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Okay, now that we are moved and faster and hotlinking is verboten, I'm posting this. No, I'm not reopening old wounds.

This morning I opened up my morning newspapers - which Scott Kurtz has wounded but not killed yet - and I'm greeted by this story:

What we are parodying: Kanye West



http://www.omaha.com/article/20091019/LIVING/710199882

I thought this was fairly funny at first but then saw the picture. On the web site it's the second one of two. My question is, wasn't that one of our originals?!? Has one of our original postings gone so viral that it's being used in newspapers?

The end is neigh! The jackass of the apocalypse is upon us again! Repent your E-sins for tomorrow we will be but dust in the wind.

It was nice knowing you guys. Tell Hal I'd forum her.

Well it was nice knowing all of you


Surely Dave has rung the doom bell and has summoned out deaths to appease some greater evil.

Darn it, Dave! You know that mentioning that Kanye meme is even worse than mentioning candleja

Speaking of viral, Has anyone every seen this cake before?

The Kanye meme was started way before Halforums. So is that really one of ours? Or someone on 4chan. I tend to think the latter.

ElJuski said:

The Kanye meme was started way before Halforums. So is that really one of ours? Or someone on 4chan. I tend to think the latter.

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That's basically what I was trying to discern. I know we had some here that were originals. I think it would be great if this was one of ours.

I don't believe that image originated with our forum.

Also - nice way to try and test the new server setup, but that meme is old enough that it won't work.

Try to keep up here.

-Adam

hylian said:

Well it was nice knowing all of you


Surely Dave has rung the doom bell and has summoned out deaths to appease some greater evil.

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:sevil:

I'm still mad that apparently one of my booby pictures has gone viral and nobody's given me credit for it



Right there, on the first page of a Google image search for boobies.

Goddammit.

this thread represents the two cardinal rules of halforum to me

1) nothing good+original eminates from here
2) posting about memes/running jokes way past their expiration date

That and Charlie posting something completely unhelpful to a thread to justify himself in some weird ego boosting "mightier than thou" way.

Shegokigo said:

That and Charlie posting something completely unhelpful to a thread to justify himself in some weird ego boosting "mightier than thou" way.

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at this point, I'm a part of halforum, I'm not contributing anything funny+original myself

Charlie Dont Surf said:

this thread represents the two cardinal rules of halforum to me

1) nothing good+original eminates from here

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...wow. Nice.

Hey, Leapin' Lawyer was good. It just didn't catch on elsewhere.

Maybe by good, Charlie means "culturally beneficial". Because that's totally the case, even if I'd argue our fantasy football podcast could do people a service (I try to pepper the Halforum specific stuff with general fantasy tips).

Original? Eh. Just look at the October contest thread, TONS of originality there.

Alright. That was really harsh. I take it back, and apologize. The podcast is pretty cool. I was mainly referring to the image macros/etc always being from elsewhere, I guess.

Soliloquy said:

Hey, Leapin' Lawyer was good. It just didn't catch on elsewhere.

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I am pretty sure i saw the leapin lawyer meme all over the place on Fark last year.

Tinwhistler;278230][quote=Soliloquy said:

Hey, Leapin' Lawyer was good. It just didn't catch on elsewhere.

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I am pretty sure i saw the leapin lawyer meme all over the place on Fark last year.[/QUOTE]

That's because I (was) a total Farker and tried to take it there from HP.

You heard it here first: Dave is a total Farker!

No longer. I let my subscription lapse because of money and being blocked at work.

So how did the leapin' lawyer turn out on fark? I know there were other places where it completely bombed.

Soliloquy said:

So how did the leapin' lawyer turn out on fark? I know there were other places where it completely bombed.

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Nah. It bombed on Fark, too.

yeah, i can't even google search to find leaping lawyer memes. I know i searched like hell whenever the photoshop contest was on, because I knew I'd seen it before and thought I'd look around for inspiration, but I couldn't find a thing. heh