Okay. Add this to Jargon:
Q. "I'm wearing
X
on my head right now and it's fucking great"?
In March of 2002 the inimitable Fayjay said:
See, we just illustrated the glorious affirmative process that is online communities.
Person A: I...I kinda like to wear rubber gloves on my head and pretend to be a chicken. Sometimes. Er. For a laugh, you know?
Person B: I do that every weekend.
Person C: I'm wearing a rubber glove on my head right now and it's fucking great! Those non-rubber-glove-wearers (henceforth to be called NRGW) don't know what they're missing!
Person A: Yeah!
Person B: Let's set up our own forum at World Crossing.
[Rebecca Lizard did the hard work of looking this one up. I just copy-pasted.]
hard work
Heh heh heh. I just have it as an email sig.
For completeness' sake, can someone provide the thread/post in which that appeared?
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Never mind. Thanks Shawn!
The question should include "right now" because we've used the thing to say "I'm slaughtering a sheep right now and it's fucking GREAT!!" Oh, we should have a big Internet poll about which words to capitalize and how many exclamation points to use.
Also, wearing something "on your head".
We should really get a script to do this... but I search.phped and the current use of the phrase, the one that will get people asking, "What's the history behind this?" looks something like this:
I'm wearing a new bra right now, and it's fucking great! (Response: "I kind of doubt it's fucking great if you don't actually have it on your head." Point for Rebecca.)
I'm bedswapping right now, it's fucking GREAT.
I'm reading extreme-lefty news online right now and it's fucking great
I'm using Feria right now, and it's fucking great!
Tep, try 1800flowers.com.
I'm looking at them right now. (And it's fucking great...)
I'm wearing him on my head right now, and it's fucking great.
IMing the sweetie now, and it's fucking great!
I'm going home from work RIGHT NOW! and it's fucking great!
(Quote:)There are four deer in my yard right now.
(Response)and it's fucking great!!
I'm eating paté right now, and it's fucking great!
I have a freezer pack on my head right now...
and it's fucking great.
And so forth. Isn't the Internet fucking great?
Really anything that anyone says with "I'm [x]ing right now" or "I've got [x] right now" is just begging for it.
I love the Buffistas.
This is a terrible thing to have to post while everyone's having such fun, but it's been something I've had to think about recently at work.
What would happen if something libellous was posted here, and the libelee (obviously made up word, where's Shawn? got to hear about it?
If I post, for instance "Consolidated Widgets are a terrible company and are about to go bankrupt", we could, at least theoretically, be liable, right?
I'm just wondering who would get sued. If it's an individual, like Jesse or something, that's quite a scary thought.
Do we have a policy, first off, on deleting legally problematic content?
And if it happened, Joss forbid, what would be the consequences?
This is tough for a lot of reasons. For one thing, even though web stuff is what I'd consider libellous - my understanding is that it has sometimes been handled (in the courts) as slander. My guess is that different states treat it differently, too. People are allowed to state their opinions so how would we even draw a line? Are there Buffista attorneys?
