Further Interesting Interest Theatre:

[azurelunatic]

As requested by lizamanynames: !!pleh, !pleh??, "my cocks(?) is down", cult of josh, tits against the rte, phighting collective phail, lart, livejournal support prevention team.

!!pleh & !pleh??

These are pretty much the same. There was a support request with everything written backwards. In retrospect, it may have been due to the unicode right-to-left character being loose somewhere on the user's view of things, but "pleh" with varying forms of punctuation was very prevalent in the support request, and struck IRC's sense of the ridiculous.

"my cocks(?) is down"

In 2007, my internet went down for a while. I had, at the time, cable internet through Cox Communications. I made a voice post about it, which Spinvox cheerfully transcribed. Now, any semi-automatic transcription is not going to get everything right all the time. This was no exception. ursamajor thought this was absolutely hilarious, and it made the transition from a bad transcription to a very small in-joke.

cult of josh

In 1995, I attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer programs for the second time. I met pyrogenic there, and fell head-over-heels for him, in the way that generally only a teenager can successfully pull off. Shortly thereafter, brooklynmili did as well. Because these things happen, we founded a religion for the express purpose of Being In Love with Josh, population: us. It got very silly.

tits against the rte

Many LiveJournal Support volunteers kind of loathe the Rich Text Editor. This interest is a form of protest and/or bribery, in the spirit of either witholding or granting boobage or images thereof for the removal of the Rich Text Editor. It ... made more sense in IRC.

phighting collective phail

The story on this one is a little bit obscure, but involves an irate user who employed the phrase "choke on your mothers' collective phalli" in making the point that really, it would make more sense if it were not possible for an underage user to post Explicit Adult content. It went on in this vein for some length.

lart

A high-precision instrument employed at least notionally by system administrators the world around, this stands for (L)User Attitude Re-adjustment Tool, and is often wooden, two inches by four inches by forty inches or so. I have done enough tech support to appreciate fine objects of this nature.

livejournal support prevention team

It took some people longer to adjust to the Abuse team's new name than others. This was someone else's common typo from that era of adjustment.

Comments

[domtheknight]

Your interests are so interesting!

[azurelunatic]

Thanks!

If you want to play too, I'm interested in hearing about these: butterfingers, cardiac 'cats, the six before dance, hadrian's wall, the great schism, made up truth, hymnody

[fairlight]

I am so sorry I missed it when your cocks was down.

Although I'm not sure, knowing you, that I wouldn't have thought there were chickens involved.

(I like chickens, but I do not know as much about them as you. My great-grandmother had them, but I was rather small at the time.)

[azurelunatic]

I understand that a few well-placed chickens can play havoc with an internet connection.

[lizamanynames]

My god, I have someone who crams their interest list as full of injokes as I do! XD

[azurelunatic]

Interests are great places for injokes. They go around Support like the rename plague.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

*wanders by to say, somewhat randomly:* The last one reminds me of my housepainting days--we had Paint Thinner, Paint Remover, and Brush Cleaner, and we kept mixing them up (the names, not the chemicals!), so finally Brush Cleaner became Brush Remover pretty much permanently.

Until my friend M, being out of Thinner and being a pretty hardcore kind of girl, used Brush Remover on her hands, after which it became Flesh Remover. *winces in recollection*

[azurelunatic]

Brush Remover! That's hilarious. And ow.

[pyrogenic.livejournal.com]

Does the Cult of Josh come up often in conversation?

[azurelunatic]

Not often, but I can say that I was part of a cult. If only all cults were as mostly harmless.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

If I remember right, it was sort of up in the air whether I was the High Priestess of the cult, the assassination target of the cult, or an involuntary draftee of the cult.

[azurelunatic]

Less assassination target and more High Priestess or draftee. We had no quarrel with you, we just wished you would share your toys. :D

[brooklynmili.livejournal.com]

See, I always say I was in a polygamous cult when I was fourteen if required to prove my oddness quotient. That basically shuts people the fuck up pretty fast.

[azurelunatic]

And it was an excellent cult!

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

lart sounds like a practical hardware version of the :reformat /user software command.

[azurelunatic]

*halo*

[jd]

Gratuitous userpic comment.

[azurelunatic]

*giggle*

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I now work with a large number of men named Josh. Which has led both to a lead correcting me when I said that half the department was Josh, by noting it was only a third, and the plural, Joshui.

We are Joshui
We are many
We are watching

(which means a third of the department has that as their MOC note.)

[azurelunatic]

Heeee!

For entertainment purposes, we started calling this Josh "Shua" some of the time.