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MEOW MEOW Glossary
Cascade, weiner-doggy n. A type of cascade where an element is added to the sentence with each followup, making each succeeding entry longer and longer:
>>>Weiner-doggy.
>>Neutered weiner-doggy.
>Syphlitic neutered weiner-doggy.
Syphlitic neutered weiner-doggy with worms.
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Found in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, this one had me rolling in the floor:
Our guest tonight on alt.usenet.kooks is very special...
let's all give Dick Hertz (Hey, who's Dick Hertz?) a big hand!
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Sig Files: July Ford-McKenna - 1000 LINES! Longer than Kibo!
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Attention flonkers, nosers, altflamers, aunties, sig.bunnies,
dolphin-fishers, disneyites, frogs, kooks and other netizens
TIRED of reading fuckhead cascades?
FED UP TO THE BACK TEETH with "me too!!!"
BORED with downloading hundreds of HFW lames?
SICK of reading dozens of permutations of the "bitch" flame?
IF YOU SEE ONE MORE BLOODY "yer sig's too long" you'll KILL YOURSELF?
***THIS SPIFFY .SIG!! (tm) will revolutionize USENET!!!***
Killfile everyone but me. That's July Ford-McKenna. That's it -
*plonk* the lot of 'em. *PLONK* *PLONK* *PLONK*
Then read my .sig once a week.
THE SPIFFY .SIG!!(tm) There is NO substitute.
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"Ich habe einen riesig Eisenpenis.
I have an immense iron penis."
I need to bookmark that for a detailed reading later.
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Found this one today at alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk...
what about this one? :
this was posted today at the computer forum where i like to hang out, by Tsaven Nava, so all credits should go to him. i hope it didn't hide in his bed to wait for revenge, hehe.
regards
Anja
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okay so i'm standing in front of my toilet just as i'm starting to take a whiz, and all of the sudden i feel this tickling on my foot (i was barefoot). So i look down to see this GODDAMN HUGE FUCKING SPIDER that had just crawled over my foot and was heading right for my other foot! Seriously, this thing was almost the size of a tarantula! it had to be almost 1.5-2 inches big, IT WAS FUCKING HUGE!!!! I like FLIPED out and jumped back against the wall to try and not let that thing get at my damn foot! keep in mind i had just started to pee and one you start, you KNOW you can't stop, so pee is now going all over the place as i do this fucked up little dance to stay away from this spider, who now starts to panic and running around at this crazy hyper speed! then the goddamn thing starts running for the door, unfortunetly, i am between the door at it! Maybe two seconds have elapsed now, so i've got a LONG way to go in this pee still, i'm trying to aim it somewhere at the toilet (it's missing), and now i've got this huge spider chargeing me! I don't know WHY i did next, but i had to use the ONLY weapon that i had at my disposal, so i aimed my pee-stream right at the spider! i hit the fucker DEAD ON, and he didn't like that one bit, and made a direct 90 degree turn and headed VERY quickly straight for the wall with the radiator! I don't know what i was thinking, but i did my best to keep peeing after the thing, and then the thing pops out from the radiator RIGHT NEXT TO ME and tries to bolt out the door, and i'm like PANICING so i try and pee on him, but he like SHOOTS by me intot he hall and i twirl around, for some fucked up reason, and TRY AND FOLLOW THE FUCKER!. So i'm like hobbleing after this spider with my jeans now around my ankles, hobbleing into the hallway with pee going ALL OVER THE PLACE and still trying to piss on this huge damn spider! this took all of about 7 seconds, from first tickle to me running into the hallway peeing all over the place, and then the baster runs down the stairs! it's about now that i finally ask myself WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING, standing in the hallway with my pants around my ankles holding my dick and aiming a stream of urin down the stairs, so i quickly hop back to the bathroom and finish what was left into the sink (it was closer then the toilet).
