Illogicopedia:In-jokes

Illogicopedia has a large amount of in-jokes, or things which are only funny to those who are "in the know". In-jokes are also referred to as memes.

An example of an in-joke would be the use of IRC logs in articles. These logs are not necessarily funny on their own, but if you were on the IRC channel at the time of the discussion, you would "get it" and it would be all the more funny.

Here is a list of Official Memes/In-Jokes. Please note that jokes that originated elsewhere (on other websites) are not included: these jokes, whilst not always Illogicopedia-specific, were started by the Illogicopedia community. Those 'borrowed' from elsewhere are marked with an asterisk (*).

Users

• Silent Penguin was the founder of Illogicopedia. He is frequently cited as a benevolent, God-like figure; see Penglish uprising and Silent Penguin's Bogus Journey, both features on Illogic.

People

• André Breton – an ?pedia mascot/ruler and replacement for Oscar Wilde
• Bruce Willis is ?pedia's replacement for Chuck Norris. Willis told Norris to suck his dick. Chuck obliged.
• Chuck Norris is not an Illogicopedia in-joke. In fact, he is an anti-in-joke in ?pedia, most references don't pander to the standard in-joke.
• Roberto, variously represented by a hillbilly or weird West Country bloke, became the chief perpetrator of Illogicopedia server outages in 2010. In actuality, it's just a nickname given to this error message screen which Illogi users decided to personify. See also Guru Meditation.
• Winthorpe, the lovable toff. Created by HelloolleH and MMF. Really?
• Slightly Below Average Man, His powers cannot be equalled!!... although quite easily exceeded. He can do everything you can do, only slightly worse. He is one of the earliest in-jokes, right up there with Bcbkye in terms of old joke status. It is commonly believed HelloolleH is SBAM, but this has yet to be confirmed.

Places

• Subbuteo and Super Japan are super nations who were briefly at war in early 2007.
• Illogiland is a fictional country, which supposedly is an independency from south-east Canada. It has a population of 2,249.

Things

• Pickles are some kinda award we give out somewheres... they're like the Illogian version of the Oscars.
• Brass screws hold Illogicopedia together. They are impenetrable for the most part and are constantly attacked by vandals.
• Large Concrete Structure – a relic from the Proboard forum days when the word 'damn' was on the 'forbidden words' list automatically replaced by the phrase 'large concrete structure'.
• DOES THIS BUS GO TO ORPINGTON?! – an attempted semi-meme that spawned a second article and an Illogi classic article entry on Illogiblog.
• Bcbkye, a cryptid/demon which somewhat resembles a clown. He is one of the earliest in-jokes, along with Slightly Below Average Man. He is known to stalk the mountainous areas of Illogiland at night, and looks like something tooken right out of a Creepypasta. It is pronounced "Bic-beek-ye" really quickly.

Words

• Fnurdle: Made up word that came into 'public' use for a while, now semi-legendary

Old jokes

These ones may or may not have had any actual meaning:

• Burning cookie accumulator
• Ung! Goat
• Always Wipe your fish
• Thy hast is beard
• Fish grate Ung

Websites

• Uncle Pete – derivation of Unclepeteopedia stemming from a mis-spelling of the name of a popular humour wiki

Miscellaneous

• The AAH Vandal is notable in that he was the first vandal ever to deface Illogicopedia.
• Bohemian Rhapsody was, for a period, frequently sung on IRC, with the lyrics badly mangled.
• Hickipedia was a short-lived Editthis wiki. Some Illogicopedia users got into a squabble with a user from the site leading to mass-vandalism (of a type) between the two wikis.
• Gaytank – ask Helloolleh and Testosteriech.

See also

• Illogicopedia:History