Thread of Awesome: THIS! IS!! QUOTEFILE!!!

[Ebony]

Proginoskes wrote:

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Timote wrote:

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from a Spacebattles post by Stormseed (referencing an old RPG.net thread)

Hither came
Mario the Plumber, black-haired, sullen-eyed, shell in hand, a
coin-thief, a box-basher, a goomba-slayer, with gigantic melancholies
and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the game under his
booted feet."

This reminds me of Gryphon's poem about the Internet: News Spooler to the World,
W4R3Z Poster, Hacker of Root,
Player with Switched Hubs and the Nation's Data Handler,
Stormy, husky, brawling,
Network of the Big Lusers:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your
painted women in the animated GIFs luring the schoolboys.
They tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen
the spammers spam and go free to spam again.
They tell me you are brutal and my reply is: In the .sigs of women and
children I have seen the marks of wanton flamage.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my
network, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another network with lifted head singing so proud to
be alive and linked and routed and running,
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a
tall bold slugger set vivid among the little soft networks;
Fierce as a self-proclaimed netcop with tongue lapping for action,
cunning as a W4R3Z D00D pitted against the sysadmins,
Bare copper,
dig(1)ing,
Crashing,
Planning,
Routing, black-holing, rerouting,
Under the line noise, ping packets all over his routes, laughing with
filtered interfaces,
Under the terrible burden of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* laughing as
a big disk laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant netadmin laughs who has never lost a
server,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his
ribs is the heart of the network,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-coded,
swapping, proud to be News Spooler, W4R3Z Poster, Hacker of Root, Player
with Switched Hubs and Data Handler to the Nation.
- "Internet" Tue Jan 20 02:21:01 EST 1998
Benjamin D. Hutchins, with apologies to Carl Sandburg

Which is, as Gryphon says at the end, an homage to "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
Hog Butcher for the World,

   Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,

   Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

   Stormy, husky, brawling,

   City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.

And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.

And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.

And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,

   Bareheaded,

   Shoveling,

   Wrecking,

   Planning,

   Building, breaking, rebuilding,

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,

Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,

Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,

Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,

                   Laughing!

Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
  
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."