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Re: All Your Brick Are Belong To Us?
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lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.general
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Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:32:13 GMT
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So what's thing that great with this phrase? I'm not a native English
speaker and I really don't get it. (is there an analogy between "base"
and "butt"?)
Selçuk
Mark Sandlin wrote:
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> Dave Schuler at orrex@excite.com wrote:
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> > In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, James Simpson writes:
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> > > > Have some fun! All Your Brick... :)
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> > > I hate to ask a stupid question, but what is that phrase in reference to?
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> > It's funny you should ask! In the space of a week I saw that phrase on
> > about a dozen different (and I mean really different from each other)
> > websites, and none of them gave any indication of the origin! I was afraid
> > even to ask someone; I didn't mind seeming "unhip" if this was a phrase
> > everyone knows, but I didn't even know if it was something obscene:
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> > ME: Do you know what "All your base are belong to us" means?
> > BOSS: You're fired.
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> > I finally found a site discussing it, but now I can't find the link. The
> > phrase, among others, comes from the badly translated captions of a video
> > game now several years obsolete. I'll try and find a link. The cool thing,
> > as far as I'm concerned, is that English-speakers probably do that sort of
> > muddled translation into Japanese all the time...
> >
> > Dave!
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> http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/
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> click the "video 1" or "video 2" links.
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> ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head
> --
> Mark's Lego(R) Creations
> http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) No, the humor comes from the fact that it was a Japanese game that was translated rather badly into English. Instead of saying "We control all your bases" it was written "All your base are belong to us." It's really not terribly funny all by (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.general)
| | | Re: All Your Brick Are Belong To Us?
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| (...) There you go with that "non-native speaker" stuff again, and I'm still not sure I believe you! 8^) Mark summed it up nicely by saying that the phrase isn't especially funny by itself, but in the context of the Flash movies it's fairly amusing. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.general)
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