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With a strong community of posters to be found on Redbrick, it is inevitable that a number of in-jokes exist. Feel free to update and add to this list. | With a strong community of posters to be found on Redbrick, it is inevitable that a number of in-jokes exist. While this page is within the Humour category, this is very debatable. Feel free to update and add to this list. | ||
When adding a new in-joke, please keep the same format. | When adding a new in-joke, please keep the same format. | ||
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Sometimes, someone will then ask, what is this "Finland has an Army?" shenanigans. This will prompt someone else to write a long description of the origin of the joke will then prompt someone else to reply with "Finland has an Army?" | Sometimes, someone will then ask, what is this "Finland has an Army?" shenanigans. This will prompt someone else to write a long description of the origin of the joke will then prompt someone else to reply with "Finland has an Army?" | ||
This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] | This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] In February 2009, 21 members and associates of Redbrick travelled to Finland. It was noted by a few of the group that there were, in fact, a high number of soldiers in gear compared to Ireland. At the airport in Tampere, Redbrick members were treated to two F18 fighter jets taking off. Finland surely does have an army. | ||
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From: Disposable Teen <bosco@RedBrick.DCU.IE> | |||
Newsgroups: redbrick.babble | |||
Subject: Re: Internet addiction | |||
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:25:51 +0000 (UTC) | |||
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 Captain Olimar <myk@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote: | |||
> From Ireland.com | |||
> | |||
> Helsinki: A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full | |||
> term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the | |||
> Finnish Defence Forces announced yesterday. | |||
> | |||
> Doctors found that the young men miss their computers too much to cope | |||
> with their compulsory six months in the forces. | |||
> | |||
> "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any | |||
> friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big | |||
> shock," said Commander-Captain Jyrki Kivela at the military conscription | |||
> unit. | |||
> | |||
> "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come | |||
> back and we ask if they are okay ... they will have had time to grow | |||
> up." | |||
> | |||
> "We are very proud of our Finnish men. Eighty-two per cent of all | |||
> Finnish men manage their whole military service," Commander Kivela | |||
> added. | |||
> | |||
> | |||
Finland has an army? | |||
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===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
Somebody posted a news story about people escaping | Somebody posted a news story about people escaping Finland's conscription by being addicted to the internet. This made them unsuitable for military service. | ||
Somebody followed up to this with "Finland has an army?". I don't think this was repeated too much, but the response, "They held back the Russians in World War 2" - and one million and five variants - was soon posted, by one million and size people eager to demonstrate their sexy historical knowledge. They were so eager, they didn't check to see if anybody else had posted something similar. After a while, people started posting it ironically, to demonstrate that people should check threads before posting. | Somebody followed up to this with "Finland has an army?". I don't think this was repeated too much, but the response, "They held back the Russians in World War 2" - and one million and five variants - was soon posted, by one million and size people eager to demonstrate their sexy historical knowledge. They were so eager, they didn't check to see if anybody else had posted something similar. After a while, people started posting it ironically, to demonstrate that people should check threads before posting. | ||
Since then, "Finland has an army?" and "held back the russians in world war 2" in a response have come to mean "This has already been said". Constant reposting of the same answer in various slightly different (or implausibly identical) forms is a variant of this injoke - the Nebuchadnezzar joke below is an example. Likewise, expect the current topic to be incorporated: "Google has a Finland?" - "Held back the Matrix in world war 2". | Since then, "Finland has an army?" and "held back the russians in world war 2" in a response have come to mean "This has already been said". Constant reposting of the same answer in various slightly different (or implausibly identical) forms is a variant of this injoke - the Nebuchadnezzar joke below is an example. Likewise, expect the current topic to be incorporated: "Google has a Finland?" - "Held back the Matrix in world war 2". | ||
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=RESIIIIIIIII...GN= | |||
===Origin=== | |||
When [[User:robby|robby]] was elected chair of RedBrick at the 2008 AGM, certain elected rootholders at the time began drunkenly hassling him in [[Fibbers]]. Legend has it that the cry "RESIIIIIGN" was said to have been uttered by [[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]]. It is now shouted at committee members when they do something wrong, or in an attempt to demotivate them. | |||
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=Grand= | |||
===Origin=== | |||
Particularly associated with [[User:lithium|lithium]] and [[User:hauk|hauk]], "grand" is a complex adjective that can be used to express any level of casual assent from "good" or "ok" to "sure, why not?". | |||
Frequently seen in #lobby, grand is most often used in conjunction with grand activities such as growing chilies or homebrewing, but can be adapted to banally express approval of almost anything. Statistics indicate that by the year 2013, the ever-increasing usage of "grand" will eliminate the need for all other mildly positive adjectives. | |||
See also: [[Grand]] | |||
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14 April 2011 | |||
=Failchair= | |||
===Origin=== | |||
Failchair is a light-hearted mock term for a DCU society committee's chairperson. | |||
From the Games Soc wiki - "The term "failchair" came about in 2008 or so as part of a Redbrick/Games Soc in-joke, whereby the word "fail" is attached to the front of all or part of a committee title. The term is used almost exclusively in jest, and rarely implies actual failure on the part of the committee member in question." | |||
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14 April 2011 | |||
=go but= | |||
===Origin=== | |||
thou shalt always go but | |||
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31 August 2016 | |||
=The "schan"= | |||
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22 August 2019 | |||
[[Category:Humour]] | [[Category:Humour]] | ||
[[Category:Redbrick History]] | [[Category:Redbrick History]] | ||
[[Category:Community]] | [[Category:Community]] | ||