The OctoPedia Project

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:12 pm

The premise: a resource so that people won't incessantly ask "you all keep saying [x], where did that come from? What does it mean?" Also, a resource that helps us remember great moments in board culture and history.

Examples:

"Chew on your baby, [dog name]!"
Use: A generic expression of anger, disgust, angst, or delight, depending on context.
Origin: Used by Fretmute, describing how an ex-girlfriend (who broke up with him by e-mail) addressed her dog, and later adopted as a catchphrase in that thread.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:24 pm

Nice idea.

Perhaps a wiki?

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:39 pm

Great idea.

LawBeefaroni wrote:Nice idea.

Perhaps a wiki?

Perhaps even one installed on the site server?

~Neal

Yankeeman84 · Post by **Yankeeman84** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:48 pm

Can we have photos too?

ChrisGwinn · Post by **ChrisGwinn** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:35 pm

Wikis are good.

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:50 pm

The premise:

A FAQ could handle this (like, say, the board FAQ. The one I'm supposed to update and haven't *whistles innocently).

However, a wiki does offer advantages, and we are mulling throwing up a wiki for this purpose.

GuidoTKP · Post by **GuidoTKP** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:08 pm

Heh. Kewl.

"Popehat!"
Use: A term in which one unilaterally declares victory during a debate or contest, and as to which all other participants must concede victory after popehat has been declared.
Origin: Coined by Smoove_B during a poker game, wherein he used mad origami skilz to turn a dollar bill into the shape of the pontiff's chapeau and then began uttering in a falsetto "You cannot defeat the power of the Popehat," whereupon Smoove started drawing amazing cards and took RunningMn9's money from GuidoTKP (who had previously liberated said funds from RunningMn9), causing RunningMn9 to have to eat Starbursts for lunch the following day.

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:40 pm

GuidoTKP wrote:Smoove_B . . . began uttering in a falsetto

And now we have an example for our definition of "tautology"

Guy Incognito · Post by **Guy Incognito** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:56 am

Great idea, Fed!

If it comes from a thread on the board, I think it'd be pretty sweet if it were linked to.

Like:

"Chew on your baby, [dog name]!"
Use: A generic expression of anger, disgust, angst, or delight, depending on context.
Origin: Used by Fretmute, describing how an ex-girlfriend (who broke up with him by e-mail) addressed her dog, and later adopted as a catchphrase in that thread.

Depending how far you wanted to take it someone could even add in a couple examples of the phrase spotted "in the wild" from threads where various people have used it.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:26 am

Hump the Shark.

Phrase mangled by Someone Associated with Mr. Fed and since adopted in place of the correct phrase (at least in the Meal/MHS household).

I'm too lazy to link to the original thread by Mr. Fed. Even though I'm not too lazy to make rhymes.

docvego · Post by **docvego** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:40 am

Wiki! Wiki!

I just started doing some searching to try to figure out the chew on baby thing, a wiki would help out ever so much.

Guy Incognito · Post by **Guy Incognito** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:30 am

The Wiki project could lend itself well to the "sell OctO t-shirts with catchy phrases" project. T-shirt ideas could flood in from the Wiki.

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:42 pm

We could move the definition of YK there