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I have been long impressed with Soylentils. We have forked the beast, beat the dead horse, spanked the monkey, and did something to llamas. So now it think it would be a good time to keep track of our contributions to internet culture. As some are aware, these are usually referred to as memes. I believe the term derives from Mimesis, an ability to copy. As such, many things on Soylent news are copies of earlier Slashdotisms.
Here are some examples:
In soviet russia
I, for one, welcome . . . . overlords!
Frost Piss!
(and this one needs to die)
What I am looking for are memes unique to Soylent News, such as that we are made of people, or referring to members as Soylentils, which just sounds so nutritious and healthy. One other example I am aware of the the term "soyled" as a replacement for "slashdotted". Not sure if we actually have this ability, but it is something worth pursuing. Any other memes, trends, recurring expressions, whatever, that are unique to Soylent News? Soylent minds want to know!
Oft times such things are inadvertent. Just yesterday we had a Fine Article that ended up saying that failure to vaccinate dogs lead to many of them parishing from global worming. OK, that may not stick.
Personalities? We have our own ---I will not name names, but everyone knows who they are. The most nortorious gewg_, the slightly less nortorius and more whining _Anti_gewg_!! And of course. . . no, I said I would not name names, and I only named these two because they are not names, only names posted under AC posts, which could be, and probably are, only me.
So chip in! The sooner we identify memes. the sooner they die! Wait, that is not my intent! I want them to live! Live like quotes from "The Princess Bride" or references to "Firefly" or "Serentity", or anything Monty Pythonesque, and possibly mandatorially XKCD. This is what culture is made of, this is what we are, and we need some way to bring the less culturally sophisticated up to speed, besides ridicule and mod-bombing (if such a thing actually exists). What are the uniquely Soylentilish turns of phrase, a Soylent reference, a Soylental dismissal? I will try to keep a record, so that in the distant future, they will know that we were Soylent, and we were mighty!
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Thursday April 23 2015, @11:33AM
Just sayin'
To be oneself, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Thursday April 23 2015, @02:46PM
Interesting, that was my first thought, too. Maybe there is something to it.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 23 2015, @03:25PM
This was the first place I heard about so much bacon, including the bacon-colored default theme. In the early days, before Moose Wang, there was Bacon.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:38PM
Bacon is Moose Wang?
Also [wikipedia.org].
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday April 24 2015, @05:32AM
You know, the problem is, when I Google "moose wang", it sends me to the Korean google site. Am I missing something?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday April 24 2015, @03:57PM
If you are then I am too, I don't know Hangul but wang 왕 means king [wiktionary.org] and they have loanwords through English from Algonquian moose 무스 (museu) and Germanic elk 엘크 (elkeu) (there are no animals of Alces alces in Korea unless perhaps in a zoo). Google could be doing some translation nonsense in the background where 무스왕 or 엘크왕 (or maybe 왕무스 or 왕엘크) makes perfect sense but it means nothing according to Wiktionary.
Wang is a last name in both Europe (somewhat rare) and Asia (mostly China) and there are moose/elk (Alces alces) in Europe, North America, and Russian Asia (Siberia etc.) and maybe a few in China but not in Korea.
However an awful lot of people have no idea what a moose/elk is and confuse it with any (much smaller) deers with big antlers so maybe some famous wang had a connection to deer, i.e. “the famous Deer King blah blah blah…”. Or maybe it's an unfortunate brand name along the lines of “Moose King Drink” or popular bar/club or something. Do you feel like doing an image search for "Moose Wang" on the Korean Google? :3
Maybe you're sent there only because they don't have a Swedish Monty Python version of Google :D
The Wictionary page on moose [wiktionary.org] is entertaining and includes a picture of the incredible Scottish moose towards the end. The Wikipedia moose/elk page has some interesting facts [wikipedia.org].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:37PM
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday May 04 2015, @02:23PM
We seem to be building a history of fictitious bands such as when Floyd-Steinberg's thereminist died in a tragic LSD-related tiger-polo accident [soylentnews.org] or when Urban Slobber's bassist, Jimmy Kreng, was jailed for an incident with a Van der Graaf generator in a Lithuanian Embassy [soylentnews.org].
1702845791×2
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:33AM
Wow, the things I totally miss on Soylent News! Keep a sharp eye out for more. Thanks, Cafebabe!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @04:03PM
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/12/23/2140237 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:51PM
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/03/0129201 [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/03/27/0423213 [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=23948&page=1&cid=633814 [soylentnews.org]