Finally, there are inside jokes unique to Yahoo! that do not fit into any of the above categories, yet are commonly employed by trolls enough to merit inclusion:
- "Al Gore invented..."
Whatever the subject of a news story might be, a common spoof post is "Al Gore invented (the item in question)". Examples: "AL GORE INVENTED WINDOWS XP", "AL GORE INVENTED BLACK BOXES", "AL GORE INVENTED GAY SEX". Oftentimes they become more abstract to deal with the news topic at hand: "AL GORE INVENTED THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC", "AL GORE INVENTED GEORGE W. BUSH". This practice peaked in the early 2000s, but has fallen out of favor in recent years as Al Gore's national prominence has receded. This practice derives from the misquoted version of Al Gore's famous televised misstatement of "I took the initaitive in creating the Internet" as "I invented the Internet" while explaining his ground-breaking promotion of Internet legislation. As with other Yahoo! trolling idiosyncracies, this practice has also been widely parodied on the message boards. After George W. Bush referred to "the internets" in a 2004 electoral debate, a celebrated post was "GEORGE W. BUSH INVENTED THE INTERNETS".
- "Roger Moore is dead"
Another common post refers to the fictional death of a celebrity, most frequently Roger Moore. The subject line is occasionally along the lines of "CNN JUST REPORTED THIS", and the message often contains a short, sometimes humorous vignette on Moore's untimely demise. This is especially common for news stories of widescale humanitarian disasters: Sir Roger was one of the victims. Other news stories which report great advances in human civilization often prompt posts which take his death for granted: "Too bad Roger Moore died before this happened." The classic closing of any Roger Moore post is "RIP Roger Moore, you were the best 007 ever. You will be missed." Although this practice has also fallen out of favor in recent years, reporting fake celebrity deaths or other fake news, especially under the rubric of "I JUST SAW THIS ON CNN", remains a widespread practice.
A similar phenomenon exists among Slashdot trolls, except their "casualty" of choice is Stephen King. As Slashdot news is generally tech-oriented, most of these posts are extremely off-topic. Yahoo trolls, on the other hand, can work Roger Moore into the article at hand.
- "I'm shaking in anger"
The expression "I'm shaking my (something) in anger", or "I'm shaking with anger", was especially prominent on the Yahoo! boards from around 2003 to 2004. It is still often parodied today; an article on testicular cancer might prompt such posts as "I'M SHAKING MY BALLS IN ANGER". Humorous trolls would post "I'M SHAKING MY TECTONIC PLATES IN ANGER" on an article about earthquakes.
- "Assraping the corpse"
News stories involving the death of an individual often prompt posts along the lines of "I ASSRAPED THE CORPSE", "CAN I ASSRAPE THE CORPSE?", "LET'S ASSRAPE THE CORPSE", or some other variant. Originally this was the preserve of "sick post" trolls, but gained so much prominence that it has become a fully-fledged Yahoo trolling phenomenon in its own right. As with other forms of profane trolling, often "assrape" is intentionally misspelled- usually as "azzrape".
- "A HUGE DEFEAT FOR LIBERALS/DEMOCRATS or CONSERVATIVES/REPUBLICANS"
News that reports something that one of the groups stands against, prompts the post with the above stated headline, for example: If a story reporting something positive happening on Iraq is stated as a defeat for liberals, and likewise, for example a story involving a breakthrough in science is defined as a huge defeat for conservatives.
- BOARD FLOODING
At least one poster employs a technique of somehow circumventing Yahoo's 10 posts/20 minutes/ID limit and floods the board with dozens to hundreds of nearly identical posts in the span of a minute or two, apparently by employing thousands of exclamation points - usually at the end ROTFLMFAO! - and deleting one with each post, thus evading Yahoo's ban on identical posts within a short time span. This technique also causes the page to scroll way over to the right, confusing some would-be respondents.
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