I hope so too, but I don't think War of the Monsters sold as well as they'd hoped it would. But a good zombie game would be worth it too. Or a good UFO game. The title does sound promising, doesn't it...
The joke's been done independently countless times. We think it's kinda funny that our particular incarnation keeps showing up, and apparently still fools people 15 years later. Certainly we can't claim we ORIGINATED the idea for joke by any means, it's an old old idea. Just that we happened to have written that one particular version that keeps circulating, and that it was an independent invention for us at the time.
The version eric posted to rec.humor.funny in 1990 is the original text as it appeared on the UCSC flyer in 1988 or 89, at least as far as either of us remember. We wrote that off the top of our heads mostly, I don't think we even pulled out the textbooks. We haven't updated it since. We actually mostly forgot about it, but the rest of "the coaltition to ban dhmo" picked up the ball and put it up on the web and continued carrying the torch, etc. We're glad they've kept the joke alive long after Eric and I forgot about it...
Personally I've gone on to other stupid-web-joke-memes like the (blatant plug) Furby Autopsy and Yeti@home...
Given that the joke was aimed at people who couldn't figure out what dhmo was in the first place, the correctness of the various possible forms of the name took a back seat to whatever sounded scary when it was written.
George is correct...Eric and I wrote one version in 1989 at UCSC as a spoof of all the knee-jerk environmental activism, we printed up a slew of these flyers and spread them all over campus. (specifically, the Styrofoam reference is in response to the successful campus-wide student campaign to ban Styrofoam from our dorm cafeterias) Craig then edited it and massaged the text for HTML in around 1992 or so (the link george gives above)
Obviously not the only time this idea has been thought of, but ours was an "independent invention" for us and our particular copy has been circulated as email spam, printed in Chemical Engineering News, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. (the latter two with our permission) and seems to have a life of it's own.
Eric posted the original text here: to rec.humor.funny back in 1990
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I hope so too, but I don't think War of the Monsters sold as well as they'd hoped it would. But a good zombie game would be worth it too. Or a good UFO game. The title does sound promising, doesn't it...
The joke's been done independently countless times. We think it's kinda funny that our particular incarnation keeps showing up, and apparently still fools people 15 years later. Certainly we can't claim we ORIGINATED the idea for joke by any means, it's an old old idea. Just that we happened to have written that one particular version that keeps circulating, and that it was an independent invention for us at the time.
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The version eric posted to rec.humor.funny in 1990 is the original text as it appeared on the UCSC flyer in 1988 or 89, at least as far as either of us remember. We wrote that off the top of our heads mostly, I don't think we even pulled out the textbooks. We haven't updated it since. We actually mostly forgot about it, but the rest of "the coaltition to ban dhmo" picked up the ball and put it up on the web and continued carrying the torch, etc. We're glad they've kept the joke alive long after Eric and I forgot about it...
Personally I've gone on to other stupid-web-joke-memes like the (blatant plug) Furby Autopsy and Yeti@home
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Given that the joke was aimed at people who couldn't figure out what dhmo was in the first place, the correctness of the various possible forms of the name took a back seat to whatever sounded scary when it was written.
actually, I'm not 100% sure if it was 1988 or 1989 at this point!
George is correct...Eric and I wrote one version in 1989 at UCSC as a spoof of all the knee-jerk environmental activism, we printed up a slew of these flyers and spread them all over campus. (specifically, the Styrofoam reference is in response to the successful campus-wide student campaign to ban Styrofoam from our dorm cafeterias) Craig then edited it and massaged the text for HTML in around 1992 or so (the link george gives above) Obviously not the only time this idea has been thought of, but ours was an "independent invention" for us and our particular copy has been circulated as email spam, printed in Chemical Engineering News, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. (the latter two with our permission) and seems to have a life of it's own. Eric posted the original text here: to rec.humor.funny back in 1990