Sunday, June 28, 2009

Mysteries

Here are some mysterious mysteries.

Bugs is just 1 year shy of a quarter century!
Who are these people? Apparently Bugs has just turned 25, but why is everyone ending their post with not-so-well-known words such as "agagagagag," "bibibibibi," and "cecececece?"
Theories:
Because this site is called Raoul's China Saloon, perhaps the board is for ex-pats in China, and the agagag-ing is a way of expressing applause or cheering? Either online Chinese slang or something from offline. Do Chinese people say "agagag" at each other on their birthdays?
OK: yes, looks like it is for ex-pats judging by the other discussions.
A search for "agagagagag" turned up some other stuff, but also another page from Raoul's China Saloon. Again, some people are agagag-ing here for somebody else's birthday.

So, we've established they are ex-pats, that "agagag" is appropriate at least for birthdays, and that Raoul's China Saloon is one of the main places agagag-ing occurs.
My guess is either: Chinese slang that doesn't show up in English web results because it's in Chinese characters, OR
Slang specific to Raoul's China Saloon, and the rest of the results I saw were people screwing with keyboards, OR
something else. But it is 1:45 in the morning and I shouldn't try to investigate it further now.

The Wikipedia article for simple columnar epithelia still has, as of this writing, some of the mysterious Korean that was there the first time I looked at it. 그딴거 없어 꺼져 at the bottom of the page is still there. The first time around, it was 장준보 in one spot, and then 그딴거 없어 꺼져 at the bottom.
I went to quite a few Korean-->English translators. The first one said the two phrases meant "The Jang...I'm dying," which was enormously creepy. Others also said something about a Jang and then something about shit.

Either Wikipedia is being haunted by a ghost trying to speak to Jang, or some young Korean hooligan is telling his friend Jang to eat shit.
Or maybe some American hooligan is trying to tell John to eat shit and sent it through an English-->Korean translator, then put it on Wikipedia. The English version will never be recovered because it was mangled in translation.

The world shall never know!
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