Just the other day, it was brought to my attention that the famous LGF Dictionary has been permanently scrubbed from LGF. (cue violins) I suppose that, since the Dictionary and I have history together, it might be appropriate for me to comment on it….
Now, oddly enough, snork and I were discussing the possibility of this happening a little while ago. And while we’ll probably never know if we were on the right track with regard to the reason (it disappeared without much, if any, fanfare), it seems certain that this marks an important milestone in the history of that site and for those who still inhabit it (even if they wouldn’t say publicly). Ya know, in a metamorphotic sort of way. The Dictionary is like the discarded chrysalis…or something.
Anyway, it got me all sentimental, and I remembered that I had kept a copy of the last “official” version as a souvenir during the whole “punking” episode. So I went back to examine it a bit, and all I can say right off the bat is that I recommend looking at the credits (which were absent in CJ’s version, naturally). Or, better yet, here:
The LGF Dictionary was started and maintained for years exclusively by zombie, but this new version has several editors:
zombie, song_and_dance_man, Killgore Trout, Thanos, vxbush, lawhawk, DesertSage, Mandy Manners, Noam Sayin’, and writermom.
(Hat tips to: Charles, song_and_dance_man, theparson, zulubaby, Raziel (Troll Devouring Blader), scaramouche, Frank IBC, mich-again, Poitiers-Lepanto, Perry, composmentis, Andrew B., Buckaroo, kps, whiterasta, Yehudit, aboo-Hoo-Hoo, AG in Houston, Al di Grandpa, American Infidel, bkrog, Bob G., bouzouki, christheprofessor, Craig Abu Al-Boo-Boo, Cybrludite, D. Edgren (the Merciless Infidel), DocDale, doppelganglander, Doss, Ed Moran abu GOMEX, exredtory, Ferris Bueller, FreeKeys, Geepers, Gmac, hm, ibu guru, Iron Fist, justdanny, kmclay, Kragar (Proud to be Kafir), M. Simon, Merovign, Meryl Yourish, Mike C., minuteman, mollyb, Mr Pol, Nannette, NuclearTinkerbell, Ol’ Southern Boy, ploome hineni, pst314, Rayra, rbmn, RickZ, satan sidekick, Spiny Norman, Stringart, Studsup, Throbert McGee, Village Idiot’s Apprentice, wtc394, Weiss, TotallySirius, Dan, adie, Antioch, Steve Barnett, Dan the Librarian of Sheffield Hallam University, David M, the crew who put together the LGF FAQ, and everybody who coined or popularized any of the terms here.)
I couldn’t help but take a sec to match those names up with Kirly’s book, and this is what I got. (someone help me out if I missed any).
Interesting, eh? Bloodbath. Heavy casualties. No wonder CJ left the credits out. Oh well…
Moving on…
hmmmm….
Whoa! Check this one:
racist - A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says “Racist!” has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying “Resign” during a chess game, or “Uncle” during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of “indicating one’s own concession of defeat.”
I think it’s safe to say that this is part of that aforementioned discarded chrysalis. As the pupa transforms into its adult form, the black stripes turn to yellow (so to speak), senses develop, and the neurological system allows it to see real racists around every corner:
Oct. '09
Oct. '07
…or something.
The beast has morphed, and it is ill-tempered.
BTW- how would one reconcile the years the site spent universally dismissing racism accusations as weakness with what appears to be an all-hands-on-deck full-time effort to accuse and/or “prove” that others are racist? Answer: delete it, and you might not have to.
Exit question: Can they survive without an “Iron Fist Rule”?
