Enough With The Orc And Pie!

[Tewligan]

it's not about which is older, it's about beating a dead horse! those shirts are not talked about day after day by a bunch of yuk yuk's here.

Yuk yuk's?

Oh, this reminds me. Do those shirts come in, like, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL? Because I've gotta get a gift for a certain Elder God for his coming home present. Also, it would be great if I could get one in a dark color, so it doesn't show pie stains.

 

[Dr Midnight]

Do those shirts come in, like, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL?

Of course they do: I have to sell these to gamers.

 

[Nightfall]

Well I don't have any old or bad or even stale jokes. The tarrasque ate them all and then choked on them. Proving that while an orc and his pie are old and deadly, bad jokes CAN kill a tarrasque!

 

[LostSoul]

I come around once in a while and whore my wares out to the gaming populace, some of whom may not have seen them yet.

So you're saying that a joke, even though having been around a long time, might still be funny to somebody who hasn't yet seen it?

Argh... caught up in the netting.

 

[Dr Midnight]

Of course.

Wherever are you going with THIS?

I doubt anyone's bringing Orc & Pie up to show off to newbies. I only ever hear about it (or my other gamer humor peeves) in referential in-joke moments, from one gamer who's familiar with the material to another. It's classic Mony Python quotin' syndrome... and gamers are a stricken lot. We like to snort and chortle over old gags.

I myself...

...

...never mind, I won't even say it...

 

[rounser]

It's all opinion, eh? What ages - and what doesn't - is a personal thing.

The WotC boards are, IMO, far worse than ENBoards because of the "WHAM! Dig dig dig" thing that they all find hilarious, and keep on using again and again and again...

As far as the internet in general goes, the hundreds of variations on "Worst. X. Evar." have begun to annoy me. It was clever in the context of the original scene from the Simpsons, thanks to the delicious irony involved in Comic Shop Guy saying it after Bart implies that he and all the other internet geeks owed the creators of (by implication) the Simpsons for hundreds of hours of free entertainment - not the other way around.

Removed from context and requoted by internet geeks who may or may not be oblivious to the "laughing at you, not with you" irony of them requoting it (because of what that scene symbolises and what the Comic Shop Guy represents), and it strikes me as just....really lame.

Then again, "A WINNAR IS ME" and "Wehre is teh funney?" don't seem to be aging at all. Subjective, eh...

 

[Lazybones]

I think that the "in" jokes are part of the fun of being part of a community, even if the jokes are lame. My friends and I had a whole little secret language as kids (and even later as college students) forged of cultural references.

And as for "orc and pie," my first exposure to it was on the recent Nutkinland feature, so I wasn't really "in" on the joke until then (and so Stannis's original lament had me a bit confused).

Just one more quick comment: one of the other things I really like about this community is that is supports highbrow humor and complex references as well as the more "wham" type of lowbrow jokes. Some days I'm more in the mood for one than the other... but I like that both are available for my browsing pleasure.

Case in point: over the last week I posted my parody of a Neverwinter Nights online game in the Story Hour forum, and a thread mocking the Epic Handbook here in General. Different kind of stuff for different moods.

LB

 

[hong]

Cthulhu jokes are lame?

Now what exactly could Aaron be implying here? We have what looks like a question, but without any quoted text, it's hard to know what context to put it in. Let us consider the possibilities.

First, it could be that Aaron is genuinely asking the question, "Are Cthulhu jokes lame?" This is the obvious answer, and therefore, most likely to be wrong. Aaron has been around for some time, and knows what Cthulhu jokes are (jokes about Cthulhu, naturally). He's probably also had enough time, like the rest of those on this board, to form an opinion of his own regarding the lameness or otherwise of these jokes. He therefore certainly doesn't need to ask anyone to have his opinion of them, whatever it may be, confirmed. Therefore, I CLEARLY cannot choose the cup in front of YOU!

Alternatively, perhaps Aaron is making a statement of opinion, but using a rising inflection. This is a common habit among members of the younger generation, which makes it sound like they are asking a question when they're not. For example, "It's quite a hot day today, you know?" or "My response to Monty Haul was to choose the door on the left? You know?" However, this also must be incorrect, since Aaron did not end his statement with the required "You know?" Therefore, I CLEARLY cannot choose the cup in front of ME!

Finally, we come to the scenario where Aaron is making a statement of opinion, but framing it as a question. This is a common dramatic device, most famously used in Shakespeare's _Macbeth_: "Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand?" [II, 1]. Aaron clearly does not see Cthulhu jokes as lame, but asks the scornful question, "Are they lame?" to provoke and intimidate those who think they are. This inversion of meaning coupled with sneaky use of sentence structure is entirely to be expected, due to the fact that Pennsylvania is entirely populated by CRIMINALS, and so I CLEARLY cannot choose the cup in front of YOU!


Hong "truly, I have a dizzying intellect" Ooi

 

[JoeGKushner]

"So what's it like killing your first orc?"

"It's like hot apple pie..."

 

[Falcon]

Yes,

But how do you feel about the Great Quiche vs. Pizza Debate? Sadly lost in the Olde Boardes...