So now, with my pants soaked in pee, i'm standing there in front of the sink wondering WHAT THE FUCK I JUST DID! Now there is pee on EVERY SINGLE SURFACE of the bathroom, all over all the magazines, on EVERY wall, the floor is one big pool of pee, there's pee in the sink, on the mirror, probably on the ceiling, the whole basket of extra TP is now useless becasue of pee on it, my pants and undies are SOAKED in pee, the lower half of the front part of my shirt is soaked in pee, there's pee ALL OVER THE DAMN HALLWAY AND DOWN THE FUCKING STAIRS, and now the whole place reeks of pee AND THERE IS STILL SOME HUGE PEE-SPIDER ROAMING THE HOUSE SOMEWHERE!
So i just threw my cloaths in the wash, and i'm gonna take a really fast shower, then try to clean up this huge damn mess as i wonder HOW THE HELL AM I GONNA EXPLAIN THIS ONE TO MY MOM.
I'm fucked. And i smell like pee.
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That story might have been a lot funnier if I wasn't groaning over his horrible spelling errors.
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michele at April 12, 2004 06:42 AM
ROTFLMAO!
Sorry Michele, I was too busy visualizing this idiot kid doing this to notice how bad the spelling was. You're right, it's bad. Then again, what do you expect from someone who would try to attack a spider with pee?
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Here's a sig file [Author: Tim Weaver] that I stumbled across today:
To err is human. To bleat is ovine. To bark is canine.
To forgive is divine. To oink is porcine. To purr is feline.
To moo is bovine. To howl is lupine. This list is assinine.
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FEAR OF A MEOW PLANET by The King of Rock
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Someone's Forging Glennie Webb: a poem-cascade.
This one ended up with The 2-Belo! Check out his header files for some additional silliness.
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El Brujo explains to a hapless Canadian about the possibility of fellatio with 220 million people.
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All Bound for Meow Meow Land by posterkid.
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was there a particular tune that that was supposed to go to?
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Harvey at April 6, 2004 09:33 AM
Usually it's pretty easy to tell, but I haven't been able to figure this one out yet.
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Madfish Willie at April 6, 2004 10:52 AM
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The infamous "BARNEY RAPED MY FAMILY!!!n!" cascade. Fully restored. The largest, most widely crossposted cascade of the last two years, eclipsing the 'Nose's 2nd Anniversary Cascade in sheer volume.
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A Fuckhead is Born: Narrative Flame.
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This is a little ditty from Fluffy, Ruler of All Usenet:
Stan, I Am!
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A short fisking style flame:
El Brujo gets medieval on a religious zealot.
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Willie,
That was one of the most perverted, disgusting, and demeaning thing I've read in awhile. It's Brilliant! Thank you very much for sharing that, and your bandwidth.
Johnny
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Here's a nice little 50 line cascade:
Subject: Re: What's the "T" in Bilbert T. Smellivan's name stand for anyway?
MEOWers did NOT like Gilbert T Sullivan at all. They made him their bitch!
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A little SPANK cascade ending with The 2-Belo
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Here is a really cool collection of sigfile headers and Usenet Performance Art.
A nice little poem:
alt dot fucking flame
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(with apologies to John Cooper Clarke)
I'm fucking sick of "AnalfaCe"
He's just a waste of fucking space.
That fucking Krapout's fucking shite
Can't fucking spell, can't fucking write.
And fucking Doom's as fucking bad
As he was last year - it's fucking sad.
And fucking Zoos claims fucking spanks
And fucking Biil just fucking wanks.
"I'm fucking rich", "you're fucking poor"
"You racist fuck, I'm fucking sure"
"Your fucking wife's a fucking slag"
"You're fucking gay you fucking fag"
"I fucked your mom, ten fucking bucks"
"Your fucking website fucking sucks"
"It fucking is", "it's fucking not"
Who fucking cares you fucking 'bots?
I might as well just fucking quit,
I'm sick and fucking tired of it.
When every day's the fucking same,
Right here on alt dot fucking flame.
