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me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what??

me: snaaake, snaaake, ohhh it’s a snaaake

my husband, who is several years younger than me: okay maybe I do need to go to the ER for that concussion after all, I have no idea what you’re saying

Oct 5 at 8:04amWeb
Show threadjn (big endian energy)Oct 5
@0xabad1dea call unesco, because this is a cultural heritage
Show threadTane Piper ⁂Oct 5

@0xabad1dea

Me: LOOK AT MY HORSE, MY HORSE IS AMAZING

GenZ: "Wtf they talking about, there's no horse here?"

Show threadcmdrSprocketOct 5
@tanepiper @0xabad1dea 🎶 Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean...
Show threadJos DingjanOct 5
@cmdrSprocket @tanepiper @0xabad1dea I have been known to subject my colleagues to 🎶🎵🎶 He’s back, and he’s got a new trick, Magical Trevor is ten times as slick as the last time, the last time you saw him… 🎶
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialOct 5
@happydisciple @cmdrSprocket @tanepiper @0xabad1dea look at the messsss, in aiiiisle twoooo....
Show threadATOct 5
@cmdrSprocket @tanepiper @0xabad1dea he saw beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans oh beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans yeah yeah
Show threadDanct12Oct 5

@tanepiper @0xabad1dea 🎵 I've got a big bag of crabs here 🎵

🎵 I'm gonna put them in my mouth... OH YES 🎵

Show threadDaniel LakelandOct 5
@tanepiper
GenX here... Also have no idea what y'all on about. I mean, I know the Badger, and the Narwhal thing kinda but the rest of this is gibberish.
@0xabad1dea
Show threadDuncan BluesOct 5
@0xabad1dea
It's one of these things you either know or you don't - cause they can't be explained. 😅
Show threadDerPumu (he/him)Oct 5
@0xabad1dea I'm with your husband here. WHAT? (and I don't think I'm younger than you)
Show threadabadideaOct 5
@DerPumu it was the hottest meme on earth about 20 years ago
Show threadFrank ZimperOct 5

@0xabad1dea

I just looked it up and recognised I never heard of that and I am pretty sure I've been on Earth 20 years ago. Maybe it's just because I was already too old then.

@DerPumu

Show threadMark FraserOct 5
@fzimper @0xabad1dea @DerPumu I don't remember that either.
Show threadmynameOct 5
@mfraz74 @fzimper @0xabad1dea @DerPumu it's all we had back there. there are like a dozen or so fairly random animations that just were _the_ thing. because what else should you do?
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@myname @mfraz74 @fzimper @0xabad1dea @DerPumu they live on in the internet archive
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeOct 5
@fzimper @0xabad1dea @DerPumu twenty years ago it was easier to miss stuff like this unless you were "terminally online". … thankfully.
Show threadDerPumu (he/him)Oct 5
@fishidwardrobe @fzimper @0xabad1dea 20 years ago I was terminally online - in WoW 😅
Show threadQuinn NortonOct 5
@0xabad1dea @DerPumu 20 years ago... Stop lying to yourself. It was in the 90s. 😂
Show threadatteroOct 5

@quinn @0xabad1dea @DerPumu "The cartoon went live on B3ta.com on 2 September 2003 at 3:49 a.m. GMT."

22 years still qualifies as "20 years ago"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badgers_(animation)

Badgers (animation) - Wikipedia

Show threadQuinn NortonOct 5

@attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu THAT'S CRAZY I SWEAR TO GOD I SAW IT IN THE 90S. this it one of those Berenstein Bears moment.

No, damnit I'm from a timeline where it happened in the 90s 😂

Show threadRebecaOct 5
@quinn @attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu in the 90s it would have taken hours to download that!
Show threadQuinn NortonOct 5
@rebe_gc @attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu lemme tell about it, kid 😁
Show threadQuinn NortonOct 5
@rebe_gc @attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu *puts on girdle and compression socks* lemme tell ya about usenet and efnet irc ...
Show threadRebecaOct 5
@quinn @attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu in the groups I used to frequent back then you got yelled at pretty loudly if you posted a 16 color gif so ...
Show threadQuinn NortonOct 6
@rebe_gc @attero @0xabad1dea @DerPumu I suppose we were a bit more yolo. And also more pirate all the things. Admittedly it got easier by the 90s, piracy was extremely difficult in the 80s, but that's also where luser meets were useful 😂
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@quinn
I remember it from my first job, which was at least 2007. Although now that I think about it it might have been a dated reference.

@0xabad1dea @DerPumu

Show threadAgnieszka R. TurczyńskaOct 5

@0xabad1dea @DerPumu habba habba zoot zoot heba huba zat zat

(also known as Jinnai and the bug room, if memory doesn't lie to me).

Show threadF4GRX SébastienOct 5
@0xabad1dea @DerPumu dang, that much?
Show threadTathar is dragons! (public)Oct 5
@0xabad1dea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKWfqOlG7I maybe this version was demographically targeted after all
MosesOnDope.EXE (Badger Badger Demoscene version)

YouTube
Show threadStarkRGOct 5
@0xabad1dea This pie tastes of donkey poo!
Show threadGary Oct 5

@0xabad1dea even my 16yo knows that!

