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16-bit Wine-country Fandango
by funtax
Since most anything that's ever come out of my mouth
that happens to bear repeating tends to relate to either
sodomy or pirates, I've opted to cheat and make a case
for lines I swiped from elsewhere.
In the spirit of the wildly popular All
your base are belong to us, my line comes
from an imported Japanese video game. Like all high-brow
comedy, this bit is rooted firmly in the humor that
comes from referencing the hopelessly obscure. If none
of this is funny to you, then you probably have a significantly
more active social life than I do. Or you simply don't
spend enough time trolling SomethingAwful forums.
In any event,
let's delve into this deep trough of belly laughter.
Since there are so many amazingly freakish lines in
Japanese video games, it was hard to narrow them all
down to one, final choice. But I pressed on, sorting
through screenshot after screenshot, searching for the
perfect phrase.
I could have easily chosen this one from Pocket Warrior:
I
had some good exercise! I think I have 'Borscht' now!
And who among us doesn't agree with this gem from King
of Fighters '94?
I'm
stronger when I'm drunk!
There were, of course, the undeniable classics:
A
winner is you!
While I desperately wanted to use a quote out of Jackie
Chan's Action Kung Fu, in the end I found
it impossible to pass up the following:
You're
about to be a grape at a beaujolais disco!
Actual scientific tests have proven that this is the
funniest thing many people will ever hear. By "scientific
tests," I mean that I used it as my .sig for a
little while and more than three people commented that
it was funny. It comes from Art of Fighting 2
and I fully expect it to be the next "Wassup."
Anything short of complete cultural saturation will
be doing this quip a grave injustice.
So sally forth and shout it from the rooftops or something.
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