I wanted to do a sample of some cool ASCII art, but it is all in a monospaced font and won't display properly. Go check it out... there are some really talented people that had a lot of time on their hands to create wonderful images using nothing but letters, numbers, and symbols.
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Alt.Fan.Karl-Malden.Nose
The Orginal afk-mn Newsgroup Control Message from 1993!
Whence the Nose?
From news@use.net Mon May 3 23:57:12 1993
Control: newgroup alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
Newsgroups: alt.fan.karl-malden.nose.ctl
Path: unet!uchinews!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edunetnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!raven.alaska.edu!use.net!news
From: news@use.net (The Gh0D of Usenet)
Subject: newgroup alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
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Sender: news@use.net (The Gh0D of Usenet)
Nntp-Posting-Host: Gh0D.use.net
Organization: net.gods 'r us
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 18:43:34 GMT
Approved: news@use.net
Lines: 1
Xref: uunet control:621349
Don't leave home without it.
Make sure you scroll down the page and read the Kitty pornography post; read the headers, especially the "Old-Approved" line.
Next time we'll have some Usenet Performance Art for you to review!!
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Pixy Misa at March 22, 2004 11:11 AM
OMG - too funny! Once I was cleaning up a name and address list for mailing purposes and came across a name...
Kitty Cat
1 Meow Lane
Cattown... etc etc
It must've been one of these people and I didn't even know it!
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Cascade 1) n. A form of visual post-art. Cascades are formed through followups of followups of followups etc. of posts, usually with one-word or one-sentence replies each time. The resulting triangle-shaped post can be hundreds of lines long, and can make for quite entertaining reading as well as just being cool-looking word art. Cascades also have the added effect, when used during a flamewar, of pissing off those who do not like them (see "fuckhead cascade"). 2) v. To participate in, or instigate, a cascade.
It is with great pleasure and much laughter that I direct you to The Movie Penis Cascade
Including but not limited to:
- Twenty Thousand Penises Under The Sea.
- Bill and Ted's Penis Adventure.
- Alice Adventures in Penisland.
- A Penis Full of Dollars.
If you have any movie titles you would like to add that are not on the list, let 'er rip in the comments!
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Penis
The Godpenis
Beauty and the Penis
The Penis Bride
The Lion Penis
Star Trek: The Motion Penis
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Harvey at March 20, 2004 09:02 AM
The Penis of Zorro
Judge Penis
A Bronx Penis
A Penis Tale
Scent of a Penis
Penis of a Woman
A Penis Action
A Civil Penis
The Sixth Penis
Penis Recall
Total Penis
The Penis File
The Ipcress Penis
Penis Dogs
The Penis of War
The Art of Penis
Austin Powers: Internat'l Penis of Mystery
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Madfish Willie at March 20, 2004 03:00 PM
Penis Instinct
"Penis & Me"
Dude, where's my penis???
This is so fucking gay...
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The Meow Wars The largest flame war in Usenet history, involving hundreds of people from over 80 newsgroups, lasting over forty-five weeks. It was the Usenet equivalent of World War II. It was The Flamewar to End All Flamewars.
It was the best of times. The Meow Wars It all began innocently enough: a small group of students at Harvard University - a band of future bloodsucking ambulance-chasing lawyers, medical specialists who phone in diagnoses from mobile phones on yachts, and caffeine-crazed computer programmers with way too much time on their hands - began to use Usenet as a local dorm room bulletin board/gossip clique area.
The newsgroup they chose, apparently at random from among the hundreds of empty Usenet joke-newsgroup wastelands: alt.fan.karl-malden.nose. The circumstances surrounding the birth of this newsgroup can now be told, thanks to the location of the original newgroup control message.
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Apparently as a result of the Ivy-League uppity belief that all the world should be like them (and also as a result of trying to avoid studying for exams), one of the posters suggested that they "invade" a real, populated newsgroup and "rile up the stupid people". When Matt Bruce, another of the Harvard band, heard this, he wrote this response:
"I suggest that we start either posting or crossposting to alt.tv.beavis-n-butthead. I also suggest that we use big words and perfect grammar, and refuse to write as the young ruffians in question speak.
