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(Message started by: Shade on Sep 20^th, 2012, 7:41pm)

Title: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Sep 20^th, 2012, 7:41pm

We've had a lot of jokes over the years. I want to collect all our memes in one thread because I know there are tons I forget. I'm gonna save this and the next post to edit/update so we can have each meme, sample pictures if they apply, and a brief explanation of how they came to be and what they became. I need everyone's help here.
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Meme: Abe Lincoln Banana
Examples: http://i49.tinypic.com/2d6skco.gif http://i45.tinypic.com/ekkh80.jpg
Testimonies: http://i48.tinypic.com/2ch9v2p.png http://i45.tinypic.com/11h5k0o.png
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Meme: Blue Tarp & Blue Cooler Buddy
Summary: This originated some number of years ago (Gutterflower-era). There was scheduled to be an ~official webcast~ of a show, so several folks from the forum decided to have a chat around this event. But the stream was a total bust; the camera remained backstage the entire time and you never once saw the band. There may not have even been audio. Pretty much everyone who joined the chat was in a total panic, thinking that their computer was screwed up and they couldn't see the stream properly, but no... the only things decipherable in the entire shot were a blue tarp and a blue cooler. The next day there were a handful of tarps and coolers in peoples' usernames/avatars/signatures.
Examples: http://i46.tinypic.com/f48du.png http://i50.tinypic.com/15n7r6e.jpg
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Meme: Gage Naylor
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Meme: GooFan29
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Meme: Name Changes
Summary: This began when user "Shade" decided he no longer liked his username. He asked the administrator Shannon if he could make an announcement to let everyone know that he was changing his name so that they would know who this new name was, and whether the post could be in the main board. Shannon agreed, and thus was borne the "Name Change Thread." This thread began as a way to announce Shade's name change, but soon set off a string of users changing their names, sometimes even to other users' names in order to confuse others. The Name Change Thread became a community thread where random things were posted. It survives today in it's fourth iteration.
Variations: Name changing became a staple of the WOG Gabbly chats because of the ease of changing names. This often led to glitches in the chat with members not being able to see other members or seeing multiple versions of members for extended periods of time.
See also: The O's
Examples: http://i50.tinypic.com/1pw8kp.png; K-Fed
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Meme: O Parodies
See also: The O's; Taser O
Examples: http://i49.tinypic.com/xp0k91.gif http://i47.tinypic.com/2hzirv9.jpg
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Meme: Parodied Songs
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Meme: Taser O
Testimonies:
on 04/06/10 at 15:17:45, nmf016 wrote:

Tasers: I believe tasers came from the ridiculous chats some of us had and they carried over to the board. �I said something about buying tasers and Drew told me they should have Os engraved on them. �So I made a (crappy) taser with an O on it. �DWG said it looked like a face. �So I made the lady taser and Drew did whatever he does with everything

See also: The O's; O Parodies
Examples: http://i46.tinypic.com/347b4w5.png http://i48.tinypic.com/90ugpy.png
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Meme: The O's
Summary: This meme began with nmf016 changing her name to "the red o" and having a red o avatar. It was based off of the random red o on the Let Love In album cover. This led to user Shade changing to "the blue o" (which, ironically, was later present on the cover of the Let Love In: Live & Intimate cd/dvd cover), and then a series of many members changing to assorted o colors. Some include: Shannon (the yellow o), Nicole (the purple o), Mike (the black o), DWG (the green o), d.e.n.i.s.e. (the orange o), christina (the fuschia o).
Variations: As time went on, users began to morph the o's into other roundish objects. Some include: Mike (the penguin o; the.canadian.o), Nicole (the purple bulb), Shade (the blue D; the cursive o?; the dead o), blessed_by_goo (the angel o), Sympathy_0 (the chocolate o), nmf016 (the stamped o), DWG (the ernest o)
Testimonies:
on 04/06/10 at 15:17:45, nmf016 wrote:

Drew changed his name and we joked about changing our names to other people's. �I changed my name to Shade, Drew's old name and thought I creeped him out so I changed over to DWG for a while and then became 'the red o' because we had been talking about it. �Then Drew came back, became 'the blue o' because he's a pain who copies me a lot ( :D ) and then others jumped on the bandwagon. �Hilarity ensued.

Os I recall: red, blue, green, fuchsia, purple, yellow, orange, black, white, teal, angel, chocolate

The best part of the whole 'o' thing is still Nicole joining the board and becoming an o immediately. �I am still convinced Nicole is an elaborate prank by Drew.

