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What is your favorite classic green site trope?
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Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
(Score: 5, Informative) by cereal_burpist on Tuesday June 09, @04:04AM (5 children)
"First post!"
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 09, @04:34AM (2 children)
First post with frickin' lasers!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 5, Touché) by cereal_burpist on Tuesday June 09, @04:49AM (1 child)
Well I, for one, welcome our new poll-ish overlords.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday June 21, @12:25PM
Profit!
(Score: 4, Funny) by UncleSlacky on Saturday June 13, @09:49PM
Frosty piss!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 28, @03:29AM
Frist pest - frosty piss!
🌻🌻🌻🌻✌️ [google.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09, @05:04AM (3 children)
Based on the question, the "classic green site trope" has to be Cowboy Neal. It is the only trope that really belongs to the green site. The rest are all memes that either arose independent of Slashdot (hot grits, the Russian Reversal, Frikkin' laser beams, and insensitive clod), were a part of general Internet culture (Beowulf cluster, Netcraft confirms it, and can it run Linux). But good ole Cowboy Neal? That is pure Slashdot and only Slashdot. Other memes may have been used there, maybe even more than at other sites. But Cowboy Neal is the only one on that list that is truly and only home at Slashdot.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11, @01:13PM
+1 Pedantic
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday June 26, @04:38AM (1 child)
Obvious counterexample: buck feta. And let's face it, there are some trolls that are pure green.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27, @04:16AM
Yeah! I better vote for that one instead. Oh wait.
(Score: 5, Informative) by chucky on Tuesday June 09, @02:17PM (3 children)
I don't know what you're talking about, I hardly remember the green site, haven’t been there since this site exists.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15, @10:21AM (1 child)
Same here, but that wasn't the question. Try to overcome your dementia and remember hard what was going on (well, selective dementia is sometimes necessary in life, but that doesn't apply here).
(Score: 4, Touché) by chucky on Monday June 15, @06:57PM
I did vote… but then again, I couldn’t care less about what was there, I switched sides and never looked back.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday June 10, @04:39PM (5 children)
Some incredibly wise, witty, and handsome individual used to post shitty automobile analogies as a fun challenge... oh wait, that was me LOL.
(Score: 5, Funny) by acid andy on Thursday June 11, @01:48PM (3 children)
Does this individual still look like Roger Moore [soylentnews.org]? Hopefully not like he does now though... :)
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 5, Funny) by VLM on Thursday June 11, @06:30PM (2 children)
I had to laugh. I'm the same age as he was in "Moonraker". I have fewer wrinkles probably from less sun exposure, and my skin isn't as red. I do NOT do the 1970s sideburns. But yeah I still kind of look like that dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore [wikipedia.org]
"During filming for The Spy Who Loved Me, Moore suffered burns on his buttocks during a chair explosion stunt." LOL I have avoided that so far.
I was surprised to find out he died in 2017 I hope I make it to 90. I'll probably still be shitposting on SN into the 2060s.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 26, @04:41AM
With proper AI technique, we can shitpost till the end of the universe. Think paperclip optimizer used for something awesome!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26, @05:08AM
I absolutely love him in the 1960s TV series "The Saint"
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10, @09:04PM (3 children)
if only we had a cowboy cluster of Beowulf Neales, with linux poll beams, would it become year of windoze on in soviet bbs, where we would be free to spin up a distro on russian metal with bare basement, IMHO, TLDR, TFA WTF dis?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DECbot on Thursday June 11, @04:00PM (1 child)
I see what you did there...
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 3, Funny) by jasassin on Wednesday June 24, @09:31AM
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I see what you did right there!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by mhajicek on Thursday June 11, @08:23PM
Cool the cluster with hot grits.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday June 11, @06:40PM (3 children)
I remember getting pretty ticked off about the wednesday 2pm central time e-ink story. There began to be a pattern, then one last one came along at 2pm and that was essentially my last post on /.
I gave cmdrtaco a bunch of shit about it offsite and I also met at least one editor/jannie/wtf IRL in person at a computer conference and everyone insists the old site was not paid to post astroturf ads.
I think years/decades later, being as charitable as possible, during boring times of minimal news, they pulled from a pool of filler and "back in the day" the pool of filler at the time was pee'd full of e-ink, e-ink press releases, e-readers based on e-ink, e-ink e-ink e-ink. So it was coincidental that I'd be bored, the site would be bored, they gotta post something from the pool of filler, thus a MUCH higher than average chance of an e-ink story being used as filler material.
Kind of like you can set your watch by the righto.com blogposts being made stories. The difference between righto.com blogposts and eink stories is I really like righto.com blogposts so I don't mind that SN essentially has a RSS feed from Mr. Ken (and I suppose indirectly from Mr. Marc and friends etc)
I think maybe /. would have been better off posting nothing rather than occasionally posting slop during quiet times. Yeah yeah X posts per day to keep the buzz but if there just aren't X quality posts some days, well, I'd have preferred seeing "X-1" posts that day to seeing (X-1) good stories plus one story of slop.
(Score: 2) by cereal_burpist on Friday June 12, @04:04AM (2 children)
full of spam, spam press releases, e-readers based on spam, spam spam spam. [stanford.edu]
(Score: 3, Funny) by PiMuNu on Friday June 12, @12:30PM (1 child)
> JRP1@PHX.CAM.AC.UK
Glad to see that our noble academics are fulfilling their roles to the best of their ability.
Say no to superconducting quantum whatdjamathingies.
Say no to analysis of the verb structure of heroditus's left nipple.
Say yes to transcribing Monty Python
Say yes ... to SPAM.
(Score: 5, Funny) by cereal_burpist on Saturday June 13, @04:27AM
Well, it was 1987. He probably had some downtime waiting for a 500KB file to write to a floppy drive.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Friday June 12, @04:29AM
I always loved finding posts about the heroic Martians and their struggle against the evil ones from the blue world, usually in stories having to do with Mars.
A few years ago I was disappointed to find that no one had posted one in a Mars story, so I tried my hand at it. I wasn't happy with it, but it was better than nothing. *grin*
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Vocal Minority on Friday June 12, @05:42AM (24 children)
I can't actually remember if this was a slashdot trope or early soylent. What about "cows go moo"? Also makes me think about all of the colorful characters we have lost along the way, I miss most of them...except the men's rights guy....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12, @10:37AM
(apt-get moo)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12, @11:07AM (1 child)
What does the Fox say" by Ylvis [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday June 22, @11:21AM
What does the Chell say?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday June 12, @07:17PM (19 children)
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday June 12, @03:21PM (1 child)
Would have chosen the shark poll, if it had lasers too.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12, @03:50PM (3 children)
Sarcastically my favorite. Always fun watching chumps try and hide their fear and hate because they know their raw opinions would have them socially blacklisted.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Tuesday June 16, @03:16PM (1 child)
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17, @01:40PM
Ha! Good catch, systemic racism is insidious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18, @04:23PM (1 child)
protecting other dumb fucks
history repeats