"This could lead to some interesting 'dialogue.' "
This article was posted directly to alt.tv.beavis-n-butthead. The regulars at that group, wondering what the world was coming to, scoffed at the notion of a couple of stuck-up geeks from Harvard calling them "ruffians", and a few unpleasantries were exchanged. This crosspost-tossing attracted the attention of an unknown poster going by the name of Dontonio Wingfield. He/she discovered that one of the Harvard posters, Chuck Truesdell, placed "meow meow" (a reference to Henrietta Pussycat of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood fame) in many of his posts as a sort of calling card, as his initials spell "C.A.T.". Matt Bruce picked up on this practice for one post (the quote at the top of this page), and someone, for some reason, took that article out of afk-mn, crossposting it to a dozen newsgroups as a troll against the "Nosers" (as the Harvard students called themselves).
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The posters in the targeted groups, noting the "meow meow" elements, began to retaliate against the supposed original crossposter, Matt Bruce. These posters entered the 'Nose and found it full of other Harvard students like Matt, and the counter-invaders flamed and spewed "meow" with vigor, In time, flames containing the word "meow" would start popping up all over the place, aimed mostly at areas where the high-class uppity Ivy-League snots were known to congregate, such as alt.college.college-bowl. Other flames targeted snobbish college kids who regularly huffed their freckled noses in newsgroups such as alt.music.nin. Some of the more daring souls decided to forge articles in Bruce's name, spreading the "meow" attacks to more and more groups, including afk-mn, to add to the onslaught against him and his "intellectually elite" cohorts.
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When this only fanned the flames further, he [Matt Bruce] threatened to cancel all articles containing the word "meow", and to netcop all the "meow" article forgers. This "Cancellation Notice", posted about a month and a half after the first "meow" troll, was apparently the proverbial last straw. A person crossposting into 12 newsgroups, then claiming it a "joke", when he obviously had no sense of humor? This pissed off the Usenet Performance Artists to no end. it was time to teach Matt Bruce - and the rest of his gang of snots - a lesson. Suddenly, afk-mn, alt.college.college-bowl, and scores of other groups were flooded to the gills and beyond with hundreds upon hundreds of huge meow articles from all corners of Usenet. Cascades, ASCII cats, hundred-line "meow" hello-world-type flood posts, and more were posted, reposted, munged, pureed, and regurgitated all over the servers of the world. The Harvard kids' protests were quickly lost in the feline tidal wave. Every post by a Harvard snot would result in fifty cascade follow-ups. alt.college.college-bowl, a known regular haunt of Matt Bruce, was reduced to a smoldering crater, so inundated with meows that its regulars could no longer use it. After a couple of weeks of this, Usenet in general looked like Chernobyl, or the Marina district of San Francisco after the 1989 earthquake, or downtown Nagasaki the day after the fall of the Fat Man.
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The One True History of MEOW!
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Excellent! Thanks for posting this. I never got into Usenet at all, but I love the story!
posted by
Teresa at March 19, 2004 05:21 PM
Emperor Darth Misha pointed me over there a long time ago. The were roasting a troll -Barney- and MEOW kept appearing. When I asked him what it meant he took the time to send me a really long e-mail expaining it and gave me the link. When ever I need a laugh, I go through the archives and look at some of the absolutely brilliant silly shit these guys did. I'm thinking of posting a little of this silliness every day for your entertainment... what do you think?
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Madfish Willie at March 19, 2004 06:00 PM
Go for it! Usenet was the conceptual Godfather of comment and cross-blog conversations that we enjoy today. A little cyber-history lesson would do us all some good.
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Harvey at March 20, 2004 09:05 AM
That would be fabulous. There has been so much really terrific stuff on Usenet that I've never had time to go read! Now I could come here and let you do the work for me - LOL.
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