See also:Taser O; Name Changes; O Parodies
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Meme: Trophies
Examples: http://i45.tinypic.com/fac4nl.jpg http://i50.tinypic.com/30a3zsx.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/dg440m.jpg http://i45.tinypic.com/nxtjb4.jpg

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Sep 20^th, 2012, 7:41pm

*saved for future edits*

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Sep 20^th, 2012, 7:48pm

Here's a few I can think of:

Meme: The O's.
Summary: I believe this began with nmf016 changing her name to "the red o" and having a red o avatar. It was based off of the random red o on the Let Love In album cover. This led to user Shade changing to "the blue o" (which, ironically, was later present on the cover of the Let Love In: Live & Intimate cd/dvd cover), and then a series of many members changing to assorted o colors. Some include: Shannon (the yellow o), Nicole (the purple o), Sympathy_0 (the brown o), DWG (the green o), laurengoo (the orange o).
Variations: As time went on, users began to morph the o's into other roundish objects. Some include: Mike (the penguin o), Nicole (the purple bulb), Shade (the blue D)
See also:"o taser"; name changes

Here's an example of how I'll catalog them. Let me know what to add and change for this one and I'll put it in the main post. Also, anyone remember who cerulean o and angel o were? Or any other o's I forgot? What other memes do you all remember?

Meme: Name changes
Summary: This began when user "Shade" decided he no longer liked his username. He asked the administrator Shannon if he could make an announcement to let everyone know that he was changing his name so that they would know who this new name was, and whether the post could be in the main board. Shannon agreed, and thus was borne the "Name Change Thread." This thread began as a way to announce Shade's name change, but soon set off a string of users changing their names, sometimes even to other users' names in order to confuse others. The Name Change Thread became a community thread where random things were posted. It survives today in it's fourth iteration.
Variations: Name changing became a staple of the WOG Gabbly chats because of the ease of changing names. This often led to glitches in the chat with members not being able to see other members or seeing multiple versions of members for extended periods of time.
See also: The O's

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Christina on Sep 20^th, 2012, 11:36pm

Abe Lincoln banana. I don't remember all of the background behind that though. I just quote people on it in my signature, and make .gifs.

Of course who could forget Blue Tarp and Blue Cooler Buddy:
Some number of years ago (Gutterflower-era) there was scheduled to be an ~official webcast~ of a show, so several folks from the forum decided to have a chat around this event. But the stream was a total bust; the camera remained backstage the entire time and you never once saw the band. I don't even remember if we got audio. Pretty much everyone who joined the chat was in a total panic, thinking that their computer was screwed up and they couldn't see the stream properly, but no... the only things decipherable in the entire shot were a blue tarp and a blue cooler.

Naturally there were a handful of tarps and coolers in peoples' usernames/avatars/signatures by the next morning. I think it was a coping mechanism.

I still have a CD somewhere with that video clip on it. Whoever sent me that, god bless you.

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 21^st, 2012, 11:32pm

Okay, so I had to look up the word "meme". �::)

But I think I can identify "angel o". I think that was blessed_by_goo

I thought the orange o was d.e.n.i.s.e.

Christina was fuschia o

there was also nmf's nemesis, the cursive o

There were many unique trophies.

The tasers deserve a section all their own. Although they were inspired by the o phenomenon, they morphed into their own unique genre. To this day sympathy_0 has an avatar of alyssa milano wearing taser hair. The last remaining o he is.

I'll have to get back to you on cerulean o and any other meme stuff I can think of. �I guess all you'd have to do is go through all 4 community/name change threads, which were each something like 150 pages long. No problemo.

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Sep 22^nd, 2012, 1:19pm

Haha the blue tarp thing was before I joined, I don't remember that at all. Thanks for the info! I'll keep updating the main post as I have time. Thanks for the clarification on the o's, DWG. Hard to keep them all straight.

Also, if people have images related to the memes post those and I'll add them to the entries.

Nice to see people back posting!

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 23^rd, 2012, 9:46pm

Shade,

I was going through the Reckoning thread I believe, and many of the photos are still showing up fine, lots of trophies and taser characters, o waffles, and assorted kooky stuff.

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Sep 24^th, 2012, 7:57pm

Any pic of Blue Tarp & Blue Cooler Buddy, Christina?

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 29^th, 2012, 12:23am

Gimme an award for my mad google skilz:

http://i33.tinypic.com/10zvlgg.png

*sniff*

the memories...

