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Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all

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1 hour ago, Jake said:

My initial outburst at the very top of the episode was because I suspected (incorrectly) that you were trying a Slyboots with Y’all... and then Nick caught on and did it himself. I realize that by drawing attention to it, I created it.

 

Meanwhile though, that was all a distraction: While we were all y’alling, you sprang your real trap, “clam in the beverage.”

 

Yeah, I fear there's too much.

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57 minutes ago, cooljammer00 said:

So you assumed yall was a wax house but then you hoisted yourself.

 

This is super confusing to an outsider, btw.

 

While listening to this episode, I did start to consider if making an Important if True wiki would be a good idea.  I've been listening to Thumbs related media since Idle Thumbs Episode 1 and I still get lost among the reference to a reference to a reference (to me to me to me).

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3 hours ago, SecretAsianMan said:

 

While listening to this episode, I did start to consider if making an Important if True wiki would be a good idea.  I've been listening to Thumbs related media since Idle Thumbs Episode 1 and I still get lost among the reference to a reference to a reference (to me to me to me).

 

Whenever I get hung up on an Idle Thumbs reference, I usually just have to Google it.

 

I'm still trying to figure out where "grenade rolling down a hill" originated. They seem to immediately start using it as a reference to something earlier, but I can't find what that original earlier thing is.

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3 minutes ago, cooljammer00 said:

I'm still trying to figure out where "grenade rolling down a hill" originated. They seem to immediately start using it as a reference to something earlier, but I can't find what that original earlier thing is.

 

Just now, Problem Machine said:

I think that one started with Far Cry 2

 

No, it's a reader mail about Fallout 3, where a misplaced grenade blows up a generator and frees a bunch of super mutants. In the late teens or early twenties, I think?

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6 hours ago, Gormongous said:

 

 

No, it's a reader mail about Fallout 3, where a misplaced grenade blows up a generator and frees a bunch of super mutants. In the late teens or early twenties, I think?

I remembered it as them reading a reader's story about trying to show his friend how cool Far Cry 2 was, only to die almost immediately by their grenade rolling back down the hill he threw it at.

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The extra long shoehorn is actually the best. Absolutely the best. I've had one always since I moved out to my first own apartment ages ago over 15 years ago. I always used to have a plastic one, but those break at some point so some years ago I invested in a metallic long shoehorn. Thanks @Chris for once again bringing the shoehorn up in the endorsements.

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On 2/21/2018 at 3:00 AM, Chris said:

I think Jake has an almost violent instinctual reaction to other people trying to introduce phraseology that he perceives as being affected or foreign to the speaker.

 

I have this with "aye": I find it very irritating when someone uses it instead of "yes" when writing online even though they almost definitely never say it in real life.

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On 2/22/2018 at 6:27 AM, Chris said:

Yeah, I fear there's too much.

 

Though of course, everybody wants some.

 

 

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On 2/21/2018 at 3:13 PM, Jake said:

YES I was worried I was being Sly Bootsed. 

 

I read this as "Sly Boosted" and I endorse it as the correct term of art for Chris's shenanigans.

 

(Linguistically, Sly Bootsed will almost certainly get corrupted to Sly Boosted within a few hundred years anyway, so you might as well get on board with it now.)

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On 2/25/2018 at 12:29 PM, Ben X said:

everybody wants some

 

Geddit?!

 

Anyway, for David Lynch fans, here's David Lynch Teaches Typing.

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