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offtopic:running_jokes [2020/02/08 00:23] – Updating to new attachment format eofpiofftopic:running_jokes [2021/05/20 20:49] – [Running Jokes] petike
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 **[[Dave Howery]]**: Everyone used to be strangely convinced that Dave has a giant bushy biker beard (which he strenuously denies) and Dave himself wants to invade Canada with an army of robot tanks. Now people just ignore him. See main article. **[[Dave Howery]]**: Everyone used to be strangely convinced that Dave has a giant bushy biker beard (which he strenuously denies) and Dave himself wants to invade Canada with an army of robot tanks. Now people just ignore him. See main article.
  
-**Hockey-Rice**:  [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=3656|A 2004 ASB scenario]] by [[KJM]] in which Canada and China merge into one country called Hockey-Rice to provide a worthy opponent to the USA. Its flag is a colour-inverted and flipped Nazi flag. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=20685|Often]] [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=75677|referenced]] in mid-2000s AH.com media.+**Hockey-Rice**:  [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=3656|A 2004 ASB scenario]] by [[KJM]] in which Canada and China merge into one country called Hockey-Rice to provide a worthy opponent to the USA. Its flag is a colour-inverted and flipped Nazi flag. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=75677|Often referenced]] in mid-2000s AH.com media.
  
 **The [[Sheep Thread]], AKA "SHEEP THE SIZE OF VW CAMPER VANS!!!!!!"**: Legendary ASB thread created by Landshark which ran for many pages and spawned multiple [[AH.com Religions]]. **The [[Sheep Thread]], AKA "SHEEP THE SIZE OF VW CAMPER VANS!!!!!!"**: Legendary ASB thread created by Landshark which ran for many pages and spawned multiple [[AH.com Religions]].
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 **Fake Spanish**: Popularised by [[Thermopylae]], the Fake Spanish language is often called upon when presenting new media for a TL, especially "El Mappo!" whenever a new map is made. (Real Spanish would be 'La Carte!' or "¡El Mapa!") Fake Spanish is also often used with respect to the [[Heterosexual Reconquista]]. **Fake Spanish**: Popularised by [[Thermopylae]], the Fake Spanish language is often called upon when presenting new media for a TL, especially "El Mappo!" whenever a new map is made. (Real Spanish would be 'La Carte!' or "¡El Mapa!") Fake Spanish is also often used with respect to the [[Heterosexual Reconquista]].
  
-**The Inevitable Republic of [[Deseret]]/Inevitable Kingdom of [[Burgundy]]/Inevitable Kingdom of [[Hungary]]**: A term coined by [[Imajin]] for Deseret and then modified by [[Thande]] for Burgundy and by some other members for Hungary, to describe how those two states often pop up in maps of North America and Europe, respectively, with little explanation, often defying the [[alternate history:butterfly effect]]. This meme also inspired the name 'Inevitablid Caliphate of Europe' (see below).+**The Inevitable Republic of [[alternate history:Deseret]]/Inevitable Kingdom of [[Burgundy]]/Inevitable Kingdom of [[Hungary]]**: A term coined by [[Imajin]] for Deseret and then modified by [[Thande]] for Burgundy and by some other members for Hungary, to describe how those two states often pop up in maps of North America and Europe, respectively, with little explanation, often defying the [[alternate history:butterfly effect]]. This meme also inspired the name 'Inevitablid Caliphate of Europe' (see below).
  
 **The [[alternate_history:Space Filling Empire]]**: Another map term invented by Imajin, to describe how inexperienced mapmakers often fill up areas they have no ideas about (usually Africa or Central Asia) with a poorly defined empire or union of some kind. The concept is now referenced at TV Tropes. **The [[alternate_history:Space Filling Empire]]**: Another map term invented by Imajin, to describe how inexperienced mapmakers often fill up areas they have no ideas about (usually Africa or Central Asia) with a poorly defined empire or union of some kind. The concept is now referenced at TV Tropes.
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