Found it within a WOG thread showing up on google search; credit the screencap to Christina (see 2002 in the thread sequence):

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cgi-bin/ggd/YaBB.cgi?board=maingooboard;action=print;num=1281142063

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 29^th, 2012, 12:57am

remember the Goos on QVC? (LLI era)

which led us to conjure up some strange ideas for GGD Quacker Factory sweaters?

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Christina on Sep 29^th, 2012, 1:08pm

Kudos for digging up that screencap. I thought I had a picture of that floating around somewhere. :P

I don't know that this helps any (maybe for the name change phenomenon) but I found a couple gabbly screencaps on my laptop:
http://i.imgur.com/gm5qd.png

http://i.imgur.com/pq4Il.png
Star Wars: It's a documentary

I also missed the QVC incident but here's the thread:
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cgi-bin/ggd/YaBB.cgi?board=maingooboard;action=display;num=1169163043;start=0

Which also spawned this gem:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/crookedrhyme/WOG/onnotice1.jpg

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by [Joelage] on Sep 30^th, 2012, 4:01am

haha The blue tarp... i remember that!

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 30^th, 2012, 12:54pm

http://i33.tinypic.com/10zvlgg.png

To this day, if you stare at it long enough, you imagine that something is going to move...

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 30^th, 2012, 12:58pm

http://bluecoolergroup.com/images/cooler.jpg

Blue Cooler Buddy:

"Don't forget about me!"

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by nmf016 on Sep 30^th, 2012, 5:20pm

Private meme: Drew messaging you EVERY SINGLE DAY until you show up.

I'd like to add to the blue tarp entry. First, this photo of the blue tarp enjoying the concert - because the blue tarp got a better seat than us humans.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/crookedrhyme/WOG/goo222521.jpg

And then the blue tarp after the show, wadded up and tossed aside like the dirty tramp it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/crookedrhyme/WOG/goo224951.jpg

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Sep 30^th, 2012, 11:55pm

Regarding Gage Naylor:

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cgi-bin/ggd/YaBB.cgi?board=maingooboard;action=print;num=1196707705

Huh...I thought Gage Naylor was someone you guys made up in a fake Wiki entry. ;)

more Gage Naylor lolz:

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cgi-bin/ggd/YaBB.cgi?board=maingooboard;action=print;num=1197085217

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Oct 1^st, 2012, 12:23am

Speaking of people who don't exist and/or name changes:

GooFan29

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Oct 1^st, 2012, 6:26pm

GooFan29=Gage Naylor=Nicole=Shade=nmf009=nmf016

nmf is 50% of the people on this board, I'm convinced.

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Christina on Oct 1^st, 2012, 6:46pm

More just from looking at this page:
Guns n' Roses elephants
Ridiculous smileys as avatars

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Oct 1^st, 2012, 7:42pm

What would the GnR Elephants meme be? Just nmf asking for 5 years for a picture and me constantly saying I'm working on it?

I've been adding a lot of pictures to the main post but I'll update some text soon, so anyone remembering the origins of the memes is helpful.

Is Nicole being a hobo and a jerk meme-status?

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by nmf016 on Oct 1^st, 2012, 8:29pm

Nicole is a hobo and a jerk. She did not say she's a meme.

PAINT MY ELEPHANTS!

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shannon on Oct 18^th, 2012, 12:02pm

Oh My Gosh this thread is awesomeness and one of the reasons that always made this board so great and fun! I laughed so hard reading through this thread and remembered all those fun times we had. ;D

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Nicole on Nov 27^th, 2012, 3:00pm

omg i need to check this board more often than every 6 months

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Nicole on Nov 27^th, 2012, 3:02pm

I had so many screen caps on my old computer which is locked in my igloo with my pet polar bear standing guard in Maine

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Nicole on Nov 27^th, 2012, 3:03pm

:woohoo:

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by Shade on Nov 27^th, 2012, 7:30pm

on 11/27/12 at 15:02:08, Nicole wrote:

I had so many screen caps on my old computer which is locked in my igloo with my pet polar bear standing guard in Maine

What is the likelihood of being able to train said polar bear through Skype to be able to find and send you those screencaps?

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by nmf016 on Nov 27^th, 2012, 8:17pm

Never mind all of that. The biggest Meme has just made an appearance in this thread! It's Drew's made up user Nicole!

Title: Re: WOG Memes
Post by DWG on Nov 28^th, 2012, 12:13am

I'm just glad we have WOG memes and not WOG mimes.

cuz I can't stand mimes.

why do mimes all wear striped shirts? Did they just escape from mime jail or something? huh?