"If BLOGS were an acronym, what would it stand for?"
I probably shouldn't admit that I'm even familiar with this term, but I've always thought GURPS was a great acronym.
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14 Jul 2008 04:28 pm
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NERD ALERT!
Matt just dropped a GURPS on us...oh, have mercy Dungeon Master!
I think calipygian wins.
There will be far better, but off the top of my head:
B abbling
L azy
O nline
G eeks
S creaming
Blowhard's Loud, Overblown, Gawd-Awful Speutum.
Tip of the hat to Calipgyian on the "gawd-awful"
Blowhard's Loud, Overblown, Gawd-Awful Speutum.
Tip of the hat to Calipgyian on the "gawd-awful"
Sorry, best acronym ever is GNU. How can you beat the recursive definition of GNU's Not Unix?
Not sure where that ranks on the need scale compared to gurps.
Bam!
Lick
Our
Goddamn
Socks, MSM!
Bloviating Lefitists Or GOP Sophists
Bimodal
Letters,
Ontologies,
Graphics, and
Sensemaking
Matt just dropped a GURPS on us...oh, have mercy Dungeon Master!
That's Game Master for non-D&D games like GURPS. Sheesh, get with the nerd program.
Bloviators Leveled by Original Gravity Sauce.
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Can I request a thread here, Matt? Three words: four point o.
Belligerent
Liberals
Overrun
Grovelling
Slaves
.
Binary-based Language and On-line Graphical System.
GURPS is even better than that because it's very close to a retcon. In playtesting, it was known as the Great Unnamed Role Playing System. Steve Jackson & co liked the acronym so much (or at least it was irreparably stuck in everyone's brains) that they ginned up the Generic Universal part as a cover story.
I remember when my wife, at the time just a girlfriend, stumbled across my GURPS stash -- including charachter sheets and (GASP!) notes on my own "system"...
and she STILL married me! Yes!
B anal
L ongwinder
O veranalyzed
G ossip
S ystem
I lost interest in role-playing games after I started going through puberty.
Then there's SPECIAL which was created when the licensing fell through for GURPS usage in Fallout.
Beliefs Left Out Grow Spores
Bitchy Ladies Obliterate Gay Surfers.
Obviously not apropos, but who cares?
B y
L aptop
O ver
G ood
S tarbucks
That about sums it up, no?
re Captain Haddock: "notes on my own "system"..."
HAHA!!!! That makes two Yglesias readers with their own RP system. Mine's based on "The Wire" and it's called "The Game", obviously.
Some quick highlights:
-character classes include hopper, corner chief, muscle, police, good police, career-minded police, and natural police.
-it gets ultra-nerdy because I gave each character class different motivations that are listed on a scale from Ferengi to Klingon
Oh god save me from myself!
I believe GURPS may have actually called the GM the "referee."
Balancing Laptop on Grey Sweatpants
Who remembers "CHUD"?
Barely Legible Opinions Given Swiftly
Here's a question -- On the cover of Richard Holbrooke's memoir, _To End a War_ (paperback revised edition), is that General David Petreus (one star) striding next to General Wesley Clark (three stars)?
Barely Legible Opinions Given Swiftly
Here's a question -- On the cover of Richard Holbrooke's memoir, _To End a War_ (paperback revised edition), is that General David Petreus (one star) striding next to General Wesley Clark (three stars)?
Met my wife when she moved and joined my old D&D group. Pwned!
B loviating
L iberals
O bfuscating their
G ay
S ex lives
Big Losers Ogle Good-Looking Sergeants
(I'm still thinking about that picture.)
You have to consider that there are at least 3 types of blogs, you and fellow liberals, Jim Henley and Julian Sanchez, and the pathetic blogs for Bush, so 3 acronyms.
B iased
L iberal
O bsessions
G ood
S nark
vs
B old
L ibertarians
O verthrowering
G overning
S ystems
B astard's
L ies
O bscure
G eorge's
S uckitude
Bring on the Babylon 5 references Matt! (posted by your faithful Lurker)
B-old-faced
L-iars
O-ften
G-iving Us
S-hit!
Or..
B-old-faced
L-iars
O-ften
G-iving up on
S-hit
Same difference!
Or...
B-arack
L-oves
O-ld
G-eek-S
He likes young geeks too, but that doesn't fit the purpose of this post.
B-elieve
L-ittle
O-n
G-oogle
S-earch
I've got nothing else.
Oh, one more...
B-lowing-up
L-ies
O-f
G-od-damn
m-S-m
Now, I've got nothing else.
Oh, one more...
B-lowing-up
L-ies
O-f
G-od-damn
m-S-m
Now, I've got nothing else.
These are the most intelligent comments I have ever seen here. I am actually surprised at the creativity, but I never expect any. Was there a tin hat off day, that the normal rote thoughts were not broadcast for all? Was Kos or Huff down?
Bloviated, logorrheic, obstipated, gaseous skyvers.
That's the easy part. The more difficult question is whether "blogs" is indeed an acronym. The really difficult question, so difficult that only the seriously deranged recognize the existence, much less salience, of the question, is whether all of our words are derived originally from acronyms.
This isn't as silly as it sounds. Well, maybe it is, but here's a go anyway. Hebrew, you see, is the oldest language continually in existence. Well, okay, it's actually died several times (in 200BC it was already so dead that they had to translate the Jewish holy books into the Greek of the Septuagint), but been revivified, sort of like Frankenstein. Well, the words in these earliest Hebrew texts consist of vowelless "trigrammetons", three letter groups of consonants. Who's to say, several deaths of the language down the road, that MLK is actually a real word, "malkah" or some such, that means "king, rather than an acronym derived from some earlier, now really hopelessly lost, language, in which the tribe member Most Likely to Keel over was granted some totally honorific distinction. Perhaps the language that the acronyms that formed the trigrammetons were taken from was English! Time travelers! Time travelling bloggers! We know they like to acronymize, and it would close the circle.
Bad English is now recognized as the universal language. What if history isn't linear, but circular, and as soon as bad, acronymizing, English, as exemplified by blogging English, becomes the one last language left, that unification will trigger another Tower of Babel event in which a myriad of mutually incomprehensible systems of acronymizing English are born in the flash-death of the One World?
Ah, GURPS Cyberpunk was so cool, it got the company raided by the Secret Service. The SS morons didn't realize the whole thing was a GAME!
Your tax dollars at work.
Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games%2C_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service
B ill Clinton's penis
L ed to the Drudge report in the 90s,
O pening new avenues on the internets for lots of linked
G arbage that is raw and unedited
S o today we has web logs everywear
Why shouldn't you admit it?
Have some geek pride, man!
Matt! Your nerd credentials burnished to an astonishing degree.
My first reaction when I read that: I can't believe he just copped to knowing what that is in public.
I mean: I won't cop in comments...
A brave man.
Barely Literate Obviously Ginned-up Stuff
Bad
Lies
Or
Good
Suggestions
It's an equal opportunity medium.
Bad
Lies
Or
Good
Suggestions
It's an equal opportunity medium.
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Heads in the Sand
Bullshit, lightly-edited, overly-self-regarding, gawd-awful, sort-of-useful
Posted by calipygian | July 14, 2008 4:34 PM