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Those of you that regularly read my posts (there's a few of you... your Membership Cards will be issued shortly ;) ) might have noticed that I try and put at least one "In-joke" in all of my posts (except the war ones, where the humour would be lost).

For the record, the most obvious ones are:

Roycelandia's Foreign Minister is Jeff Lewbowski ("The Dude", from The Big Lebowski)

The Governor-General of Roycelandian East Africa is Philip J. Fry (from Futurama. Philip J. Fry is his full name in the show.)

The Head of the Imperial Intelligence Service is Sir Duane Dibley ("The Cat"'s uncool alter-ego from Red Dwarf)

The Host of "The Late Show", Roycelandia's most popular Late-Night TV Show, is Arthur Dent (from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

The Capital City of North Terristan (a Roycelandian Colony, located in the Middle East) is Al Bundi (Al Bundy, from Married... With Children)

The Imperial Attorney General is Dame Stella Artois (Stella Artois is a Belgian Beer, and very nice it is too...)

Roycelandia has The World's Smallest Atomic Device in their Nuclear Arsenal (from the PC Game MDK)

There are quite a few others, but I'll leave them for the observant to find. ;)

So, does anyone else here try and add "In-Jokes" to their posts at all, or am I the only one?

Looks like I am the only one, then...

I go more for straightforward grim or cynical humor, of which I have a PhD in. Political jokes are always cool too. Here's one:
What do you call a group of hippies protesting outside a nuclear waste dump?
I have two alternate answers:
Target practice OR
Dead, a barrel ruptured :D

I go more for straightforward grim or cynical humor, of which I have a PhD in. Political jokes are always cool too. Here's one:
What do you call a group of hippies protesting outside a nuclear waste dump?
I have two alternate answers:
Target practice OR
Dead, a barrel ruptured :D


I have a better one

New SAT Question

Superman:Kryptonite as..

a) John ashcroft:Cadavers

Hitler's Germany:Jews::Frenzberrie:?

A) CATS
B) Super Jesus
C) Super Jesus XTREME
D) All of the above would apply
E) Rabid Mushu's

Hitler's Germany:Jews::Frenzberrie:?

A) CATS
B) Super Jesus
C) Super Jesus XTREME
D) All of the above would apply
E) Rabid Mushu's


super jesus...always works...

LOL Here's one of my best:
George Bush (junior) is on his death bed when the heavenly messanger appears to him.
"Well George, old boy, it's time to call it quits. Seeing as you were the President, I'll let you choose where you want to go."

"Why, that's easy," he replied,"I want to go to Heaven."

"Now not so fast, new policy. You have to see both before deciding. We might as well see the worst first, so down we go."

The elevator descends to hell, and Bush sees all his friends: Colin, Rummy, Chaney, and they're all in suits playing poker and drinking fine wine, talking about the good old days.

"Well, I've seen enough," says George," I want to stay here."

"Now not so fast, we still need to see Heaven."

So up they go. George sees everyone in white robes frolicking amongst the clouds. Well, they seem to be happy, but the rich and poor all get along and love each other! That's not how things work!

"Well, George, time to choose-"

"Screw this! Take me down!"

"Very well."

So they go down one last time, but hey, something's different. Everyone's in rags and breaking rocks. Where'd everything go? Then the messanger removes his mask and it's really the devil. He hands Bush a pick and tells him to work.

"But wait! What happened?"

"I took a lesson from you, George, yesterday I was campaigning, today it's real!"

We're getting off track here, guys- It's not a "Funniest Joke" thread, it's a thread about little "easter eggs" you've hidden in your posts for anyone who bothers to pay attention...

This thread is old, but...

I was looking at some of the threads Roycelandia posted (sexually liberal racist colonialists - it would be very fitting for Roycelandia to be an enemy of Syskeyia - [un]fortunately I have a ), and I saw this.

Off the top of my head, here's some "in-jokes" I have had in my threads:

The 11th, 38th, and 77th Airborne Divisions, the best paratroopers (and troops althogether) in my army, are a reference to Star Wars (1138, which is itself a reference to Lucas' first movie, THX-1138, and 1977 is the year Star Wars came out. Together they make "Task Force Cloudkicker," a reference to the "Talespin' character Kit Cloudkicker.

In the "Shadow War" thread (archived SATO-Dominion/GDODAD war in Knootoss), a code word I used was a badly transliterated English phrase made into Greek via Sherlock; the phrase itself was a English translation of a Greek phrase in the Illiad, but since I now virtually zilch Greek, I did said roundabout method thingy.

One of my B-52s in the Eurusea-Reich-me war thread was called Fat Cat, a major villian in Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers. Just thought the name would be appropriate for a B-52.

In the initial IC "Rise of the Invisible Hand" cult, a guy of mine thought, I have a bad feeling about this, another Star Wars reference.

I might have some more, but I don't remember them right now.

Hm, well, I wouldn't have called them jokes as such. Still, BG has all sorts of crap with unusual nomenclature rooted in some part of popular culture or whatever else.
Our latest generation mid-range air-to-air missile is the Apti (April Titovo Aeronautics Plant) L’Angelot Maudit, or The Accursed Cherub, subject of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
...Okay, so it's not quite Futurama :)

The whole Igo family is sort of an in-joke, but there's no point trying to tell you about it, because it's... an in-joke.

There's other characters with namesakes in popular/sub culture, comrade Pangloss (any takers?) for example, but they don't tend to bear the personalities of the originals, because that would be, arguably, a bit lame.

Uhm, there's the odd gimmick that might go unnoticed, such as the discovery of pro-capitalist Victoria Salvadorian separatists posing as Igovian communists when suspicion was aroused by their use of a South Walian/Hwntw salutation as opposed to the expected North Walian/Gogledd. I'm sure there's piles more, but for now they escape me.

Oh, erm, unless you count the whole thing of our nation being named for a legendary dog from the middle ages, which in truth was made-up by merchants or the like, centuries later, or the fact that our capital city is based on (and also named) Portmeirion, AKA the village from The Prisoner :)

I’ve never had any in-jokes, but when I used to Region RP, and during my first few weeks of RPing on the forums I would name my characters depending on their jobs.

Warren Monger – Head of Military
Les B Avenue – Police Chief
Ian Cognito – Spy
Teresa Ure – Chancellor of the Exchequer
Marc Endising – Minister for Trade
Amy Cable – Peace Negotiator
Barry Sterce – Legal Advisor

Dr Reece Archer and Dr Anna Liser – Scientists
Dee Kaflon – Minister for Sport
Emma Sarie – Ambassador

The last four still get used, especially the last one.

Always nice to see feedback, and a thread resurrection!

The new Commander of the Colonial Guard is Commander Edmund Blackadder (no prizes for guessing where the name is from)

The Roycelandian Navy's Flagship is the IRNS Red Dwarf (Again, an obvious one...)

More to come...

And incidentally, I wouldn't call Roycelandia Racist... Roycelandians are many things, but (surprisingly) not racist, large African and other colonial holdings notwithstanding... ;)

Hm...

Jackson Chen : A kung-fu TV star with a reputation for performing his own stunts, who actually has a secret stunt double. (From the movie "Hitman")