6:02 AM #32
The thing I hate about :smith: is that nasty border around it.
2008-05-13, 5:48 PM #33
Originally posted by JM:
The thing I hate about :smith: is that nasty border around it.


[http://opticaldynamics.com/~gbk/emot-smith.gif]
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2008-05-13, 6:31 PM #34
:hist101:
Attachment: 19291/Hymyile.png.gif (46,934 bytes)
2008-05-13, 7:44 PM #35
Originally posted by JM:
The thing I hate about :smith: is that nasty border around it.

Same here. Use gbk's.
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2008-05-13, 9:45 PM #36
Originally posted by kyle90:
Yep, there was a series of MSpaint drawings about the life of Smith, and that's what he looked like. It's goldmined: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1548543

********* the images are missing. :mad:
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2008-05-13, 11:12 PM #37
I miss some of the classic (UBB) Massassi smileys, such as the original yellow (this color: ;)) versions of :) and :confused:, as well as the old:o

Also, no one uses :eek: anymore :(
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2008-05-14, 12:29 AM #38
Originally posted by Pommy:
I miss some of the classic (UBB) Massassi smileys, such as the original yellow (this color: ;)) versions of :) and :confused:, as well as the old:o


This.

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