[OT] The jokes you hate

[ColonelHardisson]

Re: Re: [OT] The jokes you hate

Uh, sorry for my ignorance, but what are those?

And no, this is no troll. I actually don't know what you are talking about.

Orc and Pie is a very short, satirical adventure by Monte Cook. It should be on his site somewhere ( www.montecook.com ), but I can't locate it right now.

The strange language cited above ("1337") is something I don't really understand either. It seems to be computer-programmer thing, in which English is mangled by way of substitution of numbers for letters, shorthand ways to write words, and an overdeveloped sense of one's hipness.

Monty Haul is a reference to a 1970s American TV game show called "Let's Make A Deal." Contestants tried to decide between prizes, often between one which was known, and one which was "hidden behind door number one." It became linked to D&D back in the 70s, due to the way many D&D dungeons were just a series of doors to be kicked in and the room beyond looted of treasure. It is a way to denote games in which there is way too much treasure given out.

 

[keb]

Re: Re: [OT] The jokes you hate

Never saw it on these boards, but there are people who like to pOsT iN aLtErNaTiNg CaPs. Why? Who knows.

Uh, sorry for my ignorance, but what are those?

And no, this is no troll. I actually don't know what you are talking about.

The Orc and Pie business had me confused too. When I first noticed it, I thought it was some bizarre reference to the new Lisa Loeb album....

 

[Maudlin]

The 1337-speak was actually a way for olden-days' hackers to try to evade government surveillance, since they scanned email and usenet posts for specific words. If you replace letters by numerals, you defeat the search algorithms and/or give monitoring government agents severe eye strain. They liked to call themselves 'elite', hence 'leet or 1337.

I think reality should adopt Hong's version though, it's far more interesting. "All teams respond, leeching of Neverwinter Nights is confirmed, we have a 1337 in progress! Dammit, where's that chopper?"