I got the idea following the following conversation in the chat:
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Sillyman: [05:15 PM]: I think this conversational projection device should carry the
nomenclature of "In which a potentially DROD-related discussion is held".
12th Archivist: [05:16 PM]: I must admit, this conversation wasn't going anywhere near
where I expected it to land
Sillyman: [05:16 PM]: Rather than the current moniker of "CaravelNet Chat".
Sillyman: [05:17 PM]: So... is anyone here an IRP interpreter?
Chaco: [05:17 PM]: Well, this is a chat taking place on CaravelNet.
Chaco: [05:17 PM]: Hardly a useful moniker, but it's good enough.
Sillyman: [05:18 PM]: Really? I thought I connected via secure telegrammophone?
Sillyman: [05:18 PM]: And yes I did just make a non sequitur.
Sillyman: [05:18 PM]: (no pun intended0
Chaco: [05:18 PM]: No, it's wireless nanomachines. Everything's wireless nanomachines.
Sillyman: [05:19 PM]: Tiny machines? Why the very concept is absurd! How can the
machines possibly carry enough fuel to generate the steam required for basic computations?
Chaco: [05:20 PM]: Imagine a future where computations are done not with the ambiguities
and imprecision of steam,
Chaco: [05:20 PM]: but using the very power of Nature itself - precisely controlled
lightning!
Chaco: [05:20 PM]: Anyway, your libraries should have plenty of information on electricity.
Sillyman: [05:20 PM]: Pah, that isn't nearly visually impressive enough to attract the
engineer's interest.
Sillyman: [05:21 PM]: Electricity is good for nothing more than ignition and communication!
Sillyman: [05:22 PM]: [do note the flawless const int sea]
Chaco: [05:22 PM]: I appreciate a good steampunk setting as much as the next fellow, but
this is not the proper time for that!
Chaco: [05:22 PM]: The invention of the electric motor preceded all of our modern
accomplishments!
Sillyman: [05:22 PM]: Well what time do you think it is? The year of Our Lord Two
Thousand and Nine?
Chaco: [05:23 PM]: How exactly do you plan to drill tunnels through mountains, crush
horseless carriages into solid cubes, or put a man on the moon with steam?
Chaco: [05:23 PM]: You do not! Because said ideas would not even exist!
Chaco: [05:24 PM]: Anyway, I believe our pointmaking and counterpoint jousting may well
be distracting.
Sillyman: [05:24 PM]: Or perhaps the year of Our Lord Two Thousand One Hundred One?
IS WAR BEGINNING?
Chaco: [05:24 PM]: We certainly aren't actually accomplishing any conversions or deriving
any new ideas.
Sillyman: [05:24 PM]: I should hope not.
Sillyman: [05:27 PM]: ... Hath I left thou speechless, charlatan?
Sillyman: [05:27 PM]: ... Oh he's gone.
Sillyman: [05:27 PM]: You're back, I see.
Chaco: [05:28 PM]: Did I leave? I hope not.
Sillyman: [05:28 PM]: Back re'you, see I.
Sillyman: [05:29 PM]: Forsooth! I appear to have unwittingly caused a palindrome!
Sillyman: [05:29 PM]: [and the anachronisms go farther and farther back]
Chaco: [05:29 PM]: Racecar?
Sillyman: [05:31 PM]: What do horseless sport chariots have to do with anything?
Chaco: [05:32 PM]: They have something to do with something!
Chaco: [05:32 PM]: Puzzle that one out - how does the racecar symbolize our previous
conversation?
Sillyman: [05:32 PM]: In any case, you have not responded to my query concerning the
current time.
Chaco: [05:33 PM]: Oh, this one's easy.
Chaco: [05:33 PM]: IT IS THE NINETIES
Sillyman: [05:33 PM]: AND IT IS TIME FOR KLAX.
Chaco: [05:33 PM]: Alternatively, it's Burger Time.
Chaco: [05:33 PM]: Hint: It is not burger time.
Sillyman: [05:34 PM]: ... Slain Crustacean? Is that you?
Chaco: [05:34 PM]: Burger time was actually three hours ago.
Sillyman: [05:34 PM]: HUZZAH.
Chaco: [05:34 PM]: Feh! Using similar logic, I am several thousand other people as well.
Chaco: [05:35 PM]: Which is more practical, anyway? Using other people's quotations to
succinctly prove my point, or simultaneously being all of said people?
Chaco: [05:35 PM]: Besides, Slain Crustacean does not go around saying "Huzzah" or "Hey
La-Mulanites" every day, anyway.
Sillyman: [05:35 PM]: French-canadian who makes LPs under the moniker of Raocow? Is
that you?
Chaco: [05:35 PM]: He has much better things to do.
Chaco: [05:35 PM]: And now that I've gotten into an argument over the Internet, I lose.
Sillyman: [05:35 PM]: Well of course not.
Chaco: [05:36 PM]: Anyhow, I have Important Level Design to commence, so I may be a bit
unresponsive for a while.
Sillyman: [05:36 PM]: ... I can't believe you recognize The Slain Crustacean.
Chaco: [05:37 PM]: Nah. You'd have to go even more obscure to fool me.
Chaco: [05:37 PM]: Alternatively, change genres.
Sillyman: [05:37 PM]: I am transmitting a gesture of respect over the trans-continental
computation and communication network as we speak.
Sillyman: [05:38 PM]: Well what about the... uh... Raocow?
Chaco: [05:38 PM]: If you're expecting me to be a celebrity figure, prepare yourself for
disappointment.
Sillyman: [05:39 PM]: ... You do realize you are a DROD celebrity already, right?
Chaco: [05:39 PM]: Yeah, but certainly not a mainstream one.
Sillyman: [05:40 PM]: Also by the LittleKuriboh Collary of the Same-Actor Law, you are, in
fact, every celebrity ever.
Sillyman: [05:42 PM]: However, I demand proof that you know who Raocow is. And
Trope-tan... and Cybershell. I AM DETERMINED TO COME UP WITH AN INTERNET
REFERENCE YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE. </cruisecontrol>
Chaco: [05:43 PM]: I'm not about to get into an Internet-meme fight with you Sillyman.
Chaco: [05:43 PM]: Not here, not now.
Sillyman: [05:43 PM]: Aww.
Sillyman: [05:43 PM]: Carry on then.
So anyway, here's how it works:
Alice comes up with a meme and makes reference to it.
Bob sees the meme, posts a message that makes it clear he has understood it, and additionally contains a reference to another meme.
The process repeats for the lifetime of the thread.
Note, however, that the meme spotted need not be the intended meme, it just has to make sense. Nor are you limited to one meme. However, please do contain at least one intended reference, so as to prevent a complete and total standstill.
The game starts with this post. The chatlog does not contain the meme.
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