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4chan Greeting Catchphrase

Name: VIPPER 2005-04-09 23:25

Continued from a thread in /b/ where we tried and failed to come up with a question/answer pair that would serve to identify people as being possible Yotsubites.

Instead of saying "Hey man do you read 4chan?", which can potentially backfire, it would be wiser to have a catchphrase similar to SA's to greet each other outside of the forums.

This is top secret squirrel stuff :ssh:

General guidelines:

a) Do not post something fucking retarded like Q: "lol pedobear furry gaysex balls touching?" A: "ZOMG REI DONATE TO FUCK 4CHAN!". We need something that is an actual QUESTION AND ANSWER PAIR.
b) It's a Good Idea to only use the decided-upon catphrase to identify people as being Yotsubites, and not to use it all the time. We wouldn't want it entering popular lingo or spreading to groups of people who do not read the boards, as that would completely defeat the point of it.
c) Q: a question about the person you are asking to A: Affirmation, plus a subtle bit of information that identifies

A pretty good example is

Q: Did you see the news on Channel 4?
A: Yes, Richard C. Mongler died

Let's try to come up with something that doesn't suck ass, okay?

Name: VIPPER 2005-04-11 14:53

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You guys don't get it. At ALL.

We are NOT trying to come up with a standard greeting between two 4channers. We are trying to come up with a secret question that you, person A, would ask the other guy, person B, to find out if he is a 4channer.

I guess I'll just go ahead and tell you. The stairs question goes:

Q: Do you have stairs in your house?
A: Yes, I am protected.

See? Now, it's a question that you can ask anyone, and if they ARE a goon, then they will answer with the correct answer. It's also a rare enough question (seriously, how many times in a person's life are they ever asked if someone's house has stairs in it?) that anyone who knows of the question/answer pair would immediately recognize "Hey, this person I just met in the elevator just asked me if I read SA..."

On the other hand, if the person you are asking the Stairs question is NOT a goon, he will probably say "...huh? Stairs in my house? What?" to which you can sit there and smile and say "Oh, never mind..." and fuck with them a bit with that, knowing that they are not protected and taking satisfaction in the fact that you just messed with their head a little.

This is the type of effect we are trying to come up with. We are asking this question to people we JUST MET, and it is NOT something that you ask someone when you see them in the morning on the way to work if you know someone reads 4chan.

After all, if you KNOW that Bob reads SA, and you have talked with him before about shit that goes on in the forums, do you really need to ask him if he is a goon every time you see him? No, of course not. Because you already know.

This is a one-time use question, that you as the 4channer are asking someone if you have a suspicion that they might also read 4chan. Think of it as a final test. If they respond correctly to the question, then you can say "Oh, awesome. This guy's a 4channer, too." But if they respond incorrectly, then you know that they don't read 4chan.

Thus we need to come up with a question that meets all the above guidelines in >>1,9 and it also has to be a rare enough question that it has nearly no practical value at all in conversation, and it must be simply and easily remembered.

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