10
edits
In Jokes: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
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. | ||
| Line 151: | Line 151: | ||
=Grand= | =Grand= | ||
===Origin=== | ===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 | 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. | 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]] | |||
===Added to list=== | ===Added to list=== | ||
14 April 2011 | 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." | |||
===Added to list=== | |||
14 April 2011 | |||
=go but= | |||
===Origin=== | |||
thou shalt always go but | |||
===Added to list=== | |||
31 August 2016 | |||
=The "schan"= | |||
- | |||
===Origin=== | |||
- | |||
===Added to list=== | |||
22 August 2019 | |||
[[Category:Humour]] | [[Category:Humour]] | ||
[[Category:Redbrick History]] | [[Category:Redbrick History]] | ||
[[Category:Community]] | [[Category:Community]] | ||