(Okay, he was raised by weird GenX parents who were early Internet adopters 😀)

Show threadAaronOct 5
@WiteWulf @0xabad1dea This 45 yo does not...
Show threadJon A. CruzOct 5
@0xabad1dea he knows not Kenya also?
Show threadGiles of the JungleOct 5
@joncruz @0xabad1dea They got the lions.
Show threadHelen LHOct 5
@0xabad1dea Everyone loves Magical Trevor
'Cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever
Look at him now, disappearin' the cow
Where is the cow hidden right now?
Show threadendrift 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 5
@0xabad1dea Where can you see lions?
Show threadFluffgar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Oct 5

@0xabad1dea I swear half the incomprehensible ancient inscriptions archaeologists find are probably that eras version of this.

There'll be a museum in the far future that has a brick with "skibidi" scrawled on it. It'll be in a glass case with one of those little plaques telling folk it's a grave good to someone by that name. Or part of a temple to that god.

Humans crazy.

Show threadSteven ReedOct 5
@fluffgar @0xabad1dea those of us slightly older again have snippets of popular adverts, and perhaps running gags from stand-up comedy etc, stuck in our heads too. Brits of a certain age will instantly understand "SOFT ON THE INSIDE, CRUNCHY ON THE OUTSIDE." I look forward to it causing much consternation when we're in our wheelchairs around the TV in our nursing homes watching nature documentaries, and randomly shout that out ..
Show threadDaveOct 5
@srtcd424 @fluffgar @0xabad1dea ... meanwhile, practically all germans of all ages will cringe at the mention of SEITENBACHER ... 
Show threadAndrew F.Oct 5

@srtcd424 @fluffgar @0xabad1dea One of my proudest parenting achievements is that my 19 year old son will, correctly, point out that something soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside is "like an ARMADILLOOOOOOO!"

He also knows that badgers, mushrooms and snakes go together.

This causes problems when he thinks his 20+ year old memes should be understood by his friends. But that just makes them one of today's lucky 10,000.

Show threadJonOct 5

@Jaffa @srtcd424 @fluffgar @0xabad1dea

Two armadillos?

Show threadGeoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Oct 5
@srtcd424 @fluffgar @0xabad1dea Slightly rippled, with a flat underside.
Show threadEllieOct 5
@fluffgar @0xabad1dea pretty sure people in the future are going to think game of thrones and harry potter are religious myths
Show threadTed MielczarekOct 5
@fluffgar @0xabad1dea most of the extant clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions are apparently written by kids practicing to be scribes. Makes me wonder how many lines have been puzzled over by scholars but are actually just kid jokes
Show threadCharlie StrossOct 5

@0xabad1dea

Yes but do you—

WE LIKE DA MOOOOON!!!

https://youtu.be/PRuFEiXijKA

Rathergood - We Like The Moon (High Quality Audio & Video)

YouTube
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 5

@cstross @0xabad1dea

My partner is within a few months of my age, but was not online much until she was in her late 20s so missed a lot of these things (though not badgers, I don’t think anyone missed that). So I had to explain why I always say ‘we like the moon!’ When I see a full moon and always follow the word ‘dirigibles’ with ‘and Zeppelins and lightbulbs’.

She also hadn’t seen Strong Bad, so needed to be introduced to Trogdor to understand why I always say ‘Sworded!’ Whenever my character stabs something in a game.

Show threadStumpy The MuttOct 5
@david_chisnall @cstross @0xabad1dea My partner had actually never seen the badgers bit until I showed it to her recently. Something about working on a PhD. until 2006 and the post-doctoral work got in the way of all that early cool stuff. Poor, dear girl.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 5

@StumpyTheMutt @cstross @0xabad1dea

Watching Weebl was how we procrastinated when I was a PhD student! And we all know from phdcomics that procrastination is the key skill for a PhD.

Show threadCharlie StrossOct 5
@david_chisnall @0xabad1dea Yeah, and there we go because I have NO IDEA who Trogdor is.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 5

@cstross @0xabad1dea

In one of the StrongBad series, he creates a game called Trogdor the Burninator, a dragon who burn[inate]s things (you have to burn villagers and not be killed by knights). The game has sound samples that are StrongBad speaking and saying things like ‘burninated!’ ‘Sworded!’ And ‘Arrowed!’.

I think it was originally just an in-animation game that some of the characters played, but one of the later ones had it as a playable game (possibly if you clicked on the right word in ‘the paper’ at the end?).

Show threadLord egeltje 🦔 🇪🇺   Oct 5
@0xabad1dea the cultural impact of Weebl's vids is totally underrated.
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Oct 5
@0xabad1dea badger badger badger badger
mushroom mushroom!
Show threadOloturiaOct 5
@0xabad1dea explain that you act like this because you have seen things with your eyes and that they're often in disguise, and repeat the concept over and over again until your voice goes out of sync
Show threadPsycodepathOct 5
@0xabad1dea did he at least look at your horse? Its amazing.
Show threadfaebudoOct 5
@0xabad1dea Never show him https://z0r.de/
ZOMG ZUFALL! #6239

Show threadcodingWombat (he / him) ⌨Oct 5
@0xabad1dea 20 years ago we wrote a script to auto launch this in the complete computer lab at my high school xD
Show threadflukeOct 5
@0xabad1dea Nooooooooooooo!
Frantically searching for a Joe Cartoon flash to play now.