Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:36:13 -0500 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "'James Greenhalgh'" <james-list@ntlworld.com>, "'Andrew Nesbit'" <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: where is the line coming from? (was: Re: All your RMS) Message-ID: <000d01c09f27$8a6723d0$1401a8c0@zoso> In-Reply-To: <20010225120956.20168c8e.james-list@ntlworld.com>
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Here's the zerowing.gif you mentioned, along with a Dilbert clip and the shockwave clip that i thought was so funny. The part that made me laugh so hard was when I thought "they spent HOW MUCH time making this???" http://bsdroxs.myip.org/jokes/base/ -Otter > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James > Greenhalgh > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 7:10 AM > To: Andrew Nesbit > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: where is the line coming from? (was: Re: All your RMS) > > > OK - I promised myself I wasn't going to spam the questions > list with this - but you'll see 5 or 6 replies until someone > gets it right. > > It's from the 1991 Sega Genesis/Megadrive game, Zero Wing - > which has a cult following not for being good (it was > average), but for having the most hilariously bad script > translation I've ever seen. > > Every now and again this seems to break out, though I don't > recall it ever leaving gaming sites/groups before ;-) > > james > > On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 03:47:18 +1100 > Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > > It comes from a very badly translated anime-style (???) > animated .gif which > > somebody found, and thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever > > encountered. From there, it spread like wildfire, and has > become something > > of a catch-cry for many (esp in the overclockers community). > > > > It isn't THAT funny. > > > > Just read thru a badly translated motherboard manual or > something. You get > > the idea. > > > > I forgot the URL for it. > > > > At 12:16 PM 25/02/01 +0100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > > That's funny, I didn't know RMS spoke in broken english... > > > > > >Call me off-this-world, call me not really interested in the news, > > >but where does this line "All your base are belong to us" keep > > >coming from? I hear it everywhere but have no clue about > its origin... > > > > > >Edwin > > > > > >-- > > >Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit > Fatal Dimensions: > > >mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ > >------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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