How can I explain to an outsider...

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  1. Lethesoda

    Lethesoda Quixiotic

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    ...what Teh Baba means?

    Fuck, none of us know what he means, that's for sure.
  2. Talkahuano

    Talkahuano Second Flame Lieutenant

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    Print out a few of his posts and show them to the outsider. If the outsider doesn't explode in confusion, he will understand as well as we do.
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  3. Jamey Whistler

    Jamey Whistler Éminence grise

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    A demonstration might include nitrous oxide......
  4. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Teh Baba cannot be explained. Teh Baba can only be experienced. Some might say "endured" but that would be mean. :baba:
  5. Volpone

    Volpone Zombie Hunter

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    Smile sagely and say nothing. If he presses, grab his head and lick the whole side of his face. Then continue to smile and say nothing.
  6. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    H.P. Lovecraft had an adjective which, while it doesn't explain teh baba, gives all the worldly explanation that is possible:

    Indescribable.
  7. 14thDoctor

    14thDoctor Oi

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    Man, did I get sick of that fast.


    "And then there was this creature... which I cannot describe! And it did this thing... which I best not speak of!"

    It was spooky the first couple times, but after that it started to feel like some kind of old-timey drinking game.
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  8. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    Well, he was one of the pioneers of American horror literature, often imitated down through the decades by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and even Orson Welles. Can't speak too ill of him or he might come back and do something to somebody someplace. Something indescribable.
  9. Lethesoda

    Lethesoda Quixiotic

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    If someone says "indescribable" in this thread again, I'm going to do something ineffable.
  10. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    Don't make Skin do something unfathomable to ya.
  11. Black Dove

    Black Dove Mildly Offensive

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    Inconceivable!
  12. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Unpossible.
  13. Muad Dib

    Muad Dib Probably a Dual Deceased Member

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    The word is retarded.

    The Word. :Pope:
  14. tafkats

    tafkats vagina filled dick balloon Moderator

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    Go eff yourself. :borg:
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  15. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    This.

    Or "idiot savant."
  16. brudder1967

    brudder1967 this is who we are

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    The baba is easy, try explaining pedobear without having people wanting to put restraining orders against you!

    :lol:
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  17. Volpone

    Volpone Zombie Hunter

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    Listen, and understand. Teh baba is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop. Ever.
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  18. enlisted person

    enlisted person Black Swan

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    He's a friggin Retard, surely they have Retards over in Tennessee. What more to explain?
  19. tafkats

    tafkats vagina filled dick balloon Moderator

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    Trying to explain anything about Wordforge to a non-member is probably doomed to failure. Just give them the URL and let them see for themselves.
  20. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    And I encourage you all to do just that at every opportunity.
  21. LizK

    LizK Sort of lurker

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    Oh I've tried - but it seems the most daring debaters I know get cold feet and nerves of limp pasta when I invite them,

    And I didn't even MENTION teh baba!
  22. Baba

    Baba Rep Giver

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    Teh baba is a force of nature.
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  23. Rincewiend

    Rincewiend 21st Century Digital Boy

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    Grease? or Bird?
  24. enlisted person

    enlisted person Black Swan

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    Tell your friend to just picture an epileptic on crystal meth, and you have it.