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[ciphergoth]

OK, so I'm still amused by AYBABTU jokes five years on. Taken from Slashdot:

What happen ?
What is it that has just occurred on our ship?
Somebody set up us the bomb
An explosive device has just detonated in the vicinity! It must be the work of the enemy!
We get signal
Our communications channel is receiving an incoming transmission.
How are you gentlemen !!
I wish to inquire as to your collective disposition.
All your base are belong to us.
Even though you or your government previously held title to a number of lunar facilities and space stations, I regret to inform you that we have taken control of them. In the case where we haven't taken control of said facility, we still claim it as our own. In other words, you are hereby denied all access to the aforementioned sovereignties.
What you say!!
I do not grasp the fundamental nature of your words. Please restate them so that I may better comprehend their meaning. Or, if I have understood them, I am still in disbelief about their content.
HA HA HA HA
I laugh maniacally at your vexation. I giggle manaically as you scramble to launch your Zigs. I must fulfill this duty so that I can satisfy the role of evil final boss, so you may defeat me and wipe that smirk off my face. That is, if you have enough quarters.

I am resistant to these Internet memes. What is this "All your base" of which you speak?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
All my base
Are belong to you.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
In Soviet Russia
Poems write YOU!

I did consider trying to do a CATS outfit for 2001 Whitby, but it would have taken too much work. I'm disappointed that no-one did though. Maybe it's old enough now that it wouldn't be seen as missing the meme express.

Love to all my partners who are all having hard times in different ways at the moment...

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[cryx]

5 years since AYBABTU??? Wow, how to instantly feel aged. i think i felt a wrinkle sprout! (i'm convinced that we don't age due to the passage of time, but the realisations of the passage of time - which is why carefree people often seem younger...)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends when you count it from. Summarizing what Wikipedia says, the version of the game including that cut scene was released in 1992. In 1998 the phrase started cropping up in a few places, becoming popular on Something Awful in late 2000; in early 2001 the Flash movie became popular, and that's when I really remember it taking off. So you could say only three years. It must have been April or November 2001 Whitby that I thought a CATS outfit would be cool for - edited the entry appropiately.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

"I did consider trying to do a CATS outfit for 2001 Whitby, but it would have taken too much work. I'm disappointed that no-one did though. Maybe it's old enough now that it wouldn't be seen as missing the meme express"

I'm sorry, I read that as the Lloyd-Webber Cats (which would suit you, actually. Of course the meme express reference didn't help. Now I have a vision of meme expresses running round the theatre on roller skates...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Argentinian phantom cats on technicolor rollerskates in Lloyd-Webber pile-up!

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

This was never aired, all the shows were filmed twice, and edited down to one.

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I was amused by that poll too.

I remember just over a year ago when I was in Prague, unexpectedly seeing "All your base are belong to us" graffiti on a wall.