I've read an old thread on THE. I didn't get it then and still don't. Hate to ask, but will someone please explain?
I was hoping someone from that time would explain. I'll explain a bit. It started before I started posting here.
As I understand it, something happened. Raf meant to post about it (a twi news event, if memory serves.) He posted it with a normal title and a normal initial post. For reasons of internet, somehow the post got eaten, but not 100%. The first word of the title remained, and the first word of the post remained, along with the comma following it. The rest of the post was blank.
Naturally, some of the posters had some fun with it, reacting as if it was intentional, and an artistic choice. But the jokes...just...kept...coming......
Months and years later, they were still coming. People wrote song lyrics for THE. People got titles for THE ("Official Shaver of THE", etc.)
It was an inside joke that just never stopped.
Years later, another thread was posted. The poster immediately reconsidered. They changed the title to "Oops" and the post to something like "Never mind, please delete." We had a few pages of similar jokes, IIRC. I speculated on whether "Oops" would someday rival "THE" and overtake it (my speculation was largely a joke.) That joke ended a LOT sooner.
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I've read an old thread on THE. I didn't get it then and still don't. Hate to ask, but will someone please explain?
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I was hoping someone from that time would explain. I'll explain a bit. It started before I started posting here.
As I understand it, something happened. Raf meant to post about it (a twi news event, if memory serves.) He posted it with a normal title and a normal initial post. For reasons of internet, somehow the post got eaten, but not 100%. The first word of the title remained, and the first word of the post remained, along with the comma following it. The rest of the post was blank.
Naturally, some of the posters had some fun with it, reacting as if it was intentional, and an artistic choice. But the jokes...just...kept...coming......
Months and years later, they were still coming. People wrote song lyrics for THE. People got titles for THE ("Official Shaver of THE", etc.)
It was an inside joke that just never stopped.
Years later, another thread was posted. The poster immediately reconsidered. They changed the title to "Oops" and the post to something like "Never mind, please delete." We had a few pages of similar jokes, IIRC. I speculated on whether "Oops" would someday rival "THE" and overtake it (my speculation was largely a joke.) That joke ended a LOT sooner.
That's all I've got.
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