This thing is big, really big, if the Indianapolis Star (newspaper) picks it up:
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Dateline: Indianapolis Star - 'Read All About It' column by David Mannweiler - 5/7/01 -
Have you had enough 'All your base' yet?
This too shall pass, hopefully by tomorrow.
We who live on society's cutting edge are aware, as you soon will be, that the sentence "All your base are belong to us," is a national craze. It even has its own abbreviation, AYB, its own mostly obscure Internet sites and now AYB merchandising.
The butchered-English sentence comes from a poorly translated introduction to an equally obscure Japanese video game called
Zero Wing, say trend-spotters at the
Hartford Courant. The game has other blotched translations, such as "Somebody set up us the bomb" and "You have no chance to survive make your time."
It's trendy to doctor photos to include the letters AYB or the sentence itself. The comic strip
Fox Trot used AYB recently, and a mouse pad shows
Albert Einstein at his blackboard writing "AYB."
We say bring back the hamster dance.
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Hey, people, I don't write this crap, I just post it here so you can flame
Mr. Mannweiler for writing it.
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