Non-specific RPG LINGO pet peeves, OR "TPANBUROUG."

[Tom Cashel]

Sorry, Buttercup. Maybe if enough people read it they'll stop posting it!

 

[KnowTheToe]

Rule 0. You really don't like it huh?

I mean what other post can mean literally anything and nothing at all. I think it is a true wonder of the world.

 

[Arnwyn]

Well said, Tom, well said. You covered all mine very well, though I actually haven't heard "rinse and repeat" yet.

But your top 4 is bang-on.

 

[Drawmack]

alignment - do we really need to beat this dead horse back to life
broken - that word should be banned, instead of people explaining themselves anymore they just say broken.
crunchy bits - not if I can't use them they aren't how about telling me what it's really got huh?

 

[Henry]

...while "crunchy vs. creamy" brings to my mind inexplicable scab and pus connotations. In short, a perfectly venereal euphemism.

Actually, it reminds me of peanut butter...

mmmmmm, peanut butter....

*droool* *gargle*

 

[Henry]

• rinse and repeat, comes from a famous phrase on the back of some now-forgotten shampoo... the actual phrase is "lather, rinse, repeat" - and refers to repetitive action.
  
• "broken" comes from the magic the gatehring tournament scene, describing cards with new rules on them that were easy to exploit to a player's advantage.
  
• "rouge" comes from a hideously common typo.
  
• "the shaft" is unclear, but could have possibly originated from the country song "she got the gold mine, I got the shaft."
  
  My insufferable geekdom originates from an insatiable desire to know the origins of as many inscrutable phrases as possible.

 

[KnowTheToe]

Well said, Tom, well said. You covered all mine very well, though I actually haven't heard "rinse and repeat" yet.

But your top 4 is bang-on.

I read rinse and repeat today. I wish I could remember which thread. Anyway I have only read it one or twice.

I prefer creamy peanut butter.

 

[alsih2o]

[*]"the shaft" is unclear, but could have possibly originated from the country song "she got the gold mine, I got the shaft."

shaft - O.E. sceaft "long, slender rod of a staff or spear," from P.Gmc. *skaftaz. Meaning in mineshaft, etc., is M.E., probably from notion of "long and cylindrical," possibly a translation of Low Ger. schacht in this sense. Meaning "treat cruelly and unfairly" is 1950s, from notion of sodomy. The word's double sense is attested in country music song title, "She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft."

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Re: TPANBUROUG

"These Phrases Are Nothing But Uncreative Repetitions Of Uninspired Gamespeak."

Sorry...thought that would be perfectly clear.

Thanks, Tom.

Best,
tKL