If you're reading this you are probably, like me, not fully up to speed on all the in-jokes that spread through net-savvy websites faster than your PDA becomes obsolete. If you have been wondering about the increasingly wide circulation of "All Your Base Are Belong to Us", you can view its origin as part of a poorly translated video game. If you go to Zany Video Game Quotes and scroll down to "Zero Wing," all will be explained. And there's a history of the joke here (thanks to Mr. Kottke for the reference.
With absolutely no irony, I say that I am thrilled that people document all this stuff. It's the only hope I have that in ten years I will still have the slightest idea about what people are talking about. I'm too late to laugh at this one, but at least I don't feel so much like a non-native speaker of 21st-century cyberEnglish. Which, of course, is exactly what I am.
And speaking of not having the slightest idea, I completely misunderstood Grim's point about the crime story (see yesterday's post), which was only to comment, quote, "Searching for the killers? You don't have to be Lenny Briscoe to figure out who ordered the Crispy Beef." I thought his reference to the Droopiest Detective meant that he was focused on the whole Law & Order thing, instead of the sheer boneheadedness of the robbers' criminal M.O.
I'm an idiot.
Posted by B T at March 22, 2001 